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In the summer of 2006, a good friend of mine told me about a new band called Oh, Sleeper that Shane Blay, an ex-guitarist for the band Between the Buried and Me started up.  Being a big fan of BTBAM, I was curious to see what their old guitarist was up to.  I went on their Myspace and I was very excited about what I heard, and I immediately ordered their EP, The Armored March.  All of the band members played with ferociousness, technicality, and passion, and they all showed a huge amount of potential. In 2007, When I Am God, the band's debut full length came out, and something seemed a little off.  Out of the eleven total tracks, four of them were rerecorded ... (read more)

            Usually, when a band goes through any severe lineup change, their sound gets compromised, and they barely resemble the same band that you fell in love with.  The Bled lost three members since releasing their previous record, Silent Treatment, but fortunately for them, the lineup change seemed to do them good.  Silent Treatment showed the band at a difficult spot in their career; the album just didn't work.  It didn't match the craziness of Pass the Flask, and the experimentation wasn't as successful as it was on Found in the Flood.  It seems that the lineup change was due, and now The B... (read more)

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} span.s1 {font: 10.0px Arial} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre}             In today's music scene, kids in basements have shown no signs of slowing when it comes to creating a new sub-genre or figuring out how to fuse a new aspect into an existing sub-genre, in hopes of creating something completely unique. This couldn't be more evident in the realm of combined singing and screaming vocals. The list is endless when it comes to styles; from a pop-punk/metalcore fusion like A Day to Remember, to a Screamo/Post-hardcore conjunction like Underoath, to a classic melodic ... (read more)