Cursed || The Requiem [\m/]

The Requiem (Fearless Records)

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“THE REQUIEM” by the awesome Linkin Park.

Original artwork by me ©️ 2021.

I had this song pop up on an auto-generated Spotify playlist last week and thought, "wow, this sounds a lot like My Chemical Romance; I wonder if this was some obscure pop punk/emo band circa 2005 that I just never heard about."

Nope, just came out last month, February of 2024!

Nostalgic Sound Review Round-Up

Profiler - A Digital Nowhere

A couple of albums came out recently that both fit the bill for being in the vein of having a nostalgic sound, regardless of the style, and I wanted to talk about both albums briefly, because I don’t have a whole lot to say about either album, but I’d like to talk about them. Both of these albums are very similar, yet they’re also relatively different. The first album I wanted to talk about is the debut from British nu-metal band Profiler, entitled A Digital Nowhere, and this band came to my attention out of nowhere, just from seeing this album pop up on Apple Music. They’re signed to SharpTone, which was a big reason as to why I decided to check this out, and this album is a solid little nu-metal / nu-metalcore album that also incorporates some shoegaze and grunge. If you love bands like Korn, Deftones, Linkin Park, and all things late 90s and early 00s, you’ll dig this. You can pinpoint a lot of their influences, but it never becomes annoying, it’s just cool hearing a lot of different influences instead of one or two key ones, and leaving it at that. This album is a lot of fun, even if the album’s rapped sections aren’t great, but they’re fine for what they are.

The Requiem - A Cure To Poison The World

On the other side of the spectrum, you got The Requiem, a band that sounds like they should have been huge in the early 00s, and their debut album, A Cure To Poison The World. Think if My Chemical Romance, Hawthorne Heights, and The Used kept making melodramatic post-hardcore albums in 2024, and that’s how this would sound. It’s big, epic, catchy, melodramatic, and everything you’d expect from an album in that vein. For that, it’s a lot of fun, even if it sounds like stuff I’ve heard before, but hearing it now with a modern flair is really cool. I have to give this band credit for not trying to sound exactly like the past, either, so the album never comes off as parody or satire, but they play it straight. The album is executed well, so I can’t fault it for that. So-called “elder emos,” which is a phrase that makes me cringe when I hear it, although I get why people use it, should really enjoy this, because it sounds like music that they would have consumed 20 years ago, yet it still has a modern flair behind it that fans of newer music would enjoy, too. It’s not perfect, as they don’t have too much of an identity yet, but I’ll give it another album and they’ve got some potential there.

this will haf 2 do till we get sum real merch xD i love requiem!!

I NEED to put y’all onto The Requiem omg

They only have two songs out so far but if you’re looking for new music that sounds like early 2000s emo then you should listen to them bc they’ve got it DOWN ❗️

not gonna lie Yorknew hits different now

Marnie & Barakas " Just another day "

THE MASK SELLER

An active NPC in the campaign-esque group, The Requiem! A liminal space based suspense RP & Art campaign.

Read more abt TR below!

TRT is a DND-spinoff style cat-based campaign where you are involved in liminal spaces and trials.

Just as [. . .] mentioned- you have woken in a new world. a new element. a new body. you must traverse through liminal trials, puzzles, and threats in order to return to your natural state- [the human state.] You will face challenges- dangers- others. the requiem is a set end roleplay & art based campaign with three endings- good, neutral, and [loop.]

[Do not get loop.]

The requiem focuses on horror elements, out of body elements, and breaking the fourth wall. the requiem is a 17+ campaign that focuses on trial and error, but remember:

[Your choices matter.]

Your characters are not immortal nor untouchable- your decisions weigh on their lives and their surroundings.

Welcome, the the Requiem.

THE WEBSITE THE DEVIANT GROUP THE DISCORD

Diary of a Masochist || The Requiem [\m/]

The Requiem (Fearless Records)

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♫ Deadbody - The Requiem ♫

This week in listening 02/23/24

Okay, wow. Today was a massive day for new releases, so let's get a few of those out of the way first. Starting with...

Job For A Cowboy was like... not on my radar AT ALL this year. I listened to this band a bit around 2010, but they were always a little too extreme for me. I'll be honest, the album cover is what sold me on this. The art is giving me huge Born of Osiris vibes, which is another band I used to listen to in the 2010s and have actually been getting back into lately (The Discovery is a fucking incredible record). So, inspired by amazing psychedelic alien artwork, vague nostalgia, and a healthy dose of morbid curiosity, I decided to jump in to this as soon as I woke up. I am actually blown away by how good this is. I'm not a huge metalhead, so I struggle to describe the intricacies of this type of music, but I know for certain it's activating some disgusting primal neurons in my brain. It's heavy, technical, colourful, thoughtful. The guitars whip around with the sharpness of wire torture devices as the bass paints terrifying rhythms into the background of every song. The drums don't just keep up, they hold the leash to maintain control over the chaos and do so flawlessly. The vocals? They add a nice flavouring to the sound but I'm honestly so intrigued by what's going on underneath the surface of these songs that I keep forgetting to listen to him. It's not really a bad thing.

When I was just starting to get back into metalcore a few years ago, I spent a night swapping the aux and drinking beers with my best friend, and he threw on Darkest Hour's song DEMON(S). I was blown away by their ability to inject melody into their sound in a very subtle and nuanced way. They had a much heavier melodeath influence and didn't rely on huge soaring pop choruses like every other -core band of the 2000s. A lot of the melody in their songs comes from the riffs themselves and I love that about them. Even when clean vocals are present, they are mellow in pitch and are used almost more like a texture to enrich the riffing instead of being the main show. When Darkest Hour started dropping singles for this new album my ears perked up right away. Societal Bile showcased a more straight forward thrash influence and I was a little worried that this album would be lacking in melody, but I'm relieved to find that isn't the case. This song in particular is a perfect showcase of the band ability to be heavy and also execute insanely beautiful choruses without being corny about it. Another absolute standout track from this album is Mausoleum, which sounds almost like if Elliot Smith wrote a melodeath song. Trust me, check it out and you’ll know what I mean. I also want to take a second to appreciate that the artwork for this is clearly a nod to The Black Dahlia Murder (rest in peace Trevor Strnad).

Okay, massive diversion away from metal for a second. MGMT is a band that I have always reserved a spot in my heart for despite not being interested in... well... anything they've put out since their debut. Like many other people my age, Electric Feel is more than just a song, it's a core memory. I've listened to few tracks here and there from their other albums out of curiosity but nothing clicked. Not because they weren't good, but because I just wasn't at a place in my life where I was willing to let the magic of MGMT back into my heart. Loss Of Life may very well be the album to change that. When Bubblegum Dog dropped in 2023 I was immediately captivated by the strange, off kilter folkiness of it. Weird, and catchy? Wait a minute, that's the same reason I fell in love with Oracular Spectacular! I haven't listened to this full album yet so we'll see how much of it delivers on those qualities, but I have been jamming this single a lot over the past few days so I had to include it in the list.

I posted a full review for this album here, but I'll do a quick summary. I've racked up about 270 scrobbles out of this album over the past week since it was released, that's like listening to it about 24 times in full (or 3.4 times a day). I absolutely adore this album because it brings back to life everything I loved about music growing up. It's passionate, catchy, emotional, and heavy. Seriously, if you are a fan of My Chemical Romance, early Escape the Fate, AFI, The Used etc etc.. I can not beg you enough to give this album a chance. It's a very well written love letter to that era of 2000s post hardcore and emo bands and you will find it immediately familiar and comforting.

Okay, we are moving away from new releases now. I mentioned in a previous post how I was getting back into prog by listening to bands like TesseracT, Aviations and Artificial Language. The Contortionist is the newest addition to that roster and they bring something very unique to the table. Their instrumentals are heavy but methodical and hypnotic, much like the image on the album art. The thing that stuck out to about this band the most is their singer. I can't get over how much I love his mellow, folky approach to singing on a metal album. I've never heard anything like it. Seriously, take out the metal instrumentation and replace them with Nick Drake's Pink Moon and his voice wouldn't feel out of place at all. The result is a progressive metal album that feels extremely down to earth. If this album had a scent it would be of bark and dirt. Again, somehow the album art has done an immaculate job at representing the sound of the record. I'm obsessed. This is their last album (released in 2017) and is far from their most popular, but I'm curious to go backward and see how their sound progressed to this point.

Thursday is probably going to keep popping up on these roundups because they are my favourite fucking band right now and I never want to stop listening to them. I initially glossed over WATT as a “good but stagnant” entry to their discog, but after hearing lots of people say this is their favourite Thursday album, I knew there had to be something about it that I was missing. Don’t get me wrong, I always enjoyed it, but I felt it lacked the hooks and the gut wrenching punches of Full Collapse, and it also did nothing to push their sound forward like ACBTLD did. Well, I’ve spent the last two weeks listening to it non stop in honour of their WATT tour, and I have to say it’s grown on me so much to the point where it’s become my go to choice when I need a kick in the teeth. I think this album has some of Thursday's heaviest material both sonically and thematically, and it's also a bit more nuanced in the way it shows it's colours. It has a tough shell that takes multiple listens to crack, but it's so worth the time. “Signals Over the Air” was always my fav song from this, but recently “Steps Ascending” and the closer “Tomorrow I’ll Be You” have started to stand out as serious highlights to me. The ending of this song when Geoff yells “I’M CALLING FROM YOUR HOUSE, IN YOUR ROOM, IN YOUR NAME. LAYING IN YOUR BED, FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS” sends chills up my spine.

Last but not least, I’ve been jamming this album again for pure nostalgia purposes. This album came out when I was 11 and was one of the first/most life changing CD's I ever owned. I was actually inspired to spin this again because of The Requiem’s song “Less Than Zero” has riffs that remind me soo much of some of the songs here. This album just never gets old though, despite it turning 20 next years (I want to cry thinking about that). In fact, I think the older I get, the better these songs sound. I was listening to this while on a long walk the other day and kept finding myself being wildly impressed by the songwriting and guitar riffing. There are so many subtle switch ups happening underneath the surface, and the way the two guitars play around each other is just incredible. The closer you listen the more depth there seems to be. "Under The Knife" and "Injection" are straight up two of the best melodic punk songs ever written. Pure genius.

The Requiem Share New Single & Lyric Video "Kill The Lights"

Photo courtesy of the band. South Florida alt rock band THE REQUIEM —Damien [vocals], Felipe [lead guitar], and Salem [bass] — will release their debut album A Cure to Poison the World on February 16 via Fearless Records. Pre-order it here. Today, the band has shared the lyric video for “Kill The Lights.” Here, they show off their alt-rock chops and capture the essence of post-hardcore tension…

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