Well Fuckell McDuckell...
Can you believe of all things that kittie* was better than Walls Of Jericho?
The aforementioned band seems to have grown up (except for the name*) and sounds like really good non-speedy 80's Celtic Frost/80's Am-I-Evil-ish Metallica. Really good high-pitched death vocals mixed with one or two instances of Joan Jett in the voice. The weak part is maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of her singing- she either has too little taste for putting on a fantasy metal vocal, or too small a ribcage to add chest resonance for what she might want to do with that high-pitched voice of hers or whatever, and doesn't have the don't need a barrel-like-ribcage-but-still deeper voice of a Doro Pesch (Warlock) or the late Dawn Crosby (Detente, Znowhite, Fear Of God).
If only they'd adopted a serious or =intentionally= silly name and no silly-arse stinking hot-girl prostitute shit around the logo if choosing a serious one, perhaps I woulda bought a shirt.
As for Walls Of Jericho, *sigh*. Great fun moshable 80's thrash/speed metal w/annoying breakdowns of course calling itself a hardcore band like all the kids seem to these days. And the vocals...um...
Basically today's hardcore kid using for herself a deathmetal vocal with a waver in the voice either seeded by the influence of Vinnie Stigma (Agnostic Front- never did a death vocal but you can hear the wavering influence) or you can hear that waver for sure if you ever pick up anything by Obituary (the waver in the vocals just makes a deathmetal band sound less heavy and less serious than they really are- a pity considering Obituary's creative song titles and album concepts).
This waver makes bands w/death vocals sound like they're being marketed by pro-wrestling entrepreneurs.
It wasn't super apparent live but on the latest and only cd of theirs I have, With Devils Amongst Us All (got it at the show) it's embarassingly plain to hear. Instead of making people sound enraged and chaotic it just makes 'em sound like a tough-shit measuring out their muscle-flexes for the camera.
It doesn't sound that way with an old-school non-death NYHC vocal like Vinnie Stigma's, but add deathyness and more waver and it's just absolutely embarassing.
Walls Of Jericho had a mix of that humble attitude of coming from whichever all-ages scene they had in their city, but mixed with that annoying as hell let's-make-the-dumbshit-frats-that-like-hard-music-like-us-more-by-saying-"motherfuckers"-n'-"fucking"-a-lot-so-we-can-sell-more-merch stage banter.
Same shit from kittie* in-between songs.
Can't say as I blame 'em (the difference between air-conditioned motel room w/beds or tour bus w/ac *or* sleeping in a tent or on somebody's floor. It ain't bad when you're younger but the bones get old...
I pretty sure kittie had their parents with them, so the old bones issue stands *nod*
If only they didn't have that demeaning, embarassing name! It's completely beneath them.
Ah well, at least I got to tell the lead singer they sounded like they were raised on Celtic Frost and that they could totally pull off a good cover of them. A lot of that stuff would sound just as good with her high-pitched (death) vocal.
*- still refuse to capitalize it.
P.S. Oh yeah...a bar show *still* lags a thousand-and-one Hells behind the energy found at an all-ages place any old damn day- the above show at The Nick (it was 21 & up) included.
The aforementioned band seems to have grown up (except for the name*) and sounds like really good non-speedy 80's Celtic Frost/80's Am-I-Evil-ish Metallica. Really good high-pitched death vocals mixed with one or two instances of Joan Jett in the voice. The weak part is maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of her singing- she either has too little taste for putting on a fantasy metal vocal, or too small a ribcage to add chest resonance for what she might want to do with that high-pitched voice of hers or whatever, and doesn't have the don't need a barrel-like-ribcage-but-still deeper voice of a Doro Pesch (Warlock) or the late Dawn Crosby (Detente, Znowhite, Fear Of God).
If only they'd adopted a serious or =intentionally= silly name and no silly-arse stinking hot-girl prostitute shit around the logo if choosing a serious one, perhaps I woulda bought a shirt.
As for Walls Of Jericho, *sigh*. Great fun moshable 80's thrash/speed metal w/annoying breakdowns of course calling itself a hardcore band like all the kids seem to these days. And the vocals...um...
Basically today's hardcore kid using for herself a deathmetal vocal with a waver in the voice either seeded by the influence of Vinnie Stigma (Agnostic Front- never did a death vocal but you can hear the wavering influence) or you can hear that waver for sure if you ever pick up anything by Obituary (the waver in the vocals just makes a deathmetal band sound less heavy and less serious than they really are- a pity considering Obituary's creative song titles and album concepts).
This waver makes bands w/death vocals sound like they're being marketed by pro-wrestling entrepreneurs.
It wasn't super apparent live but on the latest and only cd of theirs I have, With Devils Amongst Us All (got it at the show) it's embarassingly plain to hear. Instead of making people sound enraged and chaotic it just makes 'em sound like a tough-shit measuring out their muscle-flexes for the camera.
It doesn't sound that way with an old-school non-death NYHC vocal like Vinnie Stigma's, but add deathyness and more waver and it's just absolutely embarassing.
Walls Of Jericho had a mix of that humble attitude of coming from whichever all-ages scene they had in their city, but mixed with that annoying as hell let's-make-the-dumbshit-frats-that-like-hard-music-like-us-more-by-saying-"motherfuckers"-n'-"fucking"-a-lot-so-we-can-sell-more-merch stage banter.
Same shit from kittie* in-between songs.
Can't say as I blame 'em (the difference between air-conditioned motel room w/beds or tour bus w/ac *or* sleeping in a tent or on somebody's floor. It ain't bad when you're younger but the bones get old...
I pretty sure kittie had their parents with them, so the old bones issue stands *nod*
If only they didn't have that demeaning, embarassing name! It's completely beneath them.
Ah well, at least I got to tell the lead singer they sounded like they were raised on Celtic Frost and that they could totally pull off a good cover of them. A lot of that stuff would sound just as good with her high-pitched (death) vocal.
*- still refuse to capitalize it.
P.S. Oh yeah...a bar show *still* lags a thousand-and-one Hells behind the energy found at an all-ages place any old damn day- the above show at The Nick (it was 21 & up) included.