metal mondays (on tuesday): i'm happy watching you diiiiiiiiieee

this band changed my life. yeah i said it. this band changed my life. i discovered them when i first got into myspace. i was into underoath, getting my feet wet with bands with a more hardcore feel. yeah i listened to anthrax and slayer, but they didnt engulf my life. i wasnt into that enough to appreciate them. so when i started to look for heavier things, i found that i liked eurocore/austrocore over what was happening in stateside. i first heard "say goodbye" and it quickly became my favorite song. i killed the prom queen quickly became my favorite band.

i feel like eurocore shaped who i was throughout highschool. i really like bands like the red shore, bring me the horizon (EARLY bmth, late BMTH is a little soft, but still great), and iktpq. i remember when i first got my car, i threw in the "music for the recently deceased" album in the cd changer and bumped it. it was funny, here i was, a staple in my highschool's hip hop club listening to hardcore thrash. i looked extremely confused with my tight shirts, tight pants, and rare sneakers (i had to put the hip hop somewhere- seems like nowadays that's what's popular now...damn i was cool before it was cool).

i killed the prom queen is long gone, but is still my favorite band. there's just a degree of difficulty that iktpq makes it seem easy. the riffs, the breakdowns, the speed, the melodic aspect of the guitars- it's all there. however you dont think about this when you hear their songs. you just get pumped. i also feel like JJ is the one of the better hardcore drummers out there- he's accurate. the stuff that he plays on album sounds EXACLY like how he plays live- that's a hard feat considering all the fills and off beat stuff he goes. the golden lineup for me was ed, jj, jona, kevin, and sean- the music for the recently deceased album line up. not to mention, that album is THE album to have: "say goodbye", "bet it all on black", "your shirt would look better with a colombian neck tie" (A-F*CKING-MAZING INTRO AND GUITAR SOLO), and "sharks in your mouth" (the song you hear above).

the only one i keep up with now is JJ, who leads another of my favorite bands DEEZ NUTS. a hiphop inspired hardcore band- it doesnt sound good, but when you listen to it, your mind will be blown. "Stay True" is one of those must have albums.

metal mondays this week goes to IKTPQ.

jmik