Animals As Leaders MEGATHREAD

[thinkpad20]

They're OK. Pretty cool, but it doesn't really blow me away.

To each their own. They definitely have made an impact on me.

 

[Origins]

Again, a Bulb copy..
I´m really tired of hearing this ENGL tone and those same riffs everywhere nowadays
Get a personality for god sake!

 

[Ishan]

Well Tosin being Bulb's friend, they influence each other a lot I think.

 

[ZeroSignal]

Again, a Bulb copy..
I´m really tired of hearing this ENGL tone and those same riffs everywhere nowadays
Get a personality for god sake!

Bulb produced the album, chief...

 

[Origins]

Bulb produced the album, chief...

You didn´t get my comment right.
What I mean is that everybody plays the same kind of music, with the same tone and the same riffs ideas. This is just f#cking boring, man!
I wouldn´t feel proud of being just a stupid phony
And everybody seems to be like "Wow that´s so kick ass" while listening 10 times to the "same" song, played by different bands.

 

[Thin_Ice_77]

^^ I thought I was the only one who thought this. To expand on that, it seems these days that you 'have to' like certain bands if you're a sevenstring player or even if you're just on this site. For instance, someone said they didn't like Unearth the other day and about 3 people told him to get out or something. I'm sure it was said jokingly, but I think my point still stands.

 

[AeonSolus]

Again, a Bulb copy..
I´m really tired of hearing this ENGL tone and those same riffs everywhere nowadays
Get a personality for god sake!

if i'm not mistaken, bulb was a member of Animal As Leaders, so also he also helped write the songs..?

 

[Scootman1911]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that Bulb and Tosin wrote the album together but Bulb wasn't/couldn't go on tour with AAL so Tosin got some people to tour with.

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

Again, a Bulb copy..
I´m really tired of hearing this ENGL tone and those same riffs everywhere nowadays
Get a personality for god sake!

Probably because Bulb helped write alot of that material

 

[bulb]

oh well not everyone is going to dig it, but we are both very proud of the album, and to me it definitely doesnt sound like anything else out there but of course different people will hear things differently, i mean to me a lot of rock and metal sounds exactly the same even though im sure its not the case, so its really in the ear of the beholder.
at the end of the day we wrote this album together and had a ton of fun doing so, so thats what matters haha!

oh and we used a pod, not an engl haha

 

[ugmung]

oh well not everyone is going to dig it, but we are both very proud of the album, and to me it definitely doesnt sound like anything else out there but of course different people will hear things differently, i mean to me a lot of rock and metal sounds exactly the same even though im sure its not the case, so its really in the ear of the beholder.
at the end of the day we wrote this album together and had a ton of fun doing so, so thats what matters haha!

oh and we used a pod, not an engl haha

see? fuck you Line 6 haters, you got punked!

 

[thinkpad20]

I can't deny I hear similarities between AAL and Periphery, but I definitely think they are distinct. Tosin does a lot of stuff, both harmonically and technically, that I've never heard before, and I've listened to a lot of bulb's stuff and some other djenty bands. Naturally there's influences but it would be quite a stretch for me to call it a copy.

Seriously if you listen to the whole CD there is a LOT of eclecticism going on, it's really not all about the polyrhythms or djent-djent + 1/4 note cymbal crashes...

What I mean is that everybody plays the same kind of music, with the same tone and the same riffs ideas. This is just f#cking boring, man!
I wouldn´t feel proud of being just a stupid phony

Yeah, he's a real ripoff phony alright...





Sounds like everyone else..... right?

 

[jamesboyd]

Jeez sour grapes anyone?
AAL does not sound anything like all the wannabe tech/mesh/djent bands out there.......for starters 50-60% of the album is clean

Secondly the harmonic content/lead playing is miles above what even most seasoned shredders could pull off!!

'Tempting time' imo is one of the most triumphant, unique and plain kick-ass prog/shred songs I've heard in a long time.

Probs to bulb and tosin, awesome work

 

[Swippity Swappity]

oh well not everyone is going to dig it, but we are both very proud of the album, and to me it definitely doesnt sound like anything else out there but of course different people will hear things differently, i mean to me a lot of rock and metal sounds exactly the same even though im sure its not the case, so its really in the ear of the beholder.
at the end of the day we wrote this album together and had a ton of fun doing so, so thats what matters haha!

oh and we used a pod, not an engl haha

You guys used a POD? Damn, I get more and more impressed with that little thing the more I hear of it. I'm gonna have to purchase one, even though I'm tryin to save for my Axe-Fx.

 

[cddragon]

Is it whisky getting into my head or the album doesn't sound like a Periphery copy at all?? To me it's more shredtastic and different mainly because of the craziness behind all the clean parts... I like the sound of the songs on this album, great work guys
:bulb:



EDIT: Why there is no bulb smiley here??

 

[ZeroSignal]

oh and we used a pod, not an engl haha

Oh snap! Which POD? The trusted PODxt or something older or newer? Patches and pickups for the main destortion sound?

 

[JohnIce]

This is great, I remember seeing Tosin on youtube but only found those two videos so I never explored it further, turns out I should have... monster player.

 

[thinkpad20]

oh and we used a pod, not an engl haha

I wish you guys had used the Axe-FX or a real amp... the cleans sound awesome but the rhythm tones sound very hollow (to me). If it had the production, say, of "Chocolate Flobs" or "Unleash the Pwnies"....

Still, doesn't stop it from being totally listenable and kickass.

Is it whisky getting into my head or the album doesn't sound like a Periphery copy at all?? To me it's more shredtastic (cheers ) and different mainly because of the craziness behind all the clean parts... I like the sound of the songs on this album, great work guys
:bulb:



EDIT: Why there is no bulb smiley here??

it's ": djent:"

 

[S-O]

Lawl @ some of the comments on "everything sounds the same"


Have you administered the Axe-FX gas to Tosin yet? I know listening to all your clips (that have been done with the axe-fx) all of Tymon's clips, and a tone of other guys (that aren't doing U2 covers ) has made me want one quite badly. Along with a VHT power amp, and either a Vader or Orange 4x12, or both. Now to scrape together 5 grand...

 

[cddragon]

I wish you guys had used the Axe-FX or a real amp... the cleans sound awesome but the rhythm tones sound very hollow (to me). If it had the production, say, of "Chocolate Flobs" or "Unleash the Pwnies"....

Still, doesn't stop it from being totally listenable and kickass.



it's ": djent:"

Thanks man, Didn't notice earlier
I have to agree that the distorted tones sound thin and quite flat, but the music itself and these not-from-earth chops that make Tosin's album such a win!