Well, not 4pm every day.

Just any time I feel like fucking moshing, it will be MoshPM.

Today's song:

Yea, thats fucking right. Botch and NOrma Jean in one fucking post.

Yea, I'm fucking doing it. I've heard about all the comparisons and that Norma Jean are biters and frankly, I'm chalking it up to influence. Any guitarist whose been so greatly inspired by a band or another guitarist knows emulation is inevitable. I think this Norma Jean album makes that obvious, painfully obvious in some moments. I flipped out when I heard the riff reminding me of Botch's Japam. Also died a little inside, but thats another story.

Norma Jean - Oh God, the aftermath

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Now, my droogs, Botch.

I only recently discovered this album. Until a week ago, I was under the impression I had all of their shit. I still don't fuckign have all their shit, but this is basically a colllection of the shit of theirs that is hard as shit to fucking find. So shit, here it is. Listen, and listen well.

Botch - Unifying Themes Redux

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A Pro-Hardcore post

A lot of people can't understand music wiht screaming vocals. Most of the time, there isn't a point to them, I'll admit that. The lyrics could be sung, but in the case of the following, I'd rather hear them screamed from the gut of a man who's feeling just as used and torn apart by the oh so perfect, attainable world we absofuckinglutely MUST love dying in.

Botch - Stupid Me

It's just another selfish game,
but i won't participate in this way of conquest,
right of passage.
Strive for stature, exploit the passive.
Point rank system.
Joint rape project.
Count me out, i'm not submitting.
Your score proves nothing to me.
Masculinity...

THe lyrics alone make me want to jump in a moshpit or at least scream the words because they aren't the kind of thing you whisper or sing harmoniously with tonally cloned rhythms.

Whats important to understand is that no matter what someone does in a song, they're just singing. Even if they're growling in a death metal song praising Satan, or they're using all this weird vibrato for some RnB song. Its always a human expressing their selves.

Another case relevant to this perception is Gojira. The frontman Joe Duplantier screams his ass off but a lyric I love by him is "Mountainous waves are crasing on my despair."

Fuck singing that. Thats a hurtful image. Thats a cruel image. Thats the worst being thrown on the worst.

So in conclusion, listen to screamers that have something to scream about.