Bleeding Through was a band from 1999 to 2014, and then again from this year onward. The band announced their first album in eight years Love Will Kill All for this Friday, and frontman Brandan Schieppati ruminates on the metal scene that the band has returned to.
He tells Jon's Untitled Podcast that he feels like quite a lot of bands in recent years sound like "Emmure with A Day To Remember chorus," and that bands have learned how to make their records sound impossibly clean even if they can't play anywhere near that level of musicianship. Transcription of the conversation is courtesy of The PRP.
“I think in the last four or five years what you’re really getting is the “Bring Me The Horizon: effect. You see a band that started off as a very crappy metalcore band, and found themselves later on in what they did. It’s kind of led me to believe that maybe the metalcore/death metal crossover thing they were doing wasn’t really them to begin with. But lately, I mean their [Bring Me The Horizon‘s] last two records to me are some of the best that have come out from the genre-ish in a long time.
But you see that and you see with that popularity you automatically see bands that try to copy that sound and that kind of approach. And with that you have bands like Architects & While She Sleeps—which I also really like, that kind of carry that torch of that kind of vibe.
And what I’ve kind of noticed is that’s sort of the music that’s coming up right now. That kind of djentcore-ish, techy type of deal with that scream-sing sound, with the catchy hooks.
There’s that, and then I’ve also noticed in the last four years that bands that don’t kind of sound like Bring Me The Horizon; every other band sounds like Emmure with A Day To Remember chorus.
And every record sounds exactly the same, sonically drums sound the same, guitars sound the same, structures is the same, every song is three minutes and fifteen seconds. It’s a carbon copy of the same noise coming out of a record.
I’m not saying noise like it’s a bad thing. But what I’m saying is that there’s no rawness to a record anymore. Bands have discovered how to polish a turd and they do it very well.
And then when you go to see these bands like you’re like ‘fuck, these dudes don’t even know how to play their instruments.’ This is fucking crazy, oh, its like one of those things where every record is horribly autotuned with the vocals.
And it takes all the realness out of a record. And I just think that that’s like the new norm, is to try to be as perfect as you can. Which kind of leads me to that Bring Me The Horizon effect, because their records are just perfect.
But everybody just tries to copy them. Because labels know what sound sells and bands know how to get that sound… That’s kind of what I’ve observed over the last few years is that there is some cool bands, but everything sounds exactly the same when it comes to recording and that’s kind of weird to me.”
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