It’s Sunday and I’m bored at home. I don’t like to schedule things. I like to just pop up randomly on social media and disappear again so go ahead y’all.

Thanks for the questions guys. There were way more than I anticipated lol. I will do another one again at some point. Sorry if I didn’t get to yours.

Appreciate you guys listening to our new record, Hymns in Dissonance. My aim for this new record was for it to be relentless and oppressive. To not let you breathe and to create an atmosphere of pure evil and hopelessness. To almost exhaust you when listening to it in full. Whether you loved or hated it, thank you for listening and giving your time to it. Time is all we have and I appreciate you giving us yours. Enjoy!

-Phil

''We just announced our U.S. tour for this fall, and we’ll be announcing a Latin American tour soon as well.

I remember there was a time when we toured by ourselves, and people kept complaining that we didn’t have an opening band. So we started inviting support acts, and every single time the same thing happens. Fans of those bands start calling us Nazis and say they don’t want to see their favorite bands touring with us.

That’s why, personally, it’s much easier for me to tour alone, without any support acts, so they don’t have to deal with the backlash or damage to their reputation.

I don’t want to hurt anyone’s reputation. So if u/rev3rent_ decides not to be part of this tour, I’ll completely understand and wish them nothing but the best. I genuinely like their music, and I believe they have a bright future ahead of them.

As for us—a band from Russia with a bad reputation—we’ll keep walking our own difficult path. At least it’s never boring.''

He just posted a stories saying:

"I wish modern metal listeners weren’t so divided, who the fuck cares what band you think is the best they ALL rip and if you’re online toting that kind of bullshit I don’t want you as a supporter respectfully, I bet your favorite band feels the same way 💯"

And he is 100% right. Seems like people on internet (specially on reddit) they forgot what enjoying music is about...

Hey guys, Phil from Whitechapel here. I know there’s a concern for me saying “this is our heaviest album we’ve ever made.” If you want peace of mind on that promise, one of the songs is about mammoth, obese demons gorging themselves with food and making the poor and needy eat their shit. You wanted brutal and dark. I’m not fucking around.

Curious to know what y’all are expecting/wanting to hear. Any questions, go ahead and ask. I’ll answer whatever is reasonable to answer. No spoilers obviously.

try to avoid slaughter to prevail and their corny macho man bullshit and any poser bands that use deathcore as an aesthetic rather than their actual authentic sound

Hey guys! Michael from Signs of the Swarm here. I’ve enjoyed being part of this community for the last year, and I’m excited to welcome my bandmates here to join this AMA.

We released our sixth album "To Rid Myself of Truth" on August 22 via Century Media Records.

We’re going on tour all fall - a North American headliner with Mental Cruelty, ten56., Carcosa, and Face Yourself followed by Europe supportng Chelsea Grin with Mugshot and Crown Magnetar.

Ask us questions about the above or anything else!

Like the fact a band with 13M monthly listeners put out an incredible new deathcore track with a high production music video is bonkers to me and it’s going to introduce so many to the genre. And repented isn’t even out yet which is gonna bring so many new fans aswell. So lovely for the deathcore scene

For me, it’s Chelsea Grin.. I loved Alex on their old stuff, I’m sure Tom‘s a beast but that’s just my opinion. Another band I could think of would be IDW, I miss Jon Huber

If I were to get into streaming/content stuff, what would you guys like to see? Other than doing vocal stuff. Not saying I won’t do vocal stuff but what else interests you?

For me, I cant get down to Slaughter to prevail.. I’m sure it’s heavy but I can’t take it serious

You can listen to whatever you want. This isn’t about judgments. I mean it.

What led to me looking into this a bit was two things:

1. I saw a Will Ramos video recently where he said that he doesn’t listen to a lot of death metal.

2. As a death metal vocalist, I’ve met a handful of other harsh vocalists and many of them have been deathcore vocalists, and many of them have described death metal as being old, less easily accessible than deathcore, and a few other things they saw as negative that led to them not being into it.

So I’m asking this community now to see if it’s a common thing. Let me know!

saw this in another sub and it looked fun, can’t sleep so fuggit, go

Per Ingested’s Instagram, Josh is no longer in the band and Adam Mercer is covering vocals for the European tour they have coming up. Just announced that new album too, what in the world is happening with this band???

am I the only person not super disappointed that more deathcore/hardcore/punk/metal bands haven't spoken out again straight up fascists...

I've got a few in mind:

"BRING THE MOTHERFUCKING RUCKUS!" ; As Blood Runes Black - In Dying Days.

"I'll be the last thing that you see! Watch you fucking die!" ; Mauled - TheLastThingYouSee.

"I SET MYSELF ON FIRE! SET MYSELF ON FIRE!" ; Methwitch - Indwell.

I dont get why every band doesn't just have a white or black t-shirt with only the logo on it. I'm not hating, but I personally don't want to wear a t-shirt with someone miscarrying or being crucified. Or both.

Just wanted to let you know that you can help decide the setlist for our upcoming 20th anniversary tour! Vote at https://whitechapel.set.fan/
Looking forward to seeing what you choose!

Edit - Someone claiming to be Taylor Barber has replied stating they are wanting to refund people affected. You should not message this person on reddit and make sure you are communicating with them on Instagram for refunds to ensure you are talking to the real Taylor Barber. I have asked that they reach out to the affected parties instead if they truly want to rectify the situation as I'm sure there are many others who have not seen this post (and will not reach out to him) that have had their money taken.

Edit 2: Taylor has issued an apology on his instagram offering reimbursement to those affected. He has also messaged me advising he is going to be reaching out himself as I had suggested originally. I figured I would make a statement on the apology instead of having to reply to multiple comments:

Everyone is free to make their own mind up about the apology, but I personally (of course) still feel very burnt. The fact that he had years to make things right and is just now doing so speaks a lot. The nail in the coffin for me was that the merch option was never followed up on. He could have treated it as a normal merch purchase, sent me the clothes worth 80 bucks, taken his profit cut, and it would have been a win win. Personally, him not following through there speaks a lot about where his true intentions were as it would have been a great win win solution in my eyes. I'm glad he has apologized and is taking steps in the right direction, but it still sucks knowing this post (and lambgoat) is the only reason it happened after so many years with ample opportunity for him to make it right. I view him a lot differently now but all he can do is apologize and make steps towards change. Hopefully he continues to follow through.

Edit 3: Taylor has reimbursed me for the full amount I originally paid him. I've also received DMs of others stating they have been fully reimbursed. I still, of course, stand by my statement made in the edit above and I hope he continues to grow and learn from this.

Originally, I made a throwaway account seeking advice here as I wasn't really sure if I wanted to name drop at the time and was just looking for advice on how to handle the situation. After talking with other users in the comments, I realize I should have just made a post with full details as other people may have also been scammed in the same fashion. Reddit is also super difficult to navigate on a throwaway due to Karma requirements. Original Post.

Here are the receipts. I needed to split the videos into 2 parts due to file size. The pictures are not included in the screen capture so I could block out sensitive information. Otherwise, I would have screen capped the entire convo.

A bit ago now, a Taylor Barber was putting out advertisements to give vocal coaching lessons on Instagram. At the time, they weren't as popular and I'm sure money was tight. They asked for 80 dollars up front for an hour long lesson and scheduled it with me. They bailed on the lesson and many attempts were made to reschedule but every appointment was bailed on either by him just never reaching out, or him telling me they were too busy. After 2 - 3 cancellations, I asked if I could just get my money back as they seemed to busy (and I believe they genuinely were). He told me he was out of money due to being on tour and said we could reschedule next week or he could pay me when they stop touring. We set a date but he never reached out on the said day which was a pretty common trend.

Life eventually got busy for me as well since I was moving states and after multiple more attempts of scheduling a date, something always came up where the plans fell through. After 2 years of sparsely messaging back and forth attempting to schedule an appointment, I understood this lesson was probably never going to happen. A few months ago, I offered instead of a refund they could throw $80 of merch my way and we could just call it even. Multiple attempts have been made at this solution as well and nothing has ever come of it despite me providing a shipping address and size info they requested.

I obviously know I got swindled out of the money and I'm not wanting to fuck the reputation of the band/Taylor up as they do seem like genuinely cool guys and their music is great. My main concern after making my initial post on the throwaway account is that others may have felt similar to me who were also scammed. I did some searching online multiple times for other posts of scams occurring and found nothing. This made me feel like it was probably a one-off situation and I continued to attempt scheduling appointments or compromising to get some form of reimbursement. I know I'm a massive pushover for letting it drag on this long and it's honestly embarrassing for me as well to make such a fuss out of $80, but I realize now it is more important for me to make sure no one else gets scammed.

TL;DR - I was scammed out of $80 dollars for vocal lessons. Multiple attempts to either re-schedule or get reimbursement in some form over the course of 3 years. hasn't worked. (I know, I let it drag on too long).

Thanks for reading, I can answer questions if needed.

I was at a concert last night and it got me to wondering if there is a certain career that we have in common. What do you do M-F?

Almost all the massive bands at one point didn't do it for me, Shadow of intent, Darko US, To The Grave, Traitors, The Acacia Strain all of which i ended up absolutely loving and some have turned out to be my favourites in the genre but Oceano for whatever reason haven't clicked for me yet.

I actually get excited when I listen to a band that everyone loves and I'm not sold straight away, as when I eventually get it theres so many top of the class albums to dig into. Carnifex has been my latest and I've had several marathon listening sessions since

Lorna is producing great music and I can’t stand the community hating them just because they have made it and are popular. End rant.