Complete shock at this.
Living in Ohio, The Devil Wears Prada would play shows regularly in Toledo. And they are one of the bands that got me into “core” music. Ive meet Daniel countless times. My old band even played a cover of one of their songs.
And Shapiro is one of the biggest mangers in the scene, as well as one of the best. Not forcing bands into a corner like many labels and managers do.
Rock on behind the pearly gates!
(My band meeting TDWP in 2013 at Royal Oak)
Are you in the metal scene in Michigan? My band used to play with TDWP on the west side of Michigan 15 years ago.
No. We’ll not any more. (3 kids and a 9-5 does that to you) but from 2009-2015 absolutely was. Tried to go to a show every weekend. Played countless shows.
My old band still makes music. They have an EP coming out soon.
You guys got any thing? Like me please. I love still checking out new music. Local and national
Unfortunately we burned hot for a little too long and imploded. Our name was Our Fate in Hell out of West Michigan. Spent a lot of time playing in Detroit area also. Some of our songs and stuff are still out there. Now I’m that 40 year old metal head that still plays but only in my own basement.
I feel you on that.
This was when i was in the band
This is them now with a new EP coming soon
I hate playing with myself. That’s why I’m back in Lemon Frog.
Our original music is “metal”, but, the band that put out the “Citrus Amphibian” album, is no more.
Our shows now are “classic rock”.
Just so I better understand where metal ends and metal core begins, would you mind telling me who are some of the most famous “core” bands nationally/globally? Either now or in the past. Would probably be the easiest way for me to learn to differentiate.
RIP to the fallen and thoughts and prayers to their family, friends and fans.
Core basically is Drop guitar tuning, typically with a 0-0-0-0-0 rhythm breakdown section but its more complex then that.
90s - Converge, Botch, Dillinger Escape Plan, Shadows Fall
00s - Bullet for my Valentine, Killswitch Engage, All that Remains,
10s - The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying, August Burns Red, Miss May I
Currently - Architects, Bring Me The Horizon, The Plot In You
My biases and off the top of my head
But i think im gonna have to do that. The Big 4 from the 90s, 00s, 10s and today.
If it sounds like you want to mosh and crash into things, lots of stops and starts, and isn’t all that complex musically, like vintage Metallica is, then it’s probably metalcore.
What instrument do you play?
What instrument do you play Frog?
I kill it on the sad trombone. Lifetime’s experience with it.
The microphone. I go RAWR
BMTH is my favorite metalcore band. Although my album of choice is probably There is a Hell first although Sempiternal is a really close 2nd.
Oh its close. Sempiternal definitely shaped what i listened to tho.
I love all of their albums (other than Ammo) each have a unique feel.
The Lions fandom comes in handy sometimes.
I find that’s best for everyone involved. I “add” to mostly slow blues tracks by Buddy Guy and such with a smattering of knowledge and zero training since a folk song fingerpicking course in about 1970. I get lots right, but then irredeemably wrong notes on lead or wrong chord changes on rhythm, um, change the mood. 
It’s cathartic for me and anything but for anyone who listens for very long. Finger calluses come and go. That’s just the way it be…
