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NEW VIDEO FROM THE COLOR MORALE

 Monday, July 26th, 2010 at 2:30pm by

As a man in my early 30s, it’s a little weird for me to go to metalcore/mosh4christ shows by myself, because I’m literally twice as old as most of the other people there. On the bright side, that means there’s never a line at the bar, but it also means that I’m stuck at the bar (aka “retirement home”) with my show buddy Shawn, laughing at teenagers while we try to forget that we have one foot in the grave.

BASS DROPS, BROWE

One of the bands we’ve seen a couple times in the past few months is The Color Morale, a mosh4christ band on Rise Records. I think they opened for Attack Attack! once, and really impressed Shawn and me with their impressive use of bass drops live. I guess I was too drunk/annoyed/amused to pay attention, but for some reason I thought they were br00tal moshcore along the lines of Demolisher or something — this sounds like some kids who listened to too much Circa Survive/Anthony Green (no diss, we are bros for life) and decided to get all prog.

It’s actually pretty tight, it’s just not what I was expecting, you know? I was all set to mosh up our living room in the name of Christ (expensive furniture be damned), but I dunno, this isn’t really moshworthy to me — seems more like something you would listen to when you’re “trying to figure out who you really are” or whatever, like maybe you’re trying to work up the courage to tell your parents that you don’t really want to call yourself a “Christian” anymore, but you’re afraid they’ll kick you out of the house/stop paying for your college if you do, so you keep pretending to believe in God even though you really just want to get high and jam some late-period Slayer???

What do you think of The Color Morale? Do they mosh 4 christ, or are they just stoked to be on a label like Rise Records who knows how to make a metalcore record popular? Does “God Hates Us All” have the best breakdowns in the Slayer catalog? Should these posers just start a Forever The Sickest Kids-style powerpop band and call it a day?????

-Sergeant D.

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  • Honeynutzz

    pay backs a bitch motherfucker.

    • Cryzthormagnusian

      As a modern day Khan might say.

  • Dissolution

    Jesus that sucks. Thats all thats wrong with music these days.

    • Honeynutzz

      among other things.

  • steelie

    Awful

  • Cladgemeister

    Lolz, they spelled colour wrong. Kids these days, eh?

    • Cladgemeister

      My Englishness aside, I listened to the first few seconds, was listen-able, then… the singing came in. No more to say.

      • Slaughterhouse

        Color is the american version, Colour is the UK version.

    • Mitch K

      you can spell colour both ways… just sayin’

      • Cladgemeister

        Agreed, I really only do stuff like that to things I don’t like. Like calling Jay-Z Jay Zed, whereas I like ZZ Top, so say it how they do. Nevertheless, these guys suck under age willy. They’re Catholic for the purposes of this insult.

  • Mitch K

    … that sucked

  • Dwarfskeet

    I can’t do it. That voice. Same voice in every pop/punk band. And I absolutely cannot stand it. What is that called? Singing out the nose? I don’t know, but it’s terrible.

  • Heywood

    I just puked in my mouth a little 4 christ.

    • Greg

      Yes!

  • Andy Synn

    Seriously… when Jesus gets back from his smokes, he is going to be PIIIISSED.

    • >_>

      Yeah all the music made in his honor fucking sucks.

  • http://www.myspace.com/dystrophy1 devin townsend’s lost skullet

    why do they have pedal boards for a lip synched video?

  • Dalton Hinton

    I’m a fan of The Colour Morale. I guess I can appreciate decent vocals more than you guys can…

    • Dalton Hinton

      *color I guess…

    • steelie

      You seem to be confusing ‘decent’ with ‘painfully generic’

      Strange, a lot of people seem to make this mistake these days

      • JD Rob

        wow…you peple are so closed minded about music. like really these guys are awesome. If you think you know what good music is why dont you try to form a band and come up with youre own original music. And he probably means the actually singing, which sounds beautiful to say the least. I understand not everyone can appreciate the sound of screaming vocals, but there are those who can. Stop being so ignorrant, it’s 100x better that the crap they play on radios these days. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but please, be mature about them.

        • steelie

          Haha, I love this argument – “well do it better YOURSELF then.” It’s such nonsense.

          Newsflash numbnuts – I don’t pretend to be able to write and produce music. This band does. The ‘beautiful’ clean singing is standard carbon-copy emo horseshit that’s been done countless times before by equally unoriginal bands. The same can be said of their entire sound.

          As for “appreciating screaming”, I suggest you remind yourself of what website you’re on, and smack yourself over the back of the head for such an inane comment.

    • DemonicLemming

      “Decent”. Lawls. You called the vocals decent.

      Back under the stairs, troll.

    • KC

      I’m a fan as well. These guys do the powerpop/screamo bit better than most. This song is actually one of their weakest. There’s more screaming than singing on a lot of the album. This is just the “single” if you will.

  • DemonicLemming

    Is the dude in the video preview wearing tights, or girls’ jeans?

    I’m glad these kids are cutting off circulation to their testicles at a young age – it ensues they’ll never breed. I guess they’ll be able to sing tenor for Catholic choirs when they’re older, too.

    • Vinsanity

      lulz oh man thats a great fuckin point. well i guess its cool these trends leak into some places. evolution has a mysterious way of working.

    • Ty

      I guess you smoked too much weed when you were young and didn’t realize that all glam metal shit from the 80s look like men in drag and dykes. You don’t even know how old they are, they are all in their late 20s. And you all are maybe 50? Stop being such ignorant dumbass.
      This whole website is troll. Go get lives? Oh wait you can’t because you have dramage in your brain from all the weed you smoked. Stop ragging on other bands and stick to that gay shit you like.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Edward-Wilfred/100000007099811 Edward Wilfred

    Made it 17 seconds into that video.

    • Seb

      38 seconds for me. Goddamn, that is uninspired.

      • v_v

        you are smalltime, I made it one minute and 43 seconds in. but seriously wow. there is nothing good about this. It’s all been done before.

  • Jizzmaster3000

    When are they gonna stop this turd from contributing. His existence is a stain on humanity. I don’t wanna see any more posts from this flid unless it’s his about his untimely, 3-foot dildo related death.

    • Bicro

      ^^^^^666

      The co-sign from HELL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rob-Watson/100000901718787 Rob Watson

    Holy crap, New Found Glory got heavy.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rob-Watson/100000901718787 Rob Watson

      and even more stupid.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Hair/1529597092 Ryan Hair

    I liked it. Kinda reminds me of From A Second Story Window.

  • foobear

    Shouldn’t this be crab4christ?

  • dallascowboyfromhell

    this song makes me want to grunge fuck jesus

  • jack

    I’m diggin it

  • Metalboy!

    Geez! Are these guys Emo or is that a professional Dog Barker with a microphone. Truly and boringly can’t make up their minds. The chick in the mask is the only thing that kinda keeps you watching but what the h*ll is she looking for, anyway? Dude with the mic, do not quit your day job as a voiceover doing dog barks at Nickelodeon. This can be the definition for “Sucks” in the Audio Dictionary this week…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Parsons/825564814 Dan Parsons

    Sorry, when I want to hear something that is emotionally provocative and full of passion, I put on Tori Amos or Billy Joel or Pink Floyd.

    When I want to hear metal, I put on METAL (Bloodbath, Decapitated, TBDM). Not this.
    There’s too much trying to be forced here.

    Also, as somebody who can clearly shred circles around these kids, I find it hard to have any respect for a band that relies on a breakdown (aka – the low E low camp) as the climax of a song. Learn to write music.

    This is gayer than cum on a mustache.

    • JD Rob

      wow really dude? that was the gayest thing ive ever heard

      youre an idiot

    • Ty

      Well guess who’s mustache it is? Yours. All that shit that you say is full of passion sucks large horse cocks. They don’t rely on breakdowns. They have songs without them. I think you should be the one that learns to write music. Because you have no idea dear.

  • ElBino24

    I’d much rather listen to The Coulour/Color Morale over Demolisher…. hell I’d rather listen to the sounds of a crippled monkey being raped by Al Sharpton than listen to Demolisher

  • Randon

    really?

  • http://www.sockmonkeysound.com patrick_sms

    check out the interview we recently did with Garrett of the Color Morale:

    http://sockmonkeysound.com/videos/garret-rapp-of-the-color-morale-middlewest-festival-2010