White Arms of Athena | Recreationed (w/ download)

[MyEggIsBoiled]

Very soothing progressive metal right here. Take BTBAM, The Contortionist, and Last Chance to Reason, force them all to procreate with one another, and this is most definitely what you'd get.

[scruffyplushpuppy]

just look at the writing... its obviously moving

[tarmogoyf24]

This is pretty fuckin good... well done guys...

[Dinonu]

damn this is good

[shredzillaBob]

GREAT SHIT! Where do i buy?

[umers92]

Between the White Buried Arms of Athena and Me

[Hood2Hood1000]

SWEET JEBUS THIS SONGS RULIOS!



[SMWhit3out]

Fuck this band is beast.

[crellojello]

This album blew my mind to the 4th thru 6th dimension!

[soakedinflames]

Yesh the picture does move, even when it is paused, but not as much as it does when the music is playing..

[MrNicetomeetya]

@TheStickfister The picture is really moving. Or the song is sending binaural acid drops through our ear drums. I kind of hope it's the second one

[telephantblog]

an exact replica of between the buried and me. lololol like took every concept that is between the buried and me and decided to call it progressive because they didnt know how to work "we stole their song formula" into a genre label. from the explosive and chaotic beginning, to the weak breakdowns with sofspoken bullshit then back to the screaming.

[jacobnonono]

@telephantblog FUCK YOU!

[cambomeat]

IMO i like the singing while I do enjoy a good amount of screaming

[jacobnonono]

Ya'll are all wrong this is classical music nook GETONMYLEVEL

-Jakwob

[jwynn75]

i gotta say i love this song!! please go on tour with last chance to reason!

[FakeSidewalks]

@james163163 I just don't like how people label themselves or other bands as being progressive without thinking about what the word really means. It's like a composer calling themselves modernistic when they're just copying what everybody else is doing.

[FakeSidewalks]

I was under the impression that "prog" is supposed to be progressive. Don't get me wrong - I'm enjoying this band - but I don't see anything that is progressive about it. This song sounds almost exactly like a combination of BTBAM's first four albums. We've all heard those exact sweep arpeggios before. Progressive should be groundbreaking or unique in some way, and this really isn't.

[james163163]

@FakeSidewalks yeah what the hell... it bugs me how much they sound like btbam... it also makes me feel old lol...

[Protestmyhero1]

@james163163 lol exactly what i get from it too

[Carcinogencrxsh]

THIS IS NOT FUCKING PROG, YOU FUCKING CHILDREN. GO DIE.

[hyperblast81]

@Carcinogencrxsh k

[godsizedhole]

@Carcinogencrxsh Yeah, it is prog-esque though. But really it's pretty much pop.

[HxCandGore]

@godsizedhole

It's a fine definition of prog, just cause they don't have an intense progressive style like BTBAM does don't mean they ain't prog, their more melodic than anything though, pop?

[godsizedhole]

@HxCandGore BTBAM isn't prog either.

[HxCandGore]

@godsizedhole

BTBAM isn't progressive? Hahahhahhahhaha whatever you say buddy

[xGashGrinder]

@godsizedhole

woah. not sure if trolling or just damn stupid...

[ThatGuyWith8Strings]

It's like if Periphery and BTBAM had a baby with... down's syndrome

[howycwap]

@ThatGuyWith8Strings

and then they drop kicked it.

[ImperviousIvan]

All I can say is THANK YOU

[VegetableBasket]

I came here because facebook told me if I liked Animals as Leaders and Periphery I'd like this band. Facebook is wrong 100% of the time about everything.

[666inches]

you guys should tour with last chance to reason btbam and the human abstract

[Skatingisgood]

Guys... you know you can just pause the video to see if it's moving or not...

[jnafe1]

@AlexGianukakis1117 Dude this totally messed with me and my brother's heads. [8]

[MetalPhanatic666]

Holy SHIT! This may be one of the greatest things I've ever heard!

[UninsaneRocker]

Is that picture really moving? O.o I'm freaked out I can't tell!!!!!!!!!!!

[MudTide1993]

BTBAM meets Scale The Summit kind of sound. I like.

[jimsbeef]

Great fucking song

[Tuzioya]

I really like the progressive parts, and I really don't like the hardcore parts. Not sure if want...

[hamcheesecola]

if you guys like this check out Lizard Professor, there another prog band from DFW and play some similar stuff, a little more mathy thoughh

[DeathUponMisanthropy]

Damn when i clicked on the video, i was thinking, this is gonna be another generic stuff, I WAS WRONG.

[thisistides97]

d00d yussss. It's like BTBAM but different.

PERFECTNESS

[MrNicetomeetya]

Sounds like BTBAM and it's really good! I gotta hear more!!!!

[Xinglynx]

These guys are sick! First time hearing them! And... Is that picture supposed to be moving?

[FDfranklin]

mind = blown

[MrJoeysan]

FUCKING TRIPPY FUCK

[malicefitchy24]

Can't wait to hear the rest of the album guys. I pre-ordered the hell out of it today

[killaniadarkstar69]

who is the lead guitarist for this band because that guy is a motherfucking genious :)

[Jtizzle214]

@killaniadarkstar69 Colin McDonnell

[killaniadarkstar69]

@Jtizzle214 Thank You :)

[Jtizzle214]

@killaniadarkstar69 Go pre-order their full length on Prosthetic's site, cause they're all motherfucking geniuses!

[thistimeitswar]

Congrats on getting signed guys...music this unique is actually extremely hard to find anymore.

[iAmRileySXE]

Gonna try to see these guys with Picture It In Ruins tonight at a bar. I'm not 21. But I'm gonna try damn it.

[bmhyakiri]

That was awesome

[StuntinDiva01]

Its woty josh, i like keep it up

[Skwigelf100]

What the... the growler sounds almost just like Tommy Rogers. Same register of growl, enunciation...

Also this is my first time listening to anything by this band and it IS AWESOME

[TheStinkfister]

OK, I can't tell if I'm having an acid flashback or if that picture really is moving. Too many tryptamines have floated in this neurospace.

[thistimeitswar]

@TheStinkfister I haven't taken anything and it still looks like its moving. Fucking trippy

[jwynn75]

@TheStinkfister yea dude i see what your saying and im high! lol

[iquincyi]

@TheStinkfister its moving I havn't smoked in a day atleast so I can officially say it is

[BobsMusic88]

Awesome stuff.

[TheRepentDrums]

Gonna go see them with PTH!

[Yourfrail]

If you dont think this sounds a lil like btbam your retarded, if you think this sounds too much like btbam your retarded.

[thatdood2012]

why are they being compared to btbam that is foolish they sound nothing alike i dont give a damn what decibel magazine says!

[bearsfan092drums]

My only complaint is that it might be TOO btbam influenced. I'm definitely interested in buying the album when it comes out though.  Very nice work guys.

[TheStinkfister]

This is amazing. I can't believe Decibel only gave you guys a 7. They said your album was a hundred times more listenable than BTBAM but gave 'The Great Misdirect' a 9. Kind of contradicting. I'm a huge BTBAM fan, but I think a lot of the comparisons are unwarranted.

[45nothings]

@TheStinkfister you do realize that there's more than one guy/girl reviewing for Decibel right? Different people have different opinions on bands. The guy who reviewed TGM might have given it a nine, but another reviewer might have given it a 5.

[TheStinkfister]

@45nothings no, actually I'm retarded. What the hell is a J. Bennett??? All kidding aside, a professional publication should aim for more consistency, agreed?

[45nothings]

@TheStinkfister it would be nice if a publication was more consist, but then you could end up with a very bias reviewing system, IE. hating any sort of noise/ambient music = 1/4 while loving prog = 7/10.

[TheStinkfister]

@45nothings I'm half anti-Decibel because they gave Wavering Radiant a 7. That shit was album of the year. I'm an ISIS freak, what can I say. Plus they cover way too much black metal.

[45nothings]

@TheStinkfister I know how you feel (I personally think Panopticon is one of the best albums ever made) but Wavering did make it in their top 10 (or 15) of the year. Plus, I'm a big black metal fan, so maybe I'm biased as well.

[TheStinkfister]

@45nothings I guess they did make up for it by placing Oceanic at #4 on their top 100 albums of the decade, but Wavering Radiant was such an amazing album, it simply did not get the credit it deserved. It was a complete evolution of the band, a complete evolution of post-metal. All the bands that came out imitating the Panopticon-sound will pale in comparison to the littany of groups trying to recreate the magic of WR.

[45nothings]

@TheStinkfister I agree that Decibel didn't really give that album the credit it probably deserved, but I think we can both agree that Isis albums are definitely growers, and that they grow better the more you listen to them. For the guy who reviewed it, I don't know how many times he listened to it, but he probably had his own biases and preferences to the album. I totally agree with you on the matter of a new wave of post - whatever bands coming out and coping their style though.

[TheStinkfister]

@45nothings Oh yeah, they are definitely growers. ITAOT I think was made to have instant appeal in certain parts but ISIS albums definitely need multiple listens to be appreciated. I am so sad they broke up. They were setting themselves up to be the indy-er successors to the throne of Tool, in my opinion. And they had just blossomed musically, to be honest. Seeing the WR tour compared to the ITAOT and Panopticon tours they were so much more loose and vibrant, not tight and choreographed.

[45nothings]

@TheStinkfister Dude, I wish I had seen them live, it would have been amazing (I know), they were up there with some of the best crossover bands out right now, being able to reach out from metal to alternative to rock to psychedelic to jam crowds evenly without ever making a change to pop music. Truely innovators and I was really heartbroken by their split as well.

[TheStinkfister]

@45nothings Songs like Ghost Key and Hand of the Host were introducing new elements to the entire genre of progressive ROCK, the tremolo picked scaling in Ghost Key, the melody swapping guitar-bass parts in HotH, Joe Baressi unlocked their true potential, and then they called it quits. A tragic loss for metal.

P.S. I blame Faith Coloccia.

[45nothings]

@TheStinkfister I wouldn't blame Faith, she might have influenced Aaron to focus on Mammifer a little bit more, but it was (apparently) a mutual split between all the guys. I also find the new Mammifer album great, not metal at all, but still very introspective and progressive/post-y.

[TheStinkfister]

@45nothings lol I only blame Faith because of the Yoko Ono pradigm

[EagleEFC8]

sounds great, guys

[ryandavis444]

btbam posers....i love it

[whitearmsofathena1]

Thanks for the kind comments guys. Get your hands on the free material at our facebook and bandcamp before it's too late! Prog or die!!

[MrJoeysan]

@whitearmsofathena1 I DEMAND moar!

[AESOPLETHALSLUG13]

@whitearmsofathena1 cant wait for u guys at the blast o mat my friends band is playin with u guys dissonance in design but any way i wanted to say keep makin music u guys r so fuckin amazing especially on shrooms

[Fwappicino]

Amazing. Found out about you guys through HBIH.

[joenic2791]

@Fwappicino Me too. Join their mailing list and they'll send you free music. I almost have the whole album now

[joenic2791]

@Fwappicino Me too a few months ago. Join the bands mailing list and they will send you free songs. HBIH hasn't told anyone about it for some reason

[dcmx19]

Wow, I can Belive nobody has commented this. Awesome song. Can't wait for the full length. It reminds me alot of Between the buried and me. Prog is the bestr