AN ARSONIST STOLE MY GIRL
Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 10:04am by Axl Rosenberg
What the fuck is happening in the world of deathcore? Job for a Cowboy’s Genesis didn’t really sound like Doom, All Shall Perish’s Awaken the Dreamers didn’t really sound like The Price of Existence, Suicide Silence’s No Time to Bleed doesn’t really sound like The Cleansing, and all evidence suggests that Born of Osiris’ A Higher Place will not really sound like The New Reign. Whether you love or hate these bands, there’s no denying that they’re evolving at a rapid pace.
And it looks like we can add Arsonists Get All the Girls to the list. The band has a new song, “Saturnine,” currently streaming on their MySpace page, and while it retains a lot of the Sumeriancore elements we love about the group, it’s a pretty far cry from anything off of The Game of Life. And although all the line-up changes since that album’s release probably have something to do with that, I don’t think there can be any doubt that the band has a creative desire to stretch their wings, too.
And good for them: metalcore’s downfall was ultimately the refusal of nine out of ten bands to do anything other than re-make their breakthrough record over and over again. If bands like AGATG are smart enough not to make the same mistake, I imagine they’ll go much, much further.
“Saturnine” will appear on AGATG’s new album, Portals, which will be released on Century on July 14. The band is also headlining the “No Care Ever” tour, currently rolling through Canada before hitting the States later this summer (with See You Next Tuesday, no less). In case the title of the tour didn’t tip you off… it seems like AGATG’s have a beef with a certain hardcore website. Check out the poster below. Hilarious.
-AR
reading the comments from when this tour got put up in the news section of lambgoat is priceless
Yeah i just checked that out if people get that worked up over a tour what do they do when some actual misfortune falls on them?
hahaha their old singer quit because god told him too.
Good excuse guys.
the album art looks like something a 5 year old dan seagrave would draw
Have to say, the altars of madness cover still fucks up my mind…
I don’t know how I feel about the music, but that bad acid trip art is fucking sick.
love the band, sweet artwork
I am going to take this post to address the pink elephant in the room (so to speak). Deathcore did not exist during the days of early ASP, JFAC, AGATG, TTETD, etc. All these bands were doing were combining the technical elements of extreme metal with the influence of metalcore. It was completely inevitable and there is nothing wrong with it (persay). The unfortunate outcome however was the onset of watered down true “deathcore” that we now all love to hate.
Point being, when these bands were young, they were full of potential but still operating in an era of their own, which were (and still are for even younger bands) full of kids going to local VFW’s to hear breakdowns. Do I think its good or bad for a band to cater to what people want to hear (a frame of mind which is very unmetal)? Not for me to say. I am simply pointing out that in my opinion the reason why these bands evolve so quick is that when these bands get picked up by a label they are essentially given a kind of freedom of creativity, which they did not have when they were simply just trying to get a following.
Thank you for this. People diss the hell out of deathcore but dont understand where it came from, and that it used to be a good genre before it was ass raped and that good deathcore still exists if you can find it.
What hardcore website? Also, I’m surprised that Vince didn’t comment on the fact Atilla is on the tour.
lambgoat.com the story was up there a few weeks ago so you’ll have to search for it
I hate to be this shallow but that is a seriously lame name for a band, it just screams fringes and tight pants. Ive not heard them though so i cant really say anything really.
I agree w/ the name thing, but check them out. its totally badass music. hey, never judge a band by its name…. About 10 years ago, I almost didn’t listen to Strapping Young Lad because of their name. that woulda been a mistake….
Yep, totally true. I went to a festival with Strapping Young Lad on the bill and had never heard of them. I almost went off and enjoyed some food when I decided to give them a chance. Loved it, of course…
Ten years after the fact i just now got into SYL’s City, wasted plenty of years overlooking that one.
Fuck yes. Love this band.
One of the comments on Lambgoat was simply ‘I’m so pissed off right now!!” and I laughed so hard. Lambgoat’s comments are the only reason I visit that website every morning.
Hey, Fans of AGATG check us out!!!
myspace.com/ofhumandescent
we are tech metal/ hardcore/ progressive
see what ya think…
but about the album art, I really like the foreground.
who ever wrote this we have a the same exact oppion.
bands like Norma Jean, Bleeding, Through, A Life Once Lost, Dillinger Escape Plan, Fear Before, Chariot put out amazing albums then they put out junior albums that sounded like soft alternative radio butt rock. I seriously hope Deathcore maintains the viciousness it still has. real legit Mathcore and Metalcore is practicly extinct with the exception of Converge and August Burns Red.
Ummmm…. tntlly ring any bells….? they used to be math-grind… then evolved to straight up mathcore…