If you miss the golden years of easycore (2008-2009) as much as I do, then you will be stoked on a new band from San Diego called FOR THE WIN. Don’t know much about them other than they obviously love FIGHT FAIR even more than I do, and that they make me hopeful for a return of the classic, first-wave easycore sound!
One of the things they should copy from Fight Fair is NOT having zany song titles like “See You Dudes On Wednesday.” That said, this song rules and sounds like Chunk No Captain Chunk if they could speak English!
Feeling this song even more, I can never get enough of this kind of shit! Also the guy on the right in the black Obey shirt who is all “LOL I HERPED SO HARD I DERPED”
Hit them up on Facebook and Tumblr, tell them SYWH sent you!
lately ive been finding some awesome easycore bands and im adding these guys to the my list. im hoping 2012 will be the year Easycore makes a comeback.
These guys are pretty sick. Def could get down to this.
I was unaware that easycore had been in a slump tho. Sure, the Tr00 pop-punk thing has taken some good bands down with them (RIP, The Wonder Years. Miss ur breakdowns), but 2011 seemed a strong year for the euro easycore bands; Can’t Bear This Party’s album is some of the best shit I’ve ever heard (dat glockenspiel). Me vs. Hero and CN!CC have kept the faith! Buck up Sarge, all hope is not lost!
CNCC’s album came out in 2009 and was just reissued on Fearless this year. MVH’s record is also from 2009, or maybe even 2008 :(
Well… I guess most hope is lost. But hey! These guys are pretty good! Yeah! Easycore’ll be just fine.
can’t bear this party is so fucking good/underrated.
good up and coming euro-easycore:
Fuck yeah, digging this shit! Thanks for the heads up bro.
This is dope…going for the “settle the score” sound but it isn’t quite as ballsy. Someone needed to fill in where FF hilariously sabotaged their easy-core “career”.
“where FF hilariously sabotaged their easy-core “career”.”
lolololol
I dont really ever remember easycore being that popular in 08 and that was when i was actively involved in the scene did easycore fever miss pennsylvania
“when i was actively involved in the scene”
what does this mean anymore?
Back when he had a one man crunkcore project and 10,000 myspace friends.
Easy core should be the next scene trend, crabcore is like dead, deathcore is dwindling, easycore is about to take over. Just needs a band to blow up and usher it in, especially since ADTR is too busy trying to be on the radio.
yo whats up with these forums, why cant i post comments anymore?
dammit… now it works. i typed a huge ass paragraph before and it didnt go through lol
shit, sorry dude!
What do you mean? Didn’t you just post one??
im rewriting it, its all good
k basically:
i was really into easycore in 2008-2009 but the genre did go through a slump. i would blame this on the big bands, like four year strong and set your goals, becoming crappy.
or in the case of the wonder years, they got big AFTER they became crappy. another big problem is 95% of the up and coming bands are meh/shitty. the good up and coming bands from that era got big though (me vs hero, chunk no captain chunk) so that is one positive aspect of the genre. i think the problem is that so many kids who suck at their instruments start “pop punk” bands.. because they think its easy. the thing they have twisted is that its easy to play CRAPPY pop punk, but to be actually good at it is a different story. i discovered for the win a few weeks ago and hit them up on facebook. they told me they were releasing an ep in decemeber so im looking forward to that. i agree, that “hit em where it hurts” song is great, first song i heard from them. i think there is still hope for easycore in 2011, you just have to search harder for the good bands i suppose.
oh and, if you havent heard in her own words, check them out immediatly. they released an ep in 2010 and its definitely my favorite that this style has to offer yet.
great comment! agree 1000% with this– and btw, this dude knows his shit when it comes to easycore, I discovered a ton of bands from his youtube videos so listen up
thx, youve always supported my youtube vids <3
For The Win or nothing. CNCC blows, it’s not easycore it’s just bad heavy sounding guitars with horrible live vocals.
For The Win or nothing. Chunk blows, it’s not easycore it’s just bad heavy sounding guitars with horrible live vocals. They fooled you all with one pop punk sounding song they made a music video for.
seriously? “born for adversity” and “we fell fast” are the only 2 songs on the chunk album that i wouldn’t consider pop punk/easycore. the rest of the songs have that poppy goodness brah!
^ this
All these comments crack me up. twy became crappy? Or they just matured past writing silly songs about kool aid and adding generic breakdowns in their songs so hxc kids can ninja dance to them. Fight fair is better now then ever.
youre right. they matured to writing songs about how mall goths make them sad.
nothing says “maturity” than complaining about your last semester of college
Is it sad that part of me kind of agrees with this guy? I really do love TWY, even the butthurt new stuff. But I do miss their fun stuff, wish they could have a sense of humor again and appreciate a good mosh part.
serg, have you heard a place in time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONNlNU7nlks
add to that they make really good music, theyre also black!
http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/124/da9625c7836345c0bfcf55dc3b8f3a9f/l.jpg
well except that one hispanic lookin guy in the background
that whole ep is killer.
co-sign! i love the “deathcore” breakdown at the end of the song i linked
Hey, we’ve played with these guys! Legitimate dudes.
So is easycore just pop punk that’s heavier than normal, with the occasional hardcore sounding riff?
where you been, brah? http://www.stuffyouwillhate.com/2009/12/easycore-will-be-the-dominant-subgenre-of-2k10/
and yes, thats basically what easycore is
I’ve been on Metalsucks discussing how the aggression in Strapping Young Lad holds the listeners attention and connects with him (via girls not listening to Devin Townsend) more than the abstract themes of his atmospheric solo work. Beta, I know. :( Part of my INM rehabilitation plan is listening to every band on SYWH.
Musical and lyrical maturity,if you cant hear it idk what to tell you, I dont really listen to this kind of music anymore but I respect bands that grow up musically. Kids dont like them because they cant dance to breakdowns? are you guys like 16? I was in a easycore band in 07 , I know all about “the scene”
i turned 16 in 1994. Problem?
There is no such thing as grown up musically, sounding pretty elitist bro. Just because music is fun doesn’t mean it sucks and is for kids, some bands in this genre got a lot of talent. Try not to generalize, even though you probably encountered a lot of shitty bands in ’07.
easycore in 2007? shit thats kinda ahead of its time lol. what were you guys called
I love breakdowns. If it doesn’t have a breakdown, idc to listen to it. Just like the wonder years, they suck because they dont have breakdowns. Thats not real pop punk lol. Breakdowns are…
That is all im hearing haha.
My niggas. /tears
SYWH A&R right here.
slam hard, sing high, and stay young ni**as
@uppercut
We were called hide the details, you can see our stuff on the easycore blogspot ,we have a 07 demo a 09 ep called party time and a 2010 release called waves, we sucked pretty hard early on but we got our first show with the wonder years and all our first shows were with fight fair, so I take it personally when people talk down on my friends bands even though I prob shouldnt
man no offense but myspace bio/blog confuses the fuck out of me.
“Hide the Details is a Pop Punk band with its roots firmly planted in the hardcore and punk scene,founded in The summer of 2010 by Brandon Mericle, Brett Blower ,and Freddy Bates. ”
and then
“back a while ago in 2007 i started a pop punk band called haddonfeild
that band later changed its name to hide the details! that same year
we never released anything other than a few demos and the band broke up many times until finally disbanding in march of 2010, after that break-up i started an emo punkish band called shores”
the first thing says hide the details formed in the summer of 2010, and the second thing says hide the details disbanded in march of 2010
its confusing because we disbanded many times and tried to label ourselves as a diff band later on so when we pushed our new stuff to promoters and stuff they wouldnt go looking for our old stuff which was easycore insteas of the emo/ pop punk sound of our newer stuff.
granted when we were a easycore band we sucked hard.
also weirdly enough, the drummer of for the win was in our band