that first album was so fucking dark and cool and weird and as i think ive mentioned before Dr. Know from Bad Brains does the solo on Time Consumer (fucking dope)
second album was also good, love seeing a band progress in a way that makes sense and stays true to themselves; third album was basically their breakout success (thanks guitar hero), and then every album got fucking weird and overproduced and just generally sucked. like i can kinda get into a couple one-off tracks from later albums, but man, its all pretty meh. does anyone like their newer shit?
not tryna hate, i just hadent listened to this band in like half a decade, came back to their debut and was just like “wow second stage turnbine blade is really, really good. what happened?”
Last time I saw anything connected to them was a collaboration of musicians doing a cover of Rush’s Anthem and Claudio did the vocals. They released an album last year, haven’t given it a listen.
“If Jessie’s Girl is such a great song then why isn’t there a Jessie’s Girl 2”
Coheed and Cambria: Jessie’s Girl 2
everyone went a little crazy in quarantine
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I got into them a little later on and I remember liking the Afterman albums a lot, Sentry the Defiant is a certified banger and one of the best in their discography imo. But beyond that I kind of stopped listening to them.
As far as I understand it, their albums are more like a sci-fi rock opera than a traditional album. It’s the reason for the kind of odd roman numeral titling of the tracks and book-like album titles. I think there’s also been some comic book adaptations of the story since it’s mostly incomprehensible if you’re just listening to their albums.
To be honest, I haven’t checked out any of their new stuff since at least the early 2010’s but it really wouldn’t surprise me if they got lost in the sauce a bit creatively given the scope and length of time of the project.
I feel exactly the same way. Their emo post-hardcore stuff is so good and the rest of it’s shitty alt-rock semi-prog stuff.
Checking out Anatomy Of A Ghost who scratch a similar itch right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFO4FyqRrvg
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I was a big fan of the first 4 albums or so but by the 4th they started the change over to extremely produced but also not very interesting (to me) albums. I actually went to see them last year and they were great and the new stuff was great live, but sadly they do not play much of their early stuff, just a few of the big hits or absolute concert mainstays get played from those albums. Which is totally their right but yea, big changes over the years. I’ve given the newer stuff a chance a few times but it just doesn’t click with me like the first albums.
Yeah SSTB, IKSSE3 and Good Apollo were very good but after that it felt kind of bland and i stopped listening.
Baby voice post-hardcore bands never last. Hail the sun is the exception tho
i only casually listened to them when they were still fully post-hardcore.
i shifted to Gloom in the Corner to scratch my rock opera story itch. more deathcore/death metal then post-hardcore tho but pretty talented
i also feel entirely the same way. tbh the more i learned about the ‘story’ the less I found myself liking them
