§ APRIL 29, 2004
VICTORY RECORDS would like to welcome BURY YOUR DEAD to the roster. Album out this October.

thanks muscle city for the heads up

Blah!

blah indeed.

they fit in with all the emo bands on victory. it doesn't suprise me a bit. and all the gay nu-core bands.

why is this band being signed.... every song starts and ends the same. no talent for the most part

I don't know what the fuck you people are thinking but this is some great news. Bury your Dead is a badass band. no talent says the exhumed. what the fuck does he know . look at his name exhumed they blow ass. fuck metal

We are thinking that we don't post stupid things anonymously.

dear jesus christ bury your dead is horrible.

the band exhumed would mop the floor with bury your dead. They obviously have talent, heard the solos, lets see one of the guys from bury your dead atempt playing some of their riffs. Its obvious you know nothing but shit my friend

If we were to compare the music world to the world of food, bury your dead would be regurgitated tofu

hahahahaha

Why are you guys so concerned that you have to shit on them just cuase they signed to victory? if they suck so bad pause your ps2 get out of your moms dark ass basement and start a band with sick solo's since byd cant hack it. i dont even know why im writing this because i plan to do things with my life not sit on rttp message board.

Brian said:

Done and done

Brian said:
I dont live in a basement and I have a band thats musically talented

they should change their name to bury the sausage

They should change their name to The Expressions of a Falling Star, and then someone should stab them to death.

not everyone gives 2 shits about wankin guitar solos

wankin?

dreadkill said:

hahahaha thats great.

PS. not everyone gives two shits about "wanking" lame pick slides and songs that sound exactly the same. I dont think Im alone here

remember mosh and roll baby, mosh and roll
-the one chord song song by bury your dead where the band name is repeated 20 times in a row- FUCKING GENIOUS

Bury your dead is just stupid. I fail to see why kids latch on to this band they are like the next slipknot only id rather be surrounded by slipknot fans because these nu hardcore kids are fucking lame Their cd is good for a laugh, and its true bury your dead really has no talent. Just litsen to the riffing its like a 3 year old got a hold of a drop C tuned guitar and hit the open notes the entire time. Im not a fan of the band exhumed but for christ sakes just litsen to the bands, bury your dead fails. At least exhumed does more then hit open breakdowns and two step. I wish hardcore had the intesity that many bands had a while ago. Thats why hardcore should just die out metal contains everything hardcore has and does it about 10000000000000000 times better. Not to mention these "hardcore" bands just rip most metal bands off.

bostonhardcore said:

here is another genius. Guitar solos when done right totally add to the music its showing that they can actually play their guitar. Have you even heard bands like Death? or necrophagist?? For fucks sake instead of bashing "solos" why dont you take the time to litsen to those bands and understand how much emotion and talent are put into the riffing.

I bet you're not from boston. and you obviously aren't that hardcore if you are sticking up for BYD. the REAL hardcore kids I know think they suck and would rather listen to shit like 100 demons.

ya i know who death is i use to listen to metal but got bored with it cause it was boring to me and the shows were boring. and no im not one of those trend hardcore fruits, im more for old school hardcore and stuff influenced by that. i do like alot of the new stuff too like bleeding through, unearth, hamartia, glass casket, between the buried and me etc and they do stuff alot better than a lot of metal bands do and yes i am from boston

Hamartia is no longer dude, get over it.

dont make me get the actual musical notation comparison goin...

despite the fact that I agree 900% that Bury the Dead is pretty lame (and I like hardcore, too) I will defend the fact that hardcore is supposed to be simple. Much like Punk was a response to social pressures such as the ubiquity of pop music (disco, etc) or the working class oppression (like in England), Hardcore was a response to the technicality and complexity of punk. Things were too complicated and too far detached with punk and kids stripped it down, took out the solos they couldn't hack, and then made it what it is -- simple music about basic things that affect everyday people. Instead of songs like Ziggy Stardust or Lou Reed, Hardcore sought to challenge these layered, complex players and come up with three-chord, fast, punchy tunes. You should be able to play old school hardcore 3-4 months into learning guitar - some of it you should be able to play the day you pick it up. Older punk was like that too, but it got too complicated.

So with old school hardcore, yeah, simple is better, and on point, catchy, honest, and basic lyrics are a must. But with newer hardcore -- which was sort of missing-linked by bands from New York and partially the west coast (like Strife) -- you get that metal influence, which was ever-growing, becoming almost a norm today.

This is a truncated history but bottom line is if you look at Gorilla Biscuits, Bad Brains (who actually, for some reason, got more technical as they drifted from Hardcore into dub and reggae), Minor Threat, Black Flag, etc you see how not only easy it is to write the music and play it, but how down to earth the lyrics are.

So saying a hardcore band writes easy songs is kind of redundant, in a way. But you can be unacceptable or even "bad" or "poor" in someone's opinion. Bury The Dead is like that for me -- they don't strike a chord with me, so to speak. They're just...blah. Yet I can't attack them for not making the music filled with solos and tech parts.

I quote Civ when I say: "Stage dives make me feel more alive / than coded messages / in slowed down songs". Despite the fact that my band has coded messages. In slowed down songs. And we don't really play on a stage...fuck those dudes, huh?

it's kind of ignorant to call byd a hardcore band don't you think?