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Etymotic has some of the best IEMs in terms of neutral sound, their only downside is the fit as they need to be inserted quite deep to properly give their intended sound.

The most comfortable has been the Westones IME, I use the UM PRO 30. Their tips are amazingly comfortable and provide a great seal at the same time. If you can try these out in your area, do so, I highly recommend them.

Why they are time travellers of course. Only plausible explanation.

 

I'm just going to jump in and say none of the bands mentioned earlier are post-hardcore. Atreyu is metalcore with vocals heavily influenced by hardcore, early Ax7 was also metalcore before they went alternative metal/hardrock. And devil wears prada is also metalcore, although their ZOMBIE EP had some deathcore influenced vocals. I'm not really familiar their earlier work, but everything from ZOMBIE EP upwards is amazing. Heavy, melodic and creative. There's a lot of interesting riffs, cool synths, brutal vox balanced by melodic cleans and sick drumming.

 

Seeing as TDWP is metalcore and a thousands years of plague is deathcore I feel it's unfair to compare the two.  I liked what I heard from a thousands years, but  I honestly wouldn't call them original or creative by any means. At least not from that one song. There are a lot more creative/brutal bands in the deathcore scene.

 

I can't say I share the same sentimentality with people who say all the bands in the core scene sound the same or are generic because there are a heap doing really creative and interesting things. There are some fantastic ones too. I feel like most ppl who say the aforementioned statement aren't listening to the right bands or maybe just haven't realized the scene isn't for them. If you go in expecting not to hear chugging, double bass, growls and perhaps melodic cleans, than your simply setting yourself up for a fall. Those are trademarks of the genre. Some people get so caught up in these details they fail to see when a band uses these elements in a new original way or when the band does come with something unique. It's like going to listen to rap and then railing on it because it has beats or rapping ,or complaining about rock music because it contains electric guitars.

 

 And if you want dynamics in your vocals, death metal and deathcore are probably not the genres to be looking at. It might be harder for someone who's new to those scene's to distinguish between each band's vocalists, but there are small and huge differences between vocalists depending on the band. Metalcore would probably be a better place for more dynamic vocals as the growls and screams vary more in style and most of those bands also implement melodic cleans, which has been done to death, but can be amazing with a proper band and singer. 

 

The good thing about the generic bands that did pop up after the core thing became popular was that it forced other established and up-incoming bands to be more creative in order to set themselves apart. And being generic in of itself isn't a bad thing. There are bands that are not original by any means, but they play damn good music. I enjoy a lot of bands from different genres that could be considered "generic", but they make good music so I don't really care if they're not the most creative or original band in the world.

 

I have nothing bad to say about the instrumentals. If the vocals doesn't click with my taste, I tend to give up the band no matter how good the instrumentals are. The strong rhythm and intricate guitar play is what got me hooked in the first place, now I just need good vocals at the same time. 

Rap and beats are the only essential parts of rap music, that was a terrible analogy IMO as I can't say the same for metal which have varying vocals techniques/styles. And no, RnB or other forms of singing is not rap, it's only there to make a smoother sounding song or for a sing-along sake. Hell, an MC rapping acapella for the whole album would still be rap music. I am not sure if metal is still the same without instrumentals....

To be clear, I didn't look into those genres to look for dynamic vocals, instead I grew out of them and now search for more interesting bands that suits my taste.

IDK what a generic band is? Is that another genre?

you talking about the post-hardcore scene? i actually come from the bordering post-hardcore/deathcore and deathmetal scene

and the reason why I stopped to listening mostly to all of it because all the unclean vocals sound...the same!

The songs sound the same! If you listen to 3 post hardcore albums in a row it would have felt like an 80 minute song basically.

But there are still bands that still stand out to me. I LOVE unclean vocals, just not the way NA post hardcore/deathcore bands do it.

Bring me the horizon's vocalist (isn't NA, and their style is not really post-hardcore anymore) used to have really unique uncleans.

Another unique vocal usage is Mejibray, which is why i love mejibray so much, Tsuzuku has amazing screams..very unique/dynamic style

I listened to my friend's collection (about 7 years ago as my last memory, I was curious about his music) so I don't have all the bands in my memory but I definitely remember Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold only because they both have their band name start with the letter A and A7X is a slick abbreviation. They are listed as metalcore according to wiki so I guess that is what they and the other bands are...I guess....I am terrible with genres especially in rock so I cannot tell what is post-hardcore to hardcore. I only listened when he is around with his massive collection and we had Chemistry homework to do lol.

Yes, the bolded part is what I noticed a lot which is why I say bands that rely heavily on unclean vocals are just not dynamic enough for me to keep my interest in them. 

I am pretty sure people can edit their posts in this forum.

*hint**hint* "it's right next to the MultiQuote button which can also be used to quote 'multiple' posts" *hint**hint*

Kamijo, vampires are so 2008

this one lives forever

The new previews instrumentally are very good but i don't like kamijo's voice at all in the previews i heard, very disappointed :c

how was is it any different? He sounded exactly the same from Jubilee to his current solo. 

The previews did sound sweet, more thematic. 

Quite old news, I am already waiting for their next collab. If you haven't tried Delicious by Gacharic Spin yet, I recommend you to do so as the energy is brought over from DOLL$BOXX right after.

SILENT KNIGHT!! been so long since they have played that song

Maybe because I have dabbled in NA rock with harsh vocals already during my teens but I find them now quite boring and non-dynamic for me to keep listening to bands that rely on them a lot or strictly. It's quite the turn off when a "vocalist" can't actually sing and just do harsh vocals most of the time. I now prefer a balance of strong singing and harsh ever since I was captivated by Mejibray and Signal when I first got into them. I am in the hunt for more now but there is so much more interesting and dynamic artists out there that is hard to really justify listening to bands with only growls, screams, etc for vocals no matter the instrumentals

Oh I see. This username was my first choice so I didn't really try it but I tried asian characters for Deadeyes-Star and doesn't seem to work. Oh well.

Thanks for the info.

Just a general question: what is it limiting forums or other sites from allowing Asian characters in a user's usernames?

I don't go by using characters just cause they look cool but more so because there are just some phrases that doesn't have an English equivalent and I prefer to use the real characters for their meaning not some made-up English equivalent. I always try to use Asian Characters in my username, if that fails, I use a variant of "Forever."I know it's kind of a first world problem, sorry about that.

Finally finished touching up the look of my foobar during the holiday break, too random before lol. I don't really like looking at cover art myself or still pictures for too long similarly. I keep mine more utilitarian, only thing I needed to add was a proper musical spectrum.

 

Yep those are no problem if you're willing to sacrifice a kidney.

Won't kidneys give you at least 5k? In which case get a STAX SR-009

Earpods.

you sound like you already use the best pair of earphones ever created. what are those? I'll give them a try.

Try a UE Personal Reference Monitors

Cool, 2 mini-albums a year as trend hopefully. Nice business plan even though I don't like what their previous cost releases cost.

that title though, super long

Nope, unless you add your music folder to the music library.

 

oh if you haven't posted I wouldn't have known there was a newer version of foobar.  That makes more sense in the update, the previous one didn't have it.

okay I just dragged my entire music folder into one playlist. does this mean that now whenever I update my music folder with new music, foobar will automatically reflect that?

 

and omg can Jam v1.2 come any faster? the current layout is pretty, but damn is it a pain in the ass to navigate without any scroll bars.

You can have multiple playlists, I see no reason to have all your music into just one.

FYI I have heard problems where large playlist can lose info and not play a song. Where the person did what you did and put all his music into one playlist. Not sure why, my guess is cache shortages.

I need help! so I made the switch to the Jam skin and now I can't see my music library. This was also a problem when I was using the default skin except I somehow got my entire library onto one playlist (is this what everyone does?) and I just kept it that way. Then after I installed this skin my library playlist was empty?

You should be able to see all the folders your music is in and drag your music onto a playlists whenever you want. I don't use custom skins, just the default but with an added musical spectrum. Maybe uninstall current skin and change to a default layout, then install the skin again.

sounds great

Try 12 reasons to die by Ghostface, you may want to list a comparison of all the albums you have heard as well, very unlikely that's album of the year in hip hop

how the hell did I miss this yesterday omg, yay KAMIJO!!!!

can't wait for my copy

You can try City Hunter with Lee Min Ho. The romance is secondary to the main plot line.

I started watching Flower Boy Next Door (Korean), but kind of gave up on it because I stopped caring. I prefer Japanese dramas in most cases, but I still really want to watch Iris. It's just, it's very long and sometimes I have attention span issues. Ha.

 

I still need to watch the second season of Hana Yori Dango. I just finished Proposal Daisakusen. I'm also working on Nobuta wo Produce, but I haven't watched it in ages.

 

What I want are non-romance type dramas. I mean, it's cool if there's a romance thing in there, but I don't want it to be the focal point of the show. Anyone have any suggestions? The only one I've actually seen like that was Kurosagi, and it was really dope. I'm not a fan of hospital shows.

Meto is the sexy one in Mejibray. Why else would Tsuzuku have him on a leash on every single release?

Music always comes first to me, with the visual theme second. I actually tend not to watch a VK artist's PV and instead have the song play in the background just so the visual bias is put off. Helps in better evaluating songs IMO.

Fans shouldn't influence your decision to get into a band IMO. The only thing that gets to me is the girl to guy ratio of fans. Girls like outnumber the guys 1000:1 for a typical VK band, maybe even more, judging from the lives I have seen. Although 2 of my fave bands (X and Versailles) don't seem to have that statistic in their lives. Kinda curious whether VK has always had more girl fans since the beginning.

For K-pop, its more problematic for guy bands though. I grew up with boy bands playing on TV so being a fan of one now isn't too weird for me. I genuinely liked B2ST, BAP and NU'EST songs, however the shit they promote with has a lot to be desired. Fanclub names for example Beauty, Baby and LOVE repectively -.- I don't feel like associating myself with that. Most of their shoots are aimed for a girl's visual ideal, even with BAP trying to pull off a masculine look..but with make-up on.