He was recovering from major back surgery and couldn't play some live dates because of it. Pat Lachman is playing his guitar parts while Joel is singing back-up vocals, and doing a decent job at it I might add.
I love this singer, seriously. His voice is the sickest in all of metal I think, pure as sweet fucking angel when pure, but rough as rock when gruntin'. I'm in love.
No offense to Jesse, but he's just like Ollie Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon: going for the most brutal growl. Howard, however, growls and sings beautifully. However, the big thing that got into KSE was Adam and Joel, being total comedians and badass players.
That's because it's a DVD and they select the overall best performance out of their tour... but yeah I definitely agree with you there. I saw them in Kansas City last December and it was a TINY place and they sounded absolutely amazing. They sound so much better than most metal bands live.
this isnt one of my fave songs by them, but when its live it mint 'cause everyone sings. and ive always wondered what joels singing voice is like. its not too bad.
Mate... I've been to every download festival and I'm also a Music Production student (one of my modules is live sound) and I also work in live sound so TRUST ME, I know what I'm talking about. I still enjoyed it, I'm just a bit more finely tuned than most people.
I didnt know the vocalist was black until after I had heard their music, and when I found out I loved the music even more, cause it was fucking badass seeing a black vocalist in a band like that!
They fucking kick asss. I saw them december 1 of 2007. It was the best concert ever. Too bad adam is not in this performance though. They still are fucking kickass in this performance
ha i just bought as daylight dies 2 days ago as the 1st album ive bought from them and ive already listened to it like 12 times...KsE is fuckin amazing
love this song by KSE. i gotta say...Howard is a freakin' beast on the mic. He sounds as good on the album as he does live and his screams are sick. Too bad Adam couldn't have been there. At least the replacement guitarist made it seem like he wasn't missing, but it's still not the same.