[Music] Protest the Hero - Scurrilious

[Badpaladin]

Anybody else give it a full listen? I was disappointed by the album, actually. Granted, C'est la Vie and Sex Tapes are totally fucking amazing, but the rest of the album just seems to be devoid of something that was always there in their music. Kezia was just bursting with a great mix of wankery and solid emotion. Fortress had some more wankery than Kezia, but without a doubt rife with awesomeness(Bone Marrow, anybody?). But Scurilious just seems....well, it's almost all wankery. The guitar is awesome and the drums are solid as usual, but I keep asking myself,

How much Rody Walker is too much Rody Walker?

I think it might also be his lyrics that did it for me rather than Arif doing it this time around.

Example song, my personal favorite:

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I liked it, a lot, but it's not as good as Fortress.
Still really good though. They're touring with TesseracT so that pleases me too.

[SilkforCalde]

I think it's pretty good. Certainly better than Kezia. It's grown on me a lot, but the new Heretoir leaked so it's hard to bring myself to listen to anything else.

[Jizmac]

i can't get through it, i think most of the lyrics are shit this time around you can tell that they let someone else write the songs. I loved the first 2 albums with the common theme to them but i guess they're trying something new which is a good thing but it's just not doing it for me

[SilkforCalde]

Lyrics don't really phase me. I don't care about that. Hell, I listen to Cave In, a band that writes such "awesome" lyrics as "the metronome is wrong again, my heart has surely gone and skipped a beat"

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Shitty music just ain't worth makin
Smiles and thank-you's just aint worth faking
Some assholes' hands ain't worth shaking
And if it's not broken we need to break it
There's no such thing as unconditional
No contracts bind you in the end
Make no mistake, this is a killing ground
Blood hungry and camouflaged as friend
Select yes
At the end of this mess
If you get there then it's your only fucking option left

These days I don't know
The people I'm supposed to trust
And I don't trust these people
That I'm supposed to know

The handlebars on my dreams they slowly start to rust
Helped take everything and somehow you still know
And as the cocaine cowboys finally get their wings
And sell them all for blow
These days I don't know these people that I'm supposed to trust
And I dont trust these motherfuckers that I'm supposed to know
These handlebars on all my dreams they slowly start to rust
The cocaine cowboys finally get their wings too
Now they sell them all for blow
I make music for myself, not for hand jobs from the upper-tier or their undeserved wealth
Here's to their failing fucking health

[Maphive]

At first I was very iffy about it. After a couple of listens tho it totally blew me away. I love the mini-instrumentals and Rody's voice is better than ever on this one. I also feel the lyrics have a little more feeling that the previous albums. Definately a 1UP from these guys. I totally recommend it if you like the genre.