I never listened to Silverstein and always assumed they were fggts, so I was very surprised to hear about their upcoming album. It’s called “Short Songs!”, and half will be original, fast hardcore songs under 90 seconds- pretty surprising in its own right. The other half will be covers of bands including Dead Kennedys, NOFX, Descendents, Green Day, Gob, and (wait for it) ORCHID!
- LOL @ that Canadian accent– “it’s BEAN a busy year for Silverstein” and “thinking ABOAT the scene we came from.”
- Super stoked on how butthurt all the fggt skram elitists will be about this- “WTF SILVERSTEIN ISN’T ALLOWED TO LIKE WHAT I LIEK!!!!”
- I hate American Nightmare and Propaghadi, but I’m glad that they’re giving some dap to sweet bands like NOFX and Green Day (srs)!
- Props for covering the awesome Canadian band Gob, they were VERY underrated- big ups to the American sludge/PV Gob, they were really cool guys, but the Canadian Gob were SICK (peep their best song here)
- I listened to Orchid once for like 20 seconds and there was too much screaming for me to handle, but I remember Will Dandy from his previous band Laceration and generally being an awesome dude, so I back them. Fun fact: the first band I ever interviewed was Capitalist Casualties back in 1994, and Will was the guy who put me in touch with them!
Basically my thoughts are summed up by Master Of Onions:
LOOK AT ALL THAT NO FUN CLUB. Deah lawd, take a chill pill. Hardcore isn’t some holy grail of music that nobody else can like. It’s almost as if you’re all only listening to teh skramz just so you can listen to something nobody else listens to in . These are good doods who grew up with hardcore covering something they like. This is the same as Alex Bigman being in Fight Fair or that guy from Poison the Well being in Sleigh Bells. I think it’s pretty fucking cool that hardcore kids have infiltrated so many different kinds of music. Also their Propagandhi and American Nightmare covers were fuckin great, will be listening to this.
U mad, skram snobs?? Will Alex Bigman be voted out of office as SKRAM COMMANDER??? In b4 tumblrsluts start friend requesting Billy Werner.
I’m tempted to say any band covering Orchid are poseurs trying to gain scene points, cos no-one actually listens to that crap for any other reason, surely?
i actually love orchid.. and i dont listen to any other skramz bands. found out about them because of United Nations.
Thats where you’re wrong, Orchid are a good band, people don’t listen to screamo to gain scene points, christ nobody is that pretentious.
No opinion on Orchid, but:
people don’t listen to *insert genre* to gain scene points, christ nobody is that pretentious
Do you REALLY believe that?
I’ll have to admit that statement was alot more naive than intended. The point is he said screamo is noise that nobody likes is unfair and saying that a post-hardcore band covering Orchid is a poseur move is simple minded. It’s just like saying Orchid are “entry level” for their style and Silverstein should cover something more obscure, if they like the bands who are we to get off saying they’re poseurs?
I was genuinely mad when I first saw about this.
lololol
I do
The butthurt…it hurts!!!
I think I’m cool with this, I love Orchid and don’t give half a shit about Silverstein. I barely know who they are lolz
gob! they have better songs than the one you linked though imo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx6xCWEhDyw
this ones pretty sick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALxSX7AmLY
anything off “too late… no friends” is pretty awesome
honestly I haven’t even THOUGHT about Gob in like 8-10 years haha, but I had a comp with that song on it that I loved in like 99
I forgot to add that the original Silverstein “fast hardcore” songs actually sound really good!
I really like this idea, gotta wait to see how it turns out.
I’m stoked for this! Been a huge Silverstein fan since ’04 and they have yet to disappoint me.
i am one of those butthurt skram elitists you were talking about, but i for one am not really too butthurt. i mean, i kind of am, but i’m actually excited for this. the short part of the song they played was actually pretty cool. i would have given them more points if they didn’t cover something so entry level, like orchid. maybe it will expose some kids who aren’t into punk and hardcore to some really awesome music, turning them from scenefags into awesome diy bros! or they could be totally pretentious assholes. who knows. either way i’m excited to hear this
“Entry-level skramz” how the fuck is that even a fucking phrase. ALL skramz bands are inaccessible.
f’real. “good thing those p0seUrs didn’t touch Yaphet Kotto!”
Lololol
Silverstein are one of the bands who bastardized hardcore and “Screamo” def paved the way for bands like attack attack and woe is me. I actually liked some of their songs in 2004-05 but them repping skramz is such a joke… Cool bro you collect some Screamo vinyl, have you ever even been involved in the Screamo community? No
You can’t be a hot topic “Screamo” band then rep DIY skramz… is this a double standard since I was in fight fair? No because fight fair is a POP band and wasn’t a fake Screamo band. Also I have been very involved in DIY hardcore for the Past 10 years. What so Silverstein like some entry level skramz so they want to gain some cred from Wave fans by covering teh_orhcidz?(wave fans were very humorously Silverstein/senses fail fans 2-3 years ago) gtfo out of skram life silverstein, what an embarrassment. Long live cmhwak, the wave will crash
Bro is mad.
Also, I’m sure the Silverstein dudes are old enough to be involved in skramz. I mean, I’m old enough to be involved in skramz and those dudes are older than me.
Alex Bigman won’t be giving up his Scramz Commander crown without a fight! He reigns over scramz with an iron fist!
Can’t tell if troll or skramz 4 lyf beta
Bigman is skramz commander and alpha as fuck
If U Mad, they doin’ something right!
Srs hope this is a troll – can’t imagine so much butthurt over something so shitty….
This is the real alex bigman
I AM KING SKRAMZ! NOBODY IS ALOWED TO LIKE OR COVER SKRAMZ BANDS WITHOUT FIRST RECEIVING MY PERMISSION!! GET OUT OF MY SCENE!! RAAAAGGHH!!!!!!
you must have been a skram commander, denying all orders for fun
they never said they were screamo. And if you wanna blame fake screamo bands, blame it on Alesana, from first to last and shit like that. those were actually the bands that are hot topic screamo, Silverstein showed up later.
Also the drummer is a hugs fan of underground bands and hes the one that suggested the Orchid cover.
Lol @ Skram elitists. I love skramz, hot topic screamo, pop punk, moshcore, deathcore, metalcore, grindcore, electrocore, easycore, death metal, black metal, post metal, grunge, post rock, ska, reggae, hardcore techno & alternative hip hop. Fuck get over your stupid scenes and just enjoy all the great music out there. I mean when you’re on your death bed are you honestly gonna be like “Damn I regret that one time I listened to I See Stars. Now I can never be tru skramz. NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!”
Yes that is exactly how I will be on my death bed.
“Theres this music that I DONT approve of and I will be mad about it on TEH INTERBUTTS and will NEVAR REST until noone listens to it anymore!1/!!!”
another emo violent skram elitist chiming in: IDC about Silverstein. I will probably never listen to this. this has no influence or effect on skram life whatsoever. it’s cool if people get into some of these bands via Silverstein though.
Dude. I can’t believe you don’t think this is srs business.
One day the skramz elitists will wake up and realize they’re getting butthurt about some genre of music in a webpage that has Hello Kitty, tacky scene “bling”, teddy bears and other scene-ish, childish stuff as its background and they will realize just how badly they have failed life. Don’t let that be you!
lololol… no.
No need to drag hello kittys name through the mud!!
srs this, leave hello kitty alone.
There are people in the world making music that I don’t approve of and I am mad.
“stop liking what i don’t like!!”
I’m backing this as someone who started out on Silvertein and other super entry level stuff (now an unashamed Ikeacore fan). It’s not because I still listen to Silverstein or even like half of bands they’re covering, it’s just because this is a GOOD idea. Why not do something different and FUN that takes very little effort and sells records?
I HAVE BEEN QUOTED BY THE GREAT SARGE D.
MY LIFE HAS NOW BEEN VALIDATED. Can now die happy, thanks sarge!
heart u brah!
xoxo
This EP = The only time you’ll get to hear all these shitty ass old bands with good production; and Silverstein probably has more chops and more talent than any of the shitty ass old bands did.
this is why i like that Slayer covers EP better than most of the originals!
how bout Covered in Blood or what was that hardcore bands playing Reign In Blood.
I think racetraitor even had one song there, i havent heard that record tho like since 03.
And no care ever. Sounds cool album tho, might give it a spin.
Or that Unearth mash up of a couple Sick Of It All songs. Or Zao’s cover of Black Coffee
The only one that sucks is the descendants one(via screaming a descendants song).
thebigmin = SKRAM BOSS, not skram commander.
also, orchid rules, and i don’t really care that silverstein is covering them, but since alex has a differing opinion, i consider that the edict of the matter.
I have NEVER heard of ‘skramz’ outside of Sergeant D’s writing
I stole it from Alex Bigman (srs)
When is the Scene Goes Skramz album coming?
Fuck yes, and then maybe Crust Goes Deathcore or something
Personally, I’m eagerly awaiting the invention of sub-subgenre wigger skramz.
lololololol backed
everyday i think this site can’t get any better…then this!
LOL!
Cmon, sarge! dont give them a hard time because they’re canadians. Canada is awesome! I fucking love Silverstein and Orchid, cant wait to hear it!
I give them major props for this. I don’t really listen to Silverstein (although now that I think about it, I’ve probably never given them a solid chance and have no idea what they actually sound like) but this is admirable. They’re obviously very comfortable and confident with where they are right now, and don’t mind the risk of alienating some of their fans. I’m a skramhead, so the fact that they even know who Orchid is shows that they aren’t typical scenebros. Fuck pretentious elitists, if this can open earlier screamo bands up to a group who wouldn’t have heard it otherwise than I’m all for it. These are the same kind of people who complain about kids listening to shit music, but the second they get a shot to listen to “good” music it’s some sort of catastrophe.
Never understood that whole ‘haha you listen to shit music. wait no! don’t like good music’ mentality that some people have. If kids start listening to your ‘underground’ bands then they can stick around instead of having to break up because they are broke as fuck. Playing for 15 kids a night is totally awesome and makes you mountains of money.
Basically, if you want your favorite tr00 bands to stick around they need to get mildly popular just to sustain themselves.
On topic, I like the idea of this album. Silverstein were a band I liked when they first came out because I was really into that scene at the time but I drifted away from it towards more straight up hardcore oriented stuff and kind of forgot about them. I might check them out now thanks to this.
‘haha you listen to shit music. wait no! don’t like good music’
lolololol BOOM
It’s painfully obvious that these Silverstein dudes are posers. They want to come off as “edgy” and “credible” so they cover the worst band in hardcore history (AN) and fucking Orchid. This is safe girlfriend in the car shit. If they were really down they’d be covering Siege, “Foreign Job Lot,” or something by Combat 84.
You miss the point of this blog.
OOH SIEGE, look how troo u are.
someone still covers Gob?! Fucking cool
P.S. don’t like Silverstein, don’t know what Orchid are
I’ve never listened to Silverstein. There was a time where this would have bothered me, but I really don’t care. In fact I am glad they are doing this.
can you really even be a “skramz elitist” if you actually call it skramz???? as if “screamo” wasnt retarded enough…
I heard they passed on a One Eyed God Prophecy cover cause all the skramz woulda been clueless
BOOM!
They were sweet tho, so were Union of Uranus
Silverstein’s been my favorite band for 5 years. ADVANCE UPON ME BRETHREN
That being said, I’m totally biased when it comes to this band, given that my appreciation for them has clouded my ability to tell if they’ve ever written anything bad or not.
I remember seeing a ton of their interviews and they’re kinda oldfags surprisingly, so all these covers make a ton of sense. I kinda want to see if they continue this “almost-srscore” sound of theirs.