Two observations this morning.
1. Aidan(new Victory Records band) are far better than their Avenged Sevenfold-looking promo pictures would have you believe. Parts of their sound take me straight back to mid-'90s SoCal punk, believe it or not. They're pretty good.
2. Acceptance, by contrast, have owned me for a solid week. Combining outright worship of Jimmy Eat World(the sonic similarities are often so close as to be uncomfortable) with elements of Cool Hand Luke and Dead Poetic, they sure haven't written a real original-sounding record with Phantoms, but maaaaaan, it's a good listen.
The upcoming Thrice album, Vheissu, was heard by me a couple weeks ago on a friend's iPod(yay internet leaks). Lemme tell y'all something: they're gonna lose a lot of their fanbase with this, because it doesn't sound a whole lot like The Artist In The Ambulance, and even less like their earlier work, but it IS far better artistically. This band is maturing in leaps and bounds, unafraid to take creative "risks", and I applaud them for it. And yes, metalheads, when they're heavy, they're real heavy. Can't wait to pick it up. So, anyway, check out this article over at MTV. Too bad MTV's video programming apparently isn't as good as their print writing(and they gotta lose the amazingly irritating popup advertising!). I will, sadly, more than likely not be at the show next week with Underoath, but hey, life goes on.
I like this guy, a Long Island, NY high school principal who canceled the prom, being disgusted with "prom culture". I never went to mine either. Good on him.
A band we mentioned yesterday, Alabama's Materia Medica, are growing on us here at sd with each listen. There're two songs over here, and three more over here. Solid! Keep your eyes peeled for these guys in the future.
Wow: The Red Chord will tour with Converge from November 4th through the 20th; go find that itinerary somewhere. As well, ex-Dead Water Drowning guitarist Jonny Fay has joined the Red Chord's ranks. He's not to be confused with Tragically Hip drummer Johnny Fay. Ha! Gratuitous Hip mention there.
Good heavens, we had no idea, but Blindside bassist Tomas Naslund fractured his skull last month skateboarding; he's expected to recover fully(thank God), but in the meantime, the band have recruited their tourmates Aphasia's Will Peng, who's filling in on the current tour with Trapt. How'd we not hear about this?
Posted by mike at October 18, 2005 09:16 AM