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A DAY TO RMBR STRUGGLE WITH YOUNG ADULTHOOD

 Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 at 10:30am by

A Day To Remember’s Homesick was hands-down my favorite album of 2009, and a big success for leading independent label VICTORY RECORDS. Combining the soaring melodies, giant hooks, and accessibility of pop-punk with the cock-smashing brutality and downtuned breakdowns of deathcore, their brand of easycore has shot them to the top of charts everywhere from Seattle to San Antonio!

In their latest video, the third single from Homesick, the members of ADTR take a more serious turn, departing from the carefree anthems and odes to suburban post-teenager fun that defines their previous singles. It depicts an alternative couple dealing with the struggles of a young relationship, doing their best to find themselves as individuals while maintaining their identity as a couple. Now that they are all 21 or 22 years old, you can see that they are about more than just having fun and moshing it up. I feel like they are showing everybody that they’re not just a one-trick pony, that they have some serious depth as both musicians and human beings — kind of like when Blink-192 came out with “Adam’s Song” and tackled the issue of teen suicide.

Pick up Homesick on iTunes, and stay tuned for their next album, What Separates Me from You, coming November 16 on leading independent label VICTORY RECORDS! Check out the cover art here.

-Sergeant D.

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  • MadSkins

    Still convinced that Sergeant D is Tony Brummel.

    • http://twitter.com/stuffuyouwillhate Sergeant D

      This is my favorite comment of all time #americasfastestrisingCEOs

      • MadSkins

        Sweet. Can I have a job? I totally hate you. But I’d wear the shoes.

  • Brownsound

    “leading independent label VICTORY RECORDS”

    Are you shitting me? This is a metal site, not the shitty music review section of a free newspaper. Fuck victory records!

    • zulcon

      victory spends a lot of money on promotion

      • Type-O-Positive

        yeah they spend a lot of their artists’ royalty money on promotion. which means the bands don’t get shit for what they do for the label

        • http://www.jaydinitto.com Jay

          But they signed a contract.

    • AetherJake

      They’ve got Wretched and BTBAM, I’ll give them that.

      • Matt

        hell yeah dude. Wretched and BTBAM. but, Victory still fucks bands and stills their money.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tanner-Westhomas/1506171449 Tanner Westhomas

          The only bands ive ever liked on victory are Darkest Hour, Wretched n BTB&M.

          Sgt. D-bag GTFO

    • DemonicLemming

      Soon as I saw that on the main page, I thought, “Yep, the wigger slam retard is trolling AGAIN.”

      I thought Suarez was enough of a troll account for the site writers, but I guess not.

      • Chris

        I fuckin hate victory records besides 95% of bands on their label being shit and theyre annoying commercial they bother the hell out of me

  • hyperkulturemia

    I think you forget the GAY AS AIDS tag.

    • Major Zim

      i hate when people use gay as an insult but this shit made me laugh. props

  • Fufkin

    I wonder when the wheels will fall off the sub sub sub genre naming comedy vehicle.
    I reckon she’s still got some miles left in the engine yet.

    • Jewers

      Beating-the-joke-to-deathcore : D

    • http://twitter.com/stuffuwillhate Sergeant D

      But I wasn’t joking, easycore is a legitimate genre. New Found Glory coined the term in 2001, it is used to describe all the “pop punk with deathcore breakdowns” bands like ADTR.

      • AetherJake

        So…shitty music. I feel like it would be easier to classify.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tanner-Westhomas/1506171449 Tanner Westhomas

          + 2

  • zen dudeist

    Shirley, you jest

    • http://twitter.com/stuffuwillhate Sergeant D

      Don’t call me surely!

      • Cladgemeister

        I see what you did there.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tanner-Westhomas/1506171449 Tanner Westhomas

        He said shirley not surely, you illiterate core kid

        • Cladgemeister

          Yes, and than D said surely, which is a play on the original play on words. See, the joke is that someone says “surely you can’t be serious”, than presumably, you, would reply “Yes, and don’t call me Shirley.” So as the original poster said “Shirley”, to which D replied “surely”. I hope this clears things up for you Mr. Westhomas, I hope we can have another constructive conversation in the future.
          Also your logic on someone being illiterate is a core kid is illogical in itself. For example, my dyslexic friends (they can fall under the illiterate category, yes? no?) do not have swoopy haircuts, are not Christian and is doubtful they have ever heard of Attack Attack!.

        • Isaac

          It refers to Airplane, you twat.

      • Topher

        Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

  • Doc

    I remember back in my high school days going out on Friday and Saturday evenings in my best friend’s brand new 1981 Bronco. So anyway, we picked up some girls one particular night. I’m in the back with mine, he’s in the front with his. After a bit, there was a rather unpleasant odor emanating from the genral area of said front seat. Unpleasant turned to foul. Foul slipped straight through all-out objectionable to to “Holy fuck. Who gutted the corpse?”. He forged ahead.

    Still don’t know if she was sick or just unclean, but that dude is my hero.

    That’s what i remember.

    • canea

      I think you’re on to something here.

      Whatever it is, it beats the fuck out of this song.

  • Nick

    Sarcams

  • deeds

    this MUST be a troll article. a day to remember is shitty generic angsty teen music.

  • Jamie

    Why is ADTR on metalsucks without criticism? Let alone why is victory on here without it? Sergeant I’m usually down with your tunes but I gotta say Id be ashamed of this one.

    Not to say that genre is bad or Im a straight up metalhead, I just find their blend of music to be tried and done many times by better bands, plus I hate their songwriting

    But to each his own I suppose

    • Wildman

      Successful Troll is successful.

  • AetherJake

    Sergeant D. does it again. Possibly the best troll ever.

    • http://twitter.com/stuffuwillhate Sergeant D

      FYI I write about 60% of my posts drunk (seriously)

      • bloodtasteslikeshit

        how professional. you want to shamelessly promote my band?

    • leroydragon

      haha! Go Sarge!

  • Jamie

    YES

    You’ve restored my faith in you

    Drunk writing ftw

    • boazhimself

      Hunter S. did it better.

  • http://Gnartallica.wordpress.com Ross Gnarly

    Agreed. Drunk writing = pwnz.

  • Axem

    Wait so if I never ever smile ill end up with a chick like that ? Sign me up!

  • Tom

    Well i actually do like this band. Fuck it, it’s fun.

  • Politude

    Man, this is just an invitation for a shit-storm.

    Sad thing is, when I want to take time off from listening to my metal, ADTR is actually quite a treat, and Homesick is a decent album, but only on occasion, only on occasion.

  • http://www.flamingtusk.com Zosimus

    Hey, that opening guitar lick is the same melody from MGMT’s “Time To Pretend”! I SMELL A MASHUP

  • http://www.myspace.com/nylithia Dental Damnation

    The fact these guys are getting positive press, or press at all from this site is a sad testimony on the state of our beloved “metal” genre. What ever happened to the unbridled aggression and animosity that used brought us all into metal in the first place? It’s bands like these that make the common metalhead indiscernible from the emo kid that’s sad cause his girlfriend bitched at him and his hair straightening iron isn’t working at the moment.

    Maybe if the press isn’t there these bands will stop being featured in the “metal media” and they’ll just disappear back into their parents basements or high school smoke-pits…we could always dream, couldn’t we?

    • bloodtasteslikeshit

      ehhh…. unfortunately even the best metal bands aren’t immediately palatable to most individuals, although they might have a tendency to show some sort of interest in metal, so these types of bands are completely necessary to the whole genre of metal to bridge the gap between pop music and what we generally think of as metal. Also, since these heavy pop bands do have mass appeal they are oftentimes more popular than their main influences or other bands in the genre that are obviously much more talented than them. However, since these bands are shitty, they fans that they bring over to heavier music eventually realize this and move onto more talented metal bands, making the genre of metal more popular as a whole and allowing more labels to sign the bands that we all love.

  • enemyofgod72

    This is the kind of radio friendly, here today gone tommorrow crap that has no place on this site. I think I’ve heard this song several times before but the band singing it changes every 6-8 months. It makes me sad that even a giant shit stain of a band like this will end up selling more albums that just about any metal band b/c of the constant air time this crap recieves. This band will be promoted on radio, TV and countless crappy websites — It isn’t needed nor does it belong on Metalsucks!

  • Kye

    “A Day To Remember’s Homesick was hands-down my favorite album of 2009″

    Well, that says a lot.

    I absolutely love their first two records, but Homesick was garbage.

  • vedicardi

    this is called a joke post morons
    learn to take a joke

    I thought it was hilarious

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tanner-Westhomas/1506171449 Tanner Westhomas

      Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny?

      • Shitz Nolte

        Aren’t you supposed to be in class right now?

        • Major Zim

          zing!

  • http://www.myspace.com/nylithia Dental Damnation

    A joke post? I think I missed the punchline, and something in hears smells of victory records payola.

    • Isaac

      VICTORY RECORDS

  • http://www.myspace.com/nylithia Dental Damnation

    Damn t9

  • JimmyBagODonuts

    “cock-smashing brutality and downtuned breakdowns of deathcore” where?

  • kmfcm

    Just because it’s not crunk-core, doesn’t mean it’s not Stuff You Will Hate material.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Monte-Barnard/100000545468844 Monte Barnard

    WORST FUCKING BAND OF ALL TIME. just because they can directly steal riffs from two different genres and haphazardly paste them together with the help of pro tools and autotune does not make a good band. it makes a money making machine sold to dumb ass hot topic douche bags. these motherfuckers have no respect for bands that came before them. go listen to martyr ad, beloved (us), older dead poetic and maybe some old dead to fall. riffs that came out at the turn of the century are still being recycled.

  • Major Zim

    Sgt. D, what the fuck are you doing on metalsucks? like seriously, i sorta like deathcore but shitt, breakdowns are so fuckin old. Either you’re trolling everyone or you’re still a high school freshman. ADTR? really? fuck them! They’re like the metal equivalent of fucking justin bieber. Shit little girls will go nuts over cuz its suited to their 12 year old warped tour wannabe-groupie sensibilities. You make me miss suarez SO much, At least he was obviously joking instead of just sucking the dick of every goddamn band to play in drop-a with genericore breakdowns every 3 fuckin seconds. This is the only popular shit where i live and ive gone to the shows, ALL THE BANDS SOUND THE GOD DAMN SAME. Write about good shit or gtfo.

    • http://twitter.com/stuffuwillhate Sergeant D

      Bieber is overrated, “one time” is his only good song. Cody Simpson is the real deal, check out “iyiyi,” best song of the summer.

      • Faulty

        Real talk, Cody Simpson is my shit. Bieber gets a nigga hyped up though, nah mean?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eirik-Kjs-Usterud/1067091137 Eirik Kjøs Usterud

    The difference between Sergeant D and Gary Suarez is that Sarge is actually funny

    • Isaac

      Except Gary has far better taste. I’d prefer pretentious columns about noise rock and some actually decent hardcore than this drek.
      And I don’t give a shit if it’s a joke; it ain’t entertaining.

  • Rape Ape

    It’s at the point where if it’s written by Sergeant D, it’s probably going to blow harder than Steven Tyler at the height of his coke binges. Yet, people will still read through it and complain, rather than skip the article they know will make them rage.

    Kudos to you D. for making young men cry.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gideon-McAdams/1343010120 Gideon McAdams

    what the fuck is wrong with you!

    get this guy outta here.

    fuck deathcore, fuck pop punk, and fuck this douchecunt’s autotuned vocals.

    seriously, D, you must’ve lost too many round of beer pong back in high school. go get nerdy about shitty earhole music somewhere else.

  • Cousin Skeeter

    all of ADTR’s albums sound the same. absolutely no progression at all. i’m still trying to figure out why so many people like them……it might be because i live in jersey

  • Cannibis Corpse

    I really hate the internets failure to convey true meaning.

    was this supposed to be sarcastic?

    • http://twitter.com/stuffuyouwillhate Sergeant D

      No.

      I really do love ADTR and I really do think it’s funny that this video is all angsty and so obviously the product of “young adults” in their early 20s

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mikey-Ck-Vanderjuice/502827008 Mikey Ck Vanderjuice

    sarg is fucking hilarious lol

    i still dont know if hes serious at all. maybe they throw the stories like this at him so that he can make fun of them without coming off as serious

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-Theodore-Forde/666126214 Brandon Theodore Forde

    Sergent D is either an uber successful troll. Or cancer killing this website.

    • http://twitter.com/stuffuyouwillhate Sergeant D

      I’ve told them many times that I completely understand if they want to pull the plug on me– I honestly don’t want to chase people off.

      • Doc

        Dammit, D, let us enjoy it for what we think it is… Don’t ruin the fun by admitting you really like this crap.

    • Rik

      He could be both.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emmanuel-Quinones/100000463639580 Emmanuel Quinones

    i like adtr

  • Cory

    Look, if you’re going to do an article about a band in this genre, at least go with a band that’s actually GOOD, ie, Crime In Stereo. They’re playing their final shows soon. You should probably tell the people about that.

  • Spike

    Who actually likes this band? They are heavier than The Jonas Brothers, so liking this, you must have established that there is something about heavier music that tickles your fancy, but why stop here, and why in such large fucking numbers? Why would anyone ever listen to this shitty band that is stuck in the middle of Kelly Clarkson and metal. Why not just listen to metal OR pop? It absolutely frazzles my mind. They don’t even play the middle ground band between metal and pop well at all. If you want riffs and “heaviness” but are scared of screaming about raping babies then listen to decent rock, or something like Deftones/Alice in Chains. There is in theory absolutely no target audience for this shitty band other than confused little cross dressing freaks that look at you like you are from a different planet when you tell them Kirk Hammett’s solo in One is shit, sloppy, not fast, not technical and totally unoriginal. Yet here we are, discussing it. What the absolute fuck? Who are these people? Surely there isn’t enough of these musically ignorant douche bag 14 year olds to keep these fuckers employed? Tell me it isn’t so. Faith in humanity… gone.

    PS – Sergeant D is the man

  • Nick Taxidermy

    Honestly, do Victory PAY you guys to call them an independent label? haha, it’s pitiful how on their dicks you all are.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-J-Henningsgard/1024517365 Steven J. Henningsgard

    A Band To Forget

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-J-Henningsgard/1024517365 Steven J. Henningsgard

      That said, my buddy’s in this band making fuckin’ crazy ca$$$h, so… go Kevin? Haha