I think they peaked on A New Era, this new stuff gets worse and worse

More like peaked at This Is Exile.

I like the new song, seems pretty different from their s/t's lazy songs.

They went full djent..never go full djent

Ehh, this is fairly boring but there's a couple cool parts. And that solo felt really out of place imo.

I'm not up on WhiteChapel, but I definitely don't remember them sounding anything like this.

Not digging this song at all

lol @omgraptors

This is disappointing. They have put out their most generic song to date. Gross.

ayy its aight

I used to kinda like Whitechapel's sound....but what the fuck is up with this full on djent sound O.o

Not liking it

Soooo they started using Meshuggah's guitar tone haha

'Soooo they started using Meshuggah's guitar tone haha'

yeah so have others, who cares

why are they playing djent? Just shows how irrelevant the band has fallen.

Gotta stay on top of the trends if you aren't creative enough

lol

any band with downtuned guitars "is trying to be like" meshuggah

die

favorite bands

The Acacia Strain, All Shall Perish, The Amity Affliction, And Hell Followed With, As Blood Runs Black, Asking Alexandria, Attila, Aversions Crown, Bayside, blessthefall, Born of Osiris, Brand New, Breakdown of Sanity, Bring Me The Horizon, The Browning, Capture the Crown, Carnifex, Chelsea Grin, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk, The Contortionist, Counterparts, The Crimson Armada, A Day To Remember, Dayshell, deadmau5, Dimmu Borgir, Disturbed, Emmure, Escape the Fate, The Faceless, Falling in Reverse, Fallujah, Famous Last Words, Figure, Fit For a King, Five Finger Death Punch, For All Those Sleeping, For The Fallen Dreams, The Ghost Inside, Hearts & Hands, The Holy Guile, I Declare War, I See Stars, Impending Doom, Infant Annihilator, Issues, Jay-Z, Job For a Cowboy, Killswitch Engage, King Conquer, Legend, Like Moths to Flames, Make Me Famous, Megadeth, Memphis May Fire, Metallica, Miss May I, Oceano, Of Mice & Men, Palisades, Pantera, Parkway Drive, Periphery, The Plot In You, Reflections, Secrets, Slayer, Sleeping with Sirens, Slipknot, Stray From The Path, Suffokate, Suicide Silence, Sworn In, System of a Down, Thy Art Is Murder, Veil of Maya, Volbeat, Whitechapel, With Blood Comes Cleansing,

They went full djent..never go full djent [2]

It really groovy, but I dont think its "Djent."

Electric Wizard, Pig Destroyer, The National, Burial, Kanye West, Brand New, Death Grips, Husker Du, Radiohead, Rise Against, System Of A Down, Cryptopsy, Joy Division, Local Natives, Kate Bush, MF DOOM, Septic Flesh, The Weeknd, Wu-Tang Clan, Xiu Xiu, Destroyer, Verse, Tool

pretty random

i liked a lot of a new era but ever since the album after that i've lost interest.

It really groovy, but I dont think its "Djent." [2]

LOL this probably annihilates everything from their last album and it isn't any "djentier" than the songs on their last album as well. One dude mentions djent in this thread and suddenly everyone is talking shit about them embracing djent. It doesn't even make sense, just listen to the fucking song guys.

I don't think you guys know what djent is

Same.

this probably annihilates everything from their last album and it isn't any "djentier" than the songs on their last album [2]

"this probably annihilates everything from their last album and it isn't any "djentier" than the songs on their last album" [3]

I got "This Is Exile" for Christmas thinking I just wouldn't be able to get into it but I did. This song, I don't really hear anything great though.

not "djenty" but also not good

Most stuff off of the self-titled sounded better, this feels like a step back.

This Is Exile will be hard to beat

I didn't really like this it was pretty average but I thought it sounded better than their s/t. Although I have to say Phil doesn't sound his best here

I agree, but still i felt like Phil is sounding good

Lol not even a fuck breakdown. This band has dropped off

Well that sucked. I loved Whitechapel freshman/sophomore year of high school... oh how things have changed.

I dig this more than their last 2 albums, but it aint no Somatic Defilement thats fersure

Their last album was their best album.

these lyrics are lolworthy. the song is all right tho. phil is a god

new era was the only one i could get into

Band should never have happened. Death to false metal...

They erased the rest of good sound that remained on their last one with adding djent..
Not really interested to hear this, but I think i will anyway....

song's not bad, i prefer the direction they're taking. last album was their best

A lot of mixed opinions on this band, that much is apparent.

This is bland at best. Huge disappointment

Disappointing considering the self-titled was so promising

Guitar players aren't bad but I never did particularly enjoy this band.

"Djent" started as something else but the term has come to be associated with the angular chugging stuff that we hear here.

Not going to judge after one track, but I was really hoping to hear some progression from the self titled

they peaked at A New Era of Corruption [2]

Phil is a good vocalist, but that song was a snoozefest.

ya disappointing for a first song. sounds like an acacia strain song.

Full heavy djent only works when you get the atmosphere right, or else it just sounds like bare bones slow, lazy riffing. This is basically Periphery with awfully layered death metal vocals--which is to say, it's really boring and laughable.

So goddamn boring. Wish they would go back to violent lyrics and the shit they had going on their first album.

I don't think it sounds like The Acacia Strain, TAS makes it more interesting IMHO

i don't disagree, acacia makes it more interesting and i like them for some reason..but the djent riffs in this song reminded me of their recent album

I don't get a lot of things being said in this thread.

"Death to false metal"

hahaha haven't heard that since middle school, phil is a monster as usual and the rest is just okay.

I may be the only dude actually digging this. It has its flaws, but its also really catchy, and has a fun feel to it. The album will have better tracks though.

just out of curiosity, are there even any deathcore bands left out there, seems like most of them just went either djent or death metal.

"sounds like an acacia strain song."

i know right

"I may be the only dude actually digging this. It has its flaws, but its also really catchy, and has a fun feel to it. The album will have better tracks though."

I'm with you there. People seem to be going wacko itt imo

There last album wasn't terrible. This isn't incredible though. Hoping to hear some better tracks.

of course people seem to be going wacko, when does most of sputnik not blow everything out of proportion

gay

I liked it, just had really high expectations. I'm still psyched for the album, though

was boring as heck. Felt really flat

I've said this time and time again, Phil is really the only good thing about this band.

dont know what yall are talking about, p much the same as all their other stuff

Their discog is actually pretty diverse for the type of music they play. This just sounds like something straight off their self titled

yeah haha they def change record to record, self titled was a huge step from the others

new era >

This is fine but it's clearly just a run at the Djent trend. The politics involved with a lot of the
core bands are painfully shallow.

fun fact: Alex Wade uploaded the guitar track for this somewhere in 2011, it's called "8 String Groove". It's sitting on my iTunes and came on shuffle the other day~ so really, the riff they're using is a two year old one that didn't make the cut for the s/t. Groovy it is tho.

Lol at people saying New Era was good, that was them going full djent and failing pretty hard. Last album was a step in the
right direction and the new drummer killed it. Although this isn't perfect it's still more interesting than anything from New Era.
People on this site are far too concerned with being seen as troo metal. There are far far worse bands out there than these
guys.

I like that one song with Chino.



New Era isn't djent, just boring

No way was New Era djent, it was groovy for sure tho

"Lol at people saying New Era was good, that was them going full djent and failing pretty hard."

lolno

I think we found the new most divisive band in sputnik. I mean it's not just the band being good or
bad, everyone has different opinions on their albums, the new single, what are they doing as of now.
haha

Ikr, I'll throw out another vote for a new era

it's one of my fav deathcore albums
up there with Despised Icon - day of mourning

reprogrammed to hate...c'mon

It was good, but Chino really made it so. And I will give credit to Devolver. Song is a great example of that sound done right.

I just find the rest of the album to be so boring. Even Phill sounds boring to listen to on New Era and he is a beast.
Bits here and there show up that are good but it's mostly kind of lame. Self titled has make it bleed, one of their best songs
ever and the drumming is tight as fuck. No more blasting over slow slow to mid speed chugging like on "darkest day of man"

Holy shit guys.. It's just a single. Are you really going to base an entire album based off this!? Song's not bad. I think there is a lot of musical douchery stinking up this place :/

Holy shit guys.. It's just a single. Are you really going to base an entire album based off this!? Song's not bad. I think there is a lot of musical douchery stinking up this place :/

Let's face it they were never all that great. Phil is a beast though. Especially live.

"Holy shit guys.. It's just a single. Are you really going to base an entire album based off this!? Song's not bad. I think there is a lot of musical douchery stinking up this place :/"

^^^ this guy is on to something

Also Morry is right, most diverse band on Sputnik

Morry... Hm who actually are you? haha

most diverse band on Sputnik

theres actually a user called DANcore

"theres actually a user called DANcore"
R.I.P Sputnik

@funeral, i'm sure he meant divisive

I actually go by post dancore now

^^^ haha.

@Morry if you couldn't tell I changed my name lols. Good to talk to ya bud. And yes I meant divisive, "diverse" haha nope.

Ohhhh, Hunter! Man i'm sorry, i didn't actually go to see your profile, never thought it was you. I was like "Morry, hm only Hunter calls me that" but i never actually figured it was you lol

Also haha, that was win right there Dan

All good bro, probably hard to see the similarity at first. Asainguy gave me the suggestion, and I was getting tired of mine. Gonna be hearing any new EoA anytime soon?

"soon" isn't the word i guess, haha. We're hard at work on the new EP, hoping to get it out on October, tops!

What about you guys?? It has come to my attention that you've been working on some new stuff yourselves. Fucking eager to listen to new WOG, got lots of faith in you guys m/

hahaha this is one of the worst songs ive heard in a long time wow

"Holy shit guys.. It's just a single. Are you really going to base an entire album based off this!? Song's not bad. I think there is a lot of musical douchery stinking up this place :/"

Every Whitechapel song sounds almost identical, so yes.

Oh come on. That's not true.

They may follow the same formula, but I wouldn't say they all sound nearly identical.

@Curse. ya well, you 5ed Against Me...so...

Every Whitechapel song on the same album as itself sounds the same [2]

That's a BIT better.

They definitely peaked with This Is Exile. Parts of this song sound an awful lot like The Acacia Strain's last album.

Ok song I was expecting something different. I have a feeling this song is going to be one of the weakest if not the weakest track on the new album. Im a huge Whitechapel fan though so I have to stay optimistic lol.

Lol at the guy who has 5s for Becoming the Archetype and Despised Icon making fun of Against Me albums that he's most likely never heard

Nah I've heard em. It's all good man, no worries. Terminate damnation and Day of mourning are beasts bro

Day of mourning was good

Groovy.

self-titled showed me that i could actually enjoy something this band releases. this song wants to
prove me wrong.