My Favorite Song of The Year So Far

[Scott Weber]

Ryan's Hope (http://www.ryanshopemusic.com/) have posted another song called "By The Sword" off their upcoming album Apocalypse in Increments on their MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/ryanshope) and PureVolume (http://www.purevolume.com/ryanshope) pages. The album hits stores April 11th on Punk News Records (http://www.punknewsrecords.com/).

[Mitch]

Sweet album.

[rockon]

these guys can rock, i'm very excited for this album

[Jason Tate]

Epitaph would have been all over this band 6-7 years ago.

[thebestkylever]

Epitaph would have been all over this band 6-7 years ago.

i think epitaph paid for this album to be made didn't they? i could be wrong though... anyways, these guys rip.

[Johnny_G]

Nice call Scott, this is good shit.

[Take Heart]

Bland song by a bland band in a bland, dying genre.

[Johnny_G]

Bland song by a bland band in a bland, dying genre.

Hahaha, and you list Panic! as one of your favorite albums/bands. Thanks for the laugh.

[Take Heart]

Hahaha, and you list Panic! as one of your favorite albums/bands. Thanks for the laugh.


I set that up around i dunno.. september? and haven't gotten around to changing it. Either way, I can name 10 bands that sound exactly like this band, musically and lyrically. Can you name 10 that sound like panic?

Thanks for the laugh.


P.S. way to look at my profile and pick one band out of the 5 or 6 listed to mock.. no laughing about the other bands i enjoy? should i tell you my 6 favorite kinds of ice cream so you can laugh that I enjoy Rocky Road?

[Scott Weber]

I set that up around i dunno.. september? and haven't gotten around to changing it. Either way, I can name 10 bands that sound exactly like this band, musically and lyrically. Can you name 10 that sound like panic?

Thanks for the laugh.


P.S. way to look at my profile and pick one band out of the 5 or 6 listed to mock.. no laughing about the other bands i enjoy? should i tell you my 6 favorite kinds of ice cream so you can laugh that I enjoy Rocky Road?
Really? Go ahead and tell me who fuses together hardcore/metal/punk like this band does, the metal riffs with old school punk rawk bass riffs...There may be some, but I just actually want to see you list 10 so I can prove them all wrong. Anyways, how is this a dying genre? If anything, there's a resurgance in a genre that had sadly faded over the past 5 years, and bands like No Trigger, A Wilhelm Scream, and Ryan's Hope are leading the way. And btw, you do list Underoath, Emery, and The Receiving End of Sirens in your favorite albums....I like some of those bands, but if there's been any genre that's been oversaturated in the past few years, it's their genre. No offense. Edit: And you have Cartel and Hit the Lights in your favorite bands. Come on. I'm not talking trash on the bands, but the fact that you critique this genre while challenging others to question your taste is amusing.

[Jason Tate]

Really? Go ahead and tell me who fuses together hardcore/metal/punk like this band does, the metal riffs with old school punk rawk bass riffs...There may be some, but I just actually want to see you list 10 so I can prove them all wrong. Anyways, how is this a dying genre? If anything, there's a resurgance in a genre that had sadly faded over the past 5 years, and bands like No Trigger, A Wilhelm Scream, and Ryan's Hope are leading the way. And btw, you do list Underoath, Emery, and The Receiving End of Sirens in your favorite albums....I like some of those bands, but if there's been any genre that's been oversaturated in the past few years, it's their genre. No offense. Edit: And you have Cartel and Hit the Lights in your favorite bands. Come on. I'm not talking trash on the bands, but the fact that you critique this genre while challenging others to question your taste is amusing.
Dude, you just listed two for him (No Trigger, A Wilhelm Scream) .. come on. And the correct answer is: the entire Epitaph back catalog circa 1997. Either way, I get his point .. you can't say P!atD is any less generic then Ryans Hope is .. I like both bands, but for their particular genres, they're in the same boat. The thing is fans from both sides will come and say differently ... about both bands. This is why fans of one genre, should stay away from fans of the other ... everything's "genericity" (made that word up) is relative.

[Scott Weber]

Dude, you just listend two for him (No Trigger, A Wilhelm Scream) .. come on. And the correct answer is: the entire Epitaph back catalog circa 1997. Either way, I get his point .. you can't say P!atD is any less generic then Ryans Hope is .. I like both bands, but for their particular genres, they're in the same boat. The thing is fans from both sides will come and say differently ... about both bands. This is why fans of one genre, should stay away from fans of the other ... everything's "genericity" (made that word up) is relative.
He said 10, not 2, and those 2 are leading a punk resurgance, not bands that sound identical to Ryan's Hope like he said. In fact, AWS doesn't sound like Ryan's Hope much at all and No Trigger is far closer to Bigwig and Rise Against than Ryan's Hope. And yeah, you're right, but the genre died over the past few years and I'm glad to see it revived....which is exactly the opposite of what he's claiming, that it's "dying."

[Scott Weber]

by the way, i like Panic, Underoath, Emery, etc. I'm just sayin'. Each to their own though.

[niveK]

i think epitaph paid for this album to be made didn't they? i could be wrong though... anyways, these guys rip.

I believe the only part epitaph has in this is the distribution, everthing was funded by label PNR

[thebestkylever]

I believe the only part epitaph has in this is the distribution, everthing was funded by label PNR

ahh cool. thanks for clearing that up.

[Take Heart]

Really? Go ahead and tell me who fuses together hardcore/metal/punk like this band does, the metal riffs with old school punk rawk bass riffs...There may be some, but I just actually want to see you list 10 so I can prove them all wrong. Anyways, how is this a dying genre? If anything, there's a resurgance in a genre that had sadly faded over the past 5 years, and bands like No Trigger, A Wilhelm Scream, and Ryan's Hope are leading the way. And btw, you do list Underoath, Emery, and The Receiving End of Sirens in your favorite albums....I like some of those bands, but if there's been any genre that's been oversaturated in the past few years, it's their genre. No offense. Edit: And you have Cartel and Hit the Lights in your favorite bands. Come on. I'm not talking trash on the bands, but the fact that you critique this genre while challenging others to question your taste is amusing.

People seem to love going to myspace to further investigate my musical tastes. If you took the time to read, they are simply "Ten bands i am listening to at this moment" not "ten bands that are proof that God existed."

Tate hit the nail on the head with the Epitaph back catalog. It's a bland and dying genre because all the bands today sound just like the bands did 10 years ago. Also, Underoath, Emery, and TREOS are all 3 different genres. Musically, Ryan's Hope reminds me of Much The Same (irony at its finest) and some 88 fingers Louie. 2 bands who are, unsurprisingly, from Chicago, where you can't throw a rock w/out hearing a local band that sounds just like this one.

[Ryan0190M]

i think this song is god awful

[Scott Weber]

People seem to love going to myspace to further investigate my musical tastes. If you took the time to read, they are simply "Ten bands i am listening to at this moment" not "ten bands that are proof that God existed."

Tate hit the nail on the head with the Epitaph back catalog. It's a bland and dying genre because all the bands today sound just like the bands did 10 years ago. Also, Underoath, Emery, and TREOS are all 3 different genres. Musically, Ryan's Hope reminds me of Much The Same (irony at its finest) and some 88 fingers Louie. 2 bands who are, unsurprisingly, from Chicago, where you can't throw a rock w/out hearing a local band that sounds just like this one.
Wait wait wait wait. Did you just say Underoath (I can only assume "They're Only Chasing Safety" Underoath), Emery, and TREOS were all different genres of music? Ehhhh that's a REALLY big stretch there, since most would definitely group Underoath/Emery together and I'm not sure who would say TREOS is in a different genre than Emery or Underoath. If that's the case, then there's no way you can say Ryan's Hope is in the exact same genre as 88 Fingers Louie and other Epitaph bands (Pennywise). I was just going to let this go, but seriously? Those 3 bands as different genres? I'm more suprised than being critical, I suppose.

[mrzippo3]

this band is one of my new faves since i read about'm in ap's 100 bands you need to know, I think they're great and can't wait for the album and a live show

[fugitive_alien]

i HOPE this song doesn't suck.

Sorry had to be done.

i will NEVER do it again.

[InaGreendase]

2 bands who are, unsurprisingly, from Chicago, where you can't throw a rock w/out hearing a local band that sounds just like this one.

And Chicago doesn't have a faceless scene of carbon copy emo pop-punk bands either, right? Because Panic!, the Academy Is, Fall Out Boy, the Audition, etc. al are all totally unique bands! Hey, wait, don't some of these make appearances in your tastes? Why yes, they do!

[thebestkylever]

And Chicago doesn't have a faceless scene of carbon copy emo pop-punk bands either, right? Because Panic!, the Academy Is, Fall Out Boy, the Audition, etc. al are all totally unique bands! Hey, wait, don't some of these make appearances in your tastes? Why yes, they do!

panic isnt from chicago... but i still agree with you. i'll put june in panic's place.

[illbeyourcure]

panic isnt from chicago... but i still agree with you. i'll put june in panic's place.

dont act like panic! isn't your favorite band.;)

[AltPressScott]

i think epitaph paid for this album to be made didn't they? i could be wrong though... anyways, these guys rip.

You are wrong. PNR is 100% independent from Epitaph; they simply help us out with pressing and distribution.

[Chicagopower]

Cd good. live performance horrid.

[InaGreendase]

Yeah, good call on the Panic/Chicago thing. I just always associate the two for drastically obvious reasons.