Unearth Part Ways With Drummer
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Unearth issue the following update:
"Last night marked the end of the line for Mike Justian with Unearth. There are many reasons why we decided it was time to move on without him, but we are not in the business of airing dirty laundry. We will say that we grew apart as individuals and as musicians and the split will be best for both the band and Mike."
"In true Unearth fashion, we will continue on without skipping a beat. We are pleased and honored to say that Gene Hoglan of Strapping Young Lad is filling in for the rest of our tour with Dimmu Borgir, Devil Driver and Kataklysm. He will take the stage for the first time with us tonight in Vancouver, BC. Gene is an unreal musician and has learned a set in extremely short notice. We can not thank him enough for lending his skills to our band for this tour."
"Mike is an amazing drummer and will surely turn up in another band soon. We traveled the world with him, shared some of the best experiences of our lives and can call him a brother forever. It was just time for both parties to split, plain and simple. We wish him the best of luck with all of his future endeavors."
"All of our upcoming touring will go on as scheduled."
"See you on the road,
UNEARTH"
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7. writes:
Well, it sucks but...Hoglan will do a great job and maybe bring a new dimension to Unearth. Change is not always a bad thing so I am certain that they will find a worthy replacement and maybe push their sound a little further...
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20. writes:
Well first, to me what you call solid metalcore doesn't even equal crap metal. Great musicianship? No more than any other band I listen to, and songwriting is what it really comes down to anyway (Yngwie can attest to that).
I just downloaded the song "Fuel the Fire" and my review as I listen to it goes something like
1. I hate metalcore vocals
2. A breakdown, how suprising
3. About a minute in we get a cliche gothenburg riff no 3. (copyright Dark Tranquility)
4. About halfway through the song is random cool guitar parts, bit out of place
5. And even more cliche breakdown followed by and even more cliche gothenburg riff, which ATGs threw away 10 years ago for not being good enough
6. More breakdowns (!) followed by a previous riff.
Yes you guessed it, I hate metalcore. Good for you if it's your thing though.
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21. writes:
they are pretty generic, but they pull it off much better than alot of metalcore band. their latest album is probably the best though.
plus you can't have metalcore without the breakdowns. :P it won't be metalcore then
btw, have you checked out between the buried and me?
np: pink floyd- dogs
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22. writes:
for a start. if unearth are metalcore then so are my pants. i dont see why people have such a big problem with them. they are one of the most fun and energetic live bands you will ever see. and besides if you just download somones music you have no right to start taking the piss out of a band. put your money where your mouth is and buy the cd before you comment.
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30. writes:
"if unearth are metalcore then so are my pants." All I know is Wikipedia (ie a pretty general consensus) quotes them as metalcore, they're rejected from the metal archives and I think 90% of reviews you could find would call them metalcore.
"if you just download somones music you have no right to start taking the piss out of a band. put your money where your mouth is and buy the cd before you comment."
Put my money where my mouth is? That would've been in my pocket because I hate metalcore. And sure I do, f*** paying $30 for an album I don't want just to critisize them.
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33. writes:
30 NZ is bout 22 American I think, but since I have to order in most of the CDs I get it's about $40 which would translate to about 30 American. Since I'm a student I can't afford that much either, so as a rule I download to check bands before I buy.
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35. writes:
an average cd price in australia is around $20-25, though it could get more expensive if it's imported. so i always check out the bands before i buy the CDs.
cryptopsy is incredibly good, but i prefer btbam. check out mordecai though. it's got the best outruos i have ever heard.
np: sigh- confession to be buried
36. writes:
Hey, Cynic, why can't you decide what a band sounds like to YOU before you automatically adhere to what Wikipedia calls it? If Wikipedia said that Napalm Death was emocore what would you say? You'd have to believe the almighty Wiki, right? Labelling music is a retarded notion, but even more retarded is taking a website's labelling of a band that you don't even listen to. That is the mindset that is killing music. People are "reviewing" albums after watching a fxcking videoclip on youtube, and they have no fxcking clue what they're talking about, and then dumbasses like YOU read it, cling to it and then flame on anyone who denounces it. How about this: You exercise your own brain, and listen to music with a little more of an open mind. All you people know is this: Emo must = whiny people in makeup screaming about love. Whiny people in makeup screaming about love = bad. But if you think about it, metal has been pretty whiny in itself. Let's just forget about how whiny Megadeth, System of a Down, and Stone Sour are for now. So, if Emo means whiny people in makeup screaming about love, then that means that GWAR, King Diamond, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, ICP, Kiss, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Guns N Roses, Tool, Evanescence, Green Jello, Mudvayne, Jane's Addiction, and Mushroomhead are all guilty of fitting your definition of "emo". See what I mean? What sense does that make? It's a argument over nothing for nothing, and all it's doing is pushing everyone further apart and drawing thicker lines between every musical genre. No wonder mediocre shxtbands like Yellowcard and Breaking fxcking Benjamin are raking it in. It's a fxcking waste of time. But I guess if a bunch of fxcking retards really want to argue, they'll find a way to.
Cynic, I still remain unimpressed.
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37. writes:
Yeah, wikipedia sucks for specifics. I've tried correcting small stuff on there only to have it rolled back every time. There's no "consensus" to it. It's simply whatever sticks, which may be fine for broad statements and facts, but often tends to suck for specifics or opinionated topics. I would undoubtedly call Unearth metalcore though. Their sound encompasses so much of the genre's sounds as well as the recent trend to incorporate melodic/Gothenburg sounds into it. I call them the leaders of metalcore because they do it so damn well and have given some legitamacy to an overcrowded genre filled with mediocrity. That's not meant to convince anyone - just how I see it.
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38. writes:
Unimpressed? Not that I care but you could read my posts properly - a) I download a track, I myself decide it to be what I call metalcore. b) I call Wikipedia a "pretty general" consensus, acknowledging it's faults and using simply as a pretty sure check to what genre a band might be, c) Say they're rejected from the metal archives (which I DO hold in high regard) and checked out a review of theirs, in which they are labelled metalcore.
I see labellling music is a way to describe to other people what sort of music they play. Some bands can be labelled with a tag, eg I wouldsay to my friends, "check out Thergothon, a really great Funeral Doom band" and they would know what I mean because they understand the term. If I said "check out Thergothon, they play a really slow, melancholic type of heavy music with sparse synths, an empty sound with harsh vocals combined with clean vocals, and incorporating ambient elements" - That's pretty annoying. They know what Funeral Doom is. On the other hand, if a band (say Cynic) can't be described with a simple tag like death metal because they're so idiosyncratic I would describe them. That's my defense for genres, an argument which only ever seems to come up here when someones fav band is labelled metalcore/nu-metal/emo.
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40. writes:
Unearth is as metalcore as it gets, it's not meant in a "tear down your band" sense it just happens to be what they do.
I find them very so-so, I bought The Oncoming Storm and I regret it. I ended up only enjoying two full songs ("The Great Dividers" and "Lie to Purify" for those interested). A few other tracks were OK but I really didn't find anything in them to latch on to.
Genre labels are a neccessary evil. Cynic pretty much sums up my stance on it above.
In the bands defense, Unearth have some real chops and generate some convincing energy but I think those in to this kind of sound would have more luck with Shadows Fall, Devil Driver, Lamb of God or even Trivium.
Just my opinion, don't feel challenged or hurt by it.
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42. writes:
LOG are indeed overrated. I find Ashes of the Wake to be far stronger than As the Palaces Burn or Sacrament.
Palaces vocals were boring as solitary confinement and Sacrement was too smooth ride, for all it's dark atmospherics....Ashes is their best "overall" work I think....
Their pre-Palaces era was alright too.
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44. writes:
LoG, for me, is one of those bands where they're interesting, and then they're not, then they are, then they're not again. Every time I hear a song I like, it's from Ashes, Sacrament, or Palaces. The rest just kind of seem redundant to me. Especially the vocals. Blythe's vocal style seems to bounce around from album to album, never becoming solid until Ashes. But I'm not a LoG fanboy, but I can tell you this, THEY'RE THE BEST DEATHEMOTHRASHCORE BAND EVAR!!!11
45. writes:
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1. metalhead644 writes:
that sucks... yet is awesome at the same time - hoglan is god