Quote from: Moana91 on Sep 04, 2025, 08:48 PM

Quote from: DefFsho on Sep 04, 2025, 08:40 PMOn this very day, let's not let us old heads forget where these guys once were and are now with a label as big as Warner music group. I would much rather the band own all of their own material and rights to everything to do whatever they want but damn did they make a hell of a climb making the kind of music that they do. The kind that we like. It's fucking amazing if this thing is over, especially. I just got my mail and I got my CD and 24 page booklet that was limited to 5000. I see that it's not sold out, but there isn't a lot of us that own it and when I was reading the credits which may even be in the other packages and other editions, which I'm sure they are, I couldn't help but notice that Stef especially but a couple members seem to be saying goodbye. I think it was Abe n Stef. Thanking us for the life we've given them and all the memories just like the song infinite source. I can't help but to speculate. I'm not new. I've even met the band a few times. I got to walk down the street to the venue with Shawn Lopez in Pontiac Michigan to a crosses show and tell him how awesome I think he did on Saturday night wrist, and with the crosses first lp. I feel that I'm in the know and I have a feeling that this is the last studio record and I hope I'm wrong y'all. I think maybe Stef wrote something like that before on another record in the credits and thank yous but this feels different.

But in the Zane Lowe interview they were all kinda saying: "we want to be more disciplined for the next one."

Can you elaborate a bit more why you feel that?

Quote from: tongues_of_flame on Sep 04, 2025, 05:11 PM

Quote from: luischarlos on Sep 02, 2025, 03:59 PMIs it perhaps Infinite Source written about Chi and Cut Hands written about Vega?

speaking of infinite source, did anyone else notice the inversion in souvenir? the lyrics go from "keep holding me / close and tight" in the former to "me holding / you tightly" in the latter.

Quote from: Draken on Sep 04, 2025, 11:35 PM

Quote from: Moana91 on Sep 04, 2025, 08:16 PMGoing by mainstream popularity/success, where would you guys place this one in relation to the rest of the discography?

I'd say going by mainstream success it seems to be doing well, they're probably at the height of their popularity so I'm sure it's beating out many of their previous albums.

Quote from: Moana91 on Sep 04, 2025, 08:16 PMGoing by mainstream popularity/success, where would you guys place this one in relation to the rest of the discography?

Quote from: DefFsho on Sep 04, 2025, 08:40 PMOn this very day, let's not let us old heads forget where these guys once were and are now with a label as big as Warner music group. I would much rather the band own all of their own material and rights to everything to do whatever they want but damn did they make a hell of a climb making the kind of music that they do. The kind that we like. It's fucking amazing if this thing is over, especially. I just got my mail and I got my CD and 24 page booklet that was limited to 5000. I see that it's not sold out, but there isn't a lot of us that own it and when I was reading the credits which may even be in the other packages and other editions, which I'm sure they are, I couldn't help but notice that Stef especially but a couple members seem to be saying goodbye. I think it was Abe n Stef. Thanking us for the life we've given them and all the memories just like the song infinite source. I can't help but to speculate. I'm not new. I've even met the band a few times. I got to walk down the street to the venue with Shawn Lopez in Pontiac Michigan to a crosses show and tell him how awesome I think he did on Saturday night wrist, and with the crosses first lp. I feel that I'm in the know and I have a feeling that this is the last studio record and I hope I'm wrong y'all. I think maybe Stef wrote something like that before on another record in the credits and thank yous but this feels different.

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Quote from: Draken on Sep 04, 2025, 07:00 PM

Quote from: Fred Bob on Sep 02, 2025, 09:30 PMThe way the conversation for the album has dropped off here considering the months of anticipation is shocking

This shit here!!!! Hellafunny

Every Album Cycle:

Phase 1: Fans speculation, searching out and finding clues, whining about no news from the band. Balls become blue.

Phase 2: Silence breaks and the singles roll in, the forum goes wild with everyone's opinions/criticisms.

Phase 3: Days before the album's release, it leaks and the forum EXPLODES with new accounts and lurkers who come to just beg for the album leak.

Phase 4: Some reviews get written, some butts get hurt, people argue and post how others are wrong even though their counterpoint makes less sense, etc. etc..

..and then the forum dies... until next album cycle. Rinse and repeat.