Core Goes Everything !

Ice Nine Kills - Someone Like You (Adele Cover)

Skip The Foreplay - Champagne Shower (Lmfao Cover)   

 

   

Audrey Fights Back ! - Gettin Over You (David Guetta Cover)

   

 

Forever In Promise - Somebody That I Used To Know (Gotye Cover)

   

Helia - Alejandro (Lady Gaga Cover)   

 

We Are Cecile - Born This Way (Lady Gaga Cover)   

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Alexia Rodriguez’s (Eyes Set To Kill) Tattoos

Alexia Rodriguez has 6 tattoos that I know of. On her upper left arm she has tattoos of Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein, and a skull and rose. She has the Zelda triforce symbol on her left foot. On her left wrist is a puzzle heart and on her right wrist is the artwork from The Ugly Organ.

Colorful Bride of Frankenstein tattoo on her inner left bicep.

Full-color Frankenstein tattoo on her left shoulder

Alexia’s first tattoo was the crooked piano keys from the cover of Cursive’s album The Ugly Organ wrapped around her right wrist.

In June 2010, Alexia added a matching Bride Of Frankenstein tattoo with a purple face and blue and yellow hair on the inside of her arm. You can watch a video of her getting the tattoo done. This tattoo was done at Hart and Huntington Tattoo at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.

Guitarist and lead Vocalist Alexia Rodriguez had a Frankenstein piece that was a little lonely on her upper shoulder so we had to sit her down with artist Jime Litwalk and give big Frank a little punk rock bride. Leave it up to Jime to take and transform a simple idea into an original piece of your own by adding his own twist and sick style. Alexia sat for 3 hours in the back VIP room and knocked out the whole tat from outline to final wipe in a nonchalant fashion. Well, maybe there was a little help from the Hard Rock Bar in there somewhere.

Skull tattoo above her left elbow. In October 2011, Alexia returned to Hart in Huntington and got this tattoo of a purple skull with a daisy on the cranium next to a red rose.

Zelda tri-force symbol on her left foot. All of the members of Eyes Set To Kill have tattoos of the triforce symbol from the video game Zelda, and Alexia’s is on the top of her left foot.

A puzzle heart on her left wrist. On the inside of her left wrist, she has a puzzle in the shape of a heart. One piece is colored in black to indicate that it is missing.

Anissa & Alexia Rodriguez of Eyes Set To Kill

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What Is Crabcore ?

       For the most part, Crabcore is an offshoot of Christcore, with similar hairstyles, v-necks, tight pants and religious beliefs. A genre of metal music in which the preforming artists, during the break-down section of their song, lower themselves into a crab like position while continuing to play their instruments.

 

     
       By definition it is the act of squatting and getting a up and down motion, whether fast or slow during the breakdown of a song. Therefore giving it the apperence of a Crab moving up and down. It contains the Core because of its associations with metal genre's. But Crabcore is so much more. It many of times incoporates the use of violently banging your head or " head banging" as it is called. Sideways motion can also be used to imitate a sort of crab walking effect. It also uses the unique talent of unison Crabcoring and unison running in place, which some would call "dancing". This adds to the awesomeness of crabcore and brings a different intensity. Crabcore will also include jumping, stomping, guitar spins, guitar flips, over the head guitar move, other various guitar moves, and the use of going side to side while squatting. Using various facial expressions will also show your intensity as a crabcorer. Especially sticking your tongue out to show you are hardcore. The best way to understand is watch said Crabcore in action. See videos for songs stickly stick and dr. shavargo pt. 3 by Attack Attack! for best examples. 

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Skinny Pants & A Fresh Pair of Vans

Trends in clothing have been through many changes throughout recent years. Nowadays, people are willing to wear anything to keep up with what’s “in”.

This new trend started developing within the past seven years when guys began to wear skinny jeans, 59/50 hats, band shirts, Vans slippers and flannel shirts. These new threads bring up a new category in the fashion sense that is typically labeled as the “post-hardcore genre”.

Bands such as August Burns Red, Dance Gavin Dance, A Day to Remember, We Came As Romans and many others show their support to the new looks.

Lead singer of Dance Gavin Dance, Jonny Craig, is always rocking a new hat with the tightest jeans possible.

If you’ve never witnessed someone of this nature, there are a couple of objects that you should be able to find when seeing a post-hardcore outfit. The person is typically wearing a 59/50 hat (the team usually being Detroit); some sort of band or skateboarding t-shirt, in the winter months it would more than likely be a nice flannel, as well as a fresh pair of slipper shoes or any other type of skateboarding shoes.

This genre isn’t always about what you wear; it is also about what you are willing to do to your own body. Gauges in the ears are very common to find on most true hardcore kids (earrings that widen your earlobes).

Tattoos and beards also define how brutal and hardcore you are as well. Typically, the bigger the beard, the more badass you are. The same goes for tattoos, the more the better.

The last element to finishing off your hardcore outfit is a pair of skinny jeans. While many argue that they look ridiculous, others believe that it’s a lot easier to move around and slam-dance at shows. Skinny jeans aren’t the main element to the outfit, but it will make you stand out a lot more. Typically people won’t mess with you at shows because if you can fit into the pants, you can usually fight pretty well also.

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The Evolution

PHASE 1: THE 90’S

In the beginning, there was metal. Then hardcore kids listened to Sepultura, Slayer, Pantera, and Prong, and metalcore was born. I grew up on the West Coast, and back then all the leading metalcore bands like Undertow, Unbroken, and Struggle/Swing Kids/etc. were on Morrisey’s dick in a serious way. I’m not really sure where it came from, but they had greasy pompadours like him, screamed forlorn lyrics about how their pussies hurt because some girl dumped them, combined that with riffs they stole from late-period Carcass, and laid the foundation for the legions of ghey, self-indulgent metalcore bands to come. While they may have acted like rockstars, they still played VFW halls and basement shows to audiences that rarely numbered over 50.

While not as frequently discussed these days, the so-called “noisecore” bands of the 90s were perhaps an even more direct influence on today’s metalcore artists. Rorschach and their descendants Deadguy were perhaps the first band to put a discordant take on the post-Slayer metalcore formula, and once the mosher kids caught wind of it, scores of imitators followed: Nineironspitfire, Botch, Coalesce, Converge, Acme, and so forth.

Noteworthy developments 

·           Sarcastic, witty song titles (e.g., Coalesce ,”On Being A Bastard”)

·           Fancy hair

·           Singing about girls

·           Discordant, angular riffing paired with tortured screaming

·           Hardcore kids stealing riffs from past-their-prime metal bands

·           Tooth & Nail starts putting out Christian metalcore records

PHASE 2: THE 00’s

Much like scientists cannot pinpoint the exact moment at which the first lungfish walked on land, it is difficult to highlight any one artist, album, or tour that gave birth to metalcore/screamo as we know it, but it’s clear that things changed at some point. Screaming vocals were no longer the exclusive domain of basement shows and DIY labels, but were a part of the mainstream TRL roster just like Xtina and Ursher.

At this point, the “noisecore” subgenre had reached the ears of alternative Christians in b-level suburbs, spawning bands like Training For Utopia and Scarlet who essentially picked up where Deadguy left off, perhaps polishing it just a bit [via their parents buying them nice equipment]. They were actually pretty damn good, but didn’t really catch on since they were before their time by a few years. One of these bands was Norma Jean, who are still around. While they’ve never even sniffed the success or financial windfall of their many imitators, they are frequently cited as a seminal band by Christian metalcore/screamo bands today.

Like many other scholars, I believe the “missing link” is the cohort of bands that includes Thursday, Hawthorne Heights, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, and Saves The Day. Much like Nirvana and Pearl Jam before them, the jerks in these bands knew a thing or two about legitimate hardcore/metalcore, but created music that became popular with mainstreamers/new jacks who were in turn inspired to create several generations of soulless, derivative bullshit that resembled real hardcore enough to be annoying, but not enough to actually be good. A second wave of even worse screamo/metalcore bands followed them up, including notorious shit-merchants like Chiodos, From First To Last, and Aiden. At least they weren’t Christian.

Noteworthy developments

·           Bands with screaming become popular with mainstreamers

·           Christians discover metalcore

·           The internet/MySpace

·           Tooth & Nail gets even bigger; starts metalcore imprint called Solid State

 

PHASE 3: THE 2K10’s

Which brings us to today: you can’t go ten feet without seeing a kid with swoopy hair, skinny jeans, DC high tops and a Bring Me The Horizon shirt, metalcore shows are full of popular, blonde mainstreamer girls, and it’s completely OK for “hardcore” kids to be Christian. Underoath and TDWP sell literally millions of albums and probably even more merch, making screaming vocals and breakdowns the second most lucrative musical vocabulary after Southern rap (and inspiring bands like Attack Attack! to combine the two).

It is well-known that I hate many legendary bands like Iron Maiden and Metallica, so I could give a fuck about “honoring your elders.” I’m just saying it’s weird to step through time like this. For this old man, who once combed the classified ads in Maximum Rock N Roll, studied every word in Metal Maniacs/Pit/Terrorizer, and traveled hundreds of miles on a Greyhound bus to see Darkest Hour play Gothenburg-style metalcore to twenty-five people in a rented hall, it’s hard to imagine how we got here from there. I didn’t go to shows until 1989, and I’m sure the old guys who were there in the 70s said the same things about me and my generation, but I can’t help but shake my head in amazement.

As Axl and Vince pointed out in a previous post, I’m sure 99% of these bands have no idea that they’re stealing riffs from Unbroken, Deadguy, At The Gates, and Carcass. They’re just copying Norma Jean, As I Lay Dying and Chiodos, who were copying Thursday, The Used and Aiden. Which is all fine, because all art references that which came before it– the part that I miss is the DIY ethic that was such an integral part of the 90s metalcore/screamo scene. Also, less phony Christians.

Notable developments

·           Nearly all screamo/metalcore bands are Christian

·           Rise Records is the new Tooth & Nail

·           Oldest member of The Devil Wears Prada was born in 1989, has never heard of DRI

·           Keith from Deadguy fights the urge to throw himself on a sword when his kids listen to Attack Attack

 

http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/06/07/the-history-of-metalcorescreamo/

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