Sender Receiver is good, especially for being borne out of Knoxville.

I'd have to say I'm pretty partial towards From Citizen To Soldier. I'm also biased because my cousin Chaney does vocals, and she ****ing destroys. Her boyfriend also plays guitar, the rest of the dudes are actually from Cedar Falls.

www.myspace.com/fromcitizentosoldier

Other than that, there's really not much talent around here...its always been kind of suffocating here.

I do graphic work for many local bands but none of them I can stomach listening to on a regular basis.

Sender Receiver are pretty generic.

I think he was just referring to the acts in my part of central Iowa, not representative of any genre or region.

Unfortunately, there is next to nothing to choose from. It is generic, but at least they do a decent job at imitation, and their recording quality isn't complete **** like most of the other people that call themselves "bands" in this area.

Returners needs to hurry up and leak.

man havent listened to Symphony In Peril in ages......****ing rules

YOUR MURDERRRRR, MURDERRRR FACE TO FACE

gunna have to put that on now

I didn't know Jesse wrote lyrics on [I]Mirrors[/I]. That's neat.

I know who FCTS are, I find them kinda boring and generic. Especially with the 2 vocalists thing, and for the record I'm a big SR fan. Their new stuff is amazing

FCTS has one vocalist, my cousin, thats it, I assure you.

Might have been different quite a while ago as the name has been used for a while, but they also have different guitarists now. And their drummer is just as good as Lucas.

There's not anything that SR does that's special, but I'm not sure if I've heard their new stuff or if it was old.

holy ****, i'm really kicking myself right now... I finally looked up Prayer For Cleansing. And i feel like a total ****head for not listening to them earlier, because this is amazing.

As far as Misery Signals, I like them more than 7a7p, and the first half of Controller blew. Up until A Certain Death anyways.

I like Controller, musically. Just Karl's robot vocals, ugh.

His vocals are kind of suck. Idk, I just couldn't get into some of the riffs in the first half, and the production sounds a bit robotic as well. to me, anyways

His vox were good on mirrors though.

Just don't like what they did on the first half of controller.

I think Karls vocals on Controller sounds simply monstrous.He replicates it perfectly live, also.

toot toot converge/coalesce and others in an hour

gaza, black breath, and lewd acts might be fun, but ugh i wish harvey milk was on this part of the tour

Monstrous is a good word to use for his vocals, maybe not so much on Mirrors but definitely on Controller.

He has a quality to his voice that's kind of hard for me to describe, the texture is very coarse but he can maintain clarity at such a low, and it gets an abrasive quality you have to feel in person to really appreciate. The production on Controller is almost painfully 'clear' in the first half, but it definitely displays his vox well.

The overwhelming emotion and intelligence that Zaraska could put into his lyrical content and his performances are something I just haven't seen from Karl, yet. They're just different.

They just played their first show like 7 months or something, so I hope they spent that time well writing.

http://www.myspace.com/hopeforthedying

Liking the new clips

Anyone else digging the new Beneath The Sky?

His vocals are good on Mirrors, they sound like *** on Controller.

[QUOTE=Endangered Oddity;17985861]Anyone else digging the new Beneath The Sky?[/QUOTE]

yeah I dld it, but haven't listened. I liked his harsh vox on previous efforts but their cleans were average. I plan to listen sometime this week, idk

New Counterparts is legit.

[QUOTE=NortherlyNanook;17985727]toot toot converge/coalesce and others in an hour

gaza, black breath, and lewd acts might be fun, but ugh i wish harvey milk was on this part of the tour[/QUOTE]

sooo jealous of anyone that went to that

[QUOTE=witchxrapist;17985889]His vocals are good on Mirrors, they sound like *** on Controller.[/QUOTE]

for the most part yeah

[QUOTE=sleepless;17985821]The overwhelming emotion and intelligence that Zaraska could put into his lyrical content and his performances are something I just haven't seen from Karl, yet. They're just different.[/QUOTE]

this

so based on their new song mychildrenmybride have learned nothing and are going to release a boring as hell, by the numbers cd.

A lot of bands are sticking with that formula these days.

mirrors is better than controller. js.

This thread. :/

[QUOTE=bringonthebreakdown;17987380]mirrors is better than controller. js.[/QUOTE]

I would agree but there are three reasons that keep me from doing so.The production on Mirrors was terrible, the last three songs on Controller are pretty much the pinnacle of the bands career, and the album as a whole flows together perfectly.

Mirrors does have better single tracks though.

Yeah the production on Mirrors is pretty bad, especially since the prior album sounded awesome.

[QUOTE=Endangered Oddity;17987450]I would agree but there are three reasons that keep me from doing so.The production on Mirrors was terrible, the last three songs on Controller are pretty much the pinnacle of the bands career, and the album as a whole flows together perfectly.

Mirrors does have better single tracks though.[/QUOTE]

How can the album flow perfectly when the first 5 songs are ****ing abysmal :confused:

Anyway been listening to Narrows again lately.

Good ****.

The production on Mirrors isn't bad at all, it's just not overproduced in a modern metalcore fashion.

i.e. KARL'S VOCALS ON CONTROLLER !

the fact that his vocal live, sound like his hardcore vocals and not the lows on controller makes me far happier.

He does vox like he does on Controller live too, but it comes out with more of an Eddie Hermida type sound, I don't understand how that's, "identical," to the robot vox on Controller, as some of the newbs claimed, but okay?

Yeah the lows he did when I saw them weren't robotic like they were on Controller.

Fanboys will assert anything I think, lol.

Funnily enough I was into MS before they knew who they were so whatev.

Also, I like how his low vocals sound like most deathcore bands' mid-range vocals.

Hahaha, I know.

Not like I can't talk most of my vox are in the mid range/upper register of hardcore vox and screams.

Just can't manage gutturals at all.

Gutturals are easy as **** man.

Every gargled mouth wash? Ever screamed? You should be able to growl.

Just can't get that low register son.

Also Architects have started tracking pre-prod for their next album.

Quite excited.

[QUOTE=witchxrapist;17988317]Fanboys will assert anything I think, lol.

Funnily enough I was into MS before they knew who they were so whatev[/QUOTE]
what, i thought you used to hate misery signals until like a year ago. maybe two.

I used to hate on them, but I actually saw them live a few times, and liked their first album quite a bit, it took me longer to get into Mirrors tho.