jvandyck87
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jun 22, 2009 0:21:07 GMT -5
Another alt-metal all-star lineup has new music in the works. The members: Lead Vocals: Donnie Hamby of DoubleDrive Guitars/Vox: BC Kochmit of Switched and briefly with Dark New Day Bass/Vox: Corey Lowery of Dark New Day/Stereomud/Stuck Mojo Drums: Dan Richardson of Stereomud/Life Of Agony/Pro-Pain The song "Underneath" is on their myspace. It's a pretty killer tune considering how exhausted this genre is. These guys are all pros though, so I'm not surprised. www.myspace.com/violentplan |
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Post by pen on Jun 22, 2009 0:30:37 GMT -5
As much as I enjoyed Switched, Stereomud, Doubledrive, and Dark New Day, none of these guys are stars.
And actually this song is pretty generic. All of their previous bands made much better music than this.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jun 22, 2009 1:36:19 GMT -5
All-star lineup was meant to be a bit facetious, because Dark New Day was considered an all-star lineup, and considering Clint Lowery was their biggest name, they didn't have that much more starpower than this band.
And while I agree that this song is generic, the vocals are fairly top-notch, and BC's guitar leads with the delay/chorus effect are pretty darn cool. I guess it's not AWESOME, but if it were in the active rock top 50, it'd easily be one of my 5-10 favorite songs on the chart. Maybe that says more about the current state of the chart than the quality of this song.
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Post by pen on Jun 22, 2009 1:40:14 GMT -5
My ten favorite songs on the chart right now are "Sound Of Madness", "The Night", ""Scarlet Letters", "All Nightmare Long", "Contagious", "This Is It", "Half-Truism", "21 Guns", "Second Chance", and probably either "Use Somebody" or "Sulfur". All of those songs are better than this song.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Jun 22, 2009 2:46:07 GMT -5
"Scarlet Letters" doesn't hold a candle to this song. Then again, I'm just sick of his newer gritty/raspy voice. On LD 50 his voice was much cleaner when he sang and much heavier when he screamed. Vocally, Chad has nothing on Donnie, at least not for the last 8 years. And the chorus of "Scarlet Letters" is really boring.
The other songs I wouldn't objectively argue with, though I'd disagree with most of them being songs I like more than "Underneath." The short list of songs on the top 50 at active I like better includes "All Nightmare Long," "Spellbound," "Panic Switch," "Oblivion," "Left 4 Dead," "The Night," and Hurt's "Wars" if that hadn't just gone recurrent. Also, the clip of "Mind Control" sounds really good, but I'll need to hear the whole song to say for sure.
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Post by pen on Jun 22, 2009 10:17:13 GMT -5
Well I wouldn't necessarily disagree with your list either, although I have a tough time getting into Mastodon and I haven't heard "Spellbound" or "Left 4 Dead" yet. My point was pretty much though that I don't think this song is very good, really. It's cool that you like the guy's voice. I did like Doubledrive alright, certainly "11.59" and "Imprint" were really solid songs. This one doesn't really match up in quality to me though.
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