I’ll let you guise in on a secret: I’m a little bit of a closet drum nerd. Don’t get me wrong, I myself am a terrible drummer, but when nobody’s looking I sometimes geek out over sweet drumming :( The person who got me into drum fggtry is my friend Todd (a sick drummer in his own right), so when he told me I should check out STRUCTURES because ‘their drummer is hella rad,’ I jumped on it like a Jew on dime. When Todd says jump, my only question is “How high, bro??”
Actually, that’s a lie: he told me to check them out several months ago, but I didn’t get around to it until just now. In no particular order, here are my thoughts:
- These guys are what IMN/beardo/musicfag bands like BTBAM, Meshuggah, DEP, etc would sound like if they actually looked up from their fretboards for 1.5 seconds and remembered to write actual SONGS instead of gay riff salad. Dem gang vocals + dat STRAY FROM THE PATH-style semi-breakdown at 1:00 = you’re moshing, only you have a ponytail and transitions lenses that prevent you from going completely buck.
- They look like chill bros who would be the assistant manager of the Pro Audio department at Guitar Center and would hook you up with a 10% discount on a XLR cable because you were wearing a Donnybrook shirt
- :45 the combo of a sweep picking run over breakdown/bounce riff makes me feel funny inside… not sheriff innovative way to make ‘fretboard wizardry’ not as gay, or still gay. So conflicted insied :/
- I honestly wonder how bands like this remember how to play their songs, since you can’t really understand the lyrics and the arrangements make absolutely no sense. Do they have ‘riff teleprompters’?? Pls rspnd
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I’m nit really into the music, but as a guitar player I’ve got a lot of respect for this and all the other BTBAM sounding bands. I wouldn’t buy the album, but I’d go see them live if I got the chance.
*not. Stupid phone and its tiny buttons.
They are actually fantastic live. My first time hearing these guys what live and if was so moshtastic that I’ve been all over this shit ever since
I think they are amazing live too, but my tr00 hc buddies don’t agree :(.
Their song with Thanoz is pretty cool but it’s a shame he didn’t have much time on the track
is the Meshuggah guitar tone a preset on ipads now?
“transitions lenses that prevent you from going completely buck.”
this whole transition lens thing is my new favorite sywh meme.
What started this transitions lens thing? Did I miss a post?
I think it was from a “IMN reviews Emmure” video someone posted on the forum
Their first ep goes pretty fucking hard. Wasn’t into this album as much but still worth listening to.
Backed hard.
That EP is huge honestly.
most true thing i have heard. just because of the production though
EP is incredible, in production and musicality. It took me longer to get into their new album because of the murky production, but they were sick live and nice as fuck. Backtard/10
Ugg I pride myself on being pretty butthurt proof, but your continued musical racism is starting to make me feel like I’m sitting on the poopot after eating a big ass bowl of raw habanero seeds bro. All these anti IMN and “all metal fans are fggts” comments are starting to make me wonder if you “really get what this site is about” Sarge. The only explanation I can come up with is that you grew up/live on the west coast where literally 98% of the populace are fggts so maybe your’re dealing with a skewed sample group. Anyway keep it positive brah!
if u are getting butthurt about IMN racism, it means u r an IMN.
Came to post this.
If you think metal is the only genre i make fun of u should lrn 2 reading better
I’m a huge metal fan and have no problem that saying all metal fans are fggts. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, it’s still possible (albeit rare) to like metal and be cool and chill, but a fggt nonetheless.
Back tard. I’m still a huge metal fan but I do agree that metal fans suffer from a male version of Special Snowflake Syndrome via “i litsen to undergorund musick therefor I am superioor”
Also, i like how its totally fine for me to mock every other genres fanbase, but when tech metal is in the crosshairs all of a sudden its “LEAVE METAL ALONE!!”
Cynic plays slams TRUTH
Mind = blown. Back tard.
The people who like tech metal are the people who got picked on in school. #truthhurts #myownlifestory #acknowledingurownfailingsandworkingthroughthemstayposi
just listen to soulfly and hear dem sweet breakdowns in Prophecy plz….
getting butthurt about a lame ass NU-metal/hxcore w/ insert tremolo/solo here band is as lame as getting asshurt about getting butthurt about everyother fucking band that you like..
and no i do not liek structures.. i think meshuggah and a bunch of other bands do it better than this band
- one of the few chill no fux given IMN’s up in SYWH university (GO MOSHERS) that simultaneously goes to MS community college (GO HEADBANGERS!!!)
you’re doing it wrong.
The comment about transition lenses and ponytails was particularly funny because a couple of hours ago, I was talking to a drummer IMN with a ponytail and glasses. Gonna pull an IMN and say that they sound like Meshuggah but not quite as good, but way better than other bands in that field. Backed.
If you’ve got a drum kit, you’ve got a gym.
This whole thing is really interesting because before this post I thought Structures were just a rad as fuck deathcore band, always back them tard even though I didn’t know they were supposedly “technical” or whatever. Now that it’s mentioned I agree though, the drumming is pretty damn impressive.
Actually I think that’s because THE Structures song for me has always been this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rVcL6vB_H0
If you aren’t getting your ignorant mosh on the second you hit that link you should probably just go home, and if you are home fuck you.
^THISx1000
I love the lp but in this song they do pretty much every metalcore trope right, it’s a shame they didn’t rerecord it
DUDE this is the song that got me into Structures. If you turn this jam on in the gym, be prepared to slam absurd weights in a chug-induced rage
I feel like with BTBAM and DEP, both those bands have gotten WAY better at songwriting with each release. DEP’s last album was straight up catchy at times and I could actually follow BUT I go to college and major in music (inb4 forever unemployed) so I am probs biased :/
Anyway, this band is pretty sweet. I’d probably mosh.
I shouldve said The Faceless or something, because you are correct. Both of those bands have gotten much more subdued and focused over the years.
I love every DEP release land agree that Option Paralysis has the best songwriting; but BTBAM is straight up faggot shit that sucks.
I have mad love for CI, the Patton EP and Miss Machine but I fell off with Ire Works(it’s still a stroooong release, milk lizard goddamnit partroooock!!!) and onward. I recognize the progression and betterment of themselves, but nothing beats nostalgia! DID I STUTTER DID I STUTTER DID I STUTTER. Nothing will ever beat CI. I’d include the UtRB EP but I’d look like a jerk acting like I was on their dick back then.
As for BTBAM I love a handful of songs on Alaska. Chorus in the first song is HUUUGE. Outro to Selkies fuuu. Rest of their albums can ggfuad ;)
This structures album not so great. The All Of The Above EP was freaking awesome though.
Sounds like i should peep the EP. Is moar mosh?
have to jump on the band wagon and say the EP was better imo…
p.s what’s with all of these new “djent” band names sounding alike?? (structures, uneven structure, substructure, textures, circles, periphery, volumes, tesseract, etc.)
In b4 dodecahedron
Too late, dogg. http://www.ddchdrn.com/
Heptagon? Nonagon?? Polyhedron??? Torus? 3d studio max teapot primitive?
brb, starting SYWH-core band called 3DS MAX Teapot Primitive. Look for our first single “Hover Hands/Legions of Dickriders” in Q4.
brb pre-ordering package deal ft autographed poster (signed on the back)
brb starting “Utah Teapot” with Suzanne from Blender as an ironic mascot
Rhombicosidodecadicktron
Shit = lost.
Fuck you guys for being funny.
I have a band called THAC0. We play Post-progressive Djentslam with lyrics about the Greyhawk Campaign setting, and maybe Dark Sun if my mom will buy me the sourcebook. We used to be called Roll 10d6 but we realized 3rd Edition is for pussies so we went back to ADD 2nd Ed
(not srs)
wish u were srs/10
*fails save vs shameful beta faggotry*
Dodacahedron doesn’t count in that regard though, since they don’t have even the remotest connection to djent at ALL. What they are, though, is arguably MORE IMN (yes it’s possible) than that, since they are heavily inspired by Deathspell Omega, the most super-srs pretentious art fag band in the history of pretentious art fags. I will argue, that Deathspell Omega is the ultimate IMN band..
Still love them to death though. Dodecahedron’s album is seriously fucking great as well.
Pluralise is the new Verb the Noun
All these Nouns bands are still opening for Verb the Noun bands, shouldn’t switch for like a year.
What’s next, adjectives!?
Possessive Pronouns IMO
Verb + Possessive Pronouns + Plural noun.
“Dismantling Your Foundations”
“Disrespecting Your Surroundings”
“Pepper Your Angus”
^ win
Holy shit I unintentionally opened a portal of hilariousness *pats self on the back*
Is this the only song you checked out? Mebbe listen to Hydroplaning/In Pursuit Of/Clockwork. They’re heavier and have singing in them. Clockwork has a dude from Despised Icon in it too.
“Clockwork” is my favorite, just because of the end. “We tried to reset the clocks…” …tick tick tick… “…so you can FUCK YOURSELF!”
i say the mosh lvl is about the same with both albums. That new album is just missing something….maybe its cause sumerian signed them and turned them into sumeriancore…
Talented guys but their songs completely lack structure (lol), especially the EP. Still, they’ll probably develop into a solid tech/djent band (but with fun songs). Also, mirin the clean vox and generic lyrics on the new album.
I love love LOVE this band! Shred-y enough to appease my inner IMN, and fucking br00tal and chaotic enough to satisfy my regular dude urges. Sweet band!
0:45- defo still gay
I met these guys at different points via living near Toronto, they are super sick bros.
I ended up at a Party with them after one of their gigs.
Not a big fan of these guys when it comes to their recordings. Little too much technical shit for me, but live these guys fucking kill it. Saw them with Stray From the Path and they almost outdid Stray, which for anyone who has seen Stray knows that’s pretty impressive. Especially considering the amount of tech-y parts in their songs.
needs moar chuggs
First time I heard this it was like all gained out and really horrible quality, did they fix it or something?
Riff teleprompter is good ideaing
Considering all fans of that genre are computer geeks, the inter-band feuds and subsequent teleprompter pranks/hacks will yield lulzy results. Consider this idea backed.
“Nickelbackfan92″ pic is from MetalSucks comments?
Strong detective work! Yes, its from MS
Nice post, unlike most djent bands, they understand dynamics and use the 7th string for actual riffs to contrast the skronkz, and also have some pretty catchy pop-punk parts. Though, Ive listened to the LP like everyday for the last several months and I still can barely tell what’s gonna happen in each song. Despite dem awesome grooves they still didn’t get that great of a response when i saw them with stray #thatawkwardmomentwhenit’sjustyouandafewscenegirlsmoshingtostructures
p.s. they linked a SYWH article a while ago on their facebook, you should hit em up with an interview and discuss how hard it is to keep your transitions on when your bouncing up and down to transitions
/facethefuckingavalanche/
What the hell are “skronkz”?!
Seriously, kids these days and their onomatopoeia…
calm down oldman-jensen, it’s skronky guitar-work, like DEP, stray from the path,etc. if you read this blog regularly im sure you’ve seen it before, it’s even in the tags for this post
Must’ve missed it then (via the word “djent” pissing me off more than enough as it is already.)
I still like DEP though.
yea i don’t think anyone really says it, but i can never get enough of the constant djent wordplay, it’s pretty entertaining
well then off to sevenstring.org’s forum with you then. Those dudes love djent to a downright frightening degree.
haha, you’ve got to admit the The League Of Extraordinary Djentleman was a pretty sick tour name though
Actually considered sending you a link to these guys a few months ago. I listened to this band almost exclusively for months because:
>I like sloppy nonsense riffs
>Gang vocals and super gay/catchy choruses that immediately and sometimes awkwardly transition straight back into a Canadian man screaming at me like someone has just broken his favorite Tim Horton’s coffee mug
>They have names like Spyros Georgiou and Brendon Padjasek
>BREAKDOWNS and BOUNCY RIFFS
The E.P. is good, but I think people hate on the full length mostly because of the production, (which isn’t really a huge issue, for me at least) and because of the clean vocals.
Posted by Anonymous John, not just anonymous.
I never really understood why so many people were raging about the guitar tone, it sounds fine to me.
NOT RECORDED WITH [musicfag approved gear/settings]? UNABLE TO RESIST ANAL PAIN.
FYI, that’s the Axe-FX II you’re talking about. Maybe they only recorded it with the HOPELESSLY outdated Axe-FX Ultra, and are therefore a bad, bad band.
I think everyone was taking issue with the mastering, particularly the levels being too high in general. The first time I listened to the album, my headphones pooped throughout the entire experience, but I just attributed this to the band being so fucking heavy that my headphones refused to even try to keep up with them. Regardless, all of their shit is great, and I am definitely looking forward to the next album.
No, I remember some people specifically complaining about the guitar tone. People’s butts get hurt over the weirdest things.
high levels, i agree.
Also saw Structures with Volumes & T3H Contortionist last year. I personally love this band, not butthurt about production or sumerianism. I fully expect VOL/TURES to be ripping each other off for the next couple years until they start making Structures To Remember t-shirts. I’m still moshing tho.
http://www.allinmerch.com/product/VOLTURESLOGOTEE.html
Yo Sarge, YouTug “Benny Greb” for some S-Level Drum Jamz.
Youtube “structures encounter drum play though”. Dudes in this band look like they’re real legit bros, would like to go shoe shopping at Zumiez with them, or meet them at a movie theater and make creepy passes at their super hot 18 year old hangerons.
Structures is pretty sweet, but I saw them at the same show I saw Volumes. Structures opened, Volumes came on and BLEW EVERYONE’S FUCKING ASSES OFF. Would strongly recommend them for djenty semi-technical mosh that’s still more catchy than it is tech.
Check out their song /. That’s actually the title. It’s legit my favorite song due to it being super pop-punky, with a breakdown that’ll make you shit your pants at the end.
Sarge checkout the ignorant mosh at the end of clockwork with the vocalists of ion dissonance and despised icon. WE TRIED TO RESET THE CLOCKS…. Tick tick tick so you can fuck your self