Rules. They really should sing more.

Not bad.

their covers of carol of the bells and god rest ye merry gentlemen are good, make them sound like melodeath songs

The guitar tone sounds weird and the mix sounds off imo. Singing is good though.

Pretty awesome. Last album I checked from them was Messengers but I used to love it. Guess I should play catch up

Damn didn't know they had those pipes on them.

"carol of the bells and god rest ye merry gentlemen"

Those songs have two of my favorite melodies ever, the latter especially.

guitar tones are kinda weird for ABR but this is still better than anything off of their last record

Idk man

I just don't understand why they don't let Dustin sing more, he sounds really good. Some clean vocals would for sure improve ABR's sound... Production is ass yeah, sound like a midi-record

The toms sound like shit. You really need strong toms in the intro and these are trash.

This band's non-original songs are the only ones that are worth a shit.

This band’s... songs... are... shit. [2]

chuckled

Oh god this drumming is just fucking awful

Completely trashes the groove of the original, and that WHACKWHACKWHACKWHACK during the verse? Yuck

They have a dude who can actually do cleans and they dont use him to give records some vocal variety... what the hell. I dont care for this band but this is genuinly baffling.

very bad

thank?s

Very good awesome vocals

this could have been okay but the guitar tone is grating and the drumming is bad

Lol fuck this. Gonna go listen to the Nekrogoblikon cover

was expecting to hate this but nah it's p fun despite the awful guitar tone

I was low key impressed. Expected it to be real bad but its fun for what it is and not offensive. This is probably their best showcasing of singing also

Good vocals, trash everything else.

Thanks, I hate it.

The toms sound like shit. You really need strong toms in the intro and these are trash. [2]

This is a great example of how shitty overproduced drums can suck the life out of a song. The shitty guitar tone doesn't help either though

This shit is so horrible hahahaha

holy shit the drums sound like doodoo

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"carol of the bells and god rest ye merry gentlemen"

Those songs have two of my favorite melodies ever, the latter especially"

Rofl

why the fuck would you wanna cover this song in the first place

seeing the title of this article with a Lordepots post made me click on this

A cover without the personality of the original

This was pretty lame, honestly. Cant think of a positive thing tk say

"why the fuck would you wanna cover this song in the first place"

I wondered this also lol

Vocals sound good but I can't get over how synthetic and fake the instrumental sounds. Drums in particular sound more like programmed midi drums rather than an actual performance. Guitars are very obviously some preset digital plug in. Whole thing sounds like it was made in garage band

I think ABR is very hit or miss, and in this case I think they nailed it. I also think many people have different ideas of what a cover should sound like in their own heads, and if it’s not what they were expecting, they hate it. The mix between ABR’s sound while staying mostly true to the original was done well imo.

I just expect the instruments to sound like they weren't churned out by a computer, usually

Hearing SOAD with not good drum tone is very weird

Yeah I don't get it anymore. Seems like every band with this kind of sound is going in this "digitized" direction with their production/tones these days, which sounds cool when it's really leaned into (bmth, architects, periphery etc.), but when it's bands who have always been basically plug-in-and-play like ABR, ADTR etc. doing it it sounds so fucking lame and takes the life out of whatever they're doing.

solid cover. good timing as I was on a random SOAD kick recently

Sounded pretty good for the most part (aside from the drums), but the cover is irrelevant given that they didn't make any significant changes, and given that the original sounds better in every way possible.

probably a democrat on drums thats why

Fight me potsy, you uncultured potato.

Decent cover but they really could've given it more of their own spin

this is awful

this just sounds like a tough guy metalcore cover and instead of respecting the flow and goofiness of the original song it just pummels you with its instrumentals.

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The production is so weird

One of the better SOAD covers I've heard. Agree they could have made it a little more their own outside of the slightly different drum beats in a section and that little lead in the second verse. As far as the singing Jake has always had some pipes. Proper screaming is done with the diaphragm. If you have a wide range of screams you should be able to train yourself to sing in that range as well

Also agree drums sounds like doo-doo lol

Ya'll are way too harsh man

After the disappointment that "Guardians" was, I expected this to be way worse.

This goes into the bucket of songs that didn't need to be made. It's fine, but it adds nothing.

‘this just sounds like a tough guy metalcore cover and instead of respecting the flow and goofiness of the original song’ [x3]

Kind of pointless, but not a bad cover.

lol

It really isn't. Y'all are super dramatic.

Surprised that a metalcore band made a metalcore cover of a song.

"Yeah I don't get it anymore. Seems like every band with this kind of sound is going in this "digitized" direction with their production/tones these days, which sounds cool when it's really leaned into (bmth, architects, periphery etc.), but when it's bands who have always been basically plug-in-and-play like ABR, ADTR etc. doing it it sounds so fucking lame and takes the life out of whatever they're doing."

it's a budget and convenience thing. a lot of bands have moved over to recording guitars with digital modelers because they're really convincing at capturing the clean, close mic'd sound of classic amps. but they don't give you the ability to capture all of the fuckery you could do with mic placement, room size, unideal settings, etc. same thing with replacing all the original drums with sampled sounds and quantizing them and makes it much cheaper and faster to get passable drum sounds, but it takes a lot of time to capture and mix them in a way that sounds human and again its hard to capture the unidealized sounds you could get by live micing. most albums will continue to sound like this, with gradual improvements, unless someone finds a way to have at least some of the bigger acts make enough money that they can actually spend more money and time on their recordings. AFAIK Toxicity wasn't a totally ridiculous recording process like say Kid A, but they did track a million different layers of guitars with different tones, and spent money on a top notch engineer, room, the best mics, boards, etc. to capture the drums, would have time to get the vocal takes and layers they wanted done.

its aight