Alright no more in-fighting. Without a bit of normie-flaging we would all become haveys and have nothing in common with anyone and then we’ll never win

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You guys are just busting a nut because for the first time in screamo’s 30+ year history the bass is nearly audible and that’s the biggest development the genre has ever accomplished

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hahahaha it tru

album art looks like a semierect finger

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^ damn, I'm not gonna be able to unsee that now

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“You guys are just busting a nut because for the first time in screamo’s 30+ year history the bass is nearly audible and that’s the biggest development the genre has ever accomplished”



This is demonstration of clear ignorance to Loma Prieta’s landmark album I.V. and it’s phenomenal track “Trilogy 4: Momentary”.

I actually have heard that album believe it or not, it’s the last Loma Prieta album I listened to before I stopped following them

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Well, good jokes aside, you should know the bass is pretty standout on that track and audible throughout much of the album then. You aren’t missing a ton with Self Portrait though.

Can’t say I remember much about it but I always liked Loma Prieta and I’d hazard a guess that I have it 3.5’d on my other account

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Pots likes normie-core confirmed (it's good btw)

Nah I listened to two songs and checked out, it would take something pretty remarkable to rekindle my interest in skramz at this point but this just sounded like same old shit to me

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was on about Loma Prieta, which EASILY has the req'd no. of ratings



but yes this is also good because I still have teenage / early 20s sadboi angst and rage at 36 yo, yet society doesn't accept this and I need an OUTLET without removing the adult mask and therefore here I am

Ya that’s exactly why I stopped listening to them

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If you can sift through the endless minutia of thousands of electronic based albums, it's possible to do the same with rock based albums. Potsy just lost the love for one, it seems like. Idk, there's something about guitar albums that I could never leave behind.

Of course I physically can but that doesn’t mean I want to

Electronic is at peak potential for creativity and technology and innovation etc, there is constantly new things to hear

Rock on the other hand is at the ultimate stagnation point, nothing is new or exciting. Its so rare to find anything that interests me at all anymore

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I mean, the same way there are infinite synth tones, you could say the same about guitar tones/sounds. And I guess I think about there being endless ways to sequence sounds together with any medium or genre and stay open to potential from every direction. Say like, an acoustic piano has sounded basically one way for its whole life but it's still possible to come up with interesting and unique patterns with all of the notes available. I guess with rock shit, I can say that popular modern hardcore is kind of boring these days, but that's because of steadily rehashed tropes and you don't hear too much happening that wasn't happening 10 or 15 years ago.



Edit: Actually with hardcore, the genre is seems almost more homogenous than ever. Bands used to do more to set themselves apart from one another, it seems like.

Pure copium. I’m deffs not gonna argue with you about whether or not a guitar and the endlessly vast sea of electronic equipment and technology that is only exponentially growing by the day have the same limitations. Show me a guitar tone I’ve never heard in a modern rock or metal album.

Other genres have kept their heads above the water by embracing it but most rock and metal genres can’t integrate without sounding super cringe unfortunately so that’s a stalemate

Whether or not it still had a place and is enjoyable is entirely subjective of course but the difference in limitations and potential is objective.

Tbf tho I suspect I could say “water is wet” and you’d still write a paragraph saying it isn’t

While there are plenty of bands i enjoy and new albums i like, i agree that there isn’t much that’s exciting in rock-based genres. I mean, what do most people have to bear the torch? Polyphia and progcore? Nah. A guitar can have a million different tones, but they still sound like a guitar and are played the way guitars are usually played and compared to electronic music, it seems pointless to compare them.

I’d like to see the rock and metal genres if they weren’t guitar-centric/based, but it’s still gonna depend on songwriting anyway.

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I just disagree with that sentiment. I mean, most all modern guitar is guaranteed to be filtered through equipment that affects the timbre and sound. Are we talking acoustic or electric? What kind of pickups does it have? What kind of amp head is being used? Solid state or tube? Pedals? Cabinets? The knobs and settings and wiring on all of those things? Like those could really all be mixed and matched to infinity, with tangible sonic results. Sometimes they're subtle, others they're overt. The evolution of technology affects rock music too. And that's all to say nothing of the actual playing, which is equally, if not more important.



lmao You complain about me being stubborn so often, but clearly we both are.

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Songwriting is the key to all of it. The interfaces and pads and bleeps n bloops n shit aren't going to mean anything without the human/s arranging them. I feel like I've heard a lot of produced instrumentals that go in one ear and out the other just like a boring powerchord riff would.



And it's just a sort of stagnant time in music, it seems like. True, exciting innovation is just hard harder to come by.