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[Red XIII]

Hey we are Red XIII from Blackpool.

We are planning on touring and playing as many wide spread gigs as possible this summer and onwards, we play hardcore technical metal and you can check us out on myspace @ Red XIII [NEW SONG UP NOW!!!] on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

If your interested in that kind of thing, give it a listen and tell us what you think!

Cheers!

[Dan G]

The Pepsi Max rollercoaster is also based in Blackpool.

[Cloud]

Jesus, if you're going to name your band after a Final Fantasy character, at least make it a good one...

[Paulscoconutass]

Blackpool is often described as the "gay capital of the North"

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Paulscoconutass

Blackpool is often described as the "gay capital of the North"

That'll explain the use of 'hardcore' then

[Bonesaw Bazz]

It's pretty much a Death Metal tune till the last 3rd... where they obviously remembered "Oh, hangon, we're HARDCORE!!" (there definition of Hardcore anyway..). Que the Beatdowns & Melodic-ish vocals.

Ticking the same boxes as MILLIONS before them, yawn, next!!!

[Red XIII]

To be fair I dont class us as a 'HARDCORE' band, cos we arent

I called us Hardcore Tech Metal, purely cos thats 3 of the genres we span and I personally dont like the terms metalcore or deathcore

[Dan G]

Originally Posted by Red XIII

purely cos thats 3 of the genres we span

So what you're saying is that you guys are spanners?

Originally Posted by Red XIII

I personally dont like the terms metalcore or deathcore

It doesn't really matter whether you don't like those terms because unfortunately if your band have emo-haircuts and wear cannibal corpse t-shirts and play music that spans the hardcore, metal and death metal genres... then you are prime candidates for being labelled a deathcore band. I'm sure Michael Jackson doesn't like the term 'mincing boy-hungry paedophile', but if you fuck kids....

And I'm afraid a little tapping guitar-lick and some minor-third hammer-ons every now and again does not make music "tech". Perhaps it's more tech than the kids in your school that have just learned to play James Blunt songs on an acoustic guitar. But in this day and age, in metal music, the sort of music you play is actually very simple. That beatdown at 1:55 for example.... it has been written by EVERY other deathcore band ever. Pretty much the whole song is in 4/4, one key, with nothing particularly offbeat or polymetric going on. No guitar solos or anything spectacular on any instrument.

When I listen to Decapitated, Meshuggah, Dream Theater and Necrophagist, none of whom label themselves as 'tech', and then some kids come along playing what you guys do and use that term as a selling point for your band it makes cringe a little, and instantly think 'n00bs'.

But having said all that, you'll probably go down well with all the kids that like beatdown-friendly deathcore which there are a lot of these day, because you're clearly not a rubbish band.

Just to pick apart some of your influences, these are some of the most stereotypically metalcore and deathcore bands there are!! You don't even list a single hardcore band in your influences, so to say you span the hardcore genre, but not deathcore or whatever is ridiculous.

Parkway Drive - metalcore
I Killed The Prom Queen - metalcore
Suicide Silence - so, so, deathcore
Whitechapel - deathcore
Bring Me The Horizon - so utterly deathcore
Job For A Cowboy - bree bree bree bree bree! deathcore to the max

Just call yourselves a metalcore/deathcore band and at least people won't then expect something that they totally don't get. So what if they're dirty words, if you enjoy playing what you do then you shouldn't give a fuck.

[Iomega]

people ars still giving rising records money?

[unbroken]

Originally Posted by Iomega

people ars still giving rising records money?

hahahaha, thats what I was going to say.

Why pay to be on a record label?

He obvioulsy doesn't give a fuck about these bands.