Pain of Salvation - Scarsick

Nowadays if you feel emotional while listening to music you are fucking emo, fuck this, it is getting old already, the emo scene is bad, yes, but it seems there are tons of insecure homophobic dumbasses out there. Drama, sorrow, and desperation has always been related to music...want it or not.

Excellent point. But I think what classifies as 'emo' is not the depressiveness/suicidalness.. its the UNNECESSARY depressiveness/suicidalness by those who don't have a single clue as to why they are so sad. They're 'sad' because its 'in'.

The promo pic's missing the bassist......
 
Excellent point. But I think what classifies as 'emo' is not the depressiveness/suicidalness.. its the UNNECESSARY depressiveness/suicidalness by those who don't have a single clue as to why they are so sad. They're 'sad' because its 'in'.

The promo pic's missing the bassist......

The bassist quit
 
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I liked Remedy Line quite a bit and BE was masterpiece in my opinion but I'm totally disappointed at these samples :(
Sounds like 50% Eminem and 50% Emo.

Wtf, did you only listen to two of them? ONE of them has some of those rappish vocals, which have been used on several songs before (Used, Fandango, Ending Theme) which were perfectly good, so saying it sounds like 50% of the album will be like eminem is just a bit stupid imho
 
''Getting used ta pain!! getting used ta pain!!, tutirutitu!!'' that part is so Faith no More- like, but i like it...a bit rofltastic but sounds good, the chorus of that song is great.
 
yeah, saw it up on myspace. HUGELY Patton-esque. That's all i could really think when i heard it. That, and that i don't particularly like it. hehe. Ah well, it was my least favorite sample of the bunch. Here's hoping the rest isn't like that.
 
Gildenlow does take influence from Faith no More. But that song was alot worse than Faith no More. Disappointed
 
''Getting used ta pain!! getting used ta pain!!, tutirutitu!!'' that part is so Faith no More- like, but i like it...a bit rofltastic but sounds good, the chorus of that song is great.

yeah, actually it is.

i'm not listening to these samples and reserving my judgment until the album is out. however, the cover art = meh.
 
Have to check those new samples, they always had the Faith no More influence and it worked quite well...it seems that, according to you guys it didn't work this time lol
 
That song's lyrics are so bad I had to go listen to the Team America song to quell my disgust.
 
so i heard the leaked album. i love daniel for slapping america in the face without hesitation. someone needed to expose all the holes in our pathetic society.
 
Here's my live review of scarsick to friends as I listened to it:

[1. scarsick]
brocklesner: this song is really boring hahaha
brocklesner: i'm halfway through now
brocklesner: at least there's gonky bass solo over the vocals
brocklesner: hahaha man this main riff is SO lame
brocklesner: the problem with track 1 is it sounds like it's ending at 5:30
brocklesner: and then at 6 it just goes into the first riff for the 300th time
brocklesner: maybe it will go back into the 5:30 section again too
brocklesner: the guitars sound kinda butt too
brocklesner: sounds like it was recorded on an un-upgraded pod xt
brocklesner: first song officially sucked
brocklesner: 2/5
brocklesner: the main riff was like something shadows fall would write on an especially slow day

[2. spitfall]
brocklesner: spitfall is stupid too
brocklesner: the chorus honestly sounds like stupid emo band
brocklesner: the chorus has emo guitars extreme
brocklesner: this is a death march
brocklesner: it has some farty distorted bass 3 minutes in briefly at least
brocklesner: man
brocklesner: it sounded like he actually said vomitorium
brocklesner: on spitfall at like 3:40 :p
brocklesner: the ascending bass at 4:00
brocklesner: that was stupid
brocklesner: hahahahaha
brocklesner: the keyboards sound like they were recorded in 1970 too
brocklesner: i guess that's the point cause so do these guitars now
brocklesner: "parents have bills!"
brocklesner: it won't end
brocklesner: 80% through sounds like the end but then emo chorus has to happen again
brocklesner: ok spitfall was dumb
brocklesner: time for cribcaged

[3. cribcaged]
brocklesner: "sick of homies"
brocklesner: the end of cribcaged
brocklesner: so dumb
brocklesner: hahahahaha
brocklesner: i mean the "fuck [x]" section
brocklesner: that was so dumbbbbbbbbb [notice: song contains a long "dramatic" section where he keeps going FUCK THIS! FUCK THAT! AND FUCK BLAH!]

[4. America]
brocklesner: yeah see america sounds fresh and exciting compared to the last 3
brocklesner: even though i thought it sucked when i heard it before
brocklesner: it still does, just not compared to the rest of this album apparently
brocklesner: i just hate the SOUND of this album
brocklesner: it's so raw and crappy sounding
brocklesner: it's like the damn white stripes recorded it
brocklesner: the "WE WILL BE BACK AFTER THIS SHORT BREAK"
brocklesner: so annoying

[5. disco queen]
brocklesner: well, it lives up to the name at least
brocklesner: the middle actually isn't bad
brocklesner: the disco stuff actually got amusing in the outro :p

[6. Kingdom of Loss]
brocklesner: "we pay for elevators just so we don't have to climb 3 stairs!"
brocklesner: hahahaha
brocklesner: this is so annoying
brocklesner: "two bouncing breasts on a baywatch beach!"
brocklesner: annoying!
brocklesner: i need to get the lyrics to this
brocklesner: i dunno what he's saying 95% of the time
brocklesner: but random phrases like that stick out
brocklesner: this song is pretty good compared to some of the others too haha
xxxxxxxxxx: he claimed it was the most AGGRESSIVE album yet
xxxxxxxxxx: which doesn't seem to make sense from what you're saying
brocklesner: maybe LYRICALLY
brocklesner: no other way
brocklesner: this song reminds me of jethro fucking tull
brocklesner: occasional medieval melodies and lots of flute doubling the vocals
brocklesner: this is the first one that really sounds like them at all
brocklesner: the SOUND though man i can't get used to it
brocklesner: it's so raw and stupid sounding
brocklesner: the bass especially sounds annoying
brocklesner: it's like a band from yugoslavia covering them with their equipment hocked off soviet russia in the 70s

[7. Mrs. Modern Mother Mary]

brocklesner: no comment really...besides it has transformer vocals for a second at the beginning
brocklesner: not bad, but I doubt I'll listen to it many more times

[8. Idiocracy]
brocklesner: this is like the last one, more weird sounding guitars and general lameness, but light years better than the first few tracks...another big meh

[9. flame to the moth]
brocklesner: SCREAMO VOCALS XTREME!
brocklesner: every once in a while it seems like it might turn good, like at 4:30, but...bleh
brocklesner: once again, much better than the first few, but not saying much
brocklesner: oh god the last track is 10 minutes

[enter rain]
brocklesner: let it rain! x3598053
brocklesner: ENTER RAIN! x3747! EXIT PAIN!
brocklesner: this is pretty stupid.
brocklesner: the keyboards are so lame on this whole album but especially this song
brocklesner: yeah....this is boring. hahaha
brocklesner: the last chorus thing is kind of epic I guess but overall it's pretty much a stir in their sleep compared to beyond the pale or the perfect element :p
brocklesner: oh nvm it only lasted for like 15 seconds WTF
brocklesner: it doesn't even count as a stir
brocklesner: oh now it's actually the chorus again and now it's not very epic
brocklesner: it sounds like bad wwf entrance music
brocklesner: enter rain is fading out at 8:50, wtf
brocklesner: or it'll be a minute of police sirens, gawd
brocklesner: and now they stopped and it is 33 seconds of silence.


IN CONCLUSION


I'm a huge Pain of Salvation fanboy that was let down by BE in a big way, but this one makes that one look like a friggin masterpiece :(:(:(