part of an interview with greg from dillinger making fun of atreyu
A lot of bands out right now... metalcore.... along those lines, what do you think about the current status of the genre?
Well the whole metal core scene is pretty much the same as the nu-metal scene was three or four years ago. It's pretty depressing. We went to Ozzfest recently and that was pretty depressing. I turned on Headbanger's Ball recently because I knew that our video was going to come on soon and just watching Headbanger's ball for two hours made me want to throw up. I think that it's exciting that we can even have a video... that we can even have a forum for a band like us to even have a video. I don't want people to associate a band like us with a formulaic metalcore bands. When you hear bands like Atreyu, it's the Linkin Park of that style of music. It's like a verse, a chorus, a verse, a chorus, a double bass breakdown, a chorus - end. It's not art, it's not any kind of forward thinking music. I don't really know if people are like "It's great that you guys can be on TV!," but I don't know that having our video next to a band like that is any more desirable than having a video next to a band like Disturbed. I don't know if it's any better for us. If I see another video with like a fucking red rose at the end of it, or a black and white video with like a red heart somewhere, you know what I mean? Come on, dude... seriously.
Avenged Sevenfold.
Now that band's a whole other story. Like I don't really know those guys that well, but apparently... uh... they're a terrible band.
(Laughing furiously)
We played with them on the Take Action Tour with Poison the Well and Eighteen Visions and those guys and... I don't know, man. I don't know where this goth metalcore sing-along stuff came from, but I guess it's Orange County.
Thanks...
Next time I come through town, James Hart is going to kick my ass. I don't know, man. To each their own, whatever you want to listen to, it's your own fault. I don't really see anything... I don't know why those bands are doing so well. Honestly that's the style of music that pisses me off the most out of every style of music is that goth metalcore thing. It's like Hot Topic to the next level.
Worst metalcore band...
(didn't even finish the question)
Atreyu, man! I'm sure they're nice people, I'm sure they're the nicest of people and I wish them well so they don't have to work at 7-11 for the rest of their lives but we heard their album a couple years ago, like their first album and were like "This is brutal! This is really one of the worst things ever!" Then we heard they sold like 30 thousand albums their first week and then we were like "Woah! There's a lot of dumb kids!"
Send a message to the kids who bought the new Atreyu album.
Well, they probably just sold their Linkin Park album because they're too cool for Linkin Park and now they're into Atreyu... so a couple years from now they can sell their Atreyu album and listen to The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Well the whole metal core scene is pretty much the same as the nu-metal scene was three or four years ago. It's pretty depressing. We went to Ozzfest recently and that was pretty depressing. I turned on Headbanger's Ball recently because I knew that our video was going to come on soon and just watching Headbanger's ball for two hours made me want to throw up. I think that it's exciting that we can even have a video... that we can even have a forum for a band like us to even have a video. I don't want people to associate a band like us with a formulaic metalcore bands. When you hear bands like Atreyu, it's the Linkin Park of that style of music. It's like a verse, a chorus, a verse, a chorus, a double bass breakdown, a chorus - end. It's not art, it's not any kind of forward thinking music. I don't really know if people are like "It's great that you guys can be on TV!," but I don't know that having our video next to a band like that is any more desirable than having a video next to a band like Disturbed. I don't know if it's any better for us. If I see another video with like a fucking red rose at the end of it, or a black and white video with like a red heart somewhere, you know what I mean? Come on, dude... seriously.
Avenged Sevenfold.
Now that band's a whole other story. Like I don't really know those guys that well, but apparently... uh... they're a terrible band.
(Laughing furiously)
We played with them on the Take Action Tour with Poison the Well and Eighteen Visions and those guys and... I don't know, man. I don't know where this goth metalcore sing-along stuff came from, but I guess it's Orange County.
Thanks...
Next time I come through town, James Hart is going to kick my ass. I don't know, man. To each their own, whatever you want to listen to, it's your own fault. I don't really see anything... I don't know why those bands are doing so well. Honestly that's the style of music that pisses me off the most out of every style of music is that goth metalcore thing. It's like Hot Topic to the next level.
Worst metalcore band...
(didn't even finish the question)
Atreyu, man! I'm sure they're nice people, I'm sure they're the nicest of people and I wish them well so they don't have to work at 7-11 for the rest of their lives but we heard their album a couple years ago, like their first album and were like "This is brutal! This is really one of the worst things ever!" Then we heard they sold like 30 thousand albums their first week and then we were like "Woah! There's a lot of dumb kids!"
Send a message to the kids who bought the new Atreyu album.
Well, they probably just sold their Linkin Park album because they're too cool for Linkin Park and now they're into Atreyu... so a couple years from now they can sell their Atreyu album and listen to The Dillinger Escape Plan.