Was listening to this album for the millionth time yesterday while mowing the lawn, and I thought “this probably would be the result if Failure started a metalcore band” mostly because of the space rock influence
The musicianship slams. The clean vocals are kind of all over the place but it actually adds a bit of punk rock rawness to the mix. It doesn't take away from the experience.
Cave In, Coalesce, Converge, Dillinger, Botch, Isis, Darkest Hour, Pig Destroyer, Shai Hulud, Hatebreed, Poison the Well, His Hero is Gone, Majority Rule, Page 99, As the Sun Sets/Daughters, Spitfire, the best of Zao, Burnt by the Sun’s split/ep, Spread the Disease/Abandoned Hearts Club (Canada), BTBAM’s first release amongst many other iconic bands…late 90s to early 2000s…those were the days (no phones, just living it) and peak right before song writing became hyper-focused and over-saturated with “the breakdown”. …and album production had far more character/honesty/grit and a lot less digitalization.
This album still holds up. Would absolutely adore a rerecording. The recent live sets with these tracks sprinkled in have felt so alive and full of Caleb's memory. Nate has done a masterful job honoring his friend to say the least. And on that note, Zozobra albums still get as much love on the playlist as Cave-in. If you haven't heard this sideproject, highly recommend. Caleb absolutely shreds it.
I saw them when they toured for Jupiter. Everyone was excited for them to do Crossbearer and stuff from this album. They ended up only playing the new stuff. Felt like a deliberate passive-aggressive swipe at their fans
I never felt it was a swipe at fans, I recall reading articles about how Steve simply couldn't tour all the vocals for it, citing throat pain, bleeding etc, but I did see them do bottom feeder along with some of their Jupiter sets so that was cool. It was great seeing them come back around on it and Caleb take on a bigger vocal role. As well as today seeing Nate take some of it on and Steve seems to have improved as a vocalist to where those prior issues don't derail them these days. I was always torn that I never saw them play the I Luv I Jah cover (only saw a snippet of it while they tuned to open a show once)
@@hydrakn I read an interview with them a year or two after Jupiter was released, and they said that from the beginning they always wanted to play in a more pop style because they wanted to become a mainstream success. I'm pretty sure their goal from Jupiter forward was to attract attention from big labels, so the Jupiter-only set list was deliberate. I don't mean that as a criticism, but from my perspective as a fan of their early stuff, it sucked.
This record rips. One of the pioneering records of the mathcore genre. R.I.P. Caleb Scofield.
metalcore in general
Modern Progressive Metalcore to me.
Before Northlane, Volumes, Erra, Architects, Currents there was Misery Signals, but before them, there was Cave In
Was listening to this album for the millionth time yesterday while mowing the lawn, and I thought “this probably would be the result if Failure started a metalcore band” mostly because of the space rock influence
The musicianship slams. The clean vocals are kind of all over the place but it actually adds a bit of punk rock rawness to the mix. It doesn't take away from the experience.
Cave In, Coalesce, Converge, Dillinger, Botch, Isis, Darkest Hour, Pig Destroyer, Shai Hulud, Hatebreed, Poison the Well, His Hero is Gone, Majority Rule, Page 99, As the Sun Sets/Daughters, Spitfire, the best of Zao, Burnt by the Sun’s split/ep, Spread the Disease/Abandoned Hearts Club (Canada), BTBAM’s first release amongst many other iconic bands…late 90s to early 2000s…those were the days (no phones, just living it) and peak right before song writing became hyper-focused and over-saturated with “the breakdown”.
…and album production had far more character/honesty/grit and a lot less digitalization.
This album still holds up. Would absolutely adore a rerecording. The recent live sets with these tracks sprinkled in have felt so alive and full of Caleb's memory. Nate has done a masterful job honoring his friend to say the least. And on that note, Zozobra albums still get as much love on the playlist as Cave-in. If you haven't heard this sideproject, highly recommend. Caleb absolutely shreds it.
one of the first progressive metalcore/mathcore albums, and one of the best..
I still love to gutteral vocals from Brodsky on this. Gives it a unique feel in my opinion
top Hardcore/Metal albums of course...
Can't wait to blast this loud! Always thought the original production/mix/master was the weak point of this album.
sounds like it could've been released today, probably because a lot of metalcore today was influenced by this record.
Heater
Hahaha i copped this on CD a year ago funny they releasing it now
I'm happy 🤟.
I got heart attack listening this
vaccined?
You took the name of the album to the heart.
So fucking amazing
Thanks for sharing this masterpiece 🎉🎉
1999 ----> 2023 🤘🫀🤘
This is one of the Reasons why I want to get a Relapse logo Tattoo 🤘
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I saw them when they toured for Jupiter. Everyone was excited for them to do Crossbearer and stuff from this album. They ended up only playing the new stuff. Felt like a deliberate passive-aggressive swipe at their fans
I remember being pretty torn, I loved Jupiter but it felt like a completely different band.
I never felt it was a swipe at fans, I recall reading articles about how Steve simply couldn't tour all the vocals for it, citing throat pain, bleeding etc, but I did see them do bottom feeder along with some of their Jupiter sets so that was cool.
It was great seeing them come back around on it and Caleb take on a bigger vocal role. As well as today seeing Nate take some of it on and Steve seems to have improved as a vocalist to where those prior issues don't derail them these days.
I was always torn that I never saw them play the I Luv I Jah cover (only saw a snippet of it while they tuned to open a show once)
@@hydrakn I read an interview with them a year or two after Jupiter was released, and they said that from the beginning they always wanted to play in a more pop style because they wanted to become a mainstream success. I'm pretty sure their goal from Jupiter forward was to attract attention from big labels, so the Jupiter-only set list was deliberate. I don't mean that as a criticism, but from my perspective as a fan of their early stuff, it sucked.
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