Comments on: THRICE DRUMMER RILEY BRECKENRIDGE RAPS ABOUT THE DEMISE OF THE ALBUM IN METALSUCKS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

By: tobytobiasjones

tobytobiasjones — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:10:49 +0000

I concur.

By: skeletor

skeletor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:07:31 +0000

what’s wrong with the people on all these blogs? if you can’t appreciate what thrice has been doing, you are an idiot. if you think slayer is the definition of all metal and that is the only thing you listen to, you are the typical close minded metal fanboy idiot. open your mind to different styles, you’ll be a much happier person, and you’ll be able to enjoy new things. keep what i have said close to your heart, then reevaluate your life – and remember, it’s okay to smile every once in a while, shitheads. :)

By: Hairyman

Hairyman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:42:34 +0000

You might wanna save your cash on the Muse record. Listen to the album stream first before you spend. I bought it yesterday and I’m still struggling to get it. It’s a fucking strange record.

By: Hairyman

Hairyman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:39:27 +0000

I’m glad there are still people out there who are keeping physical releases alive and have a general understanding about what makes owning an album so special.

The other day I noticed that the liner notes in an old EP I have, have certain letters in a different colour. Put them together and you’ve got a secret message. An album I bought yesterday has it’s liner notes written in several circles which meant I literally had to spin the booklet in order to read it. There are some bands that still believe in immensely detailed album artwork that a viewer can discover new things with everytime they look at it. Digital releases will never inspire these sort of experiences.

And then there’s the personal attachment you get from putting a physical cd/vinyl etc in your hi-fi, taking a moment out of you life and just listening to music. None of this mp3 player on the bus to work bullshit. I’m talking about focussing on nothing but the album you just bought and actually pulling the music apart in your head. Listening to the entire record from front-to-back and not skipping anything to get the complete experience. Listening to short stabs of music on an mp3 player will never do a band justice. Bands make albums to be heard as a whole. You wouldn’t watch a film in bits, it would ruin the flow.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:59:49 +0000

Thrice put on one of the best shows I’ve ever been to. Love these guys. Also, I love The Dear Hunter and can’t wait for that tour.

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:38:27 +0000

Thrice is freakin amazing every album is a step forward. I know a lot of metalheads like my bro who loves behemoth and napalm death who heard me listening to thrice and he thought it was pretty good. Yeah Artist was pretty poppy but it was good and it showed that they were willing to change albeit a more commercial way. Watch this band live and tell me u hate them.

By: Mark Gavin

Mark Gavin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:55:22 +0000

Artist in the Ambulance and Illusion of Safety got me into the “heavy riffs and screaming” style of metal (basically my gateway into death metal and such).

By: bryan mota

bryan mota — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:34:05 +0000

why the hell are people saying thrice is metal? they are not and i cant see how they would help u get into metal. thrice is a unique and talented band through and through. the albums that got me were vheissu and the artist in the ambulence :D

By: David

David — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:51:53 +0000

Beggars is one of my favorite albums this year.

By: O'Connor

O'Connor — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:31:13 +0000

This has to be one of the dumbest comments I have ever seen and doesn’t make any sense. If they never expanded there horizons at all than The Artist in the Ambulance which you seem to like would have never happened.

Also, when they left Island they could have gone to another major label but went to Epitaph to have full control of the music. Artist in the Ambulance was the biggest record by far and they could have gone on to more success if they kept on that same path but instead they decided to do what satisfies them as artists.

Selling out would have been making artists 2.0 even though they evolved past that point as musicians.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:25:05 +0000

You are probably one of the people who attributes everything Thrice makes to their Artist and the Ambulance album. I, truthfully, loathed artist and the ambulance but as a metal fan find their experimentation into progressive METAL fantastic on the Alchemy albums as well as Beggars. They don’t have very many mid-teen fans anymore and they aren’t extremely mainstream anymore leading me to believe your comment its uneducated on the present and extremely close minded. Check out their newer works, you may be happily surprised. Any good metal fan won’t hold a bands previous work against them.

By: grobi wunder

grobi wunder — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:29:34 +0000

all you haters: since when are you reading this site, hu? yesterday? Thrice were (rightfully so) quite hyped around here when The Alchemy Index came out. Fortunately, I haven’t seen this happen for Beggars, because I don’t really like it, but Vheissu and TAI were fucking great!
btw: it’s always a pleasure to see that you guys are the ones who think that homophobic swearing makes you right. That just sooo proves my point!

By: MetalRod

MetalRod — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:25:42 +0000

agreed.

By: Mark Gavin

Mark Gavin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:56:49 +0000

I’ll be picking up Megadeth, Porcupine Tree (!!!), and maybe Thrice if I can spare the cash. Then on payday it’s gonna be Living Colour and Muse. It’s going to be an expensive week for this guy.

By: Mark Gavin

Mark Gavin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:55:28 +0000

I saw Deerhunter open for Nine Inch Nails last november and they blew. I wished I had shown up late.

By: SP420

SP420 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:48:10 +0000

Lol. Sorry, not everyone here likes bands with ball clamps on their vocalists’ nuts, incoherent and musically atrocious song structures, a colossal fanbase with the mean age of 15 and that are essentially an opportunistic brand product for the record company whose name and music will just be forgotten in 15 years.

By: ZapBranigan

ZapBranigan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:38:10 +0000

Fucking love Thrice. I got into them in The Illusion of Safety days. I will admit that I was a little worried when Vhessiu came out. But then I saw them live and I knew they would be ok.

They are one of the few bands that really evolve their sound over time.

Can’t wait for the physical disc of Beggars, I’ve heard it and its great.
Tomorrow (15th) is going to be an expensive day. I’ll be picking up Thrice, Shadows Fall, Protest the Hero – Live. I’m on the fence about Living Colour & Megadeth. Probably gonna skip Everytime I Die.

What happened to the upcoming release schedule that used to be on the right side of Metalsucks?

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:34:07 +0000

Thrice’s next tour is actually with The Dear Hunter, rather than Deerhunter. Had me excited for a second, because Deerhunter is a great band (although a strange match for a Thrice tour)… instead they are touring with The Dear Hunter (very boring, in my opinion).

By: Tristan Newell

Tristan Newell — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:27:51 +0000

You guys know what another word for expanding your musical horizones is? It’s Selling out. Thrice was one of the only bands I could get my friends who don’t like metal to listen to. You know what maturing is in music? It’s first impressions, to illusion of safety, to artist in the ambulance, to Vheissu. De-evolution? Vheissu, The Alchamny index, beggers.

By: My Penis Itches Bad

My Penis Itches Bad — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:27:46 +0000

Yup i listened to Thrice before i got into metal these guys guided me to more metal bands