WHAT LIES BENEATH? EXACTLY WHAT YOU’D EXPECT!
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 1:30pm by Axl Rosenberg
So I don’t think this exactly news as I’m assuming that someone who isn’t me already knew this, but reader Cody Barrick has just tipped us off that our favorite YouTube vocal coverist (I know, I made up a word, eat me), Senor “Deathcore is Not Scene” Bivins, has his own band – What Lies Beneath. Yes, they named themselves after a Michelle Pfeiffer movie. But at least it’s a Michelle Pfeiffer movie with (SPOILER ALERT!) ghosts and a murderous Harrison Ford, and not, say, a Meryl Streep movie about how hard it is to make it in the fashion world. Also, a blog posting from earlier this month promises that they will soon have a new band name – I’d like to suggest they go with I Could Never Be Your Woman. Just sayin’.
But while I can (sort of) defend the band name, I can’t really defend the music. WLB play exactly what you’d expect a band featuring Mr. Bivins would play – namely, terrible, generic, totally scene deathcore.
Personally, I think your time would be better spent listening to two old Jews make love – at least that would be hilarious – but if you’re really hard for entertainment, you can check out the band here. Much to my chagrin, there isn’t a lot of overt stupidity on their MySpace to make fun of – except, of course, for the way the write those aforementioned blogs. To wit:
New name coming.
New music approaching.
Violence.
Destruction.
Different.
Better.
Insane.
Determined.
Stay tuned.
So I guess we won’t be offering these dudes a guest column anytime soon.
-AR
I am continually amused by these posts, mostly because I know this guy.
Can you kick him in the balls for all of us here at MS? Please.
tell him i said he and his band are boring.
They should move to the UK and claim to be the first thing to come out of the UK so they can get murdered.
I still can’t believe that he actually said that shit. It was like he didn’t even stop to consider the amount of stupidity that came out of his mouth. I already hated him for that and now THIS!?
Totally with you on that… Couldn’t agree more. I hope, like, OMG RLY RLY, that somebody feeds his own balls to him.
I actually don’t know who I think it’s funnier: Bivins or Jedward.
Wow, look at this comment that was on their page…
***We Lie Beneath [Looking For Shows!!!]
Online Now! Nov 23 2009 11:14 AM
d00dz we have the same aberviation :D
what lies beneath – WLB
we lie beneath – WLB
and your tracks are sweeet
Nathan
WLB***
Fucking sad…
I really, really want to kick this guy in the throat. And balls.
Ha, what joke.
Douchecore.
Oh God. You know some kid somewhere is creating a rap-rock-technoscene hybrid and calling it that.
I went to the myspace, and someone left this comment:
“you guyz are straight brutal as FUCK :D”
Good thing MS only hypes non-generic bands!!!!!!!!!
Not like I care about this, but a later blog post also said “new vocalist”. Will Bivins be replaced, or will there be an additional vocalist to copy Despised Icon?
shits weak.
whizzeak
mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooted!
I hate to defend this guy, especially after his ‘retard of the year’ worthy comment about the UK having no good bands, but I really don’t see the problem with him being the vocalist of a deathcore band or even enjoying the music. Bivins is clearly good at those types of vocals and while the rest of you are jerking off to that picture of Kristen Randell’s tits and talking shit about everyone and everything from behind the safety of your mom’s cum splattered keyboard, he is doing something that he clearly finds enjoyable and using his voice to do more than just youtube videos. I’m not saying this band isn’t terribly generic but not every single band on the face of the earth is going to do something completely original (and if you think otherwise you should probably list the band’s that are around today that don’t sound like any other band on the face of the earth because i’d love to hear them myself).
oh yeah, and if you’re gonna make fun of certain bands Axl, try not to hype bands that sound disgustingly similar… it makes you sound like a jackass. just sayin’
+10,000 for the win.
This guy’s band is doing FAR more than any of you whiny little fucks.
If you’re going to bitch about the condition of metal, the least you can do is try to do something about it. At least offer some constructive criticism if nothing else.
Go fuck yourself, douchebag deathcore scener.
Go fuck YOURself, douchebag sterotyping jackass.
Before you start assuming you know where band names come from, do your goddamn homework.
I found this after about three minutes of hunting through a MySpace blog. I am assuming the “Meryl Streep” band you’re referencing is The Devil Wears Prada.
“The name has NOTHING to do with the book of the same title. The meaning we put behind it is that valuing material things, such as an expensive clothing label or things of the sort, as the most important things in your life is wrong. There are better things to live your life for than that. We’re not trying to be “fashionable” with the name in any sense.”
Again – I want to emphasize this point – I did THREE FUCKING MINUTES of research to find this. Christ. Pull your heads out of your asses long enough to actually fucking RESEARCH something before you start assuming you know everything. Shit.
And before you ask – yes, I do enjoy TDWP. They’re a great band. Feel free to call me a homosexual because I like a band. Go right ahead.
Homosexual.
Wow. That took all of 8 minutes. Thanks for ruining my faith in intelligent metalheads yet again, Brandon Forde.
thats funny because i distinctly remember checking out an issue of revolver whilst shitting and the band said something lame like “it describes how the devil can disguise itself in any form”….ya know, cuz they dig that jesus guy and stuff
‘that Jesus guy and stuff’? You’re either just retarded or just one really ignorant individual.
Theyre obviously named after the book/movie… Whatever lame excuse they tell afterwards to defend themselves is just… an excuse. It’s like Throwdown saying : “Pantera ? Never heard of them…”
Seriously. TDWP may claim that their name has nothing to do with the book/movie, and perhaps it doesn’t. However, if you think you invented this REALLY COOL, ORIGINAL BAND NAME for your hardcore project, and then you find out that your band name is the SAME as a MULTI-MILLION selling book AND movie about women and the fashion industry, YOU CHANGE YOUR STUPID NAME SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. It’s really that simple. Even if they claim ignorance, im sure someone (meaning everyone they have ever met) probably told them, “Hey, you know your band is named after a really lame book/movie?” Even if the band was so totally enthralled with naming their band after this “concept” (since they claim it has nothing to do with the book/movie), you can change the wording to convey the same message but not mirror the title of this universally famous book/movie. It’s like naming your band “The Outsiders,” because you claim that the band members never feel like they belong to anything; not because there is a world famous book (made into a movie) with the same title…give me a break. FIND A NEW, ORIGINAL goddamn name. It sucks when you think you created something original and find out that somebody got there first, but those are the breaks…put a little more effort in.
sorry to rant, but I always wanted to punch the guys in The Devil Wears Prada in the face for moving forward with a band name so stupid..how could ANYONE that they are associated with (friends, family, management..) let that happen, knowing the embarassment it could lead to? jeez
Hmm, I swear I’ve heard all those riffs somewhere before…oh yeah, every other ‘breakdown’ by all those bands.
“All those bands”?
Some examples?
despised icon….emmure….bleeding through…bury your dead…as blood runs black….acacia strain….born of osiris….oceano….beneath the massacre….through the eyes of the dead….whitechapel…..just about every other band with words like “love”, “fallen”, “forgotten”, “blood” and whatever else describes whiney and depressed shit
and how could i forget the devil wears prada….all shall parish…..the ever so deadful carnifex……suicide silence….killwhitneydead…..ok im done
metal is so fucked up lately hahahaha the only special thing about these guys is the fact they puke in their songs.
other than that, ITS BEEN DONE!
Haha in the background of that picture it says ‘Emmure’.
I DISCOVERED THIS ARTIST
Thanks guys for taking your time to actually listen to the stuff and form opinions. And thanks to this shitty site for putting up a review. I say thanks because like alot of famous people say theres no such thing as bad press. :)
Rofl, what metal band isn’t generic and doesn’t sound like 30,000 other bands? Besides, metal really shouldn’t be taken so serious. It’s a fun genre… the end.
stop trying to justify your lack of creativity.
A fuckin men…
These kids don’t know how to respond to anything.
Be happy people even give two shits…
P.S. Oceano fuckin’ rulezzz lol
Creativity doesn’t exist. Metal really is purely fun.
So on Thanksgiving, they decided to respond.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
What Metalsucks.net thinks of us.
http://www.metalsucks.net/2009/11/24/what-lies-beneath-exactly-what-youd-expect/#more-25050
First of all, fuck you.
We personally find this post to be hilarious.
There’s a reason your website has the name that is has.
Keep your shit posting coming, it only shines light on us.
Generic? Completely.
Axl Rosenburg can lick our ass.
Yeah, the name? Lame.
Look at Salt the Wound, It Dies Today, The Ghost Inside.. etc.
All equally as lame names.
Go fuck yourselves. :]
For a band that sucks so bad, you’re all awefully interested. All press really is good press I guess.
Axl unleash hell!
…ya there gonna go far if they can take critisism this well.
And let me guess, Metal sucks, you sit back and enjoy your daily doses of Cannibal Corpse?
Obviously you would think this band sucks coming from a website called “Metalsucks”. Thats a retarded idea for a website, so while you are here, sitting on your fat ass, criticizing bands, on your computer. These guys are actually doing something. And if they are “SO BAD”, why are they opening for big bands such as Every Time I Die? and Winds of Plague? …. Because theyre good, and if you say Every Time I die, and winds of plague suck, you hate metal, but both those bands have a huge following and are extremely successful (unlike you) . on top of that. You say they are generic, even if they are, they still have a growing fanbase, and they obviously arent that bad, if people like them. Lol, and I do not like TDWP, but why are you all bitching and whining about their band name? Honestly, who the fuck cares? Thats such a stupid thing to argue over, theyre succesful, so they dont care if people dont like the name. And to post a blog talking shit about a band? Honestly, grow up. By the way you have small balls, congrats.
i just pooped my bed laughing at how utterly shit ‘What Lies Beneath’ are. most generic, crappy shit i have ever heard. terrible music, kill yourselves.