4 new songs from ONCE DEAD on MYSPACE

I really like the music! Great job on this Glenn! The vocals aren't my cup of tea though.

biddle wrote:

Glenn Rogers wrote:

Vocals are what they are...That younger generation. LOL!!!

Do you like them Glenn?

The vocals just ruin it for me. I love the music. The guitar solos are great. I could ignore any imperfections in the mix if not for those grating metalcore, screams.

It's hard to say for me. It's just not the style I like... My favorite metal band is Iron Maiden if thats a clue to what I like for vocals...
If is stayed in VR I would not have wanted Roger M as my singer...

I'm over the moon , can't wait to hear cd, the snare reminds me of once dead too! the vocals sound fine and dandy to me if I must say so myself,

I love Jim Chaffin's drumming but the producer got the wrong snare sound for a band like this. If they used a similar snare to his sound on Pillars of Humanity this wouldn't be a issue at all. Jim is one of my favorite drummers so this just bothers me that he's not getting the best sound possible.

Great music, bland vocals. I'll never know why people find this kind of samey screaming to be pleasing.
The music is really good though, and I think they've done an outstanding job recreating that ol' VR sound.

The label has put up a clips of the entire album:
http://www.last.fm/music/Once+Dead/Visions+of+Hell

I still can't get past the vocals and that snare. I expected better from these guys. I hope the CD sounds better than the on-line sound samples.

biddle wrote:

The label has put up a clips of the entire album:
http://www.last.fm/music/Once+Dead/Visions+of+Hell

Darn, you beat me to it Mike. I was just about to post the same link. I just saw it over at Firestream.

ult

Another full length song posted on MySpace, this one is entitled "Body Parts"...
http://www.myspace.com/opengraverecords2

Body Parts is actually one of the songs we started working on when I was in the band. I was writing a song with the same name and Doug and I discussed the lyrical direction over the phone. He had some great ideas for lyrics. I don't know if the lyrics changed since then or not, but I remember it being a great song lyrically.

I just typed this elsewhere, and it's a lot, so this is cut and paste.

Just had my first listen. Thoughts:

10 seconds in my first random thought = VR! (this is NOT a bad thing)

30
seconds in when vocals hit - No problems here! (I like some screaming
"core" bands so I'm down) The vocalist reminds me quite a bit of the
Demon Hunter guy.

2:00 in - This is a good song. Let's hear more.

After two songs:

Awesome guitar work!

I hear the tinny "off" drum sound, but aren't these demo/samples? Won't/can't this be corrected for the actual release?

After three songs:

Great
songwriting, wish the vocalist had a little more affect/voice
inflection, BUT, this is still good. The rhythm section is pounding and
romping along. I'm already adjusting to the drum sound. Not being a
musician I haven't poisoned myself with the well-tuned ear that comes
with that territory, thus I can live with the little things.

Four songs in:

I'm banging my head, so there's something to it for sure. It's worth $10 to me to get the music and support the scene.

No
disrespect to the current vocalist but I would love to hear how Waters
would handle the material. Maybe they could have done the dual/dualing
vocalist thing a la 3 Inches Of Blood. That would eliminate any
staleness that might creep into hearing these vocals for 8-12 songs.
(Not to mention it would be most awesome)

scottmitchell74 wrote:

I hear the tinny "off" drum sound, but aren't these demo/samples? Won't/can't this be corrected for the actual release?

No. Those are the actual album tracks. I do think the sound will be slightly improved on the CD though. MySpace isn't the best sound source.

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MySpace isn't the best sound source.

Well, that's a very good point. Can't get a great sound from myspace and then through cheap computer speakers.

That's what I was thinking when I first listenned to one of these songs:


''Wow sounds good...Humm...The drum sucks...Not another metalcore singer I just hate that...Can't listen to this band...''

Sorry but the drum and the vocals all ruined it to me.

Myspace may not be the best source for sound, but you can still tell the drum sound isn't up to snuff. Myspace isn't going to single out one instrument to make it stand out and sound bad.

Well, if your going to kill off every record with a bad drum sound or guitar sound. You might as well wright off anything Twisted Sister did, The first Iron Maiden record,all the early Saxon, the first VR cd, etc...

Face it, it's a cheap cd made with no budget...

The drum sound, the vocals, and other factors I won't mention yet, are killing this cd for me. Its too bad, because everything else is awesome.

Sounds like VR to me! The drum sounds aren't that bad and doesn't ruin it for me - a St Anger snare sound, would, however, ruin it for me.

Sounds like old school trash to me!