digital metal disses the taste of silver...sort of[views:4802][posts:33]____________________________________ [Sep 10,2007 11:38pm - dreadkill ""] Destroyer Destroyer – “Littered With Arrows” Goodfellow Right. I’ve almost had it with this whole kids playing deathcore/grind spazz tech bullshit. While I generally embrace the heavier, more death metal aspect of this genre (Despised Icon, Ion Dissonance, Whitechapel, Diskreet, Knights of the Abyss, At The Throne of Judgment, Woe of Tyrants, etc) this overly spazzy, emo plagued, screechy, quirky, pseudo grind has got to stop as I’ve literally been swamped with it recently ; Arsonists Get all the Girls, The Orangeburg Massacre, Heavy Heavy Low Low, The Assailant, Robinson, War From a Harlots Mouth, The Number 12 Looks Like You, A Second From the Surface, The Taste of Silver, Dance Club Massacre and Last Chance to Reason. The list goes on a on in a sea of short hair, tight pants, screams, chaotic squawking, growls and horrid song titles-and they all sound the fucking same. And to add to the issue of complete unoriginality-some of the afore mentioned bands have tried ever so hard to add some gimmick to their contrived sound; Arsonists Get all the Girls=quirky synths, War From a Harlots Mouth=jazzy interludes, Dance Club Massacre=horror film atmospherics and synths and in the case of Oklahoma City’s Destroyer Destroyer=detuned 7 string guitars. Yay-so that means a slightly lower end on the rumbling breaks between grating squeals and equal grating screams from the annoying frontman. Listen, just because you have heard albums from Converge, Pig Destroyer, Daughters, wear a Napalm Death or Dying Fetus shirt and have some second rate Paul Romano meets Jacob Bannon artwork, doesn’t give you the right or ability to lay down 12 short stabs of mindless noise; not including the required slower, post rock Isis-tracks (“Number Cruncher”) or lengthier more experimental “Error” and “Off the Beaten Path”. Now don’t get me wrong, I like my sonic cacophony as much as anyone as efforts from the likes of Gaza, Nights Like These, Architect and others get regular play from me, but shit, some semblance of structure or actual chords might be good. As it stands, Littered With Arrows stands as a musical testimony to the old theory that if you put a bunch of chimpanzees and typewriters in a room, eventually out of the random chaos, something readable may result. Replace the monkeys with teenage kids and the typewriters with instruments and you get Destroyer Destroyer in the very early stages of the experiment. I’m sure a bunch of ‘extreme’ myspacers will ‘get’ this and say I don’t 'get' it because I’m a musical relic by today’s standards, but I’ve heard a lot of music-both old and new and Destroyer Destroyer is among the most grating I’ve heard. But I guessing that’s mission accomplished for them and the sad excuse for a scene we are currently experiencing. By Erik Thomas |
| ________________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 7:15am - Brad Weymouth ""] that was the best review i've ever read |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 7:56am - the_reverend ""] I like how instead of not listing out bands instead of writing words, he went the opposite way. |
| _________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 8:19am - ZenErik ""] Well, Destroyer Destroyer are assholes anyway... Along with Dance Club Massacre... And especially Architect. Admittedly, I actually do like some Architect and Destroyer Destroyer. But as people, they should all die in a tour van crash. |
| ______________________________ [Sep 11,2007 8:19am - Mess ""] ha? i thought it was pretty funny this guy's a riot |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 8:32am - the_reverend ""] sme one needs to cut TTOS down from their high fucking lorells. "hi, we're ap mags's band, the taste of silver" jerks |
| __________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 9:33am - brian_dc ""] dude, what happened with that tour? We played with those 3 bands, too. And while Keith from Architect was a bit anti-social, otherwise I thought the bands were pretty nice guys. |
| ______________________________ [Sep 11,2007 11:09am - cav ""] LOL at ttos and lctr being mentioned in other peoples reviews, for being something than neither of them are. |
| __________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 12:05pm - sxealex ""] its cool we are all pussies anyway |
| _______________________________ [Sep 11,2007 2:38pm - Murph ""] the_reverend said:sme one needs to cut TTOS down from their high fucking lorells. "hi, we're ap mags's band, the taste of silver" jerks don't you mean, "laurels" |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 2:40pm - joeycobra ""] ZenErik said:Well, Destroyer Destroyer are assholes anyway... Along with Dance Club Massacre... And especially Architect. Admittedly, I actually do like some Architect and Destroyer Destroyer. But as people, they should all die in a tour van crash. what happened??...they seemed like nice dudes when we played with them. |
| _________________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 2:45pm - DrewBlood@Work ""] Murph said:the_reverend said:sme one needs to cut TTOS down from their high fucking lorells. "hi, we're ap mags's band, the taste of silver" jerks don't you mean, "laurels" [img] |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 3:56pm - brandon... ""] Nights like these sucks ass, but i agree with the man..or at least most of what he said. |
| ______________________________ [Sep 11,2007 4:04pm - Lamp ""] I hope the vocalist of Architect gets decapitated and his hands with the X tattoos on them are put in the Retard Hall of Fame. |
| _____________________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 4:16pm - MarkFuckingRichards ""] I've never heard Destroyer Destroyer and most likely won't go out of my way to listen to them, but I think if they're going to get shit on, the person doing the review should at least check his fucking grammar. Does that stuff piss anyone else off except for John Dwyer? I think Erik Thomas is a monkey with a typewriter. Learn to command the English language before writing any sort of publication. Goddammit. Oh, and Paul Romano and Jake Bannon are amazing artists; the term "2nd rate" hardly applies. |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 4:55pm - dreadkill ""] i think he meant the artwork was done by a 2nd rate imitator of those guys. |
| _________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 5:14pm - sxealex ""] i think jake bannons visual art is crap, although it looks cool... it deserves minimal credit for effort. most people can use adobe products to do what he does. |
| _________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 5:16pm - sxealex ""] he also quoted the word "get" when it was used correctly in addition to when it was used in the place of word "understand" |
| _____________________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 6:01pm - MarkFuckingRichards ""] Jake Bannon's work can be argued I suppose, and I will say that some of the stuff he does for hardcore bands is very repetitive (especially his style of skulls). Overall, I think he has a very established, visually pleasing style that allows him to give simple arrangements much more depth than most artists can get with even a complex composition. I wouldn't say he deserves minimal credit for effort, but the people that rip him off with Adobe software should get minimal credit. Jake Bannon created a unique style for himself, which in and of itself is a difficult task for a professional artist, but of course a million people copy his style so it is expected that he would lose some validity. All it takes is someone to dissect his/her style(s) for as long as it takes, then 100 other people to steal the idea without having to think for themselves. It's not always the execution of the art that takes the most effort, it's conceptual skills and individuality (for the most part). |
| _____________________________ [Sep 11,2007 7:11pm - pam ""] HAHAH, this dude is awesome. |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 10:57pm - SteveOTB ""] Wow you guys were right...terrible grammer on his part. Here's a tip for him. [img] |
| ________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 11:13pm - Murph ""] SteveOTB said:Wow you guys were right...terrible grammer on his part. Here's a tip for him. [img] aww dude, you spelled GRAMMAR wrong. |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 11,2007 11:17pm - SteveOTB ""] Murph said:SteveOTB said:Wow you guys were right...terrible grammer on his part. Here's a tip for him. [img] aww dude, you spelled GRAMMAR wrong. hahahaha wow...I did. Just realized that now. Maybe RTTP needs a spell check. |
| _______________________________ [Sep 12,2007 12:14am - blue ""] you wouldve thought aaron wouldve done that by now, considering hes the king of mispelling everything so no one ever understands a goddamn thing hes saying. |
| _________________________________________________ [Sep 12,2007 8:17am - the_taste_of_cigarettes ""] The sad thing is, the only member of TTOS wearing tight pants was me because I put on 30 lbs :( When size 36 becomes tight, it's time for the barrel of the gun |
| __________________________________ [Sep 12,2007 8:46am - brian_dc ""] if you use firefox it has it has a built in spell check on input fields. More like the taste of a pig lard, amirite? |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 12,2007 8:53am - the_reverend ""] I use ff and the built in spell check. I just look away from the keyboard/screen while typing and then look up to think "who the hell wrote that?!?" |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 12,2007 8:53am - the_reverend ""] and FF's suggestions are 99% wrong. |
| ______________________________ [Sep 12,2007 8:54am - Mess ""] nerds |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 12,2007 9:43am - porphyria ""] SteveOTB said:Wow you guys were right...terrible grammer on his part. Here's a tip for him. pwn3d. |
| __________________________________________________ [Sep 12,2007 11:03pm - the_taste_of_cigarettes ""] In some ways, it IS an honor to be used as an anti-hero, I guess |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 13,2007 11:52am - dreadkill ""] blue said:you wouldve thought aaron wouldve done that by now, considering hes the king of mispelling everything so no one ever understands a goddamn thing hes saying. hahahahahahaha, i always blame it on acid. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 14,2007 12:55pm - immortal13 ""] SteveOTB said:Wow you guys were right...terrible grammer on his part. Here's a tip for him. [img] You know Steve, you could have just gone with it and said you were trying to make fun of him by talking like him, but it's too later for that now. In the words of Porphyria and the thoughts of just about everyone else: pwn3d. |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 14,2007 12:57pm - immortal13 ""] ZenErik said:Well, Destroyer Destroyer are assholes anyway... Along with Dance Club Massacre... And especially Architect. Admittedly, I actually do like some Architect and Destroyer Destroyer. But as people, they should all die in a tour van crash. I didn't talk to DCM or Destroyer Destroyer much. I do know that the drummer of Destroyer Destroyer said that our drummer is "way to fucking fast" which is a good compliment. But I talked to the guys from Architect a lot and I thought they were pretty cool shit. Especially the bassist and singer. I gave the bassist our last OTB shirt for free, and he said he's gonna wear it for the duration of the tour. And later on that night the singer gave me a free shirt just because I helped Dave out with that show. |