Misery Signals - Controller

[CatharsisStudios]

holy shit he did darkest hours mx?

 

[dan weapon]

I FUCKING LOVE 'Of Malice And The Magnum Heart' - their first album, which was also produced by Devin. It had a different singer (who I actually much prefer, because his voice was more unique)

I do like Controller though, the kick especially is nice and meaty. The album they released between these two 'Mirrors' (not produced by Dev - big mistake) was pretty average though.

If you look beyond some of the metalcore attributes there is some brilliant polymetric Meshuggah inspired breakdowns and fantastic use of dissonant chords - especially on 'Malice'.

Live they use a 5150 and a Mesa (duel rec I think), I'm pretty sure I saw both in their studio diaries for this album.

 

[blueswede]

Never heard of them, judging from the myspace clips the new singer sucks major balls compared to the former singer. The production on the latest album seems nice though.

 

[Ice Man]

Imo, everything misery signals after Of Malice and the Magnum Heart is meh

Truth. Malice was glory. The later attempts fall way short. Mirrors was way too dry and mainstream-core sounding in production. Controller's vocals and vocal ideas just slay me. Double tracked and reverbed to hell and back. Pretty nice instrument sounds, though.

 

[CatharsisStudios]

i hate misery signals old singer he just didn't have the balls that the band needed

 

[Sinister Mephisto]

I listened to it again. Still don't like it all that much (production) but it has some cool aspects. Anyone else hear lots of pumping on this one? That's a big part of what's killing it for me.

 

[Metaltastic]

I think it's a cool kind of pumping though, the punchy kind of pump (ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT KICK HITS AHHHHHH!!!) - one example that comes immediately to mind of an album with too much pumping of the bad variety is Insomnium's "Since the Day it all Came Down," yeesh... (though the production in general on that one isn't too spectacular, probably because they weren't a very big band at the time and I assume didn't have much of a budget)

 

[Temps]

All the talk about the music, genre and signers in here is driving me nuts. Jesus Christ,that is not the point of the thread.
I quite liked the mix on this album.. my drummer brought it over one day and I was shocked when him of all people was plugging it, since I tried to get him going on Malice a long time ago and he didn't dig it. He was really talking up the production as well.. I really like the guitar sound and the kick, but didn't like the toms much. I REALLY liked the guitar sound.. loved it, especially when they start grooving really hard in a few of the tunes.

 

[BLOODROOT]

No wonder you hate metalcore if you think these guys sound like all the rest of the metalcore band. Eh they are ok. They sound like a band who wrote their entire cd on the computer without ever practcing live together. I dont care for the singer. The guitars have that podxt sound to them mixed in with a micd amp. it might be the mix too and myspace. Man every new band sounds like pod and dfh these days it seems. I guess thats what you get with overcompressed mixes and quantized drums. The old song on their myspace has more life to it without a perfect mix and quantized lifeless drums.

 

[ConspiracyBass]

Really like the cd and dig on the mix. Wish they'd come tour around my city.

 

[JeffTD]

Recto on orange channel used for rhythms, Stiletto for overdubs!

 

[Metaltastic]

Aha, I called it! Go me! (not like it's that hard, when Devin is at the helm )

 

[JeffTD]

Yeah, and this album really is fucking amazing. I love the vocals, actually... such a roar. I wish the new Shai Hulud had this production!

 

[Josh Burgess]

I like this album quite a bit and I dig the production, but not a fan of the guitar sound for the most part. The clean guitar tones are good, but don't like the rhythm sound...

 

[Gelatin]

"Controller" does a good job but doesn't come near "Malice..", but it's certainly better than Mirrors. That album was a big disappointment. These guys certainly have some certain touch that keeps them ahead of other bands in the same genre. They always seem to have some melodic riffs up their sleeve that kind of hit you off guard after all the metalcore-ish stuff..

Also, what's up with judging the band's sound by a few Myspace tracks. You all should know that Myspace can destroy perfectly good mixes..

Finally, if anyone want's to get into this band, check out Malice And The Magnum Heart - you won't regret it.

 

[16S]

Not disputing Devon is a very talented guy but i dont really dig his mixes that much. Don't get me wrong technically they are awesome but a bit too polished & dare i say generic? Just don't do it for me...

 

[JoeJackson]

I got that album after Metaltastic raved about the sound of the kick but I haven't really had the time to listen to it. Until yesterday where I basically listened to Controller for about 4 hours straight. IMO it's their best release by far - soundwise and songwise. I would even say that it's one of the most atmospheric record I own.

And hell yeah, that kick is godlike.

OT: When did Devin cut his hair?

 

[GarethSE]

I really dig Misery Signals tbh.
But that's expected of me I guess.
I dig my metal when it's heavily twinged with Hardcore.

 

[CatharsisStudios]

GIVE ME THE STRENGTH. TO MOVE THESE MOUNTAINS








these guys are off the fucking wall live.

 

[AllanD]

I'm searching for a guitar tone similar to this album, but I'm not getting that signature high end hiss from V30's. Anyone else suspecting GT75s?