I knew that one will be there. Color Decay is something that was extremely depressing for me at the time, and then it became something I can hold on to, something very dear to my heart. It's an amazing creation I can't really listen to anymore because I feel like it's gonna be direct ride to the depression once again. I might be wrong because the timing of it was so great back then, but when I start remembering those lyrics it just makes me sad and angry.
The thing about Architects was that every song from Lost Forever // Lost Together to Holy Hell felt MEANINGFUL. They truly mastered their craft during that era, and there won't be a day when I won't miss that spectacular sound. However, I understand that these albums' themes were deeply tied to Tom's passing, and the band moved on for a reason. So, yeah, I get it, but I'd still love to see them return to that style, as their current sound feels mediocre at best. In addition, I truly believe that it was the step in the right direction with For Those Who Wish to Exist, but for some reason, they just devolved.
They just don't make riffs. Invent Animate is the new and modern Architects. Shout Out to their las singles, its not Lost Forever/Lost Together but are solid songs
Ive heard some interviews with sam recently and he's hinted that they're going back heavy. They tried something new, fans didn't like it, they realises its not theirs and they're going back to more heavy on the next album! Can't wait to see what that means. I hope some old school architects, at least in some way. They'll never sound the same again.
I reaaaaally don't want them to return to that sound. 3 albums was enough. They just need a better sound than the bland "We got BMTH at home" arena metal they're doing now.
Stigma was a let down and boring (Only songs I remember are Nail5 and Tombstone). Completely forgettable in the end and just find yourself going back to MANIC, Deadweight, & Blueprints
Can relate to Architects. For me it’s not that the songwriting got poppier and less heavy, but that the songs don‘t have ambience and feel huge anymore. That is why I still like FTTWTE but Classic Symptoms was an absolute miss for me.
100%. First heard them during All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, didn't really clicked with it. Got obsessed after the Hereafter single. Couldn't get enough of Holy Hell. I really liked For Those That Whish To Exist. when we were young was cool, but never listened to anything after that. Just wasn't interesting at all. But I dove into their back catalogue and got obsessed again with stuff from Hollow Crown, Daybreaker, Lost Forever and All Our Gods. Now Sam is openly talking about Classic Symptoms being bad and regretting putting it out. That was wild and I didn't expect it at all.
@@bouquetforeverymisery Here, the Rockfeed interview from 2 months ago: th-cam.com/video/67yOQUFIAwQ/w-d-xo.html At 16:40 he sais he's constantly listening to the new songs they're writing. He had that in the past with Animals, but not on the last record. At 28:30 he sais the new record will be the best ever and that every band says that, but he means it, because the last record wasn't that and missed the mark instead of being one of their good records.
I resonate strongly with this front to back. Not necessarily because of the bands mentioned (though I relate to a good bit of them too), but moreso because of the overlistening and slowly falling out of love. This year in particular I've noticed just how periodic my music taste and passion for bands is. It's also represented by my Wrapped, which is 100% different in terms of bands every year. Cant tell you the last time I listened to Lorna Shore, or Sleep Token, two bands I used to obsess with the last two years. Going into 24 even my love for Heavener faded. Not because I dont love it anymore, I Stil think it's a great 10/10 album, but I just dont feeel like coming back to it that often. I think this is just normal, taste is periodic, bands change sounds, and combined you end up with situations like this. Enjoyed this a lot
It makes sense and I feel like the pattern is pretty common: You like an artist and start listening to it. They release that one album that gives you that perfect feeling of freshness and uniqueness. Pure dopamine. You listen to it ad nauseam, everyday, all day until it’s not so fresh anymore. When the next release doesn’t give you that feeling again you fall out of interest and look for the new thing chasing that feeling again.
Pretty much perfectly captured my experience with Thornhill...I listened the hell out of The Dark Pool but then Heroine went in a completely different direction and I fell out of love with the band. TDP is still goated though
Lamb of god bro. I used to listen to this band like crazy, learned tons of songs on guitar, learned fry scream, the lyrics, everything. But after their 2015 album Sturm und Drang I started to see a formula that got boring pretty quickly, that chaoticness and unpredictability of the riffs started to feel more plain, the songs started to share the saame structure, and ofc the absent of the mind of Chris Adler was super noticeable. After that, i have barely listened to their last releases, i literally dont care anymore, which is sad honestly. Still love the band tho, Ashes of the Wake is stilll my fav album of all time.
This, right around the same time for me too. Ashes of the Wake is the reason I picked up guitar and the entire run up from As The Palaces Burn to Resolution is incredible but Sturm Und Drang, while great, is where I kinda fell off. Chris leaving was essentially the death knell unfortunately.
I lost them when they dropped their 2020 album. I loved when they did the covers album as Burn the Priest and Chris was still with them but that 2020 album wasn't it and since them I really don't care about them. I sucks because they are still in my top 5 favorite bands of all time but I don't feel them no more.
This was such a dope video idea! I think every metal head has a similar thing go on with all the bands they listened to over the years. It’s funny how many of these bands I would put on my list as well. Now we need a video of your top new favorite bands💪
Wage war are a great intro band to the genre, and you'd struggle to not like them when first discovering 'core. But they really don't age well and their brand of extremely processed riffs and whatnot just doesnt do it for long lol
My first exposure to Wage War was them stumbling through their set hungover at 11 am at Warped Tour. I like some of their singles but I never really could get over the bad first impression
Funny timing with this video. For years I've been saying ERRA is my favourite band. But I've hardly listened to them in recent months. Their newest album didn't grab me and I kinda lost interest in listening to their older music as well. Things change I guess.
I know what you mean brother, and I used to say the same, their latest album didn't stick with me and everything before felt way better, but I cannot tell you how much that album grew on me. Until the point where I'd say their latest album is their most mature work they've done. Listening to their old albums now is still amazing, but sounds like they were doing everything they can to be fast and unexpected, where they almost took a step back and wrote a damn well album. Try it again bro, give it a few listens, and listen to it as a standalone without comparing 🤘🏼
I don't think you necessarily move on because these bands become popular, I think these bands become popular because their sound changes. And that sound change is what causes them to become more popular. But it might not resonate with you.
I stopped listening to so many bands because they did that, main one I can't stand is Decapitated. Their first 4 albums were phenomenal. Then they started becoming less and less technical and outside of a few tracks I really haven't enjoyed anything after Carnival is Forever. Cancer Culture isn't even recognizable when compared to their old material
@@MichaelFromTheAttic I go back to the old albums and try to find out exactly what changed. Think Carnival was when they focused more on the groove elements, and it was less chaotic than Organic Hallucinosis, then Blood Mantra was when they tried (and failed) to go back to their old sound. Then AntiCult was basically a groove metal album, with a few standout tracks but mostly mediocre. Cancer Culture was when their sound died. The crunchy guitar tone was really the only thing left from their old sound and even that was gutted. Nihility's guitar tone was disgusting. Absolutely maxed out overdrive. And had way more groove than their groove metal albums somehow
This is me currently. I started listening to metalcore 20 years ago and I think it’s the genre has changed so dramatically over the last few years. There’s so many trends in metalcore that you can almost date an album before it’s even a few years old. I haven’t been excited for a new album like I used to be… maybe we all just over play them!
Starset for me. They were one of the first "heavier" bands i ever listened to and to this day i maintain Vessels as an absolute masterpiece, but come to think of it I haven't listened to a song from them in many months. All of their singles this year completely missed me too.
Similar story here. I recently revisited their first two albums and am falling in love with them again, but nothing since Vessels has hit quite the same for me
I really enjoyed "A brave new world", but with the rest I agree. They aren't their best work, but they are good songs regardless, if at all a bit weird XD Still excited for the album
@@nightwingx0126I will say Horizons grew on me SO MUCH over the last few months. My initial problem with it was the structure of repeating a phrase for a chorus, but the bridges on that album are some of the best bridges I’ve ever heard. If Horizons had more lyrical variety in the choruses, I’d put it above Transmissions and Vessels. Divisions on the other hand, I still don’t like (with the exception of a few songs like Diving Bell for example)
Kind of similar story with architects! It was really big for me, I listened them almost daily for couple of years, but then they slowly dissipated from my daily playlists. Now I’m heavily into Sleep Token, and going to their show in Budapest this month Btw, fun fact - my girlfriend gifted me architects’s FTWWTE vinyl last year too haha. So cute!
Listening to you speak about your Architects journey hits me right in the feels. I could not relate more, used to be my absolute number 1 band and Holy Hell to this day is probably my favourite ever album. Such a shame to see the direction they've headed in and I pray bands like Invent, Polaris, Silent Planet etc dont head down the same path 🙌🏻
Relatable and also quite understandable. We all grow and the chance of a band you love doing so in the same direction is close to zero. Lamb of God, Darkest Hour, Mastodon, even Slipknot are bands that for years dominated my musical attention, but I have barely listened to in years and have almost completely detached myself from.
This is why I listen to songs and not just "bands". I keep the songs I love and drop the ones I dont, but Im not attached to the band itself... I mean, you don't have to stop listening to the songs you love just because you don't listen to that band anymore lol
Don't worry. You'll have one of those moments where a tune from one of those bands pops in your head, and then you'll go and listen to them again. Happens to me all the time.
Oh yeah, I can relate to that. There are so many new and juicy music that you can't stick to some material for a long time. Unless it's somehow connected to you emotionally.
Damn the beginning hurt haha. While She Sleeps is my favorite band of all time, Brainwashed and This is the Six(the 2 albums before You Are We) are two of my favorite albums ever. You can listen to it and it feels different every time. I would say if you want to go back into WSS you could dive through This Is The Six, so many gems in there. While She Sleeps is my favorite band of all time, and Sleep Token was probably my favorite band of the summer. Sundowning is an absolute gem of an album. Sleep Token is also one of the bands that after seeing them live, I kept listening to them non-stop. I usually binge listen setlists a week before shows, so after the show I want to move on, but Sleep Token didn't let me.
@@justadude8172 i saw them in toronto earlier this year with architects. And it really does pain me to say it was the worst vocal performance I've ever seen
Can totally relate! Personally, I love discovering smaller bands through reactors like yourself and then seeing how they progress. At the same time I feel like when bands blow up (e.g. Sleep Token with their album last year) there is soooo much content and hype being produced on TH-cam and other social media platforms that I get burned out. That being said, I think there is nothing wrong with listening to bands a lot and then taking a break before revisiting them sometime down the road. There is something satisfying about going „damn, I forgot how much I like this“. By the way, videos like this are definitely welcome to mix things up ✌🏼
Currents, Make Them Suffer, and I Prevail are 3 bands that jump out to me as bands that occasionally will pop up and I’ll listen to but I’m not going out of my way to put them on anymore
Most recent Currents album was very mid imo. Every song sounds almost the exact same and if you look at guitar tabs for those songs, they're literally all just 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 the whole song
@@minecraftsteve2504 I’m gonna check out the album when it drops but the excitement level has dwindled down for me. I loved Doomswitch and Ghost of Me but the last 3 singles haven’t had any replay ability for me personally
@@anthonymonterosso7472 the last album had some highlights to me but you are right in saying it all sounded similar because it did for sure. My favorite part of the album was the breakdown in Over and Over. Even still though it didn’t hit nearly as hard as The Way It Ends did or I Let the Devil In
Interesting take Bogdan! I would never say I’ve “moved on” from a band in my personal take. It usually just depends on what you’re feeling at the time. I personally would say I have my favorites for periods of time and then something else I go into. Example, I went on a Blink 182 kick for like a month. Then when knocked loose and boundaries’ new album came out I binged a bunch of hardcore. If we’re going off of the “moved on from” mentality then I guess I’ve moved on from almost my entire music library 😂
Funny timing cause I recently noticed this trend start happening with me and ive been thinking about what bands I used to love but don't really care about anymore. Half of the ones you mentioned are on my list as well lol
bands keep rotating in and out of my rotation as they release new music. i was obsessed with TMBTE but now that they haven't put out a new track in over a year i haven't listened to them as much. my adhd brain gets hyper obsessive over a single track/playlist and i usually stick to just a few tracks in my rotation. the moment sleep token puts out something new i'll listen to it and probably be hooked for a while and then just move on
I can relate heavily to this, I don’t find myself listening to ST nearly as much as I did a few months ago funny enough I now listen to Bad Omens way more than I used to
I completely get Sleep Token. I remember finding them in late 2020 and hearing the The Offering. I loved Tomb when I came out and I remember seeing no love for it when it did because they were pretty small. I remember seeing them live with in this moment and seeing nobody else knew them. They still are a top 3 band for me but man I find myself not listening to them as much as I used too. I’m glad they got popular don’t get me wrong but they were just that band for me no one else knew
The over-listening thing is so right and happened to me with some albums you mentioned here as well. I don't dislike the bands I've over-listened to, and I'll revisit them sometimes and enjoy them, but they're not in my usual cycle of listening anymore. Dance Gavin Dance is this way for me. I was obsessed with them for like a year, just non-stop, and now I just don't feel like popping them on anymore lol. Not because I dislike them. I'll still check out new stuff or listen to them here and there. But I'm not really in the mood for them anymore. I have a handful of bands like this. So I totally get it. Hell, I'm the same as you on pretty much all the bands mentioned in this video.
I'm slowly getting back into a few actually! Rise Against is one that I've loved everything they released, but realized it was forever since I listened to them. I saw they had a tour near me, got tickets and listened to the whole discography over and over since. Great concert and glad to say they are near the top of my rotation again. Another is Bullet for my Valentine. Again, a huge fan of everything they did and have seen them twice, but I feel that other music just got in the way of me listening to them. The last month I've been on a major binge of their music. I feel that sometimes we just need a break from our favorite artists so that we can come back later on and truly appreciate it like the first time again
Truly relatable. Some bands that I don’t listen to anymore are: Trivium, Whitechapel, TAIM, Architects, Sleep Token, WSS. I think a big part of not listening to a band anymore that you used to love is when they drop an album that you don’t really enjoy that much and start looking for stuff that fits your taste more, you just start to forget and it becomes a thing of the past
Really enjoyed the discussion. I see a lot of live bands and love comparing them to the albums, so I'd be interested in either positive take (matched/elevated the album) or negative (didn't match the album/letdown live)
This is hard relatable. I think about this phenomenon a lot. I get heavily obsessed with a band, after i see them live with my personal peak album, it's like the case is closed and i move on to different bands. Happened so often and i'm glad i'm not alone with it lol
I'm surprised you didn't put Parkway on this list, btw love that you got the Appeal to Reason album by Rise Against in the background there, I absolutely love that album!
This is a really interesting idea! I've always found listening to bands is cyclical... I used to love The Amity Affliction as a kid, grew out of them, rediscovered them, now I'm a little bit on the outs again. Parkway Drive is the same too. Works the other way too... used to be confused by Northlane. Since Alien I can't stop listening to them.
I completely get the mindset of abandoning a band after they hit the mainstream I used to be like that in my teens thinking bands were no good once they hit it really big but now I’m happy if I ‘find’ a band then they become massive like sleep token. Couldn’t be happier for them now. I saw sleep token support architects in Glasgow and honestly you could feel in that arena that a movement was happening, that was my first introduction of them and you could sense that they were on the cusp of extraordinary things.
I was actually expecting you to say BMTH, but I’m so glad you didn’t They’ve been my top artist on Spotify for probably 8 years or so, and I don’t thing that’s changing soon xd
I felt the same about architects years ago, when all our gods abandoned us dropped it was by far my favorite band and the first metalcore band i got deep into where i listened to all their previous stuff and found something to like in every one except here and now. but holy hell already had 50% of songs that i didn't like and it's not just missing tom searle for the themes he used I think both their sound and lyrics regressed as if they were teenagers, their signles for the last records sound so juvenile to me that i can't even get into the albums themselves.
So crazy to imagine for how long Modern Metalcore has been around by now. You started listening to Architects right when I fell out of love with them and I was already listening to them for more than a decade. Started with Ruin and Hollow Crown is still one of my all time favorite songs.
I can relate way more then i wanted too. Especially anything from While She Sleeps till the end. I feel the exact same way about everything and all the bands. Used to be obsessed with all of them but rarely listen these days.
I have been a metalhead for almost three years and I realize that the more bands you get into you tend to forget about the bands that started you out and got you into metal but that also means when you come across them you get that nostalgic feeling and that is the best thing about metal. I also think because of me being a metal vocalist certain bands like Lorna Shore, Slaughter To Prevail, Bad Omens and etc. have been a big part of my listening history so I could get an idea of what to listen for when I'm making songs or just to learn how to do the vocals they do.
I think moving on from a band once their 'big' isnt just a hipster-thing, where everything is about being into stuff noone knows. A lot times there's a reason why bands blow up, and quite often it is because they change/evolve their sound into something more mass-friendly. Nothing wrong with that per se, I just think a lot of bands loose their edge during this process, and that "edge" is exactly the new/fresh element that made them stand out in the first place. Another factor is just copycats I think. If everyone sound like i.e. Bad Omens, noone really does, and the sound/style becomes kinda bland in a broader sense, so we move on to the next fresh thing. Keeps the underground alive, if you think about it like that
I feel like this a lot with bands I once loved/obsessed over. I think at least for me it comes down to my taste changing or growing in some ways. While I still love the genre overall, the more music that releases that ends up being interesting or more unique tends to overshadow those bands I once loved and while they're still fantastic they just aren't what I'm into as a daily driver, they almost become more of a niche or a nostalgia trip that I put on and jam to when I think of them. Still have fondness and love for them, but they're unable to captivate me the same as what I listen to more daily. This was probably a bad way to put it but it's the best way I can put my thoughts into words 😂 Also love the take on TDWP after I just went to their show in Saturday mainly for LMTF and SP. Used to be really into TDWP but can't find myself enjoying them the same as I used to. Really good video as always, love these discussion style videos that get people talking!
I relate so much to architects dude, my favorite band EVER for years. Daybreak to holy hell every song was amazing. LFLT may be my favorite album but it’s so hard to say
I relate to this a lot because over time I've stopped caring much about catchiness and heaviness and started caring much more about the artsy, profound and creative aspects of music which are usually speaheaded by smaller bands in my opinion
So relatable with While She Sleeps, I was OBSSESSED right from The North Stands For Nothing album, all through This Is The Six and Brainwashed, even going as far as seeing them live a good few times and meeting Loz! (Lovely dude!) but after that the love just fizzled and never came back!
Sleep Token is insanely big. They literally opened for Linkin Park in Paris yesterday for like 35000ish people or something (they did a great show but didnt really fit as an opener for linkin park musically, especially for the people not knowing them)
@@Crotes1990 architects are definitely not bigger then ever right now. Anyway saying ST fell off after 2 months makes no sense as they literally didn’t.
Great vid as always. I have a few as well. Being as an Ocean garnered a special place in my heart with "How we both wondrously perish", even making my top 10 list of my favorite records of all time. But, most of their work afterward has been the dung of several wild chimps. Others for me would be Austrian Death Machine, Skeletonwitch, Memphis may fire, The Word Alive, Hands like Houses, Beartooth, The Color Morale, Impending Doom, We Came As Romans, among others. I noticed I have sort of dropped many post hardcore bands in favor of metalcore, deathcore, deathmetal, blackmetal, hardcore, pop punk, djent, and shoegaze. Gone but not forgotten. Many times I do actually forget lol but their music will live on with the newer generations who listen to them 👌 *side note, check out Ocean Grove's latest releases when you can man, I think you will be impressed with what you hear.
Nooo, not While She Sleeps. You just broke my heart hahah I understand your point and respect it. But I discovered your channel for your reactions to WSS, I enjoyed every one of them, I was the happiest when their songs or albums made it to your favs, and hearing you say you don't enjoy their music anymore hurts
My music preferences tend to change over time. I tend to fall out of a band if I binge them for a while. However, there is a nostalgia factor that lets me come back and relive some memories from those times. Bad omens and sleep token were my favorite bands of 2021, and now my favorites are Kingdom of Giants and Inertia 😅
I feel you on falling out of love with Architects. Daybreaker is still one of my favorite albums ever, got into them during Lost Together, Lost Forever phase and was blown away by Broke. Cross, but have just underwhelmed with everything after holy hell, and they got big to the point where I didn’t feel special calling them my favorite band anymore. The recent drama with their guitarist doesn’t help eithwr
I definitely feel you there with Killswitch Engage and August Burns Red. I think I got into both around the same time as you did, and used to be obsessed with both--but I haven't listened to either in years. With While She Sleeps, I've also fallen off in terms of listening to them (mainly with their most recent album, as I really loved Sleeps Society), but as a diehard fan, I can never let myself drift away too far from them (WSS is easily top 3 in my list of bands).
I would say a lot of metalcore and deathcore in general tbh, recently I've been listening to some older metallic hardcore stuff like Converge, early Between the buried and me, botch and Dillinger. Some old-school death metal like Morbid Angel, Death and Bolt Thrower. Also more pop and soft rock stuff like Men I trust, Slowdive, Oasis just to name a few. I do hope The Contortionist releases something next year, I miss them a lot.
What happens to you with KsE, is the same thing that happens to me... but whenever I hear them on my random, depending on the song too, I enjoy them very much. It's not that I moved on from them, it's just that I don't seek them. The reason might be that I'm looking for new things to listen.. which changes the type of music you listen at the moment, and that's the reason why you don't come back to the bands you used to enjoy. New music generally have a different mood, energy.. and it hits you differently in any type of circumstance. An example of this is when I started to listen to Gojira or Mastodon. I didn't like the few songs I've heard from them. I missed a tour from Gojira because I didn't like the few songs I've listened from them.. but in 2019, it was just mindblowing for me, and it changed completly the type of music I was listening at the moment.
For me what keeps me absolutely obsessed with architects is going back to there really old stuff like from the here and now, daybreak, and hollow crown since they're so diverse. Ofc LFLT, AOGHAU, and HH, and even FTTWTE are all incredible but diving into their stuff before that sparked Newfound interest in the band
Starting off with Bad Omens is CRAZY (but weirdly in the same boat I'm realizing). For me Sleep Token currently is only Vore + The Offering + This Place Will Be Your Tomb (best album!!!) barely revisiting Take Me Back to Eden. And honestly feel more or less similar with the other bands. And yes please more videos like this !!! Would love to hear stories about how you got into heavier music, concert experiences (best and worst) and going over current vinyl collection...?
I've been waiting for the moment when you would start doing other types of videos. I love your reactions and like the way you articulate your opinions, but expanding outside of the "reaction-only box" seems to be the right step for your channel. Can't wait for your new videos!
While She Sleeps is one I definitely relate to. I became a fan of theirs around the time of The North Stands for Nothing and This Is The Six. Amazing albums. They slowly started getting worse after these albums and their latest album I don't care for at all. August Burns Red is still great and it's crazy that you've stopped liking them.
The Bad Omens one makes sense as I’ve had similar, still love a lot of their songs heres just not loads to go back over rn. Hopefully they drop a proper album next year to keep up the 3 year cycle and I’ll be sucked right back in
I do the same thing where I listen to a band too much and start to grow tired of them but ink has been the one exception, I will never grow tired of their music
I can relate with you on While She Sleeps and Architects, especially on their recent stuff, i never listen to Self Hell and classic symptoms. But I still listen just as you their old stuff. Also, personnaly i have this same feeling on Bullet For My Valentine and Slipknot. And for me it's always the same cycle, they drop 1 or 2 albums that i didn't enjoy so i go back to their old stuff and slowly but surely i stop listening to them. But they still interest me, if these bands drop new singles ep's or album i'll be listening for sure !
💯 agree with you. I'm too kind of growing out from these bands, even though I do sometimes come back to old & recent releases. Other bands that I feel the same are Spiritbox, Northlane, DGD, Wage War, Fit For A King and even Linkin Park. But that does not make me hates these bands, just check their stuff less and less over time. Hopefully in future, I will get that feel/urge to check these bands again.
I have the same feeling with While She Sleeps, however hearing the new songs live was so much better and I don't know why. Like I don't have them in my rotation ever but love they killed it
The first 2 bands where necer really my taste, just to chill for me. Especially since from 2020 -> 2024 i went more and more into thr deathcore scene, especially Slaughter To Prevail
Sleep Token is on that tightrope for me because the music we all fell in love with comes from a very different mindset and state of being that isn't there with the band anymore, part of that ocultism and mystery made them kind of special, and even if the fantastic music is still there I'm not particularly a fan of the way people reacted last year around them and even some of the aesthetic and marketing decisions since Eden blew up, I'm very happy for them but I hope they dont' loose what made Sleep Token the mystic spectacle it is in the first place. I think out of all the bands on the list they have the greatest challenge upon them, whatever music they put out next must still carry that magic from their previously-niche albums and that is gonna be a very hard thing to do, turning a blind eye to the sudden platform they have is not going to make it easier either, I HOPE they prove me wrong and we get their magnum opus next but it could turn out either way, specially with Eden being a slight downgrade in comparison to TPWBYT.
@TheRealProdigy I would say Take me back to Eden is "less sad" and a more poppy, and optimistic album. Its appeals to a wider audience, from The summoning to Aqua Regia to Vore. There's something for everyone. I knew it was only a matter of time before Sleep Token blew up. The Tomb album, to me, is far more cohesive, meaningful, and emotionally charged. In my opinion anyway.
All that remains. Probably my introduction to loving metal with The Fall of ideals. I like For We Are Many but completely checked out afterwards and havent gone back to them
I can kind of relate even though I still listen to Sleep Token religiously and will go to the Frankfurt Show on Sunday, I moved on from TMBTE around March and only listened to ST sporadcly for the rest of the year and most of the time it was TPWBYT-Songs and I also fell off of Architects, however I find it really refreshing to just not clean out my playlist and just rediscover after a while. I haven't listened to Holy Hell or AGHAU in approx. 6 months but I know once I'll listen it'll be the dopest shit again and I will ball my eyes out during Memento Mori and the urge to get "Enough pressure will create a Diamond" tattooed will flare up again during Dying to Heal. So what I would say is I agree with the sentiment but I would never clean these bands or rather songs out because I have a deep connection to the memories I have with these songs.
I think that one strategy to manage this problem is trying to stop listening to a band when you still like them. Or at least try to diminishing to quantity of repeats about that particular band/album/song and listen something else. In this way maybe it's possibile to not completely "burn-out" that band or album and create a more "long term" relationship with them. In some way i think that "falling in love" with a band or and album it's not too much different then falling in love with a person. At the beginning everything feels exciting and new, and it's easy to idolize them . But after some time you see things with a different light and maybe they begin to get boring or exhausting. Maybe to create a more mature relationship with a band we need to try to re-learn to appreciate the things that made us falling in love with them (again, like in a relationship with a person). Or maybe simply move on.
There alre definitely bands ive listened to less overtime but ive almost always revisited them with a fresh mind set. I think it helps that any given day ill listen to maybe half a dozen different genres and I like to switch up my playlists.
I got into KSE a bit earlier (The End of Heartache) as I'm few years older, but I was biased because at that time I basically worshipped Howard Jones. When he left KSE, it dieded for me. Same story was with Three Days Grace when Adam Gontier left. New singers just didn't "clicked" for me in these two situations.
A band for me would definitely have to be A Day To Remember. In high school I listened to them religiously, but ever since 'You're Welcome' I've barely listen to them. I'll be seeing them next month at a festival for the first time ever (I live in Australia and I don't think they've been here since 2017) so I'll be getting back into their best soon
My picks first second from the top if my head: Die Ärzte (german punk band, was the most important band for me together with Linkin Park as a kid / teenager) Architects (one of the bands I discovered the genre with, but lost me after Daybreaker) Arch Enemy In Flames (saw both AE and them live recently though and it was great) Linkin Park (after Minutes to Midnight)
I had the same experience with Sleep Token. I listened to them almost every day. That was also around the same time I got into death/black metal heavily and that stuff is almost anti Sleep Token if you ask me. The more I got into bands like Ulthar and Lord Mantis, the less I wanted to go back to bands like ST. It was fun while it lasted. Maybe one day I come back around. Haven't finished your video yet, but Gojira is big one for me. I loved Way of all Flesh overall but when Magma came out, I sort of fell out right when everyone else wanted to hop on, seemingly.
Most of these I can agree with. Architects, Bad Omens and While She Sleeps too. Killswitch Engage is actually one i’m leaning heavier into recently Asking Alexandria is probably my biggest drop off in the last 5 years
Its kind of sad, but all of these bands I still love immensely, and I will always keep listening to. But the falling out of love from being your favorite? Too real. Too real.
A sequel to this video where you talk about bands that you have listened to for years but only recently getting heavily into would be cool
starset is a prime example
Going through this right now. NEVER liked The Plot In You until these recent volume releases and singles. Now I can't get enough.
had this with soad recently
Happened to me these past couple of weeks with IDLES
@@beamangel3497 starset is painful
painfully relatable.
Came to say something similar.
I tried to tell you this Octanecore shit has a limited shelf life. When I do it I'm a gAtEkEePeR when this chode does it he's a hero. Fuck off.
I’m about 5 minutes in. Please don’t say TDWP, please. I’ll update
Edit: GOD DAMNIT
😂😂😂
I knew that one will be there. Color Decay is something that was extremely depressing for me at the time, and then it became something I can hold on to, something very dear to my heart. It's an amazing creation I can't really listen to anymore because I feel like it's gonna be direct ride to the depression once again. I might be wrong because the timing of it was so great back then, but when I start remembering those lyrics it just makes me sad and angry.
Their discography from the last 5 years is the best they’ve ever done in my opinion
@@emoishguy08 you're insane. Band's creatively bankrupt this decade. I hope they completely reinvent themselves moving forward.
Yes dude, all I've done is read the title and thumbnail and I'm immediately hooked. Love to see you do commentary videos like this.
Make metalcore have riffs again
Reallll
For real
The reason I've started listening to the likes of Hatebreed again, RIFFS FOR DAYS
As I Lay Dying coming out tomorrow, hopefully some tasty riffs in there
@@omegazx7236 meh
The thing about Architects was that every song from Lost Forever // Lost Together to Holy Hell felt MEANINGFUL. They truly mastered their craft during that era, and there won't be a day when I won't miss that spectacular sound. However, I understand that these albums' themes were deeply tied to Tom's passing, and the band moved on for a reason. So, yeah, I get it, but I'd still love to see them return to that style, as their current sound feels mediocre at best. In addition, I truly believe that it was the step in the right direction with For Those Who Wish to Exist, but for some reason, they just devolved.
They just don't make riffs. Invent Animate is the new and modern Architects. Shout Out to their las singles, its not Lost Forever/Lost Together but are solid songs
I mean, way less popular (but still they're my fav band
Ive heard some interviews with sam recently and he's hinted that they're going back heavy. They tried something new, fans didn't like it, they realises its not theirs and they're going back to more heavy on the next album! Can't wait to see what that means. I hope some old school architects, at least in some way. They'll never sound the same again.
I reaaaaally don't want them to return to that sound. 3 albums was enough. They just need a better sound than the bland "We got BMTH at home" arena metal they're doing now.
@@kilowog9602 Heavener is a genuine masterpiece of an album. Modern metalcore done right.
Surprised Wage War didn’t make the list 😅
TRUE!
He never liked them
Their last album I really didn’t like but fucking amazing live always 110% energy(wage war)
Stigma was a let down and boring (Only songs I remember are Nail5 and Tombstone). Completely forgettable in the end and just find yourself going back to MANIC, Deadweight, & Blueprints
@@relentlesschaos7445 so many songs from Manic already feel like classics to me.
Can relate to Architects. For me it’s not that the songwriting got poppier and less heavy, but that the songs don‘t have ambience and feel huge anymore. That is why I still like FTTWTE but Classic Symptoms was an absolute miss for me.
100%.
First heard them during All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, didn't really clicked with it.
Got obsessed after the Hereafter single.
Couldn't get enough of Holy Hell.
I really liked For Those That Whish To Exist.
when we were young was cool, but never listened to anything after that.
Just wasn't interesting at all.
But I dove into their back catalogue and got obsessed again with stuff from Hollow Crown, Daybreaker, Lost Forever and All Our Gods.
Now Sam is openly talking about Classic Symptoms being bad and regretting putting it out.
That was wild and I didn't expect it at all.
@ Oh, that is wild! I did not know that and can‘t find it. I would be super interested, where did he say that?
@@bouquetforeverymisery Here, the Rockfeed interview from 2 months ago:
th-cam.com/video/67yOQUFIAwQ/w-d-xo.html
At 16:40 he sais he's constantly listening to the new songs they're writing.
He had that in the past with Animals, but not on the last record.
At 28:30 he sais the new record will be the best ever and that every band says that, but he means it, because the last record wasn't that and missed the mark instead of being one of their good records.
@@josuastangl7140 Thank you so much!
I resonate strongly with this front to back. Not necessarily because of the bands mentioned (though I relate to a good bit of them too), but moreso because of the overlistening and slowly falling out of love.
This year in particular I've noticed just how periodic my music taste and passion for bands is. It's also represented by my Wrapped, which is 100% different in terms of bands every year. Cant tell you the last time I listened to Lorna Shore, or Sleep Token, two bands I used to obsess with the last two years. Going into 24 even my love for Heavener faded. Not because I dont love it anymore, I Stil think it's a great 10/10 album, but I just dont feeel like coming back to it that often.
I think this is just normal, taste is periodic, bands change sounds, and combined you end up with situations like this. Enjoyed this a lot
It makes sense and I feel like the pattern is pretty common:
You like an artist and start listening to it. They release that one album that gives you that perfect feeling of freshness and uniqueness. Pure dopamine. You listen to it ad nauseam, everyday, all day until it’s not so fresh anymore.
When the next release doesn’t give you that feeling again you fall out of interest and look for the new thing chasing that feeling again.
Me and All That Remains in a nutshell
Pretty much perfectly captured my experience with Thornhill...I listened the hell out of The Dark Pool but then Heroine went in a completely different direction and I fell out of love with the band. TDP is still goated though
@@moogle. 100%. Loved TDP, checked out their first EP, loved that, didn't listen to anything after that, because it just wasn't interesting to me.
not sleep token tho never put out a bad song
the make them suffer experience
0:03 subtle foreshadowing
LMFAO
Lamb of god bro. I used to listen to this band like crazy, learned tons of songs on guitar, learned fry scream, the lyrics, everything. But after their 2015 album Sturm und Drang I started to see a formula that got boring pretty quickly, that chaoticness and unpredictability of the riffs started to feel more plain, the songs started to share the saame structure, and ofc the absent of the mind of Chris Adler was super noticeable. After that, i have barely listened to their last releases, i literally dont care anymore, which is sad honestly. Still love the band tho, Ashes of the Wake is stilll my fav album of all time.
This, right around the same time for me too. Ashes of the Wake is the reason I picked up guitar and the entire run up from As The Palaces Burn to Resolution is incredible but Sturm Und Drang, while great, is where I kinda fell off. Chris leaving was essentially the death knell unfortunately.
@@Krauser1226 wait Chris Adler left LoG?
@@J.PC.Designs yeah Chris left LoG in 2019.
😢
I lost them when they dropped their 2020 album. I loved when they did the covers album as Burn the Priest and Chris was still with them but that 2020 album wasn't it and since them I really don't care about them. I sucks because they are still in my top 5 favorite bands of all time but I don't feel them no more.
This was such a dope video idea! I think every metal head has a similar thing go on with all the bands they listened to over the years. It’s funny how many of these bands I would put on my list as well. Now we need a video of your top new favorite bands💪
Wage War were my first love but they're in their messy ho phase and I can't stay around to witness that.
Wage war are a great intro band to the genre, and you'd struggle to not like them when first discovering 'core. But they really don't age well and their brand of extremely processed riffs and whatnot just doesnt do it for long lol
My first exposure to Wage War was them stumbling through their set hungover at 11 am at Warped Tour. I like some of their singles but I never really could get over the bad first impression
What a nivel pick on this list.
💯
Funny timing with this video. For years I've been saying ERRA is my favourite band. But I've hardly listened to them in recent months. Their newest album didn't grab me and I kinda lost interest in listening to their older music as well. Things change I guess.
I would try again. I said the same thing about Cure, but it took a 3rd listen before it clicked with me.
I know what you mean brother, and I used to say the same, their latest album didn't stick with me and everything before felt way better, but I cannot tell you how much that album grew on me. Until the point where I'd say their latest album is their most mature work they've done. Listening to their old albums now is still amazing, but sounds like they were doing everything they can to be fast and unexpected, where they almost took a step back and wrote a damn well album. Try it again bro, give it a few listens, and listen to it as a standalone without comparing 🤘🏼
I stopped listening to Erra post Grasons departure, though they have few songs like Rumors of light and skyline that i like!
Impulse is the best album in my opinion
@@nathansterling639impulse is phenomenal
i love those kind of videos from you , bogdan . Such a cool change to the reaction videos :)
ABR has still slapped as hard as they did on messengers, absolute GOATs
I don't think you necessarily move on because these bands become popular, I think these bands become popular because their sound changes. And that sound change is what causes them to become more popular. But it might not resonate with you.
I stopped listening to so many bands because they did that, main one I can't stand is Decapitated. Their first 4 albums were phenomenal. Then they started becoming less and less technical and outside of a few tracks I really haven't enjoyed anything after Carnival is Forever. Cancer Culture isn't even recognizable when compared to their old material
@@symptomofsouls I feel you. Parkway Drive is a massive example similar to that for me.
@@MichaelFromTheAttic I go back to the old albums and try to find out exactly what changed. Think Carnival was when they focused more on the groove elements, and it was less chaotic than Organic Hallucinosis, then Blood Mantra was when they tried (and failed) to go back to their old sound. Then AntiCult was basically a groove metal album, with a few standout tracks but mostly mediocre. Cancer Culture was when their sound died. The crunchy guitar tone was really the only thing left from their old sound and even that was gutted. Nihility's guitar tone was disgusting. Absolutely maxed out overdrive. And had way more groove than their groove metal albums somehow
I swear if Invent Animate is on this list....
😅 id say erra for me😢 a lot of bangers on heavener
I can't move on from IA this band make me dive into djent and still be my FAV band on earth till now
This is me currently. I started listening to metalcore 20 years ago and I think it’s the genre has changed so dramatically over the last few years. There’s so many trends in metalcore that you can almost date an album before it’s even a few years old. I haven’t been excited for a new album like I used to be… maybe we all just over play them!
Starset for me. They were one of the first "heavier" bands i ever listened to and to this day i maintain Vessels as an absolute masterpiece, but come to think of it I haven't listened to a song from them in many months. All of their singles this year completely missed me too.
Similar story here. I recently revisited their first two albums and am falling in love with them again, but nothing since Vessels has hit quite the same for me
I really enjoyed "A brave new world", but with the rest I agree. They aren't their best work, but they are good songs regardless, if at all a bit weird XD
Still excited for the album
@@nightwingx0126I will say Horizons grew on me SO MUCH over the last few months. My initial problem with it was the structure of repeating a phrase for a chorus, but the bridges on that album are some of the best bridges I’ve ever heard. If Horizons had more lyrical variety in the choruses, I’d put it above Transmissions and Vessels. Divisions on the other hand, I still don’t like (with the exception of a few songs like Diving Bell for example)
This style in general I’ve outgrown. Once u go Converge and Nails, u never go back 🔥
Kind of similar story with architects! It was really big for me, I listened them almost daily for couple of years, but then they slowly dissipated from my daily playlists. Now I’m heavily into Sleep Token, and going to their show in Budapest this month
Btw, fun fact - my girlfriend gifted me architects’s FTWWTE vinyl last year too haha. So cute!
Listening to you speak about your Architects journey hits me right in the feels. I could not relate more, used to be my absolute number 1 band and Holy Hell to this day is probably my favourite ever album. Such a shame to see the direction they've headed in and I pray bands like Invent, Polaris, Silent Planet etc dont head down the same path 🙌🏻
same for me with Architects, While she sleeps, and I'll add Wage War and Parkway Drive to the list
Relatable and also quite understandable. We all grow and the chance of a band you love doing so in the same direction is close to zero. Lamb of God, Darkest Hour, Mastodon, even Slipknot are bands that for years dominated my musical attention, but I have barely listened to in years and have almost completely detached myself from.
This is why I listen to songs and not just "bands". I keep the songs I love and drop the ones I dont, but Im not attached to the band itself... I mean, you don't have to stop listening to the songs you love just because you don't listen to that band anymore lol
Don't worry. You'll have one of those moments where a tune from one of those bands pops in your head, and then you'll go and listen to them again. Happens to me all the time.
Oh yeah, I can relate to that. There are so many new and juicy music that you can't stick to some material for a long time. Unless it's somehow connected to you emotionally.
Glad i'm not the only one who is slowly no longer listening to some of these bands .
Damn the beginning hurt haha. While She Sleeps is my favorite band of all time, Brainwashed and This is the Six(the 2 albums before You Are We) are two of my favorite albums ever. You can listen to it and it feels different every time. I would say if you want to go back into WSS you could dive through This Is The Six, so many gems in there.
While She Sleeps is my favorite band of all time, and Sleep Token was probably my favorite band of the summer. Sundowning is an absolute gem of an album. Sleep Token is also one of the bands that after seeing them live, I kept listening to them non-stop. I usually binge listen setlists a week before shows, so after the show I want to move on, but Sleep Token didn't let me.
Just wait til you see them live. I loved this band to death. And then I saw them live and instantly lost all the love I had for them
check out blacklit canopy, ifykyk
@BraydonChannel bullshit i saw them in Montreal and it was the best concert I've ever been to musically. Crowd was horrendous but that's the "french"
@@justadude8172 i saw them in toronto earlier this year with architects. And it really does pain me to say it was the worst vocal performance I've ever seen
@BraydonChannel crazy. Vessel was angelic on their headline tour
Can totally relate! Personally, I love discovering smaller bands through reactors like yourself and then seeing how they progress. At the same time I feel like when bands blow up (e.g. Sleep Token with their album last year) there is soooo much content and hype being produced on TH-cam and other social media platforms that I get burned out. That being said, I think there is nothing wrong with listening to bands a lot and then taking a break before revisiting them sometime down the road. There is something satisfying about going „damn, I forgot how much I like this“.
By the way, videos like this are definitely welcome to mix things up ✌🏼
Really cool video concept!
Currents, Make Them Suffer, and I Prevail are 3 bands that jump out to me as bands that occasionally will pop up and I’ll listen to but I’m not going out of my way to put them on anymore
I mean hey
New Make Them Suffer is going crazy at the moment
Most recent Currents album was very mid imo. Every song sounds almost the exact same and if you look at guitar tabs for those songs, they're literally all just 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 the whole song
@@minecraftsteve2504 I’m gonna check out the album when it drops but the excitement level has dwindled down for me. I loved Doomswitch and Ghost of Me but the last 3 singles haven’t had any replay ability for me personally
@@anthonymonterosso7472 the last album had some highlights to me but you are right in saying it all sounded similar because it did for sure. My favorite part of the album was the breakdown in Over and Over. Even still though it didn’t hit nearly as hard as The Way It Ends did or I Let the Devil In
@tonykolas4402 those 2 albums are elite for choruses, breakdowns, riffs, ambience etc.
Interesting take Bogdan! I would never say I’ve “moved on” from a band in my personal take. It usually just depends on what you’re feeling at the time. I personally would say I have my favorites for periods of time and then something else I go into. Example, I went on a Blink 182 kick for like a month. Then when knocked loose and boundaries’ new album came out I binged a bunch of hardcore. If we’re going off of the “moved on from” mentality then I guess I’ve moved on from almost my entire music library 😂
Funny timing cause I recently noticed this trend start happening with me and ive been thinking about what bands I used to love but don't really care about anymore. Half of the ones you mentioned are on my list as well lol
bands keep rotating in and out of my rotation as they release new music. i was obsessed with TMBTE but now that they haven't put out a new track in over a year i haven't listened to them as much. my adhd brain gets hyper obsessive over a single track/playlist and i usually stick to just a few tracks in my rotation. the moment sleep token puts out something new i'll listen to it and probably be hooked for a while and then just move on
oh and that applies to most of the bands you talked about today and some more
I can relate heavily to this, I don’t find myself listening to ST nearly as much as I did a few months ago
funny enough I now listen to Bad Omens way more than I used to
I completely get Sleep Token. I remember finding them in late 2020 and hearing the The Offering. I loved Tomb when I came out and I remember seeing no love for it when it did because they were pretty small. I remember seeing them live with in this moment and seeing nobody else knew them. They still are a top 3 band for me but man I find myself not listening to them as much as I used too. I’m glad they got popular don’t get me wrong but they were just that band for me no one else knew
The over-listening thing is so right and happened to me with some albums you mentioned here as well. I don't dislike the bands I've over-listened to, and I'll revisit them sometimes and enjoy them, but they're not in my usual cycle of listening anymore. Dance Gavin Dance is this way for me. I was obsessed with them for like a year, just non-stop, and now I just don't feel like popping them on anymore lol. Not because I dislike them. I'll still check out new stuff or listen to them here and there. But I'm not really in the mood for them anymore. I have a handful of bands like this. So I totally get it. Hell, I'm the same as you on pretty much all the bands mentioned in this video.
I'm slowly getting back into a few actually! Rise Against is one that I've loved everything they released, but realized it was forever since I listened to them. I saw they had a tour near me, got tickets and listened to the whole discography over and over since. Great concert and glad to say they are near the top of my rotation again. Another is Bullet for my Valentine. Again, a huge fan of everything they did and have seen them twice, but I feel that other music just got in the way of me listening to them. The last month I've been on a major binge of their music. I feel that sometimes we just need a break from our favorite artists so that we can come back later on and truly appreciate it like the first time again
Truly relatable. Some bands that I don’t listen to anymore are: Trivium, Whitechapel, TAIM, Architects, Sleep Token, WSS. I think a big part of not listening to a band anymore that you used to love is when they drop an album that you don’t really enjoy that much and start looking for stuff that fits your taste more, you just start to forget and it becomes a thing of the past
Trivium is a big one for me too
Really enjoyed the discussion. I see a lot of live bands and love comparing them to the albums, so I'd be interested in either positive take (matched/elevated the album) or negative (didn't match the album/letdown live)
This is hard relatable. I think about this phenomenon a lot. I get heavily obsessed with a band, after i see them live with my personal peak album, it's like the case is closed and i move on to different bands. Happened so often and i'm glad i'm not alone with it lol
I'm surprised you didn't put Parkway on this list, btw love that you got the Appeal to Reason album by Rise Against in the background there, I absolutely love that album!
This is a really interesting idea! I've always found listening to bands is cyclical... I used to love The Amity Affliction as a kid, grew out of them, rediscovered them, now I'm a little bit on the outs again. Parkway Drive is the same too.
Works the other way too... used to be confused by Northlane. Since Alien I can't stop listening to them.
I completely get the mindset of abandoning a band after they hit the mainstream I used to be like that in my teens thinking bands were no good once they hit it really big but now I’m happy if I ‘find’ a band then they become massive like sleep token. Couldn’t be happier for them now.
I saw sleep token support architects in Glasgow and honestly you could feel in that arena that a movement was happening, that was my first introduction of them and you could sense that they were on the cusp of extraordinary things.
I was actually expecting you to say BMTH, but I’m so glad you didn’t
They’ve been my top artist on Spotify for probably 8 years or so, and I don’t thing that’s changing soon xd
While She Sleeps hits hard, Sleeps Society is such a banger and had me hooked but nothing has felt the same since
I felt the same about architects years ago, when all our gods abandoned us dropped it was by far my favorite band and the first metalcore band i got deep into where i listened to all their previous stuff and found something to like in every one except here and now. but holy hell already had 50% of songs that i didn't like and it's not just missing tom searle for the themes he used I think both their sound and lyrics regressed as if they were teenagers, their signles for the last records sound so juvenile to me that i can't even get into the albums themselves.
So crazy to imagine for how long Modern Metalcore has been around by now. You started listening to Architects right when I fell out of love with them and I was already listening to them for more than a decade. Started with Ruin and Hollow Crown is still one of my all time favorite songs.
I can relate way more then i wanted too. Especially anything from While She Sleeps till the end. I feel the exact same way about everything and all the bands. Used to be obsessed with all of them but rarely listen these days.
I have been a metalhead for almost three years and I realize that the more bands you get into you tend to forget about the bands that started you out and got you into metal but that also means when you come across them you get that nostalgic feeling and that is the best thing about metal.
I also think because of me being a metal vocalist certain bands like Lorna Shore, Slaughter To Prevail, Bad Omens and etc. have been a big part of my listening history so I could get an idea of what to listen for when I'm making songs or just to learn how to do the vocals they do.
I think moving on from a band once their 'big' isnt just a hipster-thing, where everything is about being into stuff noone knows. A lot times there's a reason why bands blow up, and quite often it is because they change/evolve their sound into something more mass-friendly. Nothing wrong with that per se, I just think a lot of bands loose their edge during this process, and that "edge" is exactly the new/fresh element that made them stand out in the first place. Another factor is just copycats I think. If everyone sound like i.e. Bad Omens, noone really does, and the sound/style becomes kinda bland in a broader sense, so we move on to the next fresh thing. Keeps the underground alive, if you think about it like that
I feel like this a lot with bands I once loved/obsessed over. I think at least for me it comes down to my taste changing or growing in some ways. While I still love the genre overall, the more music that releases that ends up being interesting or more unique tends to overshadow those bands I once loved and while they're still fantastic they just aren't what I'm into as a daily driver, they almost become more of a niche or a nostalgia trip that I put on and jam to when I think of them. Still have fondness and love for them, but they're unable to captivate me the same as what I listen to more daily. This was probably a bad way to put it but it's the best way I can put my thoughts into words 😂
Also love the take on TDWP after I just went to their show in Saturday mainly for LMTF and SP. Used to be really into TDWP but can't find myself enjoying them the same as I used to. Really good video as always, love these discussion style videos that get people talking!
I relate so much to architects dude, my favorite band EVER for years. Daybreak to holy hell every song was amazing.
LFLT may be my favorite album but it’s so hard to say
I relate to this a lot because over time I've stopped caring much about catchiness and heaviness and started caring much more about the artsy, profound and creative aspects of music which are usually speaheaded by smaller bands in my opinion
So relatable with While She Sleeps, I was OBSSESSED right from The North Stands For Nothing album, all through This Is The Six and Brainwashed, even going as far as seeing them live a good few times and meeting Loz! (Lovely dude!) but after that the love just fizzled and never came back!
Sleep Token is insanely big. They literally opened for Linkin Park in Paris yesterday for like 35000ish people or something (they did a great show but didnt really fit as an opener for linkin park musically, especially for the people not knowing them)
Sleep token fell off after like 2 months
@@wallysnakes2690simply not true there way bigger then ever
@@ScarBonded Architects are also bigger than ever, but thats not the point of the video.
@@Crotes1990 architects are definitely not bigger then ever right now. Anyway saying ST fell off after 2 months makes no sense as they literally didn’t.
@wallysnakes2690 just because you stopped listening to them doesn't mean they fell off
Great vid as always. I have a few as well. Being as an Ocean garnered a special place in my heart with "How we both wondrously perish", even making my top 10 list of my favorite records of all time. But, most of their work afterward has been the dung of several wild chimps. Others for me would be Austrian Death Machine, Skeletonwitch, Memphis may fire, The Word Alive, Hands like Houses, Beartooth, The Color Morale, Impending Doom, We Came As Romans, among others. I noticed I have sort of dropped many post hardcore bands in favor of metalcore, deathcore, deathmetal, blackmetal, hardcore, pop punk, djent, and shoegaze.
Gone but not forgotten. Many times I do actually forget lol but their music will live on with the newer generations who listen to them 👌
*side note, check out Ocean Grove's latest releases when you can man, I think you will be impressed with what you hear.
Nooo, not While She Sleeps. You just broke my heart hahah
I understand your point and respect it. But I discovered your channel for your reactions to WSS, I enjoyed every one of them, I was the happiest when their songs or albums made it to your favs, and hearing you say you don't enjoy their music anymore hurts
My music preferences tend to change over time. I tend to fall out of a band if I binge them for a while. However, there is a nostalgia factor that lets me come back and relive some memories from those times. Bad omens and sleep token were my favorite bands of 2021, and now my favorites are Kingdom of Giants and Inertia 😅
I feel you on falling out of love with Architects. Daybreaker is still one of my favorite albums ever, got into them during Lost Together, Lost Forever phase and was blown away by Broke. Cross, but have just underwhelmed with everything after holy hell, and they got big to the point where I didn’t feel special calling them my favorite band anymore. The recent drama with their guitarist doesn’t help eithwr
Good content idea man! I enjoyed the video a lot!
I definitely feel you there with Killswitch Engage and August Burns Red. I think I got into both around the same time as you did, and used to be obsessed with both--but I haven't listened to either in years. With While She Sleeps, I've also fallen off in terms of listening to them (mainly with their most recent album, as I really loved Sleeps Society), but as a diehard fan, I can never let myself drift away too far from them (WSS is easily top 3 in my list of bands).
I would say a lot of metalcore and deathcore in general tbh, recently I've been listening to some older metallic hardcore stuff like Converge, early Between the buried and me, botch and Dillinger. Some old-school death metal like Morbid Angel, Death and Bolt Thrower. Also more pop and soft rock stuff like Men I trust, Slowdive, Oasis just to name a few.
I do hope The Contortionist releases something next year, I miss them a lot.
nice - keep it going and super cool topic!
What happens to you with KsE, is the same thing that happens to me... but whenever I hear them on my random, depending on the song too, I enjoy them very much. It's not that I moved on from them, it's just that I don't seek them. The reason might be that I'm looking for new things to listen.. which changes the type of music you listen at the moment, and that's the reason why you don't come back to the bands you used to enjoy. New music generally have a different mood, energy.. and it hits you differently in any type of circumstance. An example of this is when I started to listen to Gojira or Mastodon. I didn't like the few songs I've heard from them. I missed a tour from Gojira because I didn't like the few songs I've listened from them.. but in 2019, it was just mindblowing for me, and it changed completly the type of music I was listening at the moment.
Yes! i would love to see more videos like this for sure
I can relate on 90% of this, and it's fine, everything moves and they are still loved :D
For me what keeps me absolutely obsessed with architects is going back to there really old stuff like from the here and now, daybreak, and hollow crown since they're so diverse. Ofc LFLT, AOGHAU, and HH, and even FTTWTE are all incredible but diving into their stuff before that sparked Newfound interest in the band
Starting off with Bad Omens is CRAZY (but weirdly in the same boat I'm realizing). For me Sleep Token currently is only Vore + The Offering + This Place Will Be Your Tomb (best album!!!) barely revisiting Take Me Back to Eden. And honestly feel more or less similar with the other bands. And yes please more videos like this !!! Would love to hear stories about how you got into heavier music, concert experiences (best and worst) and going over current vinyl collection...?
I've been waiting for the moment when you would start doing other types of videos. I love your reactions and like the way you articulate your opinions, but expanding outside of the "reaction-only box" seems to be the right step for your channel. Can't wait for your new videos!
agree with most of this. BUT TDWP still sounds fresh to me and i've been listening them since Dead Throne
While She Sleeps is one I definitely relate to. I became a fan of theirs around the time of The North Stands for Nothing and This Is The Six. Amazing albums. They slowly started getting worse after these albums and their latest album I don't care for at all.
August Burns Red is still great and it's crazy that you've stopped liking them.
The Bad Omens one makes sense as I’ve had similar, still love a lot of their songs heres just not loads to go back over rn. Hopefully they drop a proper album next year to keep up the 3 year cycle and I’ll be sucked right back in
That was quite interesting because I can relate with every single band on that list
Bro put Appeal To Reason record in the background and thought Rise Against fans wouldn't notice. Great taste man.
That's crazy, man. I don't really have this.
The shit I was listening to back 10-15 years ago, I'm still listening to today. Actively.
I do the same thing where I listen to a band too much and start to grow tired of them but ink has been the one exception, I will never grow tired of their music
I can relate with you on While She Sleeps and Architects, especially on their recent stuff, i never listen to Self Hell and classic symptoms. But I still listen just as you their old stuff.
Also, personnaly i have this same feeling on Bullet For My Valentine and Slipknot. And for me it's always the same cycle, they drop 1 or 2 albums that i didn't enjoy so i go back to their old stuff and slowly but surely i stop listening to them. But they still interest me, if these bands drop new singles ep's or album i'll be listening for sure !
Loved this format!! ❤❤
💯 agree with you. I'm too kind of growing out from these bands, even though I do sometimes come back to old & recent releases.
Other bands that I feel the same are Spiritbox, Northlane, DGD, Wage War, Fit For A King and even Linkin Park. But that does not make me hates these bands, just check their stuff less and less over time. Hopefully in future, I will get that feel/urge to check these bands again.
I have the same feeling with While She Sleeps, however hearing the new songs live was so much better and I don't know why. Like I don't have them in my rotation ever but love they killed it
Coheed and Cambria was my favourite band for about a decade and now I hardly listen to them but still check out their new stuff when it drops
Such a good video idea. I think everyone can relate to this
The first 2 bands where necer really my taste, just to chill for me. Especially since from 2020 -> 2024 i went more and more into thr deathcore scene, especially Slaughter To Prevail
Interested to see a follow up to this video - bands you've recently gotten into heavily!
Sleep Token is on that tightrope for me because the music we all fell in love with comes from a very different mindset and state of being that isn't there with the band anymore, part of that ocultism and mystery made them kind of special, and even if the fantastic music is still there I'm not particularly a fan of the way people reacted last year around them and even some of the aesthetic and marketing decisions since Eden blew up, I'm very happy for them but I hope they dont' loose what made Sleep Token the mystic spectacle it is in the first place.
I think out of all the bands on the list they have the greatest challenge upon them, whatever music they put out next must still carry that magic from their previously-niche albums and that is gonna be a very hard thing to do, turning a blind eye to the sudden platform they have is not going to make it easier either, I HOPE they prove me wrong and we get their magnum opus next but it could turn out either way, specially with Eden being a slight downgrade in comparison to TPWBYT.
That's how I feel too. But no matter what happens we'll always have the EPs, Sundowning, and TPWBYT. No one can take that away from us haha
@@bankslie4onewhat i heard ppl hate the 2nd album and love the 3rd this seems to say the opposite
@TheRealProdigy I would say Take me back to Eden is "less sad" and a more poppy, and optimistic album. Its appeals to a wider audience, from The summoning to Aqua Regia to Vore. There's something for everyone. I knew it was only a matter of time before Sleep Token blew up. The Tomb album, to me, is far more cohesive, meaningful, and emotionally charged. In my opinion anyway.
Admit that you just hate it when a song has pop elements. Stay stuck in that pretentiousness of trying to be different from the rest.
Overrated band with very little beneath the surface. It's not deep at all.
All that remains. Probably my introduction to loving metal with The Fall of ideals. I like For We Are Many but completely checked out afterwards and havent gone back to them
I can kind of relate even though I still listen to Sleep Token religiously and will go to the Frankfurt Show on Sunday, I moved on from TMBTE around March and only listened to ST sporadcly for the rest of the year and most of the time it was TPWBYT-Songs and I also fell off of Architects, however I find it really refreshing to just not clean out my playlist and just rediscover after a while.
I haven't listened to Holy Hell or AGHAU in approx. 6 months but I know once I'll listen it'll be the dopest shit again and I will ball my eyes out during Memento Mori and the urge to get "Enough pressure will create a Diamond" tattooed will flare up again during Dying to Heal.
So what I would say is I agree with the sentiment but I would never clean these bands or rather songs out because I have a deep connection to the memories I have with these songs.
I think that one strategy to manage this problem is trying to stop listening to a band when you still like them. Or at least try to diminishing to quantity of repeats about that particular band/album/song and listen something else. In this way maybe it's possibile to not completely "burn-out" that band or album and create a more "long term" relationship with them.
In some way i think that "falling in love" with a band or and album it's not too much different then falling in love with a person. At the beginning everything feels exciting and new, and it's easy to idolize them . But after some time you see things with a different light and maybe they begin to get boring or exhausting. Maybe to create a more mature relationship with a band we need to try to re-learn to appreciate the things that made us falling in love with them (again, like in a relationship with a person). Or maybe simply move on.
There alre definitely bands ive listened to less overtime but ive almost always revisited them with a fresh mind set. I think it helps that any given day ill listen to maybe half a dozen different genres and I like to switch up my playlists.
I got into KSE a bit earlier (The End of Heartache) as I'm few years older, but I was biased because at that time I basically worshipped Howard Jones. When he left KSE, it dieded for me. Same story was with Three Days Grace when Adam Gontier left. New singers just didn't "clicked" for me in these two situations.
As you said, Holy Hell is such a fucking good album. Every song is absolutely amazing. I also had that crazy addiction to it back then.
A band for me would definitely have to be A Day To Remember. In high school I listened to them religiously, but ever since 'You're Welcome' I've barely listen to them. I'll be seeing them next month at a festival for the first time ever (I live in Australia and I don't think they've been here since 2017) so I'll be getting back into their best soon
My picks first second from the top if my head:
Die Ärzte (german punk band, was the most important band for me together with Linkin Park as a kid / teenager)
Architects (one of the bands I discovered the genre with, but lost me after Daybreaker)
Arch Enemy
In Flames (saw both AE and them live recently though and it was great)
Linkin Park (after Minutes to Midnight)
Cool video. Same with architects and other bands but I still listen to them ;) metalcore forever ❤❤❤
I had the same experience with Sleep Token. I listened to them almost every day. That was also around the same time I got into death/black metal heavily and that stuff is almost anti Sleep Token if you ask me. The more I got into bands like Ulthar and Lord Mantis, the less I wanted to go back to bands like ST. It was fun while it lasted. Maybe one day I come back around. Haven't finished your video yet, but Gojira is big one for me. I loved Way of all Flesh overall but when Magma came out, I sort of fell out right when everyone else wanted to hop on, seemingly.
Most of these I can agree with. Architects, Bad Omens and While She Sleeps too. Killswitch Engage is actually one i’m leaning heavier into recently
Asking Alexandria is probably my biggest drop off in the last 5 years
Its kind of sad, but all of these bands I still love immensely, and I will always keep listening to. But the falling out of love from being your favorite? Too real. Too real.