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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #105 on: July 28, 2010, 06:37:35 AM »
Great, now I've been put down by a growl lover.  Growls do nothing for me.  I understand that talent behind growling because 2 seconds of me growling and I'm coughing for 3 minutes but I want to hear melody in my vocals.  In small spurts it's ok.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #106 on: July 28, 2010, 07:03:16 AM »
... I was a bit shocked. I don't really mind the screaming that much though.
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #107 on: July 28, 2010, 08:47:26 AM »
So portnoy wouldn't do full growls on a DT record, but LaBrie will on his solo? Interesting.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #108 on: July 28, 2010, 08:52:15 AM »
To be fair Portnoy probably didn't want to bring in a vocalist just to do growls on an album, since it wouldn't really be reproducible live. The "full growls" Portnoy recorded of himself really didn't sound that great from what I remember, so he went with what we got. LaBrie just happened to have a guitarist (or drummer, whichever) who could do growls well (relatively speaking).

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #109 on: July 28, 2010, 09:31:49 AM »
Pretty badass but it'll take a few more listens to really appreciate it.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #110 on: July 28, 2010, 09:54:17 AM »
Well, in DT's case MP and JP decided that full-on growls would be too much of a departure and might alienate parts of DT's fanbase. JLB doesn't have that issue for his solo records, he can do whatever the hell he wants.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #111 on: July 28, 2010, 10:07:00 AM »
I can't until this metalcore shit goes out of style.

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« Reply #112 on: July 28, 2010, 10:10:52 AM »
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #113 on: July 28, 2010, 10:11:04 AM »
Great, now I've been put down by a growl lover.  Growls do nothing for me.  I understand that talent behind growling because 2 seconds of me growling and I'm coughing for 3 minutes but I want to hear melody in my vocals.  In small spurts it's ok.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #114 on: July 28, 2010, 10:13:59 AM »
Cover art!



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Looks like a US ensemble drama. V. cool though.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #115 on: July 28, 2010, 10:15:48 AM »
I can't until this metalcore shit goes out of style.

>Verse Chorus metal song
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #116 on: July 28, 2010, 10:18:10 AM »
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« Reply #117 on: July 28, 2010, 10:18:59 AM »
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« Reply #118 on: July 28, 2010, 10:24:53 AM »
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #119 on: July 28, 2010, 10:37:29 AM »
JLB has the weirdest album artwork.

I guess I'm on the 'Love the music, love James, hate the verses' train lots of other people here are on. I did like the screaming vocals behind James during the chorus, I thought that was a cool added element to those lyrics, but the verses themselves were hard on the ears.

Saw this on the myspace:

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Some listeners may be surprised by the underlying growls that are part of some of the songs.

I wouldn’t consider those growls/screams as ‘underlying.’ Makes me wonder how much of a ‘part of some of the songs’ they are going to be included on.
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #120 on: July 28, 2010, 10:38:56 AM »
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #121 on: July 28, 2010, 10:44:48 AM »
I love the artwork, I haven't been as excited for an album like this in a while.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #122 on: July 28, 2010, 11:01:04 AM »
Cover art!




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« Reply #123 on: July 28, 2010, 11:24:03 AM »
Pretty good artwork. The Mullmuzzler/JLB solo album covers don't tend to really be my style, but this is fine (and obviously those albums were still great, regardless of whether or not I liked the covers, so there's that).

And yes, it looks like it could be a promo image for a CBS procedural.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #124 on: July 28, 2010, 11:24:54 AM »
Let's just hope JLB never puts a picture of the band on the cover.  :eek
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #125 on: July 28, 2010, 11:26:01 AM »
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #126 on: July 28, 2010, 11:31:29 AM »
TAC, kingshmegland, and a bunch of others have already posted pretty much everything I wanted to say.

The only thing I will add is that I'm quite sure JLB doesn't care that much for harsh vocals, and this is just a blatant attempt to sell out to trends in order to get a few more listeners. Which is the same thing MP's vocals in ANTR were.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #127 on: July 28, 2010, 11:59:19 AM »
And what makes you think he doesn't like harsh vocals?

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #128 on: July 28, 2010, 12:01:09 PM »
I don't think James is selling out.  I think he's being influenced by the times.
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #129 on: July 28, 2010, 12:11:09 PM »
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #130 on: July 28, 2010, 12:17:47 PM »
I think you're all giving James wayyyy more credit than he deserves for what you heard. James doesn't write any of the music, he may throw out an idea here or there and help arrange maybe, but that's it. As far as the lyrics, they are pretty obvious Guilorys who was also clearly the brainchild behind this and every other JLB and Mullmuzzler CD. Matt wanted this sound and wrote around that. I doubt James will just be a back up vocalist.
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #131 on: July 28, 2010, 01:01:22 PM »
Ah...you know...I like it my second time around!

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #132 on: July 28, 2010, 01:08:00 PM »
I can't until this metalcore shit goes out of style.

There is so much ignorance here that not only is it embarrassing, but it's downright idiotic.

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #133 on: July 28, 2010, 01:15:20 PM »
Excuse me. I forgot 'wait'. I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THAT METALCORE SHIT GOES OUT OF STYLE. The verses are trying to be metalcore and sound terrible. But of course, I'm not manly for not liking that shit. That kind of statement isn't ignorant or idiotic at all though...

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #134 on: July 28, 2010, 01:19:42 PM »
Wow. Never knew this many people don't like growls. They fit the music well, and it's just the verse which is cool. I like how some are all "I don't like....in MY music." I guarantee he made this album for himself.

Anyways, James' vocals sound downright great. you can tell he's less restrained. It seems that DT's music wants a harsher voice which JLB doesn't have, I see no reason not to let him do what he does solo.
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #135 on: July 28, 2010, 01:25:02 PM »
Excuse me. I forgot 'wait'. I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THAT METALCORE SHIT GOES OUT OF STYLE. The verses are trying to be metalcore and sound terrible. But of course, I'm not manly for not liking that shit. That kind of statement isn't ignorant or idiotic at all though...

Growling =/= metalcore

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #136 on: July 28, 2010, 01:27:43 PM »
Screams =/= Growls

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« Reply #137 on: July 28, 2010, 01:31:12 PM »
You've got to admit though James knows how to use his voice under straight up metal riffs.
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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #138 on: July 28, 2010, 01:32:10 PM »
Screams =/= Growls

Screams =/= metalcore

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Re: James LaBrie's Solo Material - new song!
« Reply #139 on: July 28, 2010, 01:33:29 PM »
It's hard to nail down exactly what James is or what he does like. There's nothing very clarifying about him. He's been the vocalist for my favorite band that I've followed very closely, but I'm still not sure what defines him.
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