#as lions

[soundsandnoises]

Three Days Grace with Bad Wolves in O2 Insitute, Birmingham

04/10/2018

Bad Wolves in these photos  (Austin Dickinson from As Lions and Stars from Bang Bang Romeo filled in on vocals due Tommy Vext's illness)

[metalsongoftheday]

Monday, November 5: Rise to Remain, “Power Through Fear”

Austin Dickinson was always going to have a rough go as a professional musician, for no matter how hard he might’ve tried to make it on his own, his ancestry was always going to come up in every article, interview and review, and there would be no escaping the fact that the son simply didn’t have the hunger and ingenuity that drove his father Bruce to become one of the three greatest singers and frontmen in the history of metal, and for reasons not entirely under his control.  But some things were under Austin’s control, and making his international debut fronting a down-the-middle metalcore act a couple years after that movement’s creative and commercial peak was not an especially wise one.  Rise to Remain’s City of Vultures was fine enough in those terms, and “Power Through Fear” worked well as an energetic and chugging banger with multi-faceted vocals, but the band and its singer didn’t have a clear identity outside the template, and that made the Bruce/Maiden comparisons all the more jarring.  Again, it wasn’t entirely Austin’s fault, and he was a perfectly capable vocalist in his own right, but there wasn’t much here that he or Rise to Remain could really claim as their own, even though they workshopped their material over a couple years and even had major producers like Colin Richardson at the helm for City of Vultures.  So it wasn’t surprising that the band didn’t last beyond this, leaving Austin to reconsider his approach, though his more recent work with As Lions indicated that he wasn’t done trend-hopping just yet.

[dreamsofrealitysblog]

[brightlotusmoon]

Watch "Bob's Burgers - Zentipede (FULL ALBUM)" on YouTube

Back when the Pink Floyd album "High Hopes" came out when I was in high school, I'd sink into the couch the way Bob and Gene sank back into their car seats to enjoy a shared imagined epic backstory. Then when I was in college and smoked weed and ate shrooms, I finally got the point of "The Wall" - which gets a really clever parody here.

Also, just... shout out to Bruce Fucking Dickinson. Because he's legendary. Rob is too. Austin is really getting there.

[caniplaywithmoonmadness]

Austin apprectiation post because he's such a sweetness and cuteness like his father

[jayrantsaboutstuff]

What are you listening to at the moment? (with Spotify Links)

I know I have a review page (www.myremains.tumblr.com).

But I wanna know what songs are your guys go to listening or most regularly played at the moment, here are mine:

Architects - Black Lungs

As Lions - Bury My Dead

Lamb of God - Momento Mori

Beartooth - Loser

All Time Low - Melancholy Kaleidoscope

Devildriver - Pray For Villains

Heavens Basement - Lights Out In London

Fozzy - Judas

King 810 - Red Queen

Neck Deep - Sonderland

Sevendust - Face To Face

Parkway Drive - Dedicated

Sum 41 - Underclass Hero

System of a Down - Protect The Land

VRSTY - Dig

While She Sleeps - New World Torture

Wilson - Act My Age

A Day To Remember - Sometimes You’re The Hammer, Sometimes You’re The Nail

Bring Me The Horizon - Dear Diary,

SHVPES - Counterfeit

Let me know what yours are! Maybe we can all find some new great tracks!

[muchalivs]

Shadows pouring like rain

Beneath a decay

Alone we wait for the end to come

We look for the signs

A glimmer of light

A crack in the sky

As Lions: Aftermath