Was listening to this album for the millionth time yesterday while mowing the lawn, and I thought “this probably would be the result if Failure started a metalcore band” mostly because of the space rock influence
The musicianship slams. The clean vocals are kind of all over the place but it actually adds a bit of punk rock rawness to the mix. It doesn't take away from the experience.
Cave In, Coalesce, Converge, Dillinger, Botch, Isis, Darkest Hour, Pig Destroyer, Shai Hulud, Hatebreed, Poison the Well, His Hero is Gone, Majority Rule, Page 99, As the Sun Sets/Daughters, Spitfire, the best of Zao, Burnt by the Sun’s split/ep, Spread the Disease/Abandoned Hearts Club (Canada), BTBAM’s first release amongst many other iconic bands…late 90s to early 2000s…those were the days (no phones, just living it) and peak right before song writing became hyper-focused and over-saturated with “the breakdown”. …and album production had far more character/honesty/grit and a lot less digitalization.
This album still holds up. Would absolutely adore a rerecording. The recent live sets with these tracks sprinkled in have felt so alive and full of Caleb's memory. Nate has done a masterful job honoring his friend to say the least. And on that note, Zozobra albums still get as much love on the playlist as Cave-in. If you haven't heard this sideproject, highly recommend. Caleb absolutely shreds it.
I saw them when they toured for Jupiter. Everyone was excited for them to do Crossbearer and stuff from this album. They ended up only playing the new stuff. Felt like a deliberate passive-aggressive swipe at their fans
I never felt it was a swipe at fans, I recall reading articles about how Steve simply couldn't tour all the vocals for it, citing throat pain, bleeding etc, but I did see them do bottom feeder along with some of their Jupiter sets so that was cool. It was great seeing them come back around on it and Caleb take on a bigger vocal role. As well as today seeing Nate take some of it on and Steve seems to have improved as a vocalist to where those prior issues don't derail them these days. I was always torn that I never saw them play the I Luv I Jah cover (only saw a snippet of it while they tuned to open a show once)
@@hydrakn I read an interview with them a year or two after Jupiter was released, and they said that from the beginning they always wanted to play in a more pop style because they wanted to become a mainstream success. I'm pretty sure their goal from Jupiter forward was to attract attention from big labels, so the Jupiter-only set list was deliberate. I don't mean that as a criticism, but from my perspective as a fan of their early stuff, it sucked.
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