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I actually don't think they're the rip off that you make them out to be.  Very obviously influenced by Glassjaw, but I think they're doing enough of their own thing to make their own mark.

There's not a single soundwave, that even the slightest, resemble the amazing band Glassjaw.

This is just horrible.

Quote from: defskull on Jan 26, 2011, 04:40 AM
I actually don't think they're the rip off that you make them out to be.  Very obviously influenced by Glassjaw, but I think they're doing enough of their own thing to make their own mark.

its like with early muse, it sounded like radiohead on steroids.

I think the person that brought this band to sharing lungs was Starz, thank you so much dude.

Letlive is the best new band around, for me. Yeah, they sound a lot like glassJAw. Of course, they also put a lot of their personality into it. I love their tunes to death and gave me what I haven't seen in a long time, a "new" band with a new record that is exciting from beggining to end. they do what they do with such desperate passion it's admirable. I think they have a few ties with thrice, thursday, and of course, the deftones.
     The album they did before has some good tracks, too (it was an entirely different line up sans Jason, the singer), I'd suggest you to youtube Stigmother. And they have been playing a new song live that's also on youtube. Whenever I come across a decent sound, i'll post.

Quote from: Deftones-argentina on Jan 26, 2011, 08:47 PM
I think the person that brought this band to sharing lungs was Starz, thank you so much dude.

Letlive is the best new band around, for me. Yeah, they sound a lot like glassJAw. Of course, they also put a lot of their personality into it. I love their tunes to death and gave me what I haven't seen in a long time, a "new" band with a new record that is exciting from beggining to end. they do what they do with such desperate passion it's admirable. I think they have a few ties with thrice, thursday, and of course, the deftones.
      The album they did before has some good tracks, too (it was an entirely different line up sans Jason, the singer), I'd suggest you to youtube Stigmother. And they have been playing a new song live that's also on youtube. Whenever I come across a decent sound, i'll post.

yeah starz probably was who brougth them up, props to him.

most definiltly in my top 20 rock albums from 2010. even maybe top 10 i dont know.

the refreshing feeling is totally related to the yearning for glassjaw.

well thank you Slacker for starting this thread. I remember listening to their last album a few years ago, and I honestly wasn't a fan. But this... wow, it's basically the tits.

Quote from: bright lights, big city on Jan 26, 2011, 10:28 PM
well thank you Slacker for starting this thread. I remember listening to their last album a few years ago, and I honestly wasn't a fan. But this... wow, it's basically the tits.

yeah pretty tits indeed.

i'd like to like this band.  but i don't.

awesome band! and yes, if you are missing new Glassjaw songs you will appreciate their 2010 release!
going to see them in two weeks! too bad they are the first opening band

Quote from: dawg on Jan 28, 2011, 09:43 AM
awesome band! and yes, if you are missing new Glassjaw songs you will appreciate their 2010 release!
going to see them in two weeks! too bad they are the first opening band

nice

saw them yesterday and they were awesome! totally different from the bands they tour with and so much more innovative!
I filmed the whole set because there aren't many videos of them on youtube and they need the promotion!

so check it out on my youtube channel
Letlive - Le Prologue / The Sick, Sick, 6.8 Billion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMdT20ZKkeY#)

Thank you dawg, I check letlive on youtube Almost weekly, this is a blessing. I had yet to see a quality recording of muther and renegade 86 (until now). It's a pity they didn't play the new song there, I want to hear it with decent quality so bad.

Can I ask you to upload this files on mediafire?

Let me know if this Eq sounds better: http://www.mediafire.com/?j774cs78q3fp7fz (http://www.mediafire.com/?j774cs78q3fp7fz)

the whole set is too big to upload. it's already taking me hours to upload to youtube! over 2gb of video!

I hear no big difference in the audio :)
but you might have noticed that there is a little cut when they get back in during Casino Columbus, accidently hit the stop button on the cam :D

for some stupid reason youtube makes the video and sound run asynchronous! anyone got an idea why? I didn't change anything, direct input from the cam

awesome

QuoteLetlive have signed to Epitaph Records. They will release their new album, 'Fake History' on April 12th.

letlive. - "The Sick, Sick, 6.8 Billion" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRQEz7J82ZA#ws)

With three bonus tracks:
Hollywood, and she did
Lemonparty (this one will be a hit on this board for obvious reasons)
This mime (a sex symbol) --> this one produced by brett gurewitz

I thought they were pulling out more b-sides, un june last year it seemed they were unleash many of them soon. It seems that they kept them for a new record.

Quote from: Deftones-argentina on Feb 09, 2011, 01:17 PM
With three bonus tracks:
Hollywood, and she did
Lemonparty (this one will be a hit on this board for obvious reasons)
This mime (a sex symbol) --> this one produced by brett gurewitz

I thought they were pulling out more b-sides, un june last year it seemed they were unleash many of them soon. It seems that they kept them for a new record.

nice

 I could imagine somebody leaking the new songs & we not downloading them for thinking it could lead us to lemonparty.org

Quote from: Deftones-argentina on Feb 10, 2011, 02:06 AM
I could imagine somebody leaking the new songs & we not downloading them for thinking it could lead us to lemonparty.org

Meatspin.com ftw.

here is another set from hamburg

Letlive. - Epic Live Set! Part 1 //Hafenklang Hamburg 07.02.2011 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQevnZne8l4#)

I'm totally digging on these guys! Exciting.

Does anyone have any of their albums before Fake History. Going to see them next month and was hoping to become better acquanited although I doubt they will play anything pre Epitaph.

I have the previous one, i'll upload it.
must I warn you, it's a totally different banmd except from jason, its singer.

Frontman went nuts at Download Festival, UK. Their energy was good.

Really digging this album.

could you get some footage? from what I heard it was a legendary show.

This was the start of their set. He came in from the crowd and the bouncers thought he was just a fan etc.

Letlive live in Download Festival misunderstanding (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXkr_6iB0Po#ws)

Hahahahaha wow. I mean I guess the bouncers were doing their job but did they not wonder as where the vocalist was?

Quote from: nineteen on Jul 04, 2011, 06:57 PM
This was the start of their set. He came in from the crowd and the bouncers thought he was just a fan etc.

Letlive live in Download Festival misunderstanding (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXkr_6iB0Po#ws)

awesome

sounds promising. but... there's not a lot of Glassjaw with these guys, if that's all you can compare them to I guess you haven't listened to a lot of hardcore music at all.

New Jason collaboration with Dead & Divine, the band is really good, I suggest you to download Antimacy.

Dead and Divine- Carcinoma [Featurin Jason Butler of Letlive] (Lyrics) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi2wsb-50MM#)

They are a cool band actually. I read an interview with them recently where they said Deftones are one of their favourite bands toooooo

WOW! thanks for surfacing this band... Believe the credit goes to Starz, like mentioned above. I hear the SLIGHT similarity of Glassjaw in this band's sound, but they have their own sound overall.. Listening to the song "Day 54" right now and it is excellent! Impressed doesnt cut it.

Has anyone heard the snippet of the song "Banshee (Ghost Fame) from their new upcoming album yet? Man, it rocks so damn much!

http://www.amazon.es/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00CJW87MK/absolutepunk-20/ (http://www.amazon.es/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00CJW87MK/absolutepunk-20/)

I love letlive. I think his voice sounds like Daryl's, but don't think the rest of the music is that similar to Glassjaw. I can hear the influence, yeah, but still see them as their own band rather than a wannabe-Glassjaw band. Nice guys and always put on a great show. Going to see them in October, should be great :) and my cousin loves them, and my cousin HATES rock/heavy music, so that says a lot, I reckon.

A new song is going to be played on BBC Radio One Rockshow tonight, apparently after midnight, in case anyone wants to know.

letlive. - Banshee (Ghost Fame) [NEW SONG 2013] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLKZgiZSZeU#ws)

Man that's fucking horrible, which sucks because I had high hopes, what a backwards step this is. It sounds like a one of those shitty songs that are used on EA sport games, It's completely passionless, he's still yelling but it doesn't sound genuine on Fake History you could tell he was living every moment of the song, his genuine pain came through this, just sounds like it has no soul. It's really sad I loved the heart that was in their previous work and now they have gone to writing rap metal from the 2000's also I don't know how to describe it but I hate those little bits where it sounds like a backing group are singing it's used alot in radio rock songs and it sounds so unnatural and it breaks the connection of the listener to the vocalist.

Really? I think it sounds better than anything on Fake History

Quote from: DeftonesNZ on Jun 04, 2013, 03:00 PM
Man that's fucking horrible, which sucks because I had high hopes, what a backwards step this is. It sounds like a one of those shitty songs that are used on EA sport games, It's completely passionless, he's still yelling but it doesn't sound genuine on Fake History you could tell he was living every moment of the song, his genuine pain came through this, just sounds like it has no soul. It's really sad I loved the heart that was in their previous work and now they have gone to writing rap metal from the 2000's also I don't know how to describe it but I hate those little bits where it sounds like a backing group are singing it's used alot in radio rock songs and it sounds so unnatural and it breaks the connection of the listener to the vocalist.

Completely disagree with this, I love the new song. I don't see this as a song that was influenced by pain, sadness or anything like that, so makes sense that his voice won't convey that emotion either. The song sounds light-hearted to me, and I'm sure not all of the album will be that way. Last night I listened to the radio it was played on, and before that, they played a clip of Jason saying that originally it was a lot different, slower, but they wanted to put more energy and chaos into it so they transformed it a lot. So don't think the album is going to be all like this, because I sincerely doubt it.

Here he's talking about the song:
The Story Behind The Track: letlive. - 'Banshee (Ghost Fame)' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjD-6Y1lTg8#ws)

It's hard to explain but you just get a feeling when a band is being genuine, on Fake History it sounded like he was singing about stuff he had actually lived through you could hear all the emotions he was going through in his performance, almost like he wrote the songs because he needed someway to vent all the emotions he had built up, this just doesn't have that same feel it's music made out of want not necessity. I think they tried to incorporate too much in too little time and it just sounds messy.It sounds like Linkin Park meets DEP meets Beastie Boys, the instrumentals are lazy with cheap sounding DJ sounds like an old linkin park song and the vocals are tacky like a Beastie Boys or Limp Bizkit song, But mainly the song is poorly crafted and erratic like a DEP song, it just jumps between different phases without any transition like at 2:10, it just sharply goes from distorted guitar to acoustic guitar.

Music video

letlive. - "Banshee (Ghost Fame)" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wnxFJUZtp4#ws)

Quote from: DeftonesNZ on Jun 04, 2013, 03:35 PM
It's hard to explain but you just get a feeling when a band is being genuine, on Fake History it sounded like he was singing about stuff he had actually lived through you could hear all the emotions he was going through in his performance, almost like he wrote the songs because he needed someway to vent all the emotions he had built up, this just doesn't have that same feel it's music made out of want not necessity. I think they tried to incorporate too much in too little time and it just sounds messy.It sounds like Linkin Park meets DEP meets Beastie Boys, the instrumentals are lazy with cheap sounding DJ sounds like an old linkin park song and the vocals are tacky like a Beastie Boys or Limp Bizkit song, But mainly the song is poorly crafted and erratic like a DEP song, it just jumps between different phases without any transition like at 2:10, it just sharply goes from distorted guitar to acoustic guitar.

True, but for me, I don't think every song has to be this escape of emotion and necessity, I think sometimes people make music because they want to, not necessarily because they need to. And I'm sure the album will still incorporate those things that you love about the band.

On another note, love the video and I've just pre-ordered the album with a shirt :)

I don't really like it either, but I wouldn't insult DEP by saying it sounds like one of their songs. Maybe I just really like their stuff... Hopefully the rest of the album is better.

It doesn't sonically sound like DEP it just has the same sort erratic construction they use alot, it works when DEP do it but not on this, It's almost as if it was written in blocks, like they worked the individual parts out and then just put them next to each other without considering how they were going to jump between them.

I got you. It definitely does work when DEP does it. This letlive song is just too rappy and goofy for my taste.

yeah goofy is a good word for it, it sounds like that cheesy pop punk stuff that used to be on tony hawk games

Well, to start withthis band is a very new acquaintance for me, and I've followed them lately with some interest. Gonna check their album/albums at some point but just to comment on this new song: The descriptions above are rather correct, the song itself incorporates lotssss of different stuff. The vocal melodies on the parts where he's singing remind me of Portugal. The Man from their Waiter: "You Vultures" era. The rapping parts sound like 90s Stuck Mojo or some similar band back in the days. Besides these parts it sounds like what I've basically heard them do before from the few bits that Ive listened so far. All in all the song is intriguing, and surely makes me interested in them even more. So yeah, next stop, gonna check out one of their albums. Fake History is probably the place to start it seems.

Love this song and hyped for the album. Think it was mixed by some Pop/R&B dude.

Kinda reminded me of "the Sick Sick 6.8 Billion".

Kinda shitty too... I had higher expectations for them.

Also the GJ comparison...  Yup. Except... Daryl and camp are way better. 

I love Banshee to death. Interestingly enough, many of your reasons for you guys disliking it are many of the reasons why I like it. It's amazing how personal perception works. I'm sorry for you not enjoying banshee, but this is what I was needing to hear in music, and personally I consider this song a step up and an expansion for the band.
You did it once again, letlive; shut up and marry my ears.

Wohoo! I thought I was the only one who liked it...

Just listened to the full album... it's pretty bad.

Quote from: elite54 on Jun 17, 2013, 08:04 PM
Just listened to the full album... it's pretty bad.

Where?

It's streaming on Youtube.

Album is not that great.

Not available in Germany, unfortunately. Will have to wait until they stream it here or my preorder arrives

Nevermind, I found a download. I'm quite disappointed with the album though, since Banshee is easily the best of the bunch. Perhaps it's partially because the mp3 quality is absolutely horrible. But so far there has been nothing outstanding so far, with the exception of the Priest And Used Cars and 27 Club, which are solid

Also, do I hear auto-tune on Dreamer's Disease? What the fuck...

Yeah it's pretty shit it just feels like the same song over and over with different vocals, the guitar and drums are just boring and repetitive, man this sucks I loved Fake History but this is big backward step the passions just not their he's yelling but it still doesn't match the intensity he created on Fake History by just whispering, all the songs sound rushed and poorly crafted they just sort of go all out for 4 min and that's it, you don't feel like you're being told a story or going on a journey.

Man, I was so hyped after Stephen Hill from Metal Hammer praised it as the "album of the decade" and "on par with Refused and Rage Against The Machine". I'll keep my preorder however and hope it will grow on me. The rip is absolutely shit, so I didn't get every detail out of the songs. It really sounded like a monotone wall of sound. I can say for sure, though, that a couple of songs have no interesting idea. Not quite sure what song it was, but that particular one just seemed to just fizzle out at the end, with no interesting melody, riffs, vocals, whatsoever.

Edit: It's Virgin Dirt

On my second playthrough. I dig it a bit more, now. White America's Beautiful Black Market is proper good

Love this album. Yeah it's a bit auto-tuned and poppy but it will do as it was mixed by Stephen George.

I get a Michael Jackson vibe from the vocals on this.

Quote from: nineteen on Jun 18, 2013, 07:00 PM
I get a Michael Jackson vibe from the vocals on this.

Yeah, I thought the same sometimes. It's like Michael Jackson in a post-hardcore band. The whole album actually sounds completely different from Fake History

They can't keep re-creating Fake History, though. Bands that don't grow/go in a new direction fizzle out and/or get bored. Saying that, I completely disagree with all of you lol I love it. It still has to grow on me, but so did Fake History. I only liked Renegade 86 for ages before I liked the rest of the album.

Don't know what people are talking about though, I hear loads of emotion/intensity. Ah well, I'm happy.

album of the year for me so far, by far.

Pheromone cvlt, that melody...oh, man.

I finally hold the cd in my hands. The quality is so much better than that of the Youtube stream. So far it's definitely the album I listened to the most this year

All Jason does is ripping Daryl Palumbo off, in everyfuckingthing he does. Singing, moving, screaming, talking, even his fucking tattoos and style. He might as well just go fuck himself.

Quote from: N0S3BLEED976 on Jul 06, 2013, 09:41 AM
I finally hold the cd in my hands. The quality is so much better than that of the Youtube stream. So far it's definitely the album I listened to the most this year

Can you please scan (or photo) the lyrics?) I want to stop making bullshit-words for sing-along.

Sure thing! Give me a minute

Here are the lyrics:

Banshee (Ghost Fame)

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img29/2103/znlq.jpg)[/spoiler]

Empty Elvis

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img402/6325/i91z.jpg)[/spoiler]

White America's Beautiful Black Market

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img703/397/ky1b.jpg)[/spoiler]

Dreamer's Disease

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img834/6040/ajr2.jpg)[/spoiler]

That Fear Fever

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img22/5051/gvym.jpg)[/spoiler]

Virgin Dirt

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img836/2368/5yqk.jpg)[/spoiler]

Younger

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img62/8030/kcf4.jpg)[/spoiler]

The Dope Beat

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img600/5660/n6.jpg)[/spoiler]

The Priest And Used Cars

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img834/5104/94w4.jpg)[/spoiler]

Pheromone Cvlt

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img441/4586/dkfp.jpg)[/spoiler]

27 Club

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img14/328/9x6e.jpg)[/spoiler]

Still love the album. Virgin Dirt, Dreamer's Disease, Pheromone Cvlt. So many great songs I've had on repeat. Thought it's not out until the 9th of July though, has it come out earlier in other countries? I got the pre-order and it shipped a couple of days ago from America, so I don't expect it to be here for like a month, if the length of time it took for my shirt to get here is anything to go by.

Quote from: ANattyRat on Jul 07, 2013, 12:21 AM
Thought it's not out until the 9th of July though, has it come out earlier in other countries?

It came out two days ago in Germany

Yeah I saw he has the same exact tattoo as Daryl, dropped the home is where the heart is line and there are quite a few other similarities.

I don't mind Fake History, but I can only really listen to Virgin Dirt and a little of Dreamers Disease on this record.

Quote from: N0S3BLEED976 on Jul 06, 2013, 07:43 PM
Here are the lyrics:

Banshee (Ghost Fame)

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img29/2103/znlq.jpg)[/spoiler]

Empty Elvis

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img402/6325/i91z.jpg)[/spoiler]

White America's Beautiful Black Market

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img703/397/ky1b.jpg)[/spoiler]

Dreamer's Disease

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img834/6040/ajr2.jpg)[/spoiler]

That Fear Fever

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img22/5051/gvym.jpg)[/spoiler]

Virgin Dirt

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img836/2368/5yqk.jpg)[/spoiler]

Younger

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img62/8030/kcf4.jpg)[/spoiler]

The Dope Beat

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img600/5660/n6.jpg)[/spoiler]

The Priest And Used Cars

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img834/5104/94w4.jpg)[/spoiler]

Pheromone Cvlt

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img441/4586/dkfp.jpg)[/spoiler]

27 Club

[spoiler](https://imageshack.com/a/img14/328/9x6e.jpg)[/spoiler]

Thank you, mr nosebleed. This lyrics are full of shiver moments.
Pheromone cvlt is their convectuoso, no doubt.
27 club is such a powerful ride. Congratulations letlive, you made another great record.

I love the lyrics to Dreamer's Disease and Virgin Dirt, they've made those songs even better to me.

I adhere to that, J really gave his best effort ever in creating these yrics. He's at a whole other level to the rest of the lyricsts nowadays.

I really get why the booklet says "literature by Jason Aalon Butler".

I don't really care for the lyrics, since some of them don't really make sense to me. Perhaps it's because I'm not familiar enough with english proverbs... What the heck does "The grass is cut, the snakes will show" even mean? Is it some kind of common american saying?
But as long as the phrases and words fit into the music, which they do, I'm fine with them.

Edit: Oh, and Dreamer's Disease and Virgin Dirt are my least favourite songs from the album. I don't really like the auto-tune chorus of DD and the second half of Virgin Dirt, where Jason repeats the phrase "If love is like a cancer, then sex is just a pill, so were making love to kill ourselves and we're fucking just to heal.". To me it's not as smart as some might think it is, but rather goofy. Other than that, "were making love to kill ourselves and we're fucking just to heal" doesn't make any sense to me cause it's contradictory.

Have to agree with you there I can see what he going for and he's trying to sound deep but it's sloppy, the snake thing is sort of like seeing someone for who they really arem as in you cut the grass and they have no place to hide.And that love thing is contradictory unless he doesn't mean making love in the traditional since of having sex.  I feel like just over did it on this album tje lyrics are all over the place to the point were the meaning of the song lost and it just sounds like psuedo intellectual babble and it just ends up sounding goofy.

Quote from: N0S3BLEED976 on Jul 07, 2013, 07:40 PM
I don't really care for the lyrics, since some of them don't really make sense to me. Perhaps it's because I'm not familiar enough with english proverbs... What the heck does "The grass is cut, the snakes will show" even mean? Is it some kind of common american saying?
But as long as the phrases and words fit into the music, which they do, I'm fine with them.

Edit: Oh, and Dreamer's Disease and Virgin Dirt are my least favourite songs from the album. I don't really like the auto-tune chorus of DD and the second half of Virgin Dirt, where Jason repeats the phrase "If love is like a cancer, then sex is just a pill, so were making love to kill ourselves and we're fucking just to heal.". To me it's not as smart as some might think it is, but rather goofy. Other than that, "were making love to kill ourselves and we're fucking just to heal" doesn't make any sense to me cause it's contradictory.

The saying is "The snake in the grass," so I take the lyrics to mean that if the grass has been cut, those snakes in the grass can be seen, ie the fakes/liars/etc. have shown themselves.

Different tastes for different people, but to me the lyrics make sense, but at the same time are very meaningful and clever, so gives an extra layer to the songs. They are my two favourites, though. Don't really like Younger.

The auto tune is used as an instrument on this album. I dig it's style.

Quite sure I'm one of a tiny number of people on this forum who likes letlive., but anyway. New album called 'If I'm the Devil...' out on the 10th of June, and new song called 'Good Mourning, America' released. Also tracklist and album cover:

http://www.upsetmagazine.com/listen/letlive-to-release-if-im-the-devil-on-june-10th/ (http://www.upsetmagazine.com/listen/letlive-to-release-if-im-the-devil-on-june-10th/)

Quote from: ANattyRat on Apr 06, 2016, 09:52 AM
Quite sure I'm one of a tiny number of people on this forum who likes letlive., but anyway. New album called 'If I'm the Devil...' out on the 10th of June, and new song called 'Good Mourning, America' released. Also tracklist and album cover:

http://www.upsetmagazine.com/listen/letlive-to-release-if-im-the-devil-on-june-10th/ (http://www.upsetmagazine.com/listen/letlive-to-release-if-im-the-devil-on-june-10th/)

No, you're not alone!

Btw., the first single sounds amazing.

New song's pretty good, really looking forward to this album. Last record could have been outstanding if the production was better. Great band.

They said they wanted a more raw and 'live sound' on the last album, so that's why it sounded that way, I think. But I doubt they'll repeat themselves exactly this time around. I like the song, at first I wasn't sure about it, but it still packs a lot of punch, especially towards the end.

Oh, and pre-orders/new merch is available on their stores now.

Quote from: ANattyRat on Apr 06, 2016, 09:52 AM
Quite sure I'm one of a tiny number of people on this forum who likes letlive., but anyway. New album called 'If I'm the Devil...' out on the 10th of June, and new song called 'Good Mourning, America' released. Also tracklist and album cover:

http://www.upsetmagazine.com/listen/letlive-to-release-if-im-the-devil-on-june-10th/ (http://www.upsetmagazine.com/listen/letlive-to-release-if-im-the-devil-on-june-10th/)

Definitely not alone.  letlive. are amazing.  I've been in love ever since I first heard Fake History.  I was slightly let down by The Blackest Beautiful, only by comparison to something as amazing as Fake History.

Really excited for the new album.

Quote from: ANattyRat on Apr 07, 2016, 12:43 AM
They said they wanted a more raw and 'live sound' on the last album, so that's why it sounded that way, I think. But I doubt they'll repeat themselves exactly this time around. I like the song, at first I wasn't sure about it, but it still packs a lot of punch, especially towards the end.

Oh, and pre-orders/new merch is available on their stores now.

You can have a more raw sounding production without murdering the sound of the guitars and drums and over-producing the vocals. It's a shame because the actual songs were killer; with better production, TBB could have been amazing.

Quote from: illthrowROCKS@U on Apr 07, 2016, 03:12 AM

Quote from: ANattyRat on Apr 06, 2016, 09:52 AM
Quite sure I'm one of a tiny number of people on this forum who likes letlive., but anyway. New album called 'If I'm the Devil...' out on the 10th of June, and new song called 'Good Mourning, America' released. Also tracklist and album cover:

http://www.upsetmagazine.com/listen/letlive-to-release-if-im-the-devil-on-june-10th/ (http://www.upsetmagazine.com/listen/letlive-to-release-if-im-the-devil-on-june-10th/)

Definitely not alone.  letlive. are amazing.  I've been in love ever since I first heard Fake History.  I was slightly let down by The Blackest Beautiful, only by comparison to something as amazing as Fake History.

Really excited for the new album.

I prefer The Blackest Beautiful to Fake History. Took me a while to really appreciate Fake History for some reason, but I do love it. I think Jason says he does more singing than screaming on this album, but that a lot of the music is the heaviest stuff they've done, so should be interesting to hear that as well as the influences of other genres.

I'm seeing them in Manchester later this month, so I'm very excited anyway, haven't seen them since late 2013.

I hate the singer but I'm quite enjoying the new song. It's weird...

Quote from: Diplo on Apr 07, 2016, 05:03 PM
I hate the singer but I'm quite enjoying the new song. It's weird...

Hate him as a vocalist, or hate him as a person because he's trying to be like Daryl? Haha.

Quote from: ANattyRat on Apr 07, 2016, 09:02 PM

Quote from: Diplo on Apr 07, 2016, 05:03 PM
I hate the singer but I'm quite enjoying the new song. It's weird...

Hate him as a vocalist, or hate him as a person because he's trying to be like Daryl? Haha.

LOL Jason is very intelligent and well spoken. He does not at all seem like the type of person that is trying to BE anyone else but himself.


Then you hear Fake History........Glassjaw reborn. I fucking loved it though. Worship is my favorite GJ album but it was cool to hear a spiritual successor to EYEWTKAS 10 years later.

On TBB and this new track he moved away from the Daryl emulation and went towards a more Michael Jackson emulation. In an interview posted a couple days ago he even said he literally tries to sound like MJ on every song at first. If it works, great! If not, he'll change it.

Quote from: RaptureWS on Apr 07, 2016, 09:16 PM

Quote from: ANattyRat on Apr 07, 2016, 09:02 PM

Quote from: Diplo on Apr 07, 2016, 05:03 PM
I hate the singer but I'm quite enjoying the new song. It's weird...

Hate him as a vocalist, or hate him as a person because he's trying to be like Daryl? Haha.

LOL Jason is very intelligent and well spoken. He does not at all seem like the type of person that is trying to BE anyone else but himself.


Then you hear Fake History........Glassjaw reborn. I fucking loved it though. Worship is my favorite GJ album but it was cool to hear a spiritual successor to EYEWTKAS 10 years later.

On TBB and this new track he moved away from the Daryl emulation and went towards a more Michael Jackson emulation. In an interview posted a couple days ago he even said he literally tries to sound like MJ on every song at first. If it works, great! If not, he'll change it.

Oh, I know that, but when someone says they hate Jason/letlive., I automatically assume it's because of the Glassjaw/Daryl thing, haha. It can definitely come across the wrong way for people, and I get it. Maybe they did try too much to sound like them at first, but they've for sure tried to expand their sound, incorporate other genres and influences since Fake History.

Yeah, I read an interview where Jason said they had a bunch of arguments at the start of writing this new album, because some wanted to write just rock, some wanted to write just punk, and Jason wanted to channel his inner Kanye, haha. Sounds like they managed to take elements from all their influences though, which is cool.

Quote from: ANattyRat on Apr 07, 2016, 10:46 PM

Quote from: RaptureWS on Apr 07, 2016, 09:16 PM

Quote from: ANattyRat on Apr 07, 2016, 09:02 PM

Quote from: Diplo on Apr 07, 2016, 05:03 PM
I hate the singer but I'm quite enjoying the new song. It's weird...

Hate him as a vocalist, or hate him as a person because he's trying to be like Daryl? Haha.

LOL Jason is very intelligent and well spoken. He does not at all seem like the type of person that is trying to BE anyone else but himself.


Then you hear Fake History........Glassjaw reborn. I fucking loved it though. Worship is my favorite GJ album but it was cool to hear a spiritual successor to EYEWTKAS 10 years later.

On TBB and this new track he moved away from the Daryl emulation and went towards a more Michael Jackson emulation. In an interview posted a couple days ago he even said he literally tries to sound like MJ on every song at first. If it works, great! If not, he'll change it.

Oh, I know that, but when someone says they hate Jason/letlive., I automatically assume it's because of the Glassjaw/Daryl thing, haha. It can definitely come across the wrong way for people, and I get it. Maybe they did try too much to sound like them at first, but they've for sure tried to expand their sound, incorporate other genres and influences since Fake History.

Yeah, I read an interview where Jason said they had a bunch of arguments at the start of writing this new album, because some wanted to write just rock, some wanted to write just punk, and Jason wanted to channel his inner Kanye, haha. Sounds like they managed to take elements from all their influences though, which is cool.

Oh for sure man! I get it too I guess. Some people really have a hard time appreciating music that sounds like a "ripoff"..... but Fake History was recorded 10 or more years after Silence, and that style of post hardcore was (and still is really) all but dead. Considering GJ never wrote a EYEWTKAS Pt2 I am SO glad someone kind of did (minus the screaming about whores).

Nowadays IDGAF who they are influenced by or if they are even conciously attempting to sound like someone else because everything they touch is fucking gold. So excited for that new album! Probably my third favorite band. (Deftones, Glassjaw)

Yeah, I agree. I think they're trying less to consciously sound like this or that though. Probably a lot of musicians can get caught up in that, I'd probably make a band just to sound like my favourite bands to be honest, haha.

For me, letlive. are my favourite after Deftones. I love Glassjaw, but dudes don't have enough music, you know? I'm really happy they've also got new music coming out (hopefully soon) though, it's long overdue.

I enjoyed letlive's album, Fake History, man that thing had some bangers on there! But I don't know what happened, they just lost it. I know they had some lineup changes which will affect their music. Such a shame, I had high hopes for them then the Blackest Beautiful happened and I was just done. This new single just cements the coffin even more.

The Blackest Beautiful was brilliant! The production unfortunately killed it a bit.

I feel like the new song could be a Papa Roach song... Not feeling it at all.

Dan Carter just played a new song called Reluctantly Dead on his show.

It's pretty good; not bad, not amazing either.

New track called 'Another Offensive Song' http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-letlive-rage-against-the-machine-on-new-another-offensive-song-20160525 (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-letlive-rage-against-the-machine-on-new-another-offensive-song-20160525)

That chorus is awful.

i haven't liked anything they have done since fake history except 27 club (keith buckley version). terrible chorus on this, I agree.

The album leaked. I appreciate what they are trying to do but I just don't think I dig it. There are acouple good songs and a couple good parts elsewhere but I am pretty disappointed overall. Just another reminder as to why I adore Deftones so much. Not only are they my favorite band because of their sound but they have never disappointed me. Hopefully this album finds an audience for LL though. Great band and great people.

Just got home from seeing Deftones for the first time in over three years, and now I find out the album has leaked? Yessss. letlive. seem to be very hit and miss with their fans on this forum, but I've always loved their music. I will say that the songs released so far haven't caught me as much as usual (except Good Mourning America, love that song), but they've changed their direction quite a bit for this album it seems, going more extreme in every direction, taking their other genre influences and maximising them, so I guess it's somewhat experimental for them in that respect. The Blackest Beautiful is my favourite album from them by far, but we'll see.

A Weak Ago is the tiny little snippet Jason posted ages ago. Thought it seemed familiar. Catchy song, I bet they'll play that one live.

After listening to the album, they said there's more singing than screaming, but there's a LOT more singing than screaming. People who want mostly-energetic music are going to be very disappointed. You can see more of the other genre influences coming through. Hell, the melody in Foreign Cab Rides reminds me of Alicia Keys, haha. I think the album is awesome, it's just not what you expect (or hope for) from a letlive. album. There are heavy moments, but they're not as raw-heavy as usual, and there aren't many songs that have a strong, energetic vibe. It'll be their most controversial/divisive album, for sure.

My only negative is I don't know how the songs are going to fit into their sets, the songs generally don't have a 'go wild' feel to them. Then again, live and studio can be very different.

It's astounding how mediocre this is.

This album is so frustrating. I think letlive have the potential to make outstanding music but there's always something that gets in the way of me getting really pumped about them. On TBB it was the reprehensible production. On this, the production has improved but the music falls annoyingly short. It's not a genuinely bad album - I wish it was because I could then just dismiss it - but it consistently misses the mark. There are so many songs on this record that contain parts that sound pretty decent but just never erupt into anything special. As a result, a lot of it becomes forgettable.

Some of the praise it's already getting is fucking ridiculous to be quite honest. Jason the best vocalist in rock music? Listen to the abysmal chorus of Another Offensive Song and fuck off.

Major letdown.yikes... Was never a huge fan but thought they were sick live when I saw them a few years back..

Quote from: LG95 on Jun 09, 2016, 11:57 PM
Some of the praise it's already getting is fucking ridiculous to be quite honest. Jason the best vocalist in rock music? Listen to the abysmal chorus of Another Offensive Song and fuck off.

The chorus of one song isn't exactly grounds for dismissal. Not that I think he's the best vocalist in rock music, but reviews always tend to make exaggerations like that.

Anyway, I think the album is awesome, it just isn't people's idea of letlive. and the kind of music they tend to make. Not a lot of energy or aggression, which people always expect from this band (at least to an extent), and I imagine that throws a lot of people off. For myself, I wish there were more energetic or heavier parts in certain songs where it'd be well-placed, I feel like they've missed some good opportunities for it. But still I'm happy with the album. Think the first half is nowhere near as good as the second half though, and the first few songs are quite slow, which I don't think is a good way to start the album, but eh.

On this forum/thread, I seem to be more or less the only one who enjoyed The Blackest Beautiful, everyone else pretty much stops at Fake History, which I don't get, but because of that, I'm not surprised at all that none of you like the album. Closer to The Blackest Beautiful than Fake History, and then some.

Quote from: ANattyRat on Jun 10, 2016, 04:24 AM

Quote from: LG95 on Jun 09, 2016, 11:57 PM
Some of the praise it's already getting is fucking ridiculous to be quite honest. Jason the best vocalist in rock music? Listen to the abysmal chorus of Another Offensive Song and fuck off.

The chorus of one song isn't exactly grounds for dismissal. Not that I think he's the best vocalist in rock music, but reviews always tend to make exaggerations like that.

Anyway, I think the album is awesome, it just isn't people's idea of letlive. and the kind of music they tend to make. Not a lot of energy or aggression, which people always expect from this band (at least to an extent), and I imagine that throws a lot of people off. For myself, I wish there were more energetic or heavier parts in certain songs where it'd be well-placed, I feel like they've missed some good opportunities for it. But still I'm happy with the album. Think the first half is nowhere near as good as the second half though, and the first few songs are quite slow, which I don't think is a good way to start the album, but eh.

On this forum/thread, I seem to be more or less the only one who enjoyed The Blackest Beautiful, everyone else pretty much stops at Fake History, which I don't get, but because of that, I'm not surprised at all that none of you like the album. Closer to The Blackest Beautiful than Fake History, and then some.

I enjoyed The Blackest Beautiful a lot, I just wish the production wasn't so poor. Honestly, if the production had been merely competent on it, I think TBB would have been pretty close to a 10/10 record, that's how much I liked the songs.

If I'm The Devil though is just not as well written as it should have been. I have no problem with the style change - indeed, I was excited to see how they evolved on this album - but there's far too much on it that has potential but ultimately falls flat. Half-cocked choruses, some pretty dull musicianship in places, and repetition without it being 'earned'. If it was any other band, I'd be more forgiving, but it's letlive. and they can do better than this. I quite like I've Learned To Love Myself, Who You Are Not, A Weak Ago and Foreign Cab Rides. Everything else is either just ok or has parts that let it down.

Yeah, I feel quite lucky that I don't have an ear for production like most do, otherwise it might have taken away from the album for me, as it has done for many, which is a shame.

I've Learned to Love Myself is probably my least favourite song on the album. I appreciate it for what it is, but as an opening song too, it's just too slow and takes too long to get into. I find myself skipping it to hurry up to the second part of the album that I prefer. Foreign Cab Rides I think is a brilliant song, it's been on repeat. I can understand your issues with the choruses, and for myself I think there are a lot of great lyrics, but lyrically it seems to be generally a step down from The Blackest Beautiful. But then again, it's a different style and theme of album, so maybe that plays a part.

Hopefully it'll grow on you, it's a shame when you're disappointed in the album of a band you love, but sometimes we just don't like everything they do. Maybe next time.

https://www.facebook.com/theletlive/photos/a.128957402014.116819.127456477014/10154316232952015/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/theletlive/photos/a.128957402014.116819.127456477014/10154316232952015/?type=3&theater)

letlive. have broken up. Or they're on a hiatus, the wording is kind of vague. But basically they want to go in different directions. Not surprising; all the interviews about If I'm the Devil mentioned that Jason wanted to do mostly singing, whereas the others (or some others, anyway) wanted to go heavier. I'm guessing Loniel in particular wanted to go heavier since I think he's a fan of a lot of metal bands. But yeah, so from that point of view it's not surprising, but I assumed they worked things out, so I'm very sad. I got to see them three times but I wish I'd seen them more, and I wish I got to meet them and hear them play some of their newer songs.

I love letlive. as much as I love Deftones, so I'm pretty devastated, hoping they can work things out. If not, hopefully they'll make new awesome bands.

That's really disappointing. Great band when they were at the top of their game. Fake History is great, TBB would be amazing with good production. Didn't think much of IITD and it's a shame they've gone out on that but it's a bigger shame that they've gone at all.

I want to see what Jason does next. Man is a serious talent.

Banshee is still my jam. Glad I was able to see them performing live in 2013. They tore that place down! Let's hope these guys still make music in one way or another. They are truly, truly talented people

I wouldn't be surprised if we see Jason in some RnB type of band instead, haha. But I kind of hope not, his stage presence is very much suited to heavier genres. Hopefully they'll still be putting out music.

Looks like Jason is in a new band called The Fever, with Aric Improta (Night Verses) and Stephen Harrison (The Chariot). Three crazy dudes making music together. Nice. They're playing a show at a place called Randy's Donuts: https://www.instagram.com/p/BWDkG8Ll_2q/?taken-by=thefever333 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BWDkG8Ll_2q/?taken-by=thefever333)

It's funny, I assumed he'd next be in a chilled out band because it was his idea to do so much singing on If I'm the Devil, but...I really can't see how this band will be anything but crazy. I'm glad though, I hope it becomes a proper band and not just a fun side-project kind of thing, because I desperately want to see these guys on stage.

Here's a live video of one of their songs, it's called Hunting Season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVVCjGULw3o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVVCjGULw3o)

Pumped!

Me too. Hard to have an opinion on the music just yet, but three energetic dudes making awesome music is what it seems like to me :)

First song by The Fever on Soundcloud, called We're Coming In: https://soundcloud.com/thefever333

Second song's out as well now.

Both of them are pretty boring.

It's funny, the first two sound quite similar, but I've seen videos from the show they did on the 31st, and some of them sound more like letlive. songs, and some of them just sound different. They probably should've had the second song be something different to show that they don't all sound like the first two songs.

For those of you that aren't a fan of The Fever, Jason's in a new hardcore band called Pressure Cracks. They just released their first song, Be A Wolf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzwCipj42FE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzwCipj42FE)

Pressure Cracks' EP has been released, it's available to listen to on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4WVyehldTWM5R6k3oixgs7?si=-wWCmPyVQQq2tk1pv1LleA

Fever 333's album, STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS is out now. If you weren't a fan of their first couple of songs, trust me, it doesn't represent the whole album.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5PvosHtqCuqLK8A131lGZf

I just listened to it today and the new album Assume Form by James Blake.