Parkway Drive set to record with the guy that did...The Melvins?

[gabriel g.]

Hey Ermz it is totaly ok if you dont like that band or bands doing that style.
This is not any kind of metal, it is a new music style combined metal and hardcore. This music has nothing to do with long hair, and headbanging, and they totaly nailed it. So they are that big.

+Check out their DVD. This band lives their music every minute, and they are far of any Mall-core. They toured europe with no label, no booking angenty, and with no clue where to stay at night.
They deserve every cent they make!!!!

I saw them 6 years ago in a small club in germany in front of 20 people.
They never gave up and toured their asses of.
3 Years ago they played a show in the same town in front of 700 people.

This has nothing to do with scene-kids, mtv, myspace clicks, crab-core, or stuff like that.

This is attitude!!!!

 

[Harry Hughes]

They worked harder than any other band in country. That's why.

There's probably a lot of dance pop artists who have to put in hard work for what they do, but it hardly validates them as creative, genuine artists.
A drug dealer can probably work his ass off to rise to the top of the drug dealing scene, but he's still not fucking legit no matter what he does

 

[Harry Hughes]

If someone can tell me the difference between Parkway Drive, August Burns Red, It Dies Today, The Dead Lay Waiting and The Autumn Offering, apart from thee names of the bands, let me know, because man, it all sounds like the same shit.
The same melo-death inspired riffs, same fucking screaming shit, same fucking drum patterns and the same song structures most of the time. Same fucking breakdown with the minor 2nd.
I swear, it's like people start up a band now because they like the idea of being in a band because being a in a band is "cool", not because they actually give a shit about creating something decent.
I'd rather hear a cover band doing Megadeth songs well played, than hear another one of those fucking "melo-metalcores" bands out there writing "originals" that sound just like the metalcore band next door

It's a pretty sad reality when the metalcore scene has gotten to the point where it makes the nu metal scene of the late 90s/00s look diverse and interesting.
At least I could tell the difference between Limp Bizkit, Korn, System of a Down and Deftones (even if I only liked the music of the latter).
With these modern metalcore bands, it's hard to tell when it's you've changed from one artist to another

 

[plague_rider]

I gotta say... even if they are classed as generic metalcore, they never struck me as so...

I have a feeling this album won't hold as strong as Horizons did, it'll probably just be the fact that i know it isnt an Adam D production, but IMO the production and their style went together really well

 

[Ermz]

I respect the hard work ethic. It's definitely needed to make it anywhere professionally, so props to them for that. It sadly doesn't however validate the abortion that I just heard. You can work hard to corner the market, or cut out your little slice of it, but it doesn't mean you are creating anything unique or worthwhile. Our music industry is built on pillars of mediocrity and this is no different to someone criticizing the top radio acts for being repetitive shite.

 

[amarshism]

I guess until you've thrashed the Aussie touring circuit you won't be able to understand the hardwork and sacrifices that pwd, myself and many others have had to make in order to attempt to make a living. They do what they do, they work and tour hard, and people like it. As much hardwork as you can put in touring and promoing your band, it's ultimately the fans who decide who gets big and who doesn't, so perhaps you shouldn't hold anything against the band.

Tall poppy syndromes a bitch in Australia. Particularly in the jaded, elitist traditional metal scene.

 

[Harry Hughes]

I guess until you've thrashed the Aussie touring circuit you won't be able to understand the hardwork and sacrifices that pwd, myself and many others have had to make in order to attempt to make a living. They do what they do, they work and tour hard, and people like it. As much hardwork as you can put in touring and promoing your band, it's ultimately the fans who decide who gets big and who doesn't, so perhaps you shouldn't hold anything against the band.

Tall poppy syndromes a bitch in Australia. Particularly in the jaded, elitist traditional metal scene.

Dude, no one is denying they've put some serious hard work in.
Both Ermz and I will admit freely that those guys have worked FUCKING HARD to get where they are.
But the music is the most boring, generic shit that you hear on any given weekend if you decide to go see some mediocre melodic metalcore band playing a gig anywhere in any Australian city.
I honestly cannot really differentiate their music from any of the other bands doing that same style.
As I said on the previous page, the same fucking melo-death inspired riffs, same screaming, same breakdowns and same song structures.

 

[smy1]

To all who are wondering why they didn't go with Adam D: maybe Adam D wasn't available for the time period they needed to make their upcoming record.

To all who are wondering why they go with Joe Baressi: they are probably going for a more "raw & real" sound.

 

[Harry Hughes]

To all who are wondering why they didn't go with Adam D: maybe Adam D wasn't available for the time period they needed to make their upcoming record.

To all who are wondering why they go with Joe Baressi: they are probably going for a more "raw & real" sound.

We all know how well that worked out for every Sneap forumites favorite band, Triviumuke:

 

[Ermz]

I've got nothing against the band, I'm sure they're great guys. The music just sounds terrible to me, is all, and that's what this business is about to me. Many acts who have had great success have worked excessively hard for it. that just goes without saying.

Even touring across some foreign country with no safety net, playing to a few locals at a time is better than working a desk job at an insurance agency. Even at its hardest, my own job is still a breeze compared to the tedium of being a janitor or data entrant. We're ultimately doing what we love, regardless of if we make it or not, so I don't expect anyone to shed a tear, and IMO their music is fair game if they're going to press it and release it globally as they do.

Many of my clients are battling with the local scene, so I know how much struggle is involved. I feel for every one of them, but I tend to believe in the music that most of them play as well, so I wish them success. Some might make it, most won't, that's just the reality, but in the process I would hope they all have fun and learn something. Above all I would hope they all continue to reinvent themselves and not follow market trends just to make a buck. Imagine, to set a standard and have the market follow YOU. *That* is what music is about to me.

 

[antiheroinc]

I guess until you've thrashed the Aussie touring circuit you won't be able to understand the hardwork and sacrifices that pwd, myself and many others have had to make in order to attempt to make a living. They do what they do, they work and tour hard, and people like it. As much hardwork as you can put in touring and promoing your band, it's ultimately the fans who decide who gets big and who doesn't, so perhaps you shouldn't hold anything against the band.

Tall poppy syndromes a bitch in Australia. Particularly in the jaded, elitist traditional metal scene.

i cant agree with this more. from the couple of shows I have played with them when they were just starting out, they really did work there arse off to get where they are

 

[Harry Hughes]

Fuck man, can people read?
NO ONE is disputing the fact they work hard.
I'm sure they are a bunch of great guys whom I would love to drink a few beers with and chill out, but their music fucking SUCKS and represents EVERYTHING that is wrong with today's metal scene

 

[amarshism]

Have to drink water. They're all straight edge lol

 

[Harry Hughes]

Have to drink water. They're all straight edge lol

Well, whatever
I'm pretty sure my point was made clear, beer or not

 

[gabriel g.]

Music taste is subjectiv:

I love parkway drive, because they are what they say. Hardcore guys playing metal and newschool-HC-breakdowns.

I hate most of the bands people are loving on this board, for example:
shadows fall, all crap-core bands with autotune, all that progressive stuff like Opeth, I hate Soilwork, inFlames....that said, I respect all this bands, and think they deserve their place in the market.

It is to easy to say:
This band sounds like shit, the music industry is fucked

Thats so fucking easy!!!

Al lot of people enjoying PWD, and bands like this, and not because this bands full fill any tipical genre shit.

 

[AboutBlank]

One man's meat is another man's poison.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Music taste is subjectiv:

I love parkway drive, because they are what they say. Hardcore guys playing metal and newschool-HC-breakdowns.

I hate most of the bands people are loving on this board, for example:
shadows fall, all crap-core bands with autotune, all that progressive stuff like Opeth, I hate Soilwork, inFlames....that said, I respect all this bands, and think they deserve their place in the market.

It is to easy to say:
This band sounds like shit, the music industry is fucked

Thats so fucking easy!!!

Al lot of people enjoying PWD, and bands like this, and not because this bands full fill any tipical genre shit.

Fair enough not everyone likes Opeth.
But you're WAY over simplifying shit here man.

Opeth inspired a whole generation of metal musicians and played a huge part in forging the progressive death metal genre.
No band sounds like Opeth, they forged their own sound and any bands that do sound like them are just the imitators.
Hell, I only like two Dream Theater albums, but there's no denying they still have their signature sound that sounds like them.

Parkway Drive............hmmm, I find it a little funny they formed not long after Alive and Just Breathing broke.
Suggests to me they were a bunch of guys that saw the potential for a bandwagon to jump on and sure enough, they jumped on it.
And unlike Opeth, they sound like EVERY OTHER fucking band in their scene.
The name Parkway Drive could easily be substituted with August Burns Red, It Dies Today or The Autumn Offering or any multitude of local metalcore bands I hear on myspace because someone tells me to listen to them, because it sounds like the same fucking shit.
How many times do I have to repeat that all these bands use those same melo-death riffs, have that same annoying screaming style and use the same fucking song structures?

 

[R-Stuur]

In regards to Joe Baressi, he did Satyricon's Age of Nero...and since when are the Melvins NOT heavy?

Oh and Parkway Drive and all those lame bands that use seemingly random, non metal names for their generic brand of castrated metal ALMOST make me wish slaughter of the soul never came out...

 

[gabriel g.]

Sorry Harry but it is just ignorant to say PWD sounds like August burns red.
Maybe for you this bands sound all the same, but for people who like this style this bands sound all totaly different.

If you want you could also say all that swedish-death sounds all the same (inflames, soulwork, at the gates blablabla)

 

[amarshism]

Those bands you've quoted all sound quite different from one another Harry.