SOME RANDOM METALSUCKS READER’S SHITTY BAND (SHAMELESS PROMOTION)

Friday, September 24th, 2010 at 3:00pm by

Have you ever wondered what MetalSucks readers are like?? Are they really the socially awkward shut-ins and losers that I (jokingly) make them out to be, or do I have it all wrong? Could it be that the joke is on me, and in reality you’re a unique cohort of fabulously wealthy, ridiculously good looking geniuses who barely manage to find time to read MS between banging your supermodel girlfriends and playing in your incredibly successful, groundbreaking metal bands?? That could be the case, but based on what I know about one butthurt commenter on my recent post on A Day To Remember (the darlings of leading independent label VICTORY RECORDS), I’m pretty sure it’s not. Ladies and gentlemen (who am I kidding, there are no ladies on MetalSucks), I give you VALEDICTION!

He asked me to shamelessly promote his band– here you go, broski!


This video has a whopping 20 views after being up for two months — ouch :( Also, the child-like drawing kind of reminds me of the cover of The Vandals “Live fast Diarrhea,” only this one is funny by accident (not on purpose). Love that this song is “dedicated to our armed forces” lolololol



“Valediction is a five piece band hailing from Grove City College. Despite only being together for six months, this high energy band has created a diverse yet cohesive set list and is preparing to spread its sound via searing riffs, soaring vocals, immense choruses, high octane drumming and overwhelming intensity.”


The above video reminds me of this incredibly brutal Jamie Foxx bit from a couple years back (file under “awkward self-clownings”)

As you can see/hear, his band is surprisingly awful, even by the standards of random MySpace bands. In addition to being crappy, they’re also not very metal — I figured that everybody on this site who hates my posts was in some uber-kvlt band that, while perhaps not up my alley, at least played a genre with some underground currency: nu-thrash/bedroom goregrind/black metal/power electronics, or whatever you beardos are into these days. I mean, if you’re going to get up on your high horse when I post about deathcore or slam, you better not play in some band who is just one small step beyond playing Pearl Jam covers in a high school talent show, right? Turns out I was wrong — at least in the case of this guy, they’re just dorky college kids in entry-level alternative rock bands.

If you would like me to shamelessly promote your band next, hit me up on Twitter or email!

What is your favorite part, the searing riffs, high octane vocals, or the immense choruses????? Will these guys be the next Relient K? Will you post supportive comments about this hilariously shitty band (because you hate me), or join in mocking them (because you want to sound witty)?? What is the name of YOUR shitty band?!

-Sergeant D.

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  • Cory

    Promote every band signed to Bridge Nine Records, in alphabetical order.

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

      I used to live with Todd, the 2nd drummer for Champion– I’ve known him since 8th grade and he is one of my favorite people of all time. Their first drummer, Nicky Platter, was the first guy I knew who wore girl jeans and had scene hair (this is like 99 or 2000)

    • Dolemite

      This.

  • Greggum

    Sergeant D is da man.

  • Bicro

    The only response is to kill yourself! :)

  • http://farbeyonddriven87.tumblr.com Voltron Futura

    I love you Sergeant D.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gavin/1396340262 Mark Gavin

    My shitty band hasn’t formed yet, but we will be called “DoomStrykr”

  • Matt

    Why would they want to be promoted on THIS website?

    • !!!

      maybe you’re in L.A. Guns?

  • Major Zim

    sgt. D, you have won me back. this shit is fuckin great. i only made it 25 seconds before i had to stop.

    • Bob Cock

      I made it a full 23 seconds.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Danny-Zuffelato/100000522161502 Danny Zuffelato

        listened to the first song on there page i couldnt take it seriously after 17 seconds

  • Dolemite

    Listening to the first song on their myspace page, I can’t help but think of that one Shaggy song, “It Wasn’t Me”. I’m not sure why.

  • Driven9

    hahh this was halarious!! poor kid and his shitty shitty band…

  • canea

    I’m partial to the high octane vocals myself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lucas-Willett/1814541549 Lucas Willett

    hey you can shamelessly promote my shitty band!! you’ve already told us we suck so we should be a shoe in!! http://www.facebook.com/?filter=app_2915120374#!/pages/Okingdom/142653452431418?ref=ts

  • cancer

    i hate Sergeant D and this band RULES!! Suck it.

    • cancer

      the soaring riffs invoked a release of my bowels

  • orbital

    I approve

  • overherdeadbody

    “they’re just dorky college kids in entry-level alternative rock bands.”

    We’ve all seen videos on the internet of elementary students playing better shit than this. I’d say “entry level” is too much credit.

    I’m very happy you decided to call this kid out, hilarious post.

  • Dan

    check out my blackened hardcore trio, Big Ugly Balls (guess we should really be a duo). Heavy, sweaty, blackened. myspace.com/uglierballsthanyours

  • Christian Madajski

    I imagine this is the kind of music they play in metal hell. Of course, I’m only 16 so I have a long time before my eternal suffering begins.

    • http://www.theblacklaser.net Joe The Wizard

      Or maybe you don’t. Hell awaits, motherfucker. HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

  • Dan

    also, who the fuck made that promo video for them? sounds like someone’s sister.

    • http://www.theblacklaser.net Joe The Wizard

      Mixed on headphones no doubt.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Farhaad-Esfandiary/501309890 Farhaad Esfandiary

    That first song is sooooo bad.

  • DustintheWind

    Check out my Nordic death metal band… Vinny and the Rippers

  • Alex_P

    Still better than Blessed by a Broken Heart.

  • GoingDeaf?

    I played a Pearl Jam cover in my high school talent show. Fuck you, 1994.

  • ben

    I like how the tacked on “official” to the end of their myspace URL. Are there a lot of tribute myspace pages for this band? I kinda doubt it.

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

      Yes!! I meant to mention this but forgot– this way you know its the REAL Valediction!

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Breckon/765888660 Caleb Breckon

        myspace.com/valediction was taken. “valedictionband” makes it sound like Valediction Band, so it was between valedictionmusic and valedictionofficial. sorry we picked the wrong one.

        • http://bloodandthumbsticks.blogspot.com/ The Overmatt

          Trust me dude, you’ve got more to be sorry for than that.

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Breckon/765888660 Caleb Breckon

            well i apologize for everything else too. glad that’s taken care of.

  • RandomGuitarist

    The bass drum sounds like I’m tapping on a microphone.

  • http://www.myspace.com/ Giantofthemountain

    my shitty band one man band – http://www.myspace.com/barbelzoa

    • http://www.myspace.com/ Giantofthemountain

      while were all shamlessly promoting i also have a classic death/stoner metal band “giant of the mountain” (www.myspace.com/giantofthemountain) and we are playing tommorow at dad’s venue in dallas off royal & 35. we are local support for the no mercy tour, we go on at 5:15. so come get fucked up and destroy shit with us.

  • John

    My super shitty bands

    myspace.com/bastardsgrind

    myspace.com/theheartland

    • Suraj

      You’re part of The Heartland? :O
      Love “Frontier”!

  • Wookie983

    If we are promoting shitty bands here is the one I’m in. Its a mix between Iwrestledabearonce ,Attack Attack!,Oceano,Emmure,and For The Fallen Dreams!
    http://www.myspace.com/thefinalcollapse

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

      I haven’t listened yet, but that combo non-ironically sounds like something I would love!

      • Josh

        I realize this compliment probably means nothing coming from the singer of the shitty band made fun of on this page, but “Deceiver” was badass dude.

  • ben

    I hate to rip on these guys without admitting that I played drums in a shitty college band back around ten years ago. We kinda sounded like a really lame Goo Goo Dolls/Sister Hazel hybrid. Fortunately there was no myspace/pure volume/youtube back then to preserve our shittiness online for all eternity. I made enough money to support my weekend pizza habit, so I don’t have any regrets.

  • Shinaain

    “…there’s no ladies on MetalSucks…”

    Thanks, Sergeant D. You’re a real mensch. [/sarcasm]

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brent-Hacker/1173810278 Brent Hacker

    that youtube you posted.. I keep waiting for the beginning intro riff to be over.. but it just keeps going, then i realized it was the whole song and lol’d. I think they recorded this and mixed it on an iphone or something.

  • orbital

    I vote this becomes a regular entry. Fucking tops

    • Isaac

      I second that.

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

        Just might make it regular then!

  • Isaac

    This reminds me of… like… Simple Plan combined with (hed) PE. No es bueno.

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

      Ouch

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Breckon/765888660 Caleb Breckon

      I like Simple Plan.

      • http://stuffyouwillhate.com Sergeant D

        Me too- “I’m Just A Kid” is a great song. What happened to them, anyway?

  • Anwar Fugaloo

    I hope nobody ever perceives my shitty band the way I am currently perceiving this band. That would be unacceptable.

    My shitty band is called Earth in Ruin, since you asked.

  • Chainsword

    The sarge always makes my week.

  • Chris

    awesome. well done haha

  • Perpetual Black Screen Name

    Holy shit this is incredibly bad. Thank you for the Metal-Sucks Roast of Valediction. This is the hardest I’ve laughed all day.

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

    http://www.myspace.com/tfdofficial/

    Okay, this isn’t me (I’m bros with their drummer), but I’m going to sing at their next gig. They’re opening for fucking KVELERTAK, and their singer is going away for the holidays so they asked me to step in. They’re a pretty rad prog/melodeath band.

  • DO EET

    REGULAR ARTICLE.

  • sinistatroy

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Useless-Eaters/157550777605281?v=wall

    we are far to good for this but shameless plug is shameless.

    we’ve played 2 shows, next two are at the bluebird and the gothic in denver.

    tell us how awesome we aren’t on FB!!

    -troy

    • sinistatroy

      too* fuck

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jordan-Oates/1476540021 Jordan Oates

    Yeah Grove City’s like 30mi from my house, and the college there is ranked like 3rd nationally for most conservative (its a super christian school) so it seems like they’re just playing into the christian = shitty music sterotype

    • BigBanger

      Cool story, bro.

      Looks like you’re playing into the Penn State student=entitled douchebag with an overinflated opinion of himself.

      Nice profile pic by the way. Do you edit your own photos and stretch them out so people can’t see what a fucking nitwit you actually look like?

      And I’m not disputing your assertion that Valediction is a shitty band, but I do dispute your assertion that christian=shitty music.

  • Phil Anshlomo

    Holy fuck, i just banged mad bitches and drank malt liquor listening to that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kyle-Heider/602520830 Kyle Heider

    Holy shit. I glanced at the picture at the head of the article and passed it up, then did a double take. I felt like I’ve seen one of the guys before. I opened the article and saw Grove City College (Which, if anyone knows anything about this school, is the most fucking ridiculously strict christian college in just about anywhere in the country) and was like “It can’t be..”.

    While I certainly can’t get behind the music, It’s fucking weird as hell to see one of my friends I knew growing up (drummer Josh) that I more or less lost touch with featured on this site.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Breckon/765888660 Caleb Breckon

      Josh sings in this band.

  • adolf hitler

    the mix in this song sounds like they just set the sliders to some random value, recorded the song and never even listened to the mixdown. kinda like the last four darkthrone records!

  • ceth carter

    Definitely do this again!

  • BD

    its a horrible genre but its no less annoying than the “preposition” core bands that i have to sort through to find a good new metal band

  • AetherJake

    Made me laugh. I’m starting to like Sergeant D. more and more.

  • Nickmeister

    OMG! totally favorites band naoz!

  • bloodtasteslikeshit

    haha, well done.

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

    you cant even watch or listen to anything.

    its like he locked everything.

    lol..

  • LOOOL

    http://www.wix.com/valediction/valediction

    this is them??? LOOOLLL this is funny. worst band ever.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Breckon/765888660 Caleb Breckon

      no… it’s not us…

  • Wade Wiseman

    Shit, I just realized that these guys play the same places as my band. Maybe I will one day get to gig with the all mighty Valediction!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Breckon/765888660 Caleb Breckon

      We’ll be at Diesel, Altar and Smalls again in Nov and Dec. Maybe we’ll open for you!

  • http://www.myspace.com/valedictionofficial Caleb Breckon

    As a member of this “shitty band”, I understand that this response will be immediately discredited, but I think there are some basic human condition points that need raised.

    1.) About 75% of all the comments on here reference nothing but the mix. Oh man, you guys got us so good… none of us have ever recorded or mixed before and we did the best we could based off the advice we could find. we played with levels for hours and hours, and finally concluded that the equipment and knowledge we possessed weren’t of high enough quality to achieve a good recording. the only reason we have any recordings at all is that a show we wanted to play (and ultimately played in front of 600 people for) required that we have at least 2 tracks on our myspace.

    2.) “Ahhhh this genre is terrible.” 90% of all humans on earth absolutely despise the music contained within this website. okay, you’re right, we’re not a metal band at all. the only reason we’re on here to begin with is because Joel actually likes metal. I would rather listen to OAR than Maiden 7 days a week. But we have a band because we’re friends, and because it’s fun, and we play the genres that we overlap on.

    3.) I know you’re all anticipating this comment, but those truly are the first 4 songs we ever wrote, and obviously the recording quality is terrible. Nobody on here is hating on the vocals; nobody is saying the drums are unoriginal; nobody is hating the bass lines; 1 person is hating on the guitar riffs. We’re all good at our instruments, are live show is a lot of fun, and we’re making money.

    4.) Thanks for your comments on the bio. I agree that it’s poorly done and cheesy and I’ve been meaning to change it.

    5.) Finally, we have no delusions of grandeur. We don’t anticipate getting picked up tomorrow and touring 55 cities with Underoath. Your fearless leader “Sergeant D” (who I’d love to have a chat with sometime, if at all possible) is the one who chose to spend his bandwidth on getting us a few hundred more myspace plays. But hey, kudos to you for creating such a radical, revolutionary, and polarizing website to get your hits and sell your adspace.

    I don’t read metalsucks forums, so i probably won’t check back here for comments, but if you have something specific you’d like to comment on or talk about, you can send us a myspace message or me a facebook message and i’ll do my best to get back to you.

    • lol

      you mad bro?

    • http://stuffyouwillhate.com Sergeant D

      Well if you wanted to chat with me, you would have emailed me…

      • Valediction

        valedictionofficial@gmail.com.

        The thing is, we’ve already emailed you. The fact that you made this post public made Caleb’s comment completely necessary. I will send you another email in the near future in which we can discuss this, but the thing is, we understand that by posting underdeveloped bands and picking the most unprofessional aspects of their recordings you will immediately have a successful post with a number of scathing supportive comments. Also, thanks for the thousands of myspace plays that we received in less than two days.

        Oh, by the way, thanks for ignoring the substantial portions of Caleb’s post.

    • sirloin

      Hey Sarge, I think this dude just challenged you to a fist fight.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-Mark-Fiscus/729265030 Joel Mark Fiscus

        actually, we as a band are not upset about this at all. every band, especially underdeveloped pop-metal bands (a genre which purist metal heads despise) is going to get negative attention, and ours just happened to be now. I spoke with Sgt. D and I actually have a lot of respect for him. So really, no. sorry.

  • Matt

    I actually like last tree standing…

    let the slaughter commence.

  • Josh

    Thanks for being honest Matt. We’ll have studio-recorded stuff up by late October/early November for everyone else to make fun of, so keep checking back everyone.

  • derptard

    why did they remove their youtube videos? if you’re going to be a pussy remove your myspace as well and commit suicide afterwards.

    • http://stuffyouwillhate.com Sergeant D

      Disappointing.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Breckon/765888660 Caleb Breckon

      we decided they weren’t positive. they aren’t up there for people to dislike and laugh at, so if that’s the reaction we’re getting, then we’re positively using that criticism.

  • riotact666

    Love this band. First day buyer lml lml

  • amaz0n

    “Ladies and gentlemen (who am I kidding, there are no ladies on MetalSucks)”

    If I were to prove to you that there were not only ladies on MetalSucks, but some of them are in such basement bands as you have mocked here (*coughcough*), do I get some kind of finder’s fee? Well, not quite of the nature you’ve mocked here (more like melodic death metal), but still. I would post a link, but the only recordings we have are some shitty YouTube videos and a really bad demo we made in some dude’s basement two years ago, back when we had a really awful teenage drummer.