Heh, I remember when this band was touring here, all the kids lined up outside the venue looked like scene kid fucktards. Wish I was joking, but I couldn't see one who wasn't.
First time listening to this band, and a quick check of wikipedia reveals they are a post hardcore/metalcore band.
I'm confused, because the entire basis of the genre, post hardcore, was that it is meant to be a more creative, artistic and challenging version of hardcore punk. All the bands were into doing different stuff and it was awesome.
I remember when I first heard At the Drive In and Refused, and it totally blew my perception of what punk could be like out of the water. I learnt it didn't have to be shitty 3 chord Ramones songs. It could actually have depth and creativity.
Bands like At the Drive In, Drive Like Jehu, Shudder to Think, Fugazi, Refused and many bands of that era from the genre sounded so different and were so daring. The production was always so unique for each band and album too.
The only bands I feel actually continues with that tradition is Thrice (I would have said These Snakes are Arms too, but they broke up sadly which is a shame because they were quite proggy at times and quite experimental).
The whole genre has basically gone to shit. The bands have this same-ish (albeit very nice sounding a lot of the time) production and it's like they've completely lost sight of what the genre was about, which was about pushing forward, and it just sounds horribly stagnant now and all the bands are using these cliche'd formulas.
This Escape the Fate band is not helping the situation, that's for sure. Production is good, but not amazing. Ah well, at least they aren't doing that fucking electronica/post hardcore with the autotune garbage. That's the worst thing to happen to the genre by far.
Hopefully someone can point me in the direction of modern post-hardcore bands that are actually a bit different and daring, because currently 99 per cent of this new stuff does not impress me.
The kick is pretty much the same too.
