hit the nail on the head. been listening to these dudes for quite some time now and it has been an absolute pleasure watching them mature as artists and gain some real popularity
One other thing I will say is, I am definitely here for the old school revival of Metalcore. I love bands like Botch, Converge, Glassjaw, Underoath, all those metalcore and post-hardcore bands that preceded the '00s "Commercialized Melodeath Meets Hardcore Breakdowns" bands.
As someone that grew up being ostracized for liking heavy music, I think it’s nothing but net positive that heavy music is popular. It used to be the case that the music had to go softer to gain attraction but the fact that it’s still aggressive and gaining traction is awesome. 👏 it brings a smile to my face knowing that young kids can listen to this crazy shit without it being a big deal, haha
@@heavymetalphilosophy on another note, given this channel is heavy metal philosophy, what areas of philosophy are you interested in? I like epistemology a lot.
@@pai.chiart it's a bit all over the place. Mainly I'm interested in the methods of and reasons why things happen in the metal community (like this episode). But we've explored other areas. Like I had on David Burke as a guest. He's a PhD candidate in metal studies (I had no idea that's a thing and I'm jealous) and his thesis is that all metal is an exercise in existentialism. After speaking to him I tend to agree. But I also would say there's a bit of absurdism in it as well. It could be argued that absurdism is just a sub-genre of existentialism and I'm ok with that.
The fact that they are young is towards the top of the list on the reason why they are popular. It helps them connect with an energetic audience. If it was a bunch of 45 year old dudes making this music it would be...weird.
I think you’re on to something here. I’m with you on the first time hearing KL. I could only listen in doses. But this new album? It’s fantastic. I can’t get enough of it.
Knocked Loose is the only band that caused me to cry really fucking ugly when I first heard them; it was like finding a side of my emotions that I didn't know I had. Also, RIP to the stagediver at 0:41
The recent rise of hardcore-influenced heavy music makes me extremely excited. I love hc not just for its inclusive values and justified anger but also because the live shows are fun as hell. Knocked Loose deserves everything good comming their way for all the work they did to make this happen.
You should. The singer Bryan Garis vows to never sing. No clean vocals. I'm 45 and think I've finally found a band that just gets consistently heavier which each album. My son also is huge fan, so it's a win win
I'm an old school Metal Head but back in the early 2000's there were lesser known Hard Core bands like Cataract, Full Blown Chaos and A Perfect Murder. I totally dug it. The new bands like these guys among others are breaking at a perfect time because of how fucked up our society is right now!
Corey Taylor being vocal about enjoying this band "that he listens during his workout sessions" sure helped a lot. The first time I heard about knocked loose was through him. I didn't stopped to listen to this band properly but what I get from them in terms of style/genre is that they are recicling the old beatdown hardcore subgenre, I used to listen to some bands from the Brazilian scene in the early 2000 but they failed basically because they infused a lot of hate speech in their lyrics and they were aiming the "nyhc gangster" crowd that was pretty big here but as years go buy they ended up becoming daddy and applied to jobs and the gangster stuff was left behind. Right out of my mind I would fail to name bands of this style (and I don't mean the fascist ones) but I can try to reasearch and bring some names and post it here.
Great video. Was recommended on my front page. I think, continuing on from your last point... It's not just Bryans voice. It's the way he presents himself, along with the other members of the band. These guys are just normal guys. They don't have some nu-metal aesthetic. They don't were emo eyeliner and suits. They're not big ol' metal dudes wearing battle jackets. They are normal dudes, doing normal things in their off time... Like gaming, and NOT drinking.
I think Bryan’s vocals are super refreshing. They grew on me. They just sound so genuinely distressed. I’m actually starting to look at the typical hi and low screaming stuff as kind of corny in comparison
I didn't like Bryan's vocals for the first few times I checked out KL 2 years later, man, KL would not be KL without Bryan, I love his vocals now lol The very thing that people dislike about Bryan is what makes vocals so refreshing, I've never heard Mickey Mouse so pissed off before
Thanks for that good comments and analysis. I grew up with Grunge and New Metal, but also with Metallic Hardcore. The production at that time was terrible but i loved bands like Chokehold, Snapcase, Refused, Acme, Converge, Unbroken, Groundwork, Canon, Strain, Undertow (Seattle), Botch, Deadguy, Kiss It Goodbye, Threadbare, Morning Again, Culture and so on. This old vibe of pissed like hell is now back and Knocked Loose is the best example for it. Couldn`t stand the band at the beginning cos of Bryan`s voice, but i enjoy them now even more. Live they are killing it. Other good Metallic Harcore Bands to mention are Mindforce, Jesus Piece, Boundaries, Contention, Thrown, Magnitude, Incendiary, Life`s Question, Drain, Dying Wish, Sunami, Malevolance and many more. Hardcore influenced Metal seems to be en vogue now and i am happy with it.
I know little about knocked loose besides ARF ARF! but the sheer hype over this band and the stories about their insane mosh pits is the reason I have my ticket to see them (with Loathe) this Saturday!!!
Just got back from Las Vegas Sick New World. Slaughter to prevail were my #1 reason to go with knocked loose def being 2. I’ve seen many of the other older bands so I was pumped to see these guys. Damnnnn they know how to put on an amazing show and what I got from the vocals was CD quality vocals Live from Bryan G & Alex T. 🤘😆🤘
In the song All My Friends "alll my friends are dead! All my friends - are - deaaaaaaad!" Essentially quoting Lil Uzi Vert. That and they're just relatable hardcore
@@heavymetalphilosophy I'm almost 29 and even though I'm like a childish adult, I have the years of experience to relate with that as well. He definitely speaks like someone who knows people and sees things how they are
If a band like Paleface Swiss toned down the vocals, got rid of the gutturals and brees, added some clean vocals they would blow up too. Based on their latest single "The Gallow" I think that's exactly what they're doing. Music video got 600k views which surpassed anything they've done before. Watch how they gonna blow up next
That's weird to hear about the "meteoric rise" of Knocked Loose cause they rose metereoricly for me 5 years ago with their 2nd album and in fact I was wondering recently how come they "faded'...
Interesting. It probably seems meteoric to someone like me standing over here in death metal land. The Coachella thing is what got my attention and now bigger metal acts (motionless, BMTH) are working with them and pop stars. It seems like a high water mark to me. But to long time fans I see the perception might be different. 🤔
"After decades of rampant consumerism and the absolute failure of the state to provide anything even resembling moral governance..." - what a great quote!
No. 1 might be the biggest reason. Historically, the most successful bands (at least within their genre) have been the ones whose vocalist didn't sound too much like anybody else. The vocals themselves may be an acquired taste, but they go a long way toward giving the band their own personality.
Nice! Makes me even more pissed about loosing out in the queue for tickets to the pit at the Orbit Culture/MM/Knocked Loose tour. One of my besties was just informing me about Knocked Loose, I’ve been asleep…
Bryan sounds like he is being stabbed when he screams. It magnificent. Saw them live last saturday 10/10 Show. Also got to met Isaac before the show. Very cool dude.
I just discovered these guys last month and have been combing over the catalog ever since. I’m a mid 40s metalhead and I’ve never heard anything like this, to be totally cliche. At first I didn’t like Bryan’s voice but I’ve come around to it because he sounds like he’s having a fucking panic attack while the band is making music that sounds like an emergency alert alarm has gone off and you’re stuck in the sludge panicking trying to escape. Is there a better description for 2024?
A few more thoughts too - they subvert expectations. They look like regular dudes, not hellspawns or bikers. They have a logo I can read. I think with any other vocalist, they’d disappear into the background and sound like numerous other bands. No need for theatrics or video screens or costumes, the music speaks for itself. They’re also single-handedly bringing back cool music videos. I can’t say enough about these guys so congrats on their slipknot tour. That should bring even more exposure.
Brian's voice is the best part of the music. There wasn't any kind of technique until recently. It's such a raw tone of human suffering and anger which is imo what attracts people to more extreme styles of music. KL is one of those energies that either you get or you don't, there's no in between.
I came from punk rock first so to me his voice isnt really a barrier to entry, it's just not quite what you'd expect along with that style of music. But taking metalcore back to metallic hardcore and the kids like it? Say no more.
Maybe with bands like this it could be a gateway into extreme metal and punk and discover the real shit. I ran with dudes back in the 90s who were into Slipknot and I introduced them to shit like Mortician, Cripple bastards, Brutal Truth etc.. They weren't the same in a good way of course.
I think for those of us that regularly listen to death and black metal it's not that extreme... But for the Coachella audience... It's massively extreme. All things relative. And yea I agree. I dig that song too. 🤘
I think it goes by degrees of tolerance. For example, in the 1990s, Slipknot and Korn were extreme to most folks. KL figured out the right amount of extreme that's tolerable to people right now.
They are not extreme relative to the times. But if you had told me in 2,000 when I graduated high school that something this heavy would be at a mainstream festival in the future , I wouldn’t ever have believed it …
Not familiar with your channel. Popped up and a KL fan. But dig the video. Dont disagree with anything said really. And have to lol. Seen a comment here in your comments calling KL generic, trendy, and unchallenging. And outside of your comments i see alot of people say they are getting "soft". Like wut? They are getting heavier if anything. Like wut? If that's what you feel about KL, you're telling on yourself for just being a hater.
Point about religion and metal. Remember that half of the metalcore bands in the world are Christian. Or have religious ideals. Killswitch has tons of Christian lyrics about redemption and atonement. And their members created a Christian sideproject called Times of Grace. Shadows Fall has Rastaffarianism like I and I. Then we have Living Sacrifice, Demon Hunter, Fit For A King, Silent Planet, War of Ages, August Burns Red and As I Lay Dying. How about Zao and Norma Jean... and Deathcore like Impending Doom. then we have hardcore bands like NIV aka No Innocent Victim, Cultist, Strongarm, Overcome, xDisciplexA.D., and the first Embodyment album among hundreds of others. If people are seeking more than what the world can offer, does that mean more Christian metal and or more of a return to what the early 2000s were. I always thought the New Wave of American Heavy Metal lyrically was about empowerment from within or had a very spirtual vibe to it. I was in high school during the early 2000s so all that metal from that era is what i grew up on.
great band, can't stand the vocals. i love high pitched stuff as well, lucker is one of my all timer favorites. even that poppy chick has incredible high pitched vocals in the song she did with KL. i still listen to them though and they're blowin up so they're doing something right.
Just remember Bodybox did the Ragaeton thing first ❤ but im happy to see hardcore getting it's flowers . I forgot to mention they also play an amazing live set that makes you want to mosh so there's always that . 😅
Oh, boy, get ready for the next wave of gate keepers that are all gonna whine that "This is not hardcore" and we're all lame and we know nothing, Jon Snow.
re the point about Christian hypocrisy, i agree. sort of. it's not hypocrisy to fail to live up to an impossible standard; the Bible explains that we all fall short of Christ's example - as he is the only sinless person to walk the earth - but we have to try. to say we do and sneakily, secretly, don't is the hypocrisy and many are guilty of that, to be sure. the Bible's philosophy is simple because it's true. man-made philosophy ties itself in knots trying to reason outside of that truth, or bring God's standards down to human levels. i mean, look at the arguments around objective truth!
1:15 because of his weak as vocals! There are many metal bands who would be more successful if they toned down the vocals. I mean look at Parkway Drive. Dude starts clean vocals after 4 albums and suddently the bands is bigger than ever. Meanwhile critics are shredding all their new trash albums to pieces.
Think about this, if K L had someone that was low and growly they would sound like everyone else. Like creator said Bryan’s voice is what separates them. If you haven’t done this yet, I would recommend it, look up the lyrics and just read them
Geez. This singer about as brutal as spongebob with his weak as voice. The 14-year old frontman of Tracheotomy already has better vocals than the Knocked Loose singer will ever have. Can't get into this band at all. Cool if they bring more people into heavy music though.
People don't want brutal vocals though. People like the yell type screams like old BMTH, slipknot, boundaries, knocked loose. There's so much more depth and emotion to them than the generic metalcore mid screams.
![Knocked Loose - Bonnaroo 2023 [FULL SET]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zDgbHngQXic/mqdefault.jpg)
Man, I'm a late 90's/early 2000's hardcore guy and hardcore these days is just as good as what I grew up with, it's in a total renaissance.
Amazing isn't it? 🤘
I’ve said the same thing. This is a golden age of metal and it’s really awesome to see.
hit the nail on the head. been listening to these dudes for quite some time now and it has been an absolute pleasure watching them mature as artists and gain some real popularity
Thank you! 🙏🤘
One other thing I will say is, I am definitely here for the old school revival of Metalcore. I love bands like Botch, Converge, Glassjaw, Underoath, all those metalcore and post-hardcore bands that preceded the '00s "Commercialized Melodeath Meets Hardcore Breakdowns" bands.
Yes!! 🤘🤘💯 Here for it.
Knocked loose, Kublai Khan, boundaries, chamber, end, Counterparts and orthodox are bringing it back!!
@@spinxz_314 Jesus Piece fits the bill
@@TimmyTurner421 you are right I did!! My bad!
@spinxz_314 Dying Wish, xNomadx and Balmora are bringing back that early 2000s melodic metalcore vibes.
As someone that grew up being ostracized for liking heavy music, I think it’s nothing but net positive that heavy music is popular. It used to be the case that the music had to go softer to gain attraction but the fact that it’s still aggressive and gaining traction is awesome. 👏 it brings a smile to my face knowing that young kids can listen to this crazy shit without it being a big deal, haha
💯 I grew up in the South. It got weird at times.
@@heavymetalphilosophy on another note, given this channel is heavy metal philosophy, what areas of philosophy are you interested in? I like epistemology a lot.
@@pai.chiart it's a bit all over the place. Mainly I'm interested in the methods of and reasons why things happen in the metal community (like this episode). But we've explored other areas. Like I had on David Burke as a guest. He's a PhD candidate in metal studies (I had no idea that's a thing and I'm jealous) and his thesis is that all metal is an exercise in existentialism. After speaking to him I tend to agree.
But I also would say there's a bit of absurdism in it as well. It could be argued that absurdism is just a sub-genre of existentialism and I'm ok with that.
The fact that they are young is towards the top of the list on the reason why they are popular. It helps them connect with an energetic audience. If it was a bunch of 45 year old dudes making this music it would be...weird.
The metal scene needs fresh blood….desperately. If Slayer would have emerged in the scene as 50 year old it would have been …weird as you say haha
I think you’re on to something here. I’m with you on the first time hearing KL. I could only listen in doses. But this new album? It’s fantastic. I can’t get enough of it.
Yes!! Thank you. 🙏🤘
Knocked Loose is the only band that caused me to cry really fucking ugly when I first heard them; it was like finding a side of my emotions that I didn't know I had. Also, RIP to the stagediver at 0:41
Amazing. Also yes. He disappeared into the void 😆
Knocked Loose is currently my favourite band. Brian's voice reminded me so much of Expire back in the day, and I absolutely loved it.
Oooooh good pull. 🤘
The recent rise of hardcore-influenced heavy music makes me extremely excited. I love hc not just for its inclusive values and justified anger but also because the live shows are fun as hell. Knocked Loose deserves everything good comming their way for all the work they did to make this happen.
💯
lmao that dude at the start hit the ground pretty hard I'd imagine
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Even at soon to be sixty and methinks need to check Knocked Loose music out. Thanks Jon, always. 💯
Rage knows no age! 🤘🤘
You should. The singer Bryan Garis vows to never sing. No clean vocals. I'm 45 and think I've finally found a band that just gets consistently heavier which each album. My son also is huge fan, so it's a win win
I'm an old school Metal Head but back in the early 2000's there were lesser known Hard Core bands like Cataract, Full Blown Chaos and A Perfect Murder. I totally dug it. The new bands like these guys among others are breaking at a perfect time because of how fucked up our society is right now!
Yes!! 🤘
As a Christian I love your analysis on your third theory!
Good good. Thank you. I always worry about these because I don't want to be perceived as a Christian hater.
Corey Taylor being vocal about enjoying this band "that he listens during his workout sessions" sure helped a lot.
The first time I heard about knocked loose was through him.
I didn't stopped to listen to this band properly but what I get from them in terms of style/genre is that they are recicling the old beatdown hardcore subgenre, I used to listen to some bands from the Brazilian scene in the early 2000 but they failed basically because they infused a lot of hate speech in their lyrics and they were aiming the "nyhc gangster" crowd that was pretty big here but as years go buy they ended up becoming daddy and applied to jobs and the gangster stuff was left behind.
Right out of my mind I would fail to name bands of this style (and I don't mean the fascist ones) but I can try to reasearch and bring some names and post it here.
An endorsement from Corey certainly can't hurt! 🤘
Great video. Was recommended on my front page.
I think, continuing on from your last point... It's not just Bryans voice. It's the way he presents himself, along with the other members of the band.
These guys are just normal guys. They don't have some nu-metal aesthetic. They don't were emo eyeliner and suits. They're not big ol' metal dudes wearing battle jackets. They are normal dudes, doing normal things in their off time... Like gaming, and NOT drinking.
Thank you! 🙏🤘
I think Bryan’s vocals are super refreshing. They grew on me. They just sound so genuinely distressed. I’m actually starting to look at the typical hi and low screaming stuff as kind of corny in comparison
Distressed is a great adjective!
I didn't like Bryan's vocals for the first few times I checked out KL
2 years later, man, KL would not be KL without Bryan, I love his vocals now lol
The very thing that people dislike about Bryan is what makes vocals so refreshing, I've never heard Mickey Mouse so pissed off before
Thanks for that good comments and analysis. I grew up with Grunge and New Metal, but also with Metallic Hardcore. The production at that time was terrible but i loved bands like Chokehold, Snapcase, Refused, Acme, Converge, Unbroken, Groundwork, Canon, Strain, Undertow (Seattle), Botch, Deadguy, Kiss It Goodbye, Threadbare, Morning Again, Culture and so on. This old vibe of pissed like hell is now back and Knocked Loose is the best example for it. Couldn`t stand the band at the beginning cos of Bryan`s voice, but i enjoy them now even more. Live they are killing it. Other good Metallic Harcore Bands to mention are Mindforce, Jesus Piece, Boundaries, Contention, Thrown, Magnitude, Incendiary, Life`s Question, Drain, Dying Wish, Sunami, Malevolance and many more. Hardcore influenced Metal seems to be en vogue now and i am happy with it.
Thank you..... And.....Thrown!! 🤘🤘
I know little about knocked loose besides ARF ARF! but the sheer hype over this band and the stories about their insane mosh pits is the reason I have my ticket to see them (with Loathe) this Saturday!!!
Oooooh Loathe! 🤘🤘
Those pits live up to the hype. Trust 🙏🏽
Just saw them in Dallas on Sunday, you will be impressed.
You’re awesome. Loved this. I’m in full agreement.
Thank you! 😊🤘
Just got back from Las Vegas Sick New World. Slaughter to prevail were my #1 reason to go with knocked loose def being 2. I’ve seen many of the other older bands so I was pumped to see these guys. Damnnnn they know how to put on an amazing show and what I got from the vocals was CD quality vocals Live from Bryan G & Alex T. 🤘😆🤘
Oh so you got to see the Poppy cameo too? That's sick! 🤘
Bro you are so on point about culture, very interesting ideas man!
Thank you! 🙏🤘
Very good video, very solid takes on music and society. Subscribed!
Thank you and welcome aboard! 🙏🤘
In the song All My Friends "alll my friends are dead! All my friends - are - deaaaaaaad!" Essentially quoting Lil Uzi Vert. That and they're just relatable hardcore
And when I turned 30 I had a very similar thought. A lot of my friends by that point were either gone or might as well be.
@@heavymetalphilosophy I'm almost 29 and even though I'm like a childish adult, I have the years of experience to relate with that as well. He definitely speaks like someone who knows people and sees things how they are
This is a great video man
Thank you! 🙏🤘
If a band like Paleface Swiss toned down the vocals, got rid of the gutturals and brees, added some clean vocals they would blow up too. Based on their latest single "The Gallow" I think that's exactly what they're doing. Music video got 600k views which surpassed anything they've done before. Watch how they gonna blow up next
Ok.. Watching! 🤘
That's weird to hear about the "meteoric rise" of Knocked Loose cause they rose metereoricly for me 5 years ago with their 2nd album and in fact I was wondering recently how come they "faded'...
Interesting. It probably seems meteoric to someone like me standing over here in death metal land. The Coachella thing is what got my attention and now bigger metal acts (motionless, BMTH) are working with them and pop stars. It seems like a high water mark to me. But to long time fans I see the perception might be different. 🤔
@@heavymetalphilosophy I'm in death metal land myself but I thought Knocked Loose were everywhere in 2019
"After decades of rampant consumerism and the absolute failure of the state to provide anything even resembling moral governance..." - what a great quote!
Thanks! 😁🙏🤘
Awesome vid!! 🤘
Thank you! 🙏🤘
No. 1 might be the biggest reason. Historically, the most successful bands (at least within their genre) have been the ones whose vocalist didn't sound too much like anybody else. The vocals themselves may be an acquired taste, but they go a long way toward giving the band their own personality.
Agreed! While I love Kublai Khan... To me that's what a hardcore vocalist sounds like. Knocked Loose is definitely different sounding.
Every song they put out for the new record so far is so unhinged I don't think anyone can mimic their sound.
😆 what a great adjective! 🤘
Nice! Makes me even more pissed about loosing out in the queue for tickets to the pit at the Orbit Culture/MM/Knocked Loose tour. One of my besties was just informing me about Knocked Loose, I’ve been asleep…
Man what a line up!? 🤘
Not my cup of tea but I like how the extreme music is getting out there.
Respect. 🤘
Bryan sounds like he is being stabbed when he screams. It magnificent. Saw them live last saturday 10/10 Show. Also got to met Isaac before the show. Very cool dude.
I need to see them live! 🤘
I just discovered these guys last month and have been combing over the catalog ever since. I’m a mid 40s metalhead and I’ve never heard anything like this, to be totally cliche. At first I didn’t like Bryan’s voice but I’ve come around to it because he sounds like he’s having a fucking panic attack while the band is making music that sounds like an emergency alert alarm has gone off and you’re stuck in the sludge panicking trying to escape. Is there a better description for 2024?
@@zackh.8374 great description! 😆🤘
A few more thoughts too - they subvert expectations. They look like regular dudes, not hellspawns or bikers. They have a logo I can read. I think with any other vocalist, they’d disappear into the background and sound like numerous other bands. No need for theatrics or video screens or costumes, the music speaks for itself. They’re also single-handedly bringing back cool music videos. I can’t say enough about these guys so congrats on their slipknot tour. That should bring even more exposure.
Brian's voice is the best part of the music. There wasn't any kind of technique until recently. It's such a raw tone of human suffering and anger which is imo what attracts people to more extreme styles of music. KL is one of those energies that either you get or you don't, there's no in between.
Makes sense. 🤘🤘
Brian a real dude….. and ppl see it.
That simple.
I can get behind that. 🤘
Knocked Loose is the second coming of Slayer 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Calm down
Whoa! 😆🤘
Arf Arf!
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I came from punk rock first so to me his voice isnt really a barrier to entry, it's just not quite what you'd expect along with that style of music. But taking metalcore back to metallic hardcore and the kids like it? Say no more.
Right?! So no more! 🤘
Maybe with bands like this it could be a gateway into extreme metal and punk and discover the real shit. I ran with dudes back in the 90s who were into Slipknot and I introduced them to shit like Mortician, Cripple bastards, Brutal Truth etc.. They weren't the same in a good way of course.
This is my favorite kind of story to hear. 🤘🤘
Great riffs and no singing. Hard to come across nowadays.
Earth crisis was the original metalcore band, knocked loose has a similar vibe. No b.s. emo singing
We are so back! 🤘
I’m pretty stoked they’re opening for the Slipknot tour
Gonna be some tired jokers in the audience that night! 🤘
BTW: What happened to your sponsorship? I see you wearing rings, but you don't mention the company anymore.
I think the affiliate link still works. I could still list it but since I opened my merch shop people seem to like that much more. 🤷
Knocked Loose might have the vocals i ever heard, its on the level of current Chris Barnes
Knocked Loose is not really that extreme, and that's why it works.
The KL song with Poppy is one of the few KL songs I like.
I think for those of us that regularly listen to death and black metal it's not that extreme... But for the Coachella audience... It's massively extreme. All things relative.
And yea I agree. I dig that song too. 🤘
I think it goes by degrees of tolerance. For example, in the 1990s, Slipknot and Korn were extreme to most folks. KL figured out the right amount of extreme that's tolerable to people right now.
Yes. Very well said.
They are not extreme relative to the times. But if you had told me in 2,000 when I graduated high school that something this heavy would be at a mainstream festival in the future , I wouldn’t ever have believed it …
Pure teenage angst.
Rawr! 😆🤘
Not familiar with your channel. Popped up and a KL fan. But dig the video. Dont disagree with anything said really.
And have to lol. Seen a comment here in your comments calling KL generic, trendy, and unchallenging. And outside of your comments i see alot of people say they are getting "soft". Like wut? They are getting heavier if anything.
Like wut? If that's what you feel about KL, you're telling on yourself for just being a hater.
Thank you. 🙏
Kinda crazy that the song with Poppy was their perfect opportunity to go soft and they were like naw... RAGE! 😆🤘🤘
Point about religion and metal. Remember that half of the metalcore bands in the world are Christian. Or have religious ideals. Killswitch has tons of Christian lyrics about redemption and atonement. And their members created a Christian sideproject called Times of Grace. Shadows Fall has Rastaffarianism like I and I. Then we have Living Sacrifice, Demon Hunter, Fit For A King, Silent Planet, War of Ages, August Burns Red and As I Lay Dying. How about Zao and Norma Jean... and Deathcore like Impending Doom. then we have hardcore bands like NIV aka No Innocent Victim, Cultist, Strongarm, Overcome, xDisciplexA.D., and the first Embodyment album among hundreds of others.
If people are seeking more than what the world can offer, does that mean more Christian metal and or more of a return to what the early 2000s were. I always thought the New Wave of American Heavy Metal lyrically was about empowerment from within or had a very spirtual vibe to it. I was in high school during the early 2000s so all that metal from that era is what i grew up on.
Good point! I think if we do see a rise in new Christian metal bands it would be a good indicator if our thesis is correct.
I can't get over the Mickey Mouse sounding vocals.
great band, can't stand the vocals. i love high pitched stuff as well, lucker is one of my all timer favorites. even that poppy chick has incredible high pitched vocals in the song she did with KL. i still listen to them though and they're blowin up so they're doing something right.
I get that for sure. Respect the respect even when it's not for you. 🤘
Just remember Bodybox did the Ragaeton thing first ❤ but im happy to see hardcore getting it's flowers . I forgot to mention they also play an amazing live set that makes you want to mosh so there's always that . 😅
Shoulda made it 6 reasons! Good call. 😆🤘
Oh, boy, get ready for the next wave of gate keepers that are all gonna whine that "This is not hardcore" and we're all lame and we know nothing, Jon Snow.
Yes, the hardcore version of the Trve Kvlt guys. I'm not sweating it. 😆🤷
re the point about Christian hypocrisy, i agree.
sort of.
it's not hypocrisy to fail to live up to an impossible standard; the Bible explains that we all fall short of Christ's example - as he is the only sinless person to walk the earth - but we have to try. to say we do and sneakily, secretly, don't is the hypocrisy and many are guilty of that, to be sure.
the Bible's philosophy is simple because it's true. man-made philosophy ties itself in knots trying to reason outside of that truth, or bring God's standards down to human levels. i mean, look at the arguments around objective truth!
I feel like this is not metalcore. I haven’t heard guitar solos and also no clean vocals. I believe this is deathcore.
These days metalcore is a wide umbrella, but the original form that gave the genre it's name is metallic hardcore, which is definitely what this is.
1:15 because of his weak as vocals! There are many metal bands who would be more successful if they toned down the vocals. I mean look at Parkway Drive. Dude starts clean vocals after 4 albums and suddently the bands is bigger than ever. Meanwhile critics are shredding all their new trash albums to pieces.
Interesting take on the voice. It’s the reason I don’t listen to them. Their music is great but the voice doesn’t suit me. That said I am 49! 🤷🏼♂️
Yea at first Kublai Khan appealed to me more because of his voice, but Knocked Loose is really growing on me. Especially lyrically.
Think about this, if K L had someone that was low and growly they would sound like everyone else. Like creator said Bryan’s voice is what separates them.
If you haven’t done this yet, I would recommend it, look up the lyrics and just read them
Geez. This singer about as brutal as spongebob with his weak as voice. The 14-year old frontman of Tracheotomy already has better vocals than the Knocked Loose singer will ever have. Can't get into this band at all. Cool if they bring more people into heavy music though.
People don't want brutal vocals though. People like the yell type screams like old BMTH, slipknot, boundaries, knocked loose. There's so much more depth and emotion to them than the generic metalcore mid screams.
Generic unchallenging and trendy, usual stuff