Exploring CHELSEA GRIN myspace ERA (Alex Koehler) 

It’s worth mentioning that Tom Barber has said in interviews that he was a fan of Chelsea Grin and would listen to their music at the bus stop so for him to now be the lead singer is fucking amazing

dude!! no one talks about this era in depth on yt and its a shame. keep this up pls, ur gonna get a lot more subs with this content :]

It's honestly crazy to think the Chelsea Grin EP was comprised of nothing but repeatable songs. There are no bad or boring songs on that EP, not only that but they're all classics; they are all bangers

Chelsea Grin EP and the Thy Art Is Murder EP were incredible

alex, pablo, and jake actually have a new band out now called Ameonna! super sick to see some of the more OG members get back together!

chelsea grin was one of my favorites when i was a kid, miss those days. i'm glad youtube recommend this video, i enjoyed it! w

I absolutely loved this video. The MySpace deathcore was my favorite time period of metal, the songs were sooo raw and just full of pure brutality. It's great that you are making videos about it but, it's a shame that not many people really talk about the Golden years of deathcore.

I would love a part two just because there is no in depth videos of how things are going and I know there are a lot of band changes and I want to know why

Your channel is a great find 👏🏻

My YT algorithm has been giving me some great newer RU-vidrs! I love your content dude! CG is still the deathcore OG for me. 🔥🔥🔥

Alex did all the cleans on the Evolve EP. I heard someone asking him right before I spoke to him in 2013

Man always taking me back to the good old days, all the bands youve talked about always resonate with me. Love your content youre doing amazing! 😊❤

I think it's worth mentioning that Alex was featured on Worm Shepherd song "Accursed".

dude love the videos this was fucking awesome to go down memory lane. and yes i definitely want to see part 2!!!!! kudos bro this nailed it

This might be my new favorite channel on here, I think. The scene needs this.

Great video man. Chelsea Grin was my introduction to deathcore and is one of my favorite bands. I’d love to see a part 2!

great video, my dude. Chelsea Grin is one of my favourites from that era as well. that EP will always be a lesson on deathcore.

I was in a McDonalds after young life one time in high school the first time I saw that album art. It scared me to the core. Then I heard recreant and that 20 bpm breakdown completely shook me 😹 I was deep in to metal, so heard of it basically at release…and just couldn’t believe how scared these boys made me. And it was fascinating. Great video dog, I’m subbing for sure you’re doing us all a huge service who were there.

I totaly agree with you about the self tilted EP, it's a perfect blend of "good" and "raw" quality. Tom is doing a crazy job in Chelsea, in Darko US as well 🔥 I love these "Myspace Era" videos of yours, so much memories...

PART 2 PART 2!! New sub🤘🏻 good quality material, knowledgeable, and badass early day live clips.

Loving these videos man! Keep em coming! 🤟🏻

Yeaaaaaaaah Dude great video, I grew up in slc and watched them come up... Seen them so many times and it never got old, they are still sick today...

You are my favorite new RU-vid channel. Met Alex back when he was in Chelsea Grin and I told him about how much I loved the Chelsea Grin EP! Plus, my band definitely does our best to try to sprinkle in Myspace deathcore influence into our music. Cant wait for more videos!!!!

Sick glad someones doing this typa content

Finally a myspace Deathcore dedicated channel, keep the good work dude!

chelsea grin was one of my favorite bands in middle school, loved this vid

Saw CG so many times back in the day. They were on tons of tours! And they killed it every show great memories. I love this era of music bc nowadays I refer to newer bands who do a similar sound (ex. Callous Daoboys) “MySpace Metal” and I mean that with 1000% respect

dudeeeb i love your videos, the bring me the horizon one was very good and this video too ;) greetings from Chile

This channel is all I wished for a long time ! 💯🙌🏻

As 42 years and living through the golden years of Deathcore, I’m loving these videos! I’ve watched 3 or 4 videos today and love em! Hope you do a White Chapel vid as they are a staple of the scene. My favorite bands of the time are Despised Icon, Impending Doom, Carnifex and Oceano. Hope to see some more videos of from this Erra! Love the content and keep it! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has to be one of my favorite songs. Shit was beautiful.

I remember seeing these guys open for as blood runs black or maybe it was veil of maya. Anyways, they were giving their ep out for free. They were pretty good live but the PA system was having issues that night. Anyways×2 , im at home the next day, took my moms worship cd out and put this in. this was the heaviest shit I had heard up to that point. They were soooo good. Blew my mind.

Best channel. You’re gonna blow up. Keep it up! Fellow québécois

This is the very first video I am watching from you new subscriber love it well deserve video of the good and old days of deathcore/MySpace era. btw please keep up the material and part 2🫶

As someone who has been listening to Metal off and on for nearly a quarter of a century (!!!), but only got into deathcore last year great channel!

Tripping balls while listening to the ep on youtube, the one where the ep cover slowly zooms in and out is amazing

Part 2 needed 👊🏻🤟🏻

Hey bro, keep making content this stuff is dope

My favorite era of CG. Had to of seen them 10 times back then and got to kick it with them at a few venues. Truly badass down to earth guys

Good episode! 🤘

I'd love to see a part two

I would do anything to go back in time to that chelsea grin, attila, and emmure, sylar tour that was so great saw them in chicago

bro, you're spot fuckkin on with this EP. I remember the week this $hit dropped, absolutely blew my mind and was instantly a fan. Sooo thankful to have seen them on their 1st tour and experience their early years.

Super stoked for Alex’s new project

i remember the first time i heard Chelsea Grin in 2010. the vocals were such a dealbreaker; it very effectively separated themselves from the oversaturated myspace deathcore crowd because *nobody* around was screaming as high as Koehler was. at the time hearing him was like deathcore screams pushed to a caricature of the vocal style. i remember back when i heard him i immediately threw out all my all that remains/as blood runs black voice training screams i was accustomed to and instantly tried to reach a screech as high as him. 💀 hate to advertise but have you ever heard Vinnytsia Fatalities? that's an old-school-style deathcore band i was in. listen to the EP: Death Beats Through My Heart if you can/want to, it's good stuff and you can probably instantly detect some of the influence of his vox that still lingers in my voice. 🎙️ 🤟🏻 also cool video !!!!

i remember looking up all the 2007-2009 videos in high school 😭 favorite deathcore band and era

Your starting to be almost my favorite channel now 😅

Yes part two let's go!

Last year I saw the plot in you in salt lake. And Alex kohler was there watching and we talked for a few minutes. He was so chill and nice. I was devastated nobody recognized but me, after paving the way for so many amazing bands.

Im new subs for this. I love the videos🤘

thank you for showing a clip of AGATG playing their, in my opinion, best song ever

U forget to mention his collaborations and also he was second vocalist for a Metalcore band named Hearts and hands. Excelent video dude, love remember Myspace times

I was listening to this album and many sick songs from other bands On the main street in high school! So good 💯

I think a major takeaway from these videos, is consistency - the grind, always getting better and doing better. I love these videos, keep em coming

Alex has always been one of my favorite vocalists in the deathcore scene, especially the early days of deathcore. Such a shame he isn't doing music anymore with chelsea grin but S.H.O.T will always be my favorite songs of theirs \m/

When 'ashes to ashes' was released I was 15 years old. To me it was probably the best heavy album I've ever heard. And to this day, this album still inspires me. It's so extreme on every aspect but still written like "pop" music that it will just goes into your ear.

Knew Tom Barber would be a good fit for Chelsea Grin since the Maleficium EP which imo was Lorna Shores best work

I went to school with Alex haha. Back when they were Ahaziah and eventually became Chelsea Grin, when they released their first album, everybody at school lost their minds!

Top tier album for sure. I remember when it first came out, the vocals changed my life. Sooo much range and distortion mixed with raw aggressive riffs and monster breakdowns. Perfection 🤌

dope content there old stuff still goes hard

Man I really think your channel is going to blow up! This is quality shit!

Great video! Can maybe also do a video about old lorna shore?

I remember hearing Chelsea Grin for the first time in like 2008 or 2009 when I was in high school, like it was right after the EP came out. My friend who I'd played in a band with came up to me in the hall and gave me an earphone and hit play on Recreant and Alex's high scream blew me away. I was new to metalcore and deathcore, at the time. I didn't like Desolation of Eden as much, I missed My Damnation for some reason, then I started playing guitar in a rock band in 2012 so I started focusing more on that style and didn't listen to much metal for a couple years, but I did like Evolve. Then I got into Babymetal in 2014 and fell down the JPop rabbit hole where I'm in the absolute depths today, but I did get around to catching up on stuff I missed. I only really like a couple songs from Ashes to Ashes, and I had to remaster Self Inflicted because the mix isn't very good, but I like it now that I've fixed it for myself. And I've loved everything since Eternal Nightmare, they know how to make deathcore groove in a way that other bands don't. The Myspace deathcore days were special, and I'm glad that the Chelsea Grin name lives on and they're still making some of the best deathcore around, even though it's a completely different band. Kinda crazy when you think about it. The band has no original members but they're still pumping out the same or better quality music than the original band.

Dude , this video make me love deathcore again like in my youth 😢

Crazy none of the original members are even in the band . anyway this is a great idea for content keep this up

4:05 that’s something missing with a lot of metal bands, that rawness adds so much

Great video, CG is my favorite deathcore band.

i still get the intro to crewbanger stuck in my head all the time, so badasssssss......

Sick waking the cadaver shirt :)

Where i am in the uk its just me who's into this stuff. We definitely need more stuff like this on yt. ❤

Their sound changed because Jason Richardson joined after being a tour member and started writing for evolve.

Brother was at the age to be in highschool with all of the local bands that came out of AZ, its pretty awesome to see some of the guys stick to the music and actually make it. I got a drawer full of old show flyers if you want some pics.

I truely feel its the best representation of deathcore there is. Youre right it was actually perfect and nothing quite hit the same way these few songs did.

i grew up during the ptv, sleeping eith sirens memphis may fire , all time low era and man it was so awesome dude my myspace / facebook was lit but i wish i culda experienced this as well man i only was able to whej we visited my cousin

I remember seeing them at the green turtle in whittier CA then at this art gallery in Scottsdale AZ when they started touring. Good times.

Woo my home state!! I have friends way back in the day were in a band playing shows with Chelsea Grin. The Ep - My Damnation era. How freakin cool, right? Also I’m like 98% sure that Alex had to relearn how to scream because of his injury. Which then lead to his new vocal style.

Is also worth mention Alex co created a band named Hands & Hearts in 2012 which was also like a Post-HardCore band, and their EP was fucking amazing From a song named Revenge and my favorite We're not alone, sadly the clean vocal singer who was a really close friends of alex passed away when he was 25 i think which also hit alex real hard, i remember it was one of the reasons he also vanished from social media for a while.

Tom is an incredible vocalist but there's something that can't be beat about this era of the band

Desolation of Eden is my all time favorite deathcore album. Also I'll admit, My Damnation was alright when it was released, but as the years go by it seems to be getting better with time like a good wine.

Dig the waking the cadaver shirt!!

This was such an exciting time for me and all my lil scene kid friends lmao we all had the dyed black hair and lip piercings It was like the self titled EP with Cheyne Stokes etc (best art ever I agree 💯) and we just wanted to hear the heaviest breakdowns and craziest vocals possible. And that EP fucking delivered, that and songs like "whore to a chainsaw" by thy art just blew our minds. Anything with those insane fast double bass drums, The Somatic Defilement comes to mind, you should do a Whitechapel video! Edit: I saw them with Attila on that tour. CG was the roughest pit I've ever been in

I remember first time listening to Crewcabanger and Pray for Plagues, year 2006 I was 12 years old back then

They pioneered the concept of layered vocals in the way he was using them (specifically using two different techniques to hit a similar pitch) and I think he really set the bar by doing that. His lows on those early EP's and Albums were some kind of exhale scream layered with an inhale, and it's why they sounded the way they did. Live he would mostly do exhales, but even that was still brutal as all satanic fuckerdom. I was able to meet Alex at a CG gig in Fort Lauderdale, FL, around the Ashes To Ashes days. I have a pic of me with him and a local band's vocalist; my pupils are dialated because I am fucking concussed from the pit. He was a super fucking cool dude.

This was the band that got me in to deathcore…

im almost postive tom was the lead in their 2016 warped tour. at least he was for the houston show. crazy shit live. i wasnt disappointed

I Still Listen To This Ep Every Fucking Day

Next: I declare war, knights of the abyss, through the eyes of the dead

A big reason of the transition into that more "metalcore sound" with Evolve and Ashes To Ashes was mainly because of Jason Richardson

Old Chelsea grin was the bees knees! Saw them 3 times w Alex and once with Tom!

Something I didn't see mentioned in the video or comments is that on the self-titled Chelsea Grin EP, all of the lows Alex did were inhales. It wasn't until Desolation Of Eden that Alex learned exhale lows.

My favorite era of CG!

I got into deathcore some time in 2021 and it’s mostly what I listen to ever since, I absolutely love the Chelsea grin self titled EP, been listening to it time and time again, I decided to buy myself a vinyl of it to keep as a piece of history. Not gonna lie though I really feel like I missed out on so much growing up but oh well atleast I got into it now, better now than never Also I really enjoy watching these videos, keep it up, are you planning on doing suicide silence or Whitechapel?

Surprised you didn't mention Jason Richardson at all when you were talking about Evolve and Ashes To Ashes. And to expand upon your point of Alex wanting to do similar things to metalcore bands, he also started a side project called Hearts & Hands and also did play shows with them

The good ole dayyyyyyyyys

love 4 chelsea

i fucking love alex koehler he's easily my favourite deathcore voicalist of all time, listen them since ep their My Damnation video is shocked myy ass out and thought it's the coolest stuff i've ever listened!!! in my high school time!! taunted by demon their voices so shrill!!!!!

Although I love My Damnation and Desolation of Eden, to me Ashes To Ashes was the best album CG released ! I still listen to it on the regular ! Such an amazing record ! Also, Alex isn't the only OG Chelsea Grin member in the new project ! Jake is playing guitar in it ! I can't wait to hear the first song ! They said it was almost finished !

Chelsea Grin did inhales when inhales were out of the picture. I remember them being hated. Not by me, but I remember.

Where did you find that clip of Clickbait? Some of the best lows I've ever heard from Alex

Your mispronunciations are making me scream laughing. I was watching the podcasts and decided to check these videos out. Incredible shit. I'm going from oldest to newest so I can't wait to see your pronunciations get better