enjoyed this more than I was expecting fo sho but them bois better have some more dynamic cuts to back it. feelings etc. plz?

Why is the article so long lol just say "thrice new song lol listen here" bro

it is the year 2021 you can get that information without reading but can you have respect for important history without reading psssssh heathens

SowingSeason

wait what

"What I mean by this is that it contains both chorus harmonies and a breakdown, and both these things are good in a way that sounds like THRICE doing things they are good at. So that's a relief."

this is exactly the correct take and the appropriate amount of enthusiasm, which is to say, moderate.

thank you park now i can die at peace

"appropriate amount of enthusiasm, which is to say, moderate."

lol for real but also thank fuck

once a 4 you're nothing more im sorry that'll never change *cue paramore continuing the lyrics*

Palms was good wtf

new song also good
artwork bad

it works in the comments but not in the post

Palms was overly hated here, but it definitely wasn't great.

the production and guitar tones are far superior to palms (which while i enjoyed is probably their worst album outside of identity). that alone gets me excited for this.

the mix might honestly be the best part of this song

also we've had new Underoath and Thrice this week, just need new mewithoutYou to complete the holy trinity of "Sput favorites that were Christian in the mid-2000s"

oh is that why they were bumping that band? makes sense thank u project

yea its curious how much more into those bands people are here compared to rym

ehh this is alright. nothing the band has major/minor onward really impresses me and while this is better than palms for the most part its still doesn't have a ton going for me

also true enlightenment is realizing beggars and alchemy 1-3 > rest of thrice's discog

Sounds like someone took the slower version of ‘Image Of the Invisible’ and mixed it with Cave In’s ‘Antenna’.

good track, not their best though.


and Palms is a much better album than TBEITBN!

also we've had new Underoath and Thrice this week, just need new mewithoutYou to complete the holy trinity of "Sput favorites that were Christian in the mid-2000s"

I don't think Thrice were ever labeled as a Christian band

their lyrics made it pretty obvious though. IIRC Dustin and Teppei professed faith but not Riley/Eddie so they didn't want to label themselves a Christian band

there was always a lot of discussion about Thrice as a Christian band, even if they were technically labelled as a band who dealt with Christian themes or whatever. search for Kensrue interviews on faith

"The best THRICE albums are still The Artist In The Ambulance and The Illusion Of Safety and this will never change"

prepare yourself for the onslaught of angry plebs who will chuck their greasy copies of the alchemy indices at your house windows

god I really hate the mixing on this

Is this the newly established oblique style in which we are to ironically meta-enjoy post-news on Sput?

This band hasn't done anything above average since 2008. Amazing and fair and balanced news writeup.

Decided I’m not super excited for this and also decided I am concerned for Johnny’s well being

I liked this tbh

Alchemy is the third or fourth best thrice album so that’s not unreasonable.

Artist is a phenomenal album but I don't get why people put Illusion of Safety in the same tier

Good song, worrisome article agreed lol

Because project thrice got fairly popular off of Illusion and has bangers

However this news article did remind me of the existence of Kerrang and Metal Hammer. Those were the days.

Solid track, honestly one of the best singles they've released in a while. Palms was pretty thoroughly bad with a few highlight tracks so hopefully they've got nowhere to go but up. At least the production is a lot better than whatever tf Palms had.

This news article was great. Thank you. Excited to check it out.

I just googled thrice and the second thing to come up was a kerrang article about the new thrice and it actually had some good info about the new album that can actually inform us about the shape of the albums purpose and being.

“It was self-produced and recorded at the band’s own New Grass Studio, and mixed by Scott Evans.

A taste of the 10-track release has arrived today with lead single Scavengers – a song that frontman Dustin Kensrue cryptically refers to as touching on ​“toxic worldviews I once inhabited” where ​“a lot of people that I love are still in that place”.

A press release, meanwhile, describes the album as a whole as conveying a ​“palpable sense of danger, determination, and possibility”, while also being the ​“soundtrack for deeper dreaming”.”

That tells me nothing

cryptically refers to as touching on ​“toxic worldviews I once inhabited” where ​“a lot of people that I love are still in that place”.

Is this him talking about his 9/11 was an inside job song and conspiracy believers as a whole

Decent track.

wait, their second album with a /

about 10 years apart from m/m too

Bridge =/= breakdown but I kinda went into this expecting that to be what you meant

Man, teppei is WILDLY underutilized in modern thrice. So many parts that could be jazzed up with his tasty leads that are just soooooo boring

"post-cryptoevangelical alternative post-post-hardcore Californian rock band THRICE"

jesus christ we're just makin shit up now, arent we lol

Thrice releases a new song and I'm not bored afterwards, hallelujah!

Teppei says writing random fast leads that happen to sound cool is not creative and to get better opinions.

Better than any palms song for sure, hilarious article

new song is pretty cool yea

Tell Teppei to learn to write memorable guitar parts again

This is certainly a Thrice song and that is certainly Thrice artwork. It sounds slightly better than the last two albums but they set the bar so low with their post-hiatus work that almost anything better than "bad/mediocre" would be an improvement at this point. Riley and Ed are the only ones who even seem to give a shit anymore but I'd love to be proven wrong when the full album releases.

Teppei says no!

This song is fucking awesome! Sounds like they realized they needed to pump up the energy a bit. Really looking forward to this now.

Sounds like the evolution of Palms to me

This sounds completely average

And wasn’t the gray the first single from palms? You guys are setting yourselves up for disappointment

Gray goes twice as crazy as this song y’all don’t even understand your own reality

Usually their singles are my least favorites so hopefully that is the case here. decent track tho.

I’m approaching with reserved optimism but I definitely like this song.

This article will appear to have been more entertaining than the record.

Today's Thrice make music like a blunt knife cuts sashimi.

I appreciate the effort whomever put into that article. Thank you.

I like Thrice but haven't given some of their releases enough attention. This article inspired me to save more of their discography for future listening.

"Usually their singles are my least favorites"

Yep. Not a single one of my favorite Thrice tracks is a single lol

“Teppei says writing random fast leads that happen to sound cool is not creative and to get better opinions.”

It has less to do with “random fast leads” and more to do with layering. What is the point of having two guitar players if they both play the same thing a majority of the time

Even agree. I’m just feeling trolly today

You should remove the "re" from the headline.

Got 'em.

"Today's Thrice make music like a blunt knife cuts sashimi."

That is beautifully accurate

This dumbass article is why I've spent 10 years on this stupid website. God I love Sputnik lmao

Hilarious article. Most overrated band on Sput by far

circa 2010 maybe

Palms was a great album how dare you JOTW

I'll listen to this soon-ish I hope they're back to rocking out

Prob my favorite thing they've done since Hurricane although thats not necessarily saying much

I'll say the plams artwork isn't their worst artwork. It's simplistic but that doesn't make it awful, just kinda uninspired.

I don't dig it thhough. Look at the band Palms album. It could've been something like that.

Palms' artwork > To Be Everywhere's artwork

They're both really eh tbh. I think beggars was the last album art I really gave a shit about. Thrice don't have *amazing* artwork to begin with so it doesn't really matter to me.

Beggars is definitely my favorite album art by them

Song is cool, but they kinda lost me after To Be Everywhere

Yeah Beggars forver

"cryptically refers to as touching on ​“toxic worldviews I once inhabited” where ​“a lot of people that I love are still in that place”."

oh gosh this is gonna be the Thrice version of Erase Me

I like it. Palms was fine, hoping this record is better than fine.

listening to dustin is so uninteresting, he sounds the same on every song since major/minor. in general, wasn't their greatest quality reinventing themselves and evolving on every record? what happened to that? bring back a genuine interest in writing new music or don't bother

Why is The Immigrant Song intro sounding so different?

and I just love how "cryptoevangelical" is a totally normal term for people on this site. It does make absolute sense while making little sense. Thank you genre people.

"THRICE topped the Sputnikmusic user poll for Album Of The Decade 2000-2009 with their album Vheissu"

Really? That's so awesome, Vheissu fuckin rules

this sure is a post-hiatus thrice song

oh my god stop

palms was literally a post-vitalogy pearl jam album get over yourselves

shut up snake no one can deny the back to back power of Blood on Blood and Beyond The Pines.

Just wanna put out there I really dislike the commentary.

Even when it's new T.Swizzle pap or whatever it's just obnoxious and makes the site seem very unprofessional.

Also Thrice slaps ass and the new song is great.

also why is this song so looooooooong?

at least back in 2016 when thrice was ripping off nickelback they at least ran blood in the sand just under three minutes

This post is annoying as fuck honestly. Major/Minor onward is way better music from Thrice than the Illusion of Safety and reading yet another person say that they've never been as good as their first two albums is so overdone.

"Artist is a phenomenal album but I don't get why people put Illusion of Safety in the same tier"

Illusion of Safety was a pretty huge album in the scene when it dropped. Deadbolt was everywhere.

"there was always a lot of discussion about Thrice as a Christian band, even if they were technically labelled as a band who dealt with Christian themes or whatever. search for Kensrue interviews on faith"

A lot of lyrics are straight out of the Bible and Dustin went on to be a worship leader and also released a worship album. They never marketed themselves as such, but the influences were pretty overt.

"Look at the band Palms album"

main reason I don't like the (Thrice) Palms art is that it didn't fit with their admittedly v vague aesthetic tbh, but I'd take it over the cheeseass lame sunset from that snoozer band's cover any day

"jesus christ we're just makin shit up now, arent we lol"

lol absolutely yes but at the same time not rly tbh

"This post is annoying as fuck honestly. Major/Minor onward is way better blahblah"

lmfao i am so sorry

and ye, emim gets it

also we've had new Underoath and Thrice this week, just need new mewithoutYou to complete the holy trinity of "Sput favorites that were Christian in the mid-2000s"


I would rather mwY stay without new music if thrices last two albums and erase me are any indicators

This is good though / finger crossed / also best thrice is Beggars easy

I'm also worried about Anberlin's next album. They'll round out the trifecta of bands that I grew up with that reunited.

new anberlin album?!

Cheeseass sunsets > circle pattern

Also my point was more do something more not do what Palms did. Put hands or something idk 🤲

i really, really hate this.

" The best THRICE albums are still The Artist In The Ambulance and The Illusion Of Safety and this will never change"

weird way to spell 'Beggars and Beggars b-sides' but ok

Oh yeah I forgot Anberlin hinted at a new record, I'll believe it when I see it though

I like Thrice
Will I like this Thrice
On a scale of gas station roller hot dog to a fresh steamy basil white pizza where does this lie

7-11 bbq chicken pizza

Im about to enter my parents house and find out what delicious food awaits for nbs finals

"Oh yeah I forgot Anberlin hinted at a new record, I'll believe it when I see it though"

One of them posted on a Facebook/Instagram post that they were working on new stuff

"weird way to spell 'Beggars and Beggars b-sides' but ok"

that is the only acceptable other answer, but, like, it's more of a cheatcode than an answer

Coheed are teasing too lmfao huge week for last-decade sputcore this week

Oh rly niiiiiice, not sure how comfortable I am with the idea of both(?) of them dropping potentially pretty good albums this year but that's hype ig

can't wait to see how many anti vax[is II]ers this roots out of the woodwoork

i miss thursday the most

one of the worst songs ever written

shut up tyllian

gotta agree with tyler here

Gotta agree that artist is well above basically everything in their discography asides illusion. Thrice have been painfully average for a looooong time now

That album art is about as good as the song you posted. Which is to say: pretty mundane

Decent song but I'm keeping my expectations low. Eddie sounds incredible tho.

Genuinley anticipating not only a new thrice album but also a new coheed album is literally the worst start possible on your quest to reinvigorate your music drive weebusofthewellington

yea only Coheed is worth anticipating between the two, agreed

You should try journaling

anticipating a Coheed album afeter 8 years of bad ones lol

classic potato sniffing at the value of respecting your roots every once in a blue moon

coheed have only made 2.5 bad albums and their last one was none of them so conservative optimism is viable i think

Dang, the production on this is terrible. Apart from that, song is on par with everything else post-hiatus, though that instrumental bridge is pretty nice.

honestly kinda dig the chorus

best two Thrice albums are Illusion of Safety and Identity Crisis and in fact they are the only decent Thrice albums, everything after was unlistenable pablum

Identity Crisis is hands down the best

That's a scalding take

"anticipating a Coheed album afeter 8 years of bad ones lol"

acting like the last one wasn't great

did not realize the production on this Thrice track would be so polarizing, I'm a big fan of it

ITT: bonkers Thrice takes because people want to feel cool and act like Vheissu isn't a seminal work for the genre as a whole

"post-cryptoevangelical alternative post-post-hardcore Californian rock band" is more accurate than some of you dare admit, but alchemy *is* among their most interesting work.

Can't wait to see this stickied on most viewed news

Song is just okay, so for Thrice means the song is kinda bad. Dustin's voice is sounding more and more like he has smoked a pack a day for the last 10 years.

The problem isn't the music, but rather the lyrical content. Even in the original post hardcore phase there was always something interesting lyrically that elevated it above other bands, often linking to philosophy, a unique interpretation of contemporary society and politics or more often than not through a lens of faith.

Since Dustin's Mars Hill experience in the hiatus though, he's come through the other side without a solid lyrical grounding in his writing. Pre hiatus Thrice would never stoop to "no we're not going to sit in the dark any more" or "I will find you in the darkness" which is such a shame. Deeper Wells EP got back some of that lyrical vibe but Scavengers completely throws that out the window for "heavy Dad rock" vibes, which is fine, but it's just not Thrice.

This post is annoying as fuck honestly. Major/Minor onward is way better music from Thrice than the Illusion of Safety and reading yet another person say that they've never been as good as their first two albums is so overdone.

"Since Dustin's Mars Hill experience in the hiatus though, he's come through the other side without a solid lyrical grounding in his writing."

An interesting take, but I totally agree.

Loved reading the article

His lyrics deeeefinitely took a nose dive after the hiatus, though he's still capable of writing some genuinely great passages here and there. The chorus lyrics to Beyond the Pines are great imo.

Honestly the lyrics here don't bug me as much as his usual output of the last few years has. Nothing spectacular but at least he's not yelling "We gotta wake up" over and over again.

This is definitely one of the better songs from post-hiatus Thrice

i would give my left nut for them to return to a vheissu style sound

I'll toss a nut into the Vheissu pot too

"His lyrics deeeefinitely took a nose dive after the hiatus, though he's still capable of writing some genuinely great passages here and there. The chorus lyrics to Beyond the Pines are great imo."

it says a lot that those lyrics are an adaptation of a Rumi poem and they're his best in years lol

+ mwY did it better

70% of Thrice's music is some of the most tedious music in rock. I'll take Illusion, Vheissu and maybe M/M and I'm good.

thrice is probably the worst band of all time

Vheissu and M/M are their best albums imo.

M/M has the lion's share of their most tedious pre-hiatus music and would be one of their worst if it weren't for the last two tracks

HARD disagree. And I challenge you to a duel sir.

accepted, guaranteed victory if the best you've got in your canon is crusty worship rock

I love the grunge-y sound and love basically every track (save for Blur and Listen Through Me). One of their most consistent albums.

I’ve got some secrets. I wouldn’t be so confident, sir.

M/M is alright. I prefer Beggars for anything post Vheissu (which is their best, come at me Johnny).

kinda echo johnnys feelings on m/m. for the most part its a very dull record that narrowly avoids the bottom 3 (both reunion albums and identity crisis) off of the strength of its closing duo

I need to find a different place to get my music news.

M/M is kinda average overall but yep Anthology is their best song

Thrice described as crusty rock is too fitting lol

"I need to find a different place to get my music news."

genuine question re. you and everyone else malding itt: was sput ever a primary source of news for you and what are your expectations for articles beyond regurgitating the core fibers of whatever press statements are all over the internet 2-3 days before whichever article goes up?

Honestly, I think Sput's news should feature humour and commentary more often. Sput is never going to compete with other outlets for 'professionalism'. I think it should lean into its scrappy, rogue brand.

"oh gosh this is gonna be the Thrice version of Erase Me"

That sentence made me both laugh and feel sad at the same time.

This post is annoying as fuck honestly. Major/Minor onward is way better music from Thrice than the Illusion of Safety and reading yet another person say that they've never been as good as their first two albums is so overdone.

"+ mwY did it better"

to be fair mwY lyrics are better than pretty much every other rock band's

also yes more snark in my news plz, as a longtime Thrice fan I enjoyed Johnny's take

MM is just Beggars redux with about half the heart and songwriting ability ya

Anthology is still top-tier Thrice though

that, Disarmed and Words in the Water stop the album from being a total wash

Yes to all 5 of the above

also all of the other good songs on MM

This didn't strike me as particularly great. It's fine, but I felt the singles for Palms were better than this song.

Only Us was the only decent Palms single and it never kicked into gear the same way as this does after like 3 hours of grunge buffering

Imagine thinking Illusion of Safety is better than M/M and then being bold enough to say it in public, sometimes I have to simply admire the chutzpah

fuckoff back to sunday school

everything after air and earth is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

crap band

“ genuine question re. you and everyone else malding itt: was sput ever a primary source of news for you and what are your expectations for articles beyond regurgitating the core fibers of whatever press statements are all over the internet 2-3 days before whichever article goes up?”

Not malding, I’m just too positive a person for the kind of childish negativity here.
I used to like coming here for news. Maybe it was always this bad, and I’m just tired. I don’t know.

I’m not even a fan of this song, really. Just… this isn’t my kinda attitude.

Not being bitter or snipping at you, genuinely gonna say yeah this place is absolutely not for you, bud. This isnt even a bad thread in the slightest.

Vheissu and Illusion are indeed their best.

"This isnt even a bad thread in the slightest."

Seriously. Don't even think about wandering into any of the allegations articles.

Sput has its moments of uplift but it's not the most nurturing place...

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS

Eddie and Riley killing it as always but maaaan, Dustin just sounds bored / unengaged and Teps forgot how to riff. The main riff is seriously just lazy as fuck, and hearing him trash his earlier guitar playing (when he was consistently interesting and engaging) in interviews in favor of the newer post-grunge "it's got FEEL" stuff makes me wonder if his ears still work

Completely agree with everything you said

im someone who also doesn't necessarily vibe with the tone of the community conversations here but just imagining everyone says the things they do while in good humour helps a little bit. like i find crass differing opinions on music of all things to be quite funny. but yeah the allegations threads are bit beyond for me. still regretting my cringe name though.

No way man, I love yr name lol. Somebody has to keep the TREOS love alive

So Sputnik is pure satire now? cool.

always have been

Meh. It's ok but nothing special.

I don't love his singing nowadays, aka larping like he is some tired old man whose bones ache every time he opens his mouth.

Crusty rock lol. Too good.

Eddie and Riley killing it as always but maaaan, Dustin just sounds bored / unengaged and Teps forgot how to riff. The main riff is seriously just lazy as fuck, and hearing him trash his earlier guitar playing (when he was consistently interesting and engaging) in interviews in favor of the newer post-grunge "it's got FEEL" stuff makes me wonder if his ears still work [x987654321]

great song ngl

ha thanks Slex the treos bit im okay the 777 not so much lol

Never connected treos to the band. I feel dumb now.