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Damn Storm, what happened to the magical songwriting foundation. It only works with Hopesfall huh?

Converge sucks? That is...fractally wrong.

Also this is neat. Instrumentals giving me some Astronoid vibes.

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That said, liking Hatebreed over Converge should be punishable by law.

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Pika you are too adorable you will have to get a restraining order to stop me from being your friend. Pika is my friend pika is my friend pika is my friend

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Sometimes I worry that trolling Converge too much results in people thinking these are my real thoughts. Maybe it's time to retire ☹

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Oh, my bad lol. I don't see your posts that often and some people around here really have takes that bad.

Album Rating: 5.0

It's my fault lol

Hatebreed > Converge

I got your back Storm

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Yay!

BORN

TO BLEED

FIGHTING TO SUCCEED

BUILT TO ENDURE

WHAT THIS WORLD

THROWS AT ME

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Could be Svalbard lyrics. Could be Hatebreed lyrics. Uncanny.

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What makes hardcore, hardcore?



Is it the lyrics, the political ideology, the guitar tuning, the fast drums?

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I've always thought it was the instrumentation and the delivery. In the past I'm sure it had more to do with political alignment, but modern hardcore you could be singing about taking a walk in the fall and, if it was done in the style, would probably be hardcore.

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But i mean that's what makes sense.



What defines a music is much more how it sounds than what someone is saying.



I can write a song about how much i hate the man but that doesn't make it punk unless i pick up a guitar for the first time and write some short songs with fast tempo and low production.



If i do all of those things and sing about skating is it suddenly not punk? What does it become?

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Pop punk isn't true punk and must be purged, agreed

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Yeah I agree but pop punk exists not because of the lyrics but because of how it sounds like.



If you take a song like all the small things and have it actually be about all the small things that make corporate America suck, it's still a crappy pop punk song.

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Most genres as we understand them now are bound by a sort of recognizable aesthetic at its base. Like, progressive metal for instance doesn't always break boundaries these days per the prog tag, but it has a certain sound to it that can be generalized. Same can be said about hardcore and the departure from political, external lyricism.

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Progressive is ironically one of the most regressive subgenres nowadays.

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Yeah, prog did a ton for my musical development, but a lot of it sounds like a circle jerk these days. Hardcore is such a confusing bag. You could be talking punk hardcore like Bad Brains or you could be talking straight up hardcore that came after like Trapped Under Ice. Not to mention both strains are active, morphing and mutating and blending with other genres.

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Yeah, the directions that the various core genres can do down is so very exciting. The ceiling still has yet to be found.



Progressive metal is making advances depending on where you look, but the majority of the scene is stuck in the shadow of past advancements. The top tier of that category tend to stick up while the rest of the pack are just forgotten.