Bands you loved that faded away • Page 96

They've been going live from the studio on IG for months, pretty confident they've got an album coming

 

"WE'LL STAND ON TOP OF THE WOOOOOORLD LOOKING DOOOOOOWN AAAAAAAHHHHH"

 

I was just coming to post about Conditions lol

 

Also looks like Showbread put out an album this year, sounds so different

 

I'm honestly unsure that I want to listen to it after the conversation about its content in the Christian Music thread. It sounds like the frontman has... some issues.

 

first new Jonathan Jones release in a long while. Waking Ashland, We Shot The Moon.

 

I had no idea the F-Ups rose from the dead.

For reference:

New stuff:

 

Listened to this yesterday for the first time. Really cool “TREOS with a bit less post-hardcore and a bit more prog” vibes.

https://spotify.link/hrJ7DsLZFDb

 

Oh Six Gallery were great. Had fun as a teenager trying to learn the main riff from one of their songs back when I was all over math-y emo.

 

Suddenly thought about this band today and I think I haven't listened to their albums in at least a decade. I remember being drawn to the presence of a violinist and her vocals here and there.

RIYL: From First To Last, Chiodos, My Chemical Romance, just... 2006 stuff

 

Made me think of this band for some reason, anyone remember?

 

Endless Hallway was dope.

 

I Am Ghost was sick. I used to go on really long late-night walks in college and blast their music. That first EP and LP are phenomenal; the follow-up LP wasn't quite as good after the departure of violin/keys/female vocals, but still nice.

I still have the CDs, in fact. I should check my parents' house.

 

Currently listening to their debut and good god why did I not stumble upon this band once in the last 14 years? I'm having a blast so far

It brings back so many of my favorite alt rock/post-hardcorish bands to mind

 

This was when Wind-Up Records was trying to branch out from post-grunge and nu-metal bands, and I don't think they were very well-equipped for it.

 

solid list! love that they gave a shoutout to Forever Came Calling, i agree that band should've gotten bigger, their two pure noise full lengths are tight pop punk.



punk https://thehardtimes.net/lists/ten-underrated-albums-from-pure-noise-records-that-your-parents-will-hate-and-so-will-you/

 

i remember they signed cartel, Hawthorne heights, & bayside all around the same time, all their albums were awesome, they didn't know how to promote them, so the albums "flopped" sales wise and all 3 of em got dropped lol fuckin wind up records.

 

They kind of lost the plot on everyone around the same time.

First they tried to stock up on their bread and butter. I remember they signed Big Dismal, Edgewater, Strata, Submersed, Atomship, and Seven Wiser all at the same time, and absolutely not a single one of them broke out.

Then they tried to diversify. They got bands from the scene, like you said. They got good indie acts in Civil Twilight, People In Planes, Pilot Speed, Stars Of Track And Field. Thriving Ivory especially should've done damage IMO.

They even picked up established acts like Filter, O.A.R., Five For Fighting, The Darkness... couldn't do a goddamn thing with a single one of them.

Eventually they got bought out, all their bigger acts left, got folded and died.

It's sad because I followed their roster since the 00s and they always IMO had a good eye for solid bands, but I feel like they just rode the crescent of 00s active rock and didn't know how to turn that stroke of fortune into something lasting.

 

damn what a bummer, i looked em up on wikipedia now and i see they ended in 2016. i also have never heard of any of the bands you mentioned minus the last three established acts. before the three bands i mentioned, i heard of the label through creed & evanescence

any of em you recommend that i might like?

 

Oh wow, Big Dismal. Back in the days of Kutless, Seventh Day Slumber, Pillar, 12 Stones, Day of Fire, etc. when Christian labels and bookstores were pushing the whole “if you like that, you’ll love this” thing pretty hard, those bands were in the “recommended if you like” section for Creed and damn if the lead singer of Big Dismal didn’t do a pretty decent Scott Staap impression.

 

From the ones I know in that post, I highly recommend Strata, Civil Twilight and Filter.

Interesting to hear about Wind Up Records. I also always saw them as a but... I mean post-grunge / hard rock label so I had no idea they had tried to dive further into scene adjacent alt rock stuff, to hit or miss results I guess.

 

Regarding Civil Twilight, I think this Coldplay-like song was their most popular.

I do prefer their latter stuff though.

 

Edgewater, Strata, Submersed....some bangers in there

 

I know, right? I'm not saying that any of them would've been bigger with a different label, but it was clear Wind-Up had crazy expectations and did the bare minimum to try to achieve them.

I remember Edgewater left after their debut cause they realized they could put a follow-up out faster on their own than if they stayed.

And then Submersed wrote like twenty songs for their second album and Wind-Up kept having them write more, and when they finally put it out, Wind-Up refused to push a second single.

I feel like so many bands got shortchanged by that label.

 

they put our three amazing albums from three bands that i grew up on, but none of them were promoted properly. amazing albums though imo.

you can hear that polished shine on the albums wind up put out for those bands too, had the money to get top tier producers.

(killing time - gil norton)
(skeletons - howard benson)
(cartel did their own album with time bought out from epic by wind up)