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:They think we're metalcore just because we have short hair. You listen to our record, and it doesn't sound like metalcore. - from an interview with Trevor Strnad |
:They think we're metalcore just because we have short hair. You listen to our record, and it doesn't sound like metalcore. - from an interview with Trevor Strnad |
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:: So the lead singer/members are in denial of the actual influences and sound of their band, yet they obviously sound like, look like, and have fans that are a part of the genre that they deny. (metalcore/hardcore.) If the lead singer said jumping off a cliff was a cure for the common cold, would you publish that in the article? Reverted back. Sorry. :( |
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== Revert War == |
== Revert War == |
Revision as of 19:14, 6 September 2005
The Black Dahlia Murder's Press Release calls their sound "Hardcore"-influenced
The official band's press release, describing the music: "The Intensity of Hardcore, the hellish stench of death-metal" (That sounds like Metalcore to me.)
Perhaps 83.24.5.179 could explain this to us, as he/she continues to revert anything with hardcore/metalcore out of the article.
- "When we started out around five years ago, we had a very different line up to what we have today. In fact, the only people from that line up that remain today are Strnad and I. Back then, our sound was very much like a mix of hardcore and metal. We recorded a demo tape (Consisting of four tracks) with that kind of sound, but that’s when it all ended. Everything since then has been a lot different sounding because we didn’t want to write shit like that any more. We wanted to play fucking metal. That’s actually the first theory behind why people believe we have a hardcore influence. The second theory, and the one we believe has played the biggest part is helping fuel this misconception is actually our record label Metal Blade Records. A lot of the press that Metal Blade Records has been doing over the last couple of years has described us as a melodic metal band that incorporates New York hardcore. I mean that’s so far off left field from the actual truth! But that was our introduction to the world on a grand scale. That’s how they presented the band. So that’s something that we’ve been dealing with ever since! They actually thought that we’re a metalcore band. How funny and ironic is it that a label should brand us as something so off the mark." - from an interview with Brian Eschbach
- They think we're metalcore just because we have short hair. You listen to our record, and it doesn't sound like metalcore. - from an interview with Trevor Strnad
- So the lead singer/members are in denial of the actual influences and sound of their band, yet they obviously sound like, look like, and have fans that are a part of the genre that they deny. (metalcore/hardcore.) If the lead singer said jumping off a cliff was a cure for the common cold, would you publish that in the article? Reverted back. Sorry. :(
Revert War
This revert war needs to stop. Please complare revert versions between myself and 83.24.5.179. Nearly EVERY review of this band has brought up both metalcore and melodic death metal as the genre, and since the Swedish death metal scene has had much influence on many metalcore bands (like TBDM, IMO), there seems to be little rationale in trying to deny or distance the metalcore connection (the music has the same repetitive riffs as countless other Swedecore/Metalcore bands, namely Bleeding Through, Atreyu and As I Lay Dying.) My version says that have been categorized as both genres. 83.24.5.179's version says that they're just melodic death metal, that's that, and that there's no connection to metalcore. 83.24.5.179's motive is most likely trolling, as he/she's version also smacks of obvious NPOV and he/she is unwilling to debate. Danteferno
Sometimes called Metalcore, eh?
There is one reason why The Black Dahlia Murder is ever called metalcore and that is pretty much because they tour with metalcore bands. Their music is pure Gothenburg sound, their lyrics involve zombies, and necrophaliacal rape, and they can easily be called an At The Gates sound alike. If you're going to call The Black Dahlia Murder metalcore, you'll have to do the same to In Flames and Carcass. I'm changing the part mentioning metalcore.
- There are many more reasons than that in terms of why the band has been applied with the metalcore label: 1. Same-ish song structures. 2. Same-ish breakdowns 3. Limited guitar solos (since most metalcore bands rely on punk song structures, which are usually solo-less.) There are some traces of Gothenburg, but like most U.S. bands utlizing the style (Shadows Fall, Lamb of God, etc.) it all comes down to "hardcore" roots. Since there is no firm agreement to either assessment, the version I made works just fine.