it all began this morning when someone posted in the comments section of meshuggah's "new millennium cyanide christ"
HEY! I play in a metal band called F3tch, Meshuggah heavily influenced
us (you'll see what I mean,) and YOU can get us signed. PLEASE help us
out!
You can hear us on youtube, myspace (url's f3tch) and facebook.
To vote, type the words 'become Roadrunner scout' into google and click the first site. Click the 'become a scout' box.
THIS LETS YOU HELP DECIDE WHO THE LABEL SIGNS.
Click the 'search' box, search for F3tch on the site and PLEASE vote for us. Thanks guys! (moar leik FELCH, amirite? anyway, i hate spammers more than richard dawkins hates your stupid religion, so i KNEW i had to reply.)
officernarc (13 hours ago)
"influenced by meshuggah"? i know lots of bands out there who are
"influenced by meshuggah" and they're all shit. why don't you people
stop ripping meshuggah off and at least try being original?
btw,
i listened to your band and you guys sound more like a cracked out
linkin park. i thought nu-metal died at the end of the last millennium.
your music is so culturally irrelevant that it's not funny.
(so, i thought that would be the end of it. boy was i wrong! when i got home after work, i found this lovely email in my youtube inbox.)
subblime776
Normally I don't bother arguing on people with youtube, as I've got
better things to do with my time. But dude, your comment was so
offensively ignorant that I can't not address it. We don't give a shit
if our music's 'culturally irrelevant'-any musician who chases trends
is a fake and is playing music for the wrong reasons. Yea, nu metal
died a while back, but it's the music we fucking love, so it's what
we're gonna play. You're obviously not a musician, so you have no
understanding of what compels real musicians to play music. Learn an
instrument and you'll see what I'm talking about dude. Btw Meshuggah
share quite a few elements with nu metal, and are in fact closer to
that genre than any other. Playing almost exclusively on the bottom
string, largely refraining from solos, heavy detuning-all of which they
do, and all of which are nu-metal traits
(hot damn, i do believe i have been served. he even went so far as to tell me that i need to "learn an instrument". well, excuuuuuuuuse me, mr. jerkface, but i'm QUITE HAPPY with my inability to competently play my bass. being petty and hilarious, OF COURSE i couldn't let things slide...)
officernarc (just now)to whom it may concern,
thank you for taking the time out of your busy day of favouriting videos of band to respond to my little comment. rest assured that i read your response with great interest and fervor.
first of all, i would like to apologize for calling your band or music, whichever of the two i referred to as "culturally irrelevant". i actually meant to say that it was "not very good." however, i am glad that you enjoy playing the music that you do. understandably, it must be difficult to be in a band that "isn't very good" and plays "terrible music." oh, i know the bitter taste all too well. tears and rain like a stinging pain have passed before my eyes. oh there i go again quoting blood for blood lyrics.
but i would like to congratulate you for adamantly defending your terrible band, especially your comparison to meshuggah. perhaps you are right. perhaps it is i am who is wrong and perhaps your band is not that dissimilar from meshuggah. i mean, once you take away the rhythmic complexity, extremely low tuning, compelling song structures, thoughtful lyrics and replace jens kidman with a bland fred durst, you can really begin to hear how much both bands have in common with each other!
so thank you very much for spamming the way you did! your unwelcome intrusion into my morning has really made me begin to re-think music altogether! now if you'll excuse me, i have a moby concert to attend to which i have front row seats. maybe i'll see you there!
love,
o-narc(also, i attached the video of 'jesus mouth', you know, uh, the one with the gay dudes grinding up on each other. now we play the waiting game...)
EDIT: THE FIGHT CONTINUES.
(so, he FINALLY got back to me after what? 5 minutes? nice to see i'm so high on his list of priorities.)
subblime776 (whenever)
First off: my day doesn't fucking consist or favouriting videos.
Besides the normal socialising/working based stuff, I promote my band
on youtube. I'm working towards achieving a goal I have. What are you
doing? I'll tell you:sitting on the sidelines and talking shit about
people doing something with their lives, cause you lack the
talent/motivation (delete as applicable) to do the same with yours. So
you talk shit to make yourself feel better. Which is the reason that
most internet shit-talkers talk shit; it's a means to mask their
insecurity and vent it somehow.
Second off; I genuinely
love my band. Otherwise why the fuck would I be putting so much energy
into promoting it? And it's not a 'beggars can't be choosers'-type
scenario of not being able to find anyone else who will take me; I'm in
an additional 4 bands besides this one, so if I was so unhappy with it
surely I could pull it out and chuck it in with one of the others
instead?
Enjoy Moby, dipshitofficernarc (now)
no. i talk shit because you think that spamming your shit band is okay. plus, it's easy to talk shit about a shitty band. if you think that because i don't go around spamming everyone that means i'm unmotivated, i really have to laugh. maybe it's not that i'm unmotivated. maybe it's that i have a better concept of marketing than you do. maybe i'm not interested in forcing people into listening to something the way that you seem to be. except for sending you that video. i just did that because it fills me with joy to annoy and irritate you.
congratulations on having 4 other bands! i guess if this one doesn't work out, you can always try for the big time with one of them. hopefully one of them is better.
as far as why you'd be putting so much energy into promoting this band? i dunno. you seem to be pretty keen to get signed to a label or something. well man, i got bad news for you if you think that this band is going to go anywhere. you seem to lack any concept of what is selling records. but regardless of whatever it is, it's definitely not the sound of 1999. but who knows? maybe you can get on a tour with flambookey & 40 below summer.
i mean, it's offensive that you purport to be "all about the music" when this band you're whoring out is as artistically bankrupt as brokencyde. but i mean, at least they're smart enough to make records that kids are going to buy. you, on the other hand cling to this genre of music which was bad at the height of its popularity. i have no qualms with telling you this because it was something that i lived through and experienced for myself. from that period of time, there is not one single redeeming band. linkin park, limp bizkit, no one, darwin's waiting room, motograter, twisted method, etc. all of those bands fucking sucked shit through a straw. and here you are in 2009 emulating the most dickless, immature music that was ever put to tape. normally, i'd just consider this whole exchange a fucking joke, but you're so sincere that it's just sad. but sad to the point where it makes me laugh at you.
because roadrunner would never sign this even when they were signing this.
love,
chester p. finklestein, vii, esq
p.s: i will enjoy moby. i will be front row center asking him to play whichever song i heard in that commercial.
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