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sad. He was a bit of a show off, but still an awesome guitarist.

I don't know about you guys but...

I definitely laughed out loud at the last sentence from the press release.

Jason rips shit.


Old ass news.

They better have their shit together when I see them in a couple weeks.

Only deathcore band with a former slam dunk champion

old as fuck news

Ya the play the 10th they better have ther shit together

Just saw them last week, they were AMAZING, don't worry guys, the new guitarist is great!

Where in the world will they find another metal guitarist?!

guitar center?

sounds like hermida

This news is sooo old

now if the rest of the guys would leave

Mmmm, ear pussy.

Look you gibbons, when someone has already remarked that the news is old, you're not reaching a higher level of awesomeness by repeating the same comment. Go do something constructive instead.

Ontopic: Great news, Chris was getting way too wankery on the guitar. Jawdropping from a technical aspect, but it didn't help the songwriting and made it feel guitar-geeky. Hope this new guy doesn't use the same approach.

So what if a guitarist has the ability to play technically proficient. It definitely helps the songwriting, u think that if he wasn;t in the band to begin with ASP would just be another lame deathcore band (a lot of people still say they are). Technical proficiency brings more to a band than one would think. Tell me a name of a band who has an incredibly technical guitarist that didn't make his band more famous, or more well known because their playing?

Maybe i'm just a guitar nerd, but all i'm saying is, if you had the ability to play like that i'm pretty sure you would want to put it into your music.This Message Edited On 04.03.09

I thought it was quite obvious I was referring to his solo's, which are nothing but as-fast-as-possible scales being worked up and down. Really, really impressive from a technical aspect but it doesn't tell a story like an emotional solo could. To me, it's exactly this shred-wankery that made Awaken the Dreamers somewhat lame. Just read posts as opinions and not as facts.

Also, I've never really met anyone who gave a damn beyond a "Yeah, that's pretty fast, wow." and wasn't a guitar player him/herself. Next to that, I know a shitload of kids who can play mindblowing solo's and work sweeps like crazy. Writing a good song is an entirely different quality imo.This Message Edited On 04.03.09

Actual good players know how to combine both. I would rather be technically proficient and have the ability to write some emotional solo rather than just have the emotional aspect. It just brings more to the table.

I do think that Chris could have switched things up a bit more on Awaken the Dreamers.

Chris is good at pretending to be Rusty Cooley and that's about it.

SOOO True. He even uses RC's sig. 7 string.

uhhhh this is like... 3 month old news

What a rockstar press release.

oh man no i they just lost mah favorite geetarist

but thats okay cuz they are still my #1 BAND 8========>~~~~~~():

Chris is good at pretending to be Rusty Cooley and that's about it.



qft. for serious.This Message Edited On 04.04.09

Terrible news because it wasn't about these guys breaking up.

shush your mouth! ASP is awesome, but their last cd was kind of a disappointment.

Career was a disappointment.

the_wizard. Your opinions about music in general are faulty and inconsistent.

In short, you suck.

Extremely old. However, I could never really get into this band. They're quite overrated. Still, their guitarist was the only thing that made them somewhat original in their genre.

I'm not a fan of Deathcore, but these guys do somewhat remind me of Swedish Death Metal, and for that, I give them props. They're pretty much the only Deathcore band I listen to. Their latest release was tops, the others had too many breakdowns, which was a bit too much to swallow. Can't wait for the next release. Hopefully, it's as melodic as the previous, and not as redundant as the first.