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Posted: Jan 19 2008 12:00 am

To The Strokes: Wake up your singer, he's sleep-talking in the studio with the record button on again. Or at least that's what "Reptilia" sounds like.
To Dope, Senses Fail, and all the other whiny brats who near ruined the Bonus Tracks on Guitar Hero III: Go crawl under a rock, if you would.
To Airbourne: Could you rip off AC/DC anymore?
To Trivium: Could you rip off Metallica anymore? "Fuck Metalcore, we're for real!" My ass you are.
To About A Plane Crash: "Plane Crash"? More like a trainwreck. Thanks for wasting fifteen minutes of my life with your crappy demo. More in-depth rant can be found at Metal-Archives.com (Search, you'll find my review)
To Metallica: You've got one more chance from me. One more chance. If your new album sucks, I will run over it with my car. Repeatedly. Then, I'll go punch Lars in the face. Maybe I'll do that even if the album's good.
To Screamo/Emo/Metalcore/Deathcore: I will be damned glad when your trend is dead and gone.
To Jerry Only: How much longer are you going to use the Misfits name for your greed?

Anyway, I guess you guys could put your own rants here, or talk about mine. Whatever grinds your gears musically.

Posted: Jan 19 2008 03:02 am

enshinkarateman wrote:

First, let me say that this demo does not feel like fifteen minutes. It feels like an eternity of irritating noise that can hardly be called music. Everything on this demo has been done before. And I mean EVERYTHING. The screaming, pigsquealing, chants, and yes, the breakdowns, have all been done before by bands that do it better. And even those bands sound atrocious. About A Plane Crash exemplifies the worst of the deathcore trend, for many, many reasons.

The demo starts with an intro that has some decent keyboards before descending into generic, chugging nonsense. The vocals kick over a typical-of-deathcore breakdown, and I’m already counting down the minutes until this atrocity is over. The rest of the songs are unremarkable in anything other that mediocrity, though mediocrity would be a compliment, in this case.

Instrumentally, this is just boring. Sure, About A Plane Crash likes to sneak in some occasional keyboards, but this comes off as a failed attempt at originality. Other than that, it’s all your same old boring deathcore. The guitars are just low chug, high hammer-on pull-off sequence, low chug, snail’s pace breakdown, etc. There is also a definite lack of soloing on this demo, which is never a good thing. There is, for some reason, a sample from Super Mario Bros in “We Operate the Deceased”. I have no idea why this was placed in the song, as it does not flow with the rest of the song. My guess is they were trying to win over fans of “Nintendocore” band HORSE the Band. At any rate, they fail miserably.

Vocally, this demo is dull as dirt. There’s the usual pigsquealing and screaming, along with an occasional pseudo-black metal shriek. Really, he’s just annoying, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to punch him in his face after the demo was through. Of course, the music isn’t good anyway, so at least he’s not ruining something otherwise listenable.

About A Plane Crash is a band that should be avoided at all costs. I will be one happy camper when this deathcore trend is dead and buried. The day this is considered to be metal is a sad day indeed, and I can truthfully say I’d rather clean out my ears with an icepick than ever hear this garbage again.

Highlights: NONE!

Wow, you right way better reviews than me. Speaking on Metal-Archives, I found out about this band called Virus by searching for "dog" in the lyrical themes. Their album is prety good actually, it's...progressive metal but like nothing I've ever heard. So I guess to them I say: Make another album!

Posted: Jan 19 2008 04:22 am

To the Sex Pistols: A new album???? Seriously??? There is nothing cooler than a discography consisting of exactly one official studio release. Don't ruin that.

To Fall Out Boy, and My Chemical Romance: How about instead of releasing an album more than once with 5 extra bonus tracks, or as a box set, YOU RELEASE A NEW FUCKING ALBUM.

To Pete Wentz: Stop speaking. Everything you say is dumb. I'm going to fight you.

To Three Days Grace: Fuck off, you aren't cool because your singer was addicted to painkillers and turned emo. Try heroin next time.

To AC/DC: PLEASE release a new album, PLEASE!!! and Tour!

To Van Halen: end the tour, get into the studio, and top the charts again, so you can change rock back to where it belongs (and tour again).

To Trent Reznor, Radiohead, others: Please, please stop this internet thing. It's going to get to the point where you can't sell out stadiums anymore.

To Axl Rose: Get over yourself, release Chinses Democracy, and make amends.

Posted: Jan 19 2008 09:44 am

ross_rifle113 wrote:

To Trent Reznor, Radiohead, others: Please, please stop this internet thing. It's going to get to the point where you can't sell out stadiums anymore.

To Axl Rose: Get over yourself, release Chinses Democracy, and make amends.

Actually, Reznor may have the right idea with this whole "internet thing". CD sales have rapidly declined over the last couple years, whereas iTunes sales are way, way up.

On a related note, several sites are reporting that Chinese Democracy IS finished and has been submitted to Geffen/Interscope who are currently deciding what to do with it. It is the most expensive album ever produced and apparently the label feels that it may not be worth their while to promote it or perhaps even physically produce compact discs of the album because they believe there's no way they'll even come close to recouping their losses.

Posted: Jan 20 2008 04:51 pm

I heard that Axl was arguing with the Record Execs, causing delay, but that makes sense too...I don't like the whole selling music without a label thing, as it could make it harder for bands to make it big without the advantage of a label's endless bank account.

Posted: Jan 20 2008 08:53 pm

To makers of emocore, deathcore, and other homo-core music: Was Linkin Park not gay enough for you that you have to release your own brand of whiny shit? How many skinny dudes in eyeliner do I have to hear girl-scream about how they cut themselves because daddy won't buy them a new car and somebody stole their iPod?

To asshats who actually think that the above is metal: Go get yourself some Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth, Manowar, Exhorder, etc. and then come back to me after you realize that you're listening to the musical equivalent of skim milk.

Posted: Jan 20 2008 09:28 pm

Or as Gama Bomb put it: Diet Metal.

Posted: Jan 20 2008 10:07 pm

Char Aznable wrote:

To makers of emocore, deathcore, and other homo-core music: Was Linkin Park not gay enough for you that you have to release your own brand of whiny shit? How many skinny dudes in eyeliner do I have to hear girl-scream about how they cut themselves because daddy won't buy them a new car and somebody stole their iPod?

To asshats who actually think that the above is metal: Go get yourself some Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth, Manowar, Exhorder, etc. and then come back to me after you realize that you're listening to the musical equivalent of skim milk.

Epic win right here.

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To Judas Priest: Stop downtuning when you play live.

To Manowar: stop downtuning when you play live.

to Rush: Stop downtuning when you play live

To Heaven & Hell: Call yourselves Black Sabbath already, fuck Sharon Osbourne! Oh, and stop downtuning live.

To Helloween: Stop downtuning when you play live.

To Iron Maiden: Play more than 2 fucking dates in the US. And thank you for NOT downtuning live. Very Happy

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ross_rifle113 wrote:

To Axl Rose: Kill yourself, you suck.

Fixed.

Posted: Jan 22 2008 02:22 pm

Also to Iron Maiden: Congrats on your 5th world tour since '01. In that vein, congrats on skipping over Vancouver for the 5th time since '01!

You sons' a bitches, you were supposed to be my first concert, but I had to miss you due to family financial matters....I've been waiting now since I was 12!\

I WANNA SEE EDDIE!!!!!!!!FUCK!!!!!!

Posted: Jan 22 2008 09:51 pm

To Metallica: Just stop. Youre old.

To all gothabilly bands: You suck. Plain and simple. YOU SUCK. Just stop trying to be the misfits. They sucked too.

To the Sex Pistols: Can you go back in time and stop yourselves from existing?

To Nine Inch Nails: I get your grand plan for things... Keep doing what you are doing. We will all say fuck the corporate realm (unless youre paying me) right along with you too.

To emo bands: Cry me a river. You are just revamped cunt-ry singers with more instruments in the songs that you whine through.

To Britney spears.. I dont want to LEAVE YOU ALONE.. i wanna HIT YOU ONE MORE TIME.

To screamo and hardcore/christian metal bands: WHY ? JUST GO AWAY. we dont want any. DO NOT WANT.

Posted: Jan 24 2008 07:52 pm

ross_rifle113 wrote:

Also to Iron Maiden: Congrats on your 5th world tour since '01. In that vein, congrats on skipping over Vancouver for the 5th time since '01!

You sons' a bitches, you were supposed to be my first concert, but I had to miss you due to family financial matters....I've been waiting now since I was 12!\

I WANNA SEE EDDIE!!!!!!!!FUCK!!!!!!

Sooo, you've never seen Maiden? Haha, I'm way younger than you and I've seen then like 3 or 4 times!

Posted: Jan 25 2008 04:59 am

To 99% of bands playing live: stop playing your music so shitty. Why don't you sound half as good as you do on cd? Do you fix your awfulness on computer before you release it? It makes me think you have no talent.