Jared Dines + Howard Jones (Ex-KSE) Collab Album Project ~ Friday

[Metaldestroyerdennis]

I don't get the fascination with Howard Jones.

For a lot of us, Killswitch Engage is one of the iconic bands of a very much bygone era. Whether that is actually due to Howard himself or if another vocalist would have been fine, it still remains that his vocals are very unique and remind us of a really fun band we used to play on repeat.

Also, how many vocalists can be in a band like Killswitch at their peak and still want to do screams at his age? It's pretty cool to see him still bringing it almost 2 decades later in his 50s rather than moving to softer styles of music.

TL;DR: Metal singer star sings metal songs good

 

[TheBolivianSniper]

EDIT: They just released a new song and uh
Nah it's not better than any era of KSE, be it Howard or Leach era.

Light the Torch was just bad imo but there's no way this sorta thing is better than any KSE even without Howard. I love their newest album even if the lyrics aren't too great. Adam and Joel just riff too damn hard and there's no way Jared Dines can get the same level of production even if he kind of is a big name. KSE records sound too damn good, the mixing is immaculate on Atonement and it's one of my favorite guitar tones ever.

 

[MUTANTOID]

This is the Howard Jones crossover I'm all about.

 

[BusinessMan]

this ain't it chief

https://sionband.bandcamp.com/releases

Sounds like shitty light the torch b-sides

 

[Ataraxia2320]

I had fun with this album. It's a bit generic but definitely better than light the torch.



This song stuck out to me on first listen.

 

[junkyardsamsob]

Howard still got it (fuck yeah) but his talents are wasted on Jared's shit. Another dime a dozen YouTube personality with content that peaked years ago.

 

[junkyardsamsob]

I'd like to throw all those people wasting their talents in shitty bands and put them into a new one and see what comes up. Jeff Loomis, Howard jones, Dave Lombardo...

Add in Rob Trujillo and bam you got yourself a full band.

 

[katsumura78]

Lots of “hate” on this album but it’s way better than the light the torch stuff. It’ll never be killswitch but it’s not bad. It’s closer to the modern metalcore coming out over the last few years and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I’m actually liking what I’m hearing here but I never followed Jared on YouTube so it is what it is.

 

[Hoss632]

Listened to the album. Personally I like it. It's better than Light the Torch. I'm not a guy that likes this type of metal but over all Howard and Jared had me head hanging to the entire thing.

 

[Emperoff]

Lots of “hate” on this album but it’s way better than the light the torch stuff. It’ll never be killswitch but it’s not bad. It’s closer to the modern metalcore coming out over the last few years and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I’m actually liking what I’m hearing here but I never followed Jared on YouTube so it is what it is.

Disliking something =/= hate.

It’s ok to not like everything

 

[katsumura78]

Disliking something =/= hate.

It’s ok to not like everything

I should’ve used a different word but there’s clearly some strong opinions being thrown out about Jared. And I agree we don’t have to like everything lol, but do we need to flex our egos in a thread about a new side project? I’m not saying you’re doing that but a few have.

 

[Musiscience]

Album is really good. Not very innovative but still a few cool riffs and Howard’s vocals are as good as ever.

 

[Frostbite]

There's ways to say you dislike something without being hateful. I don't really care about the band but some of you just have hate in your heart lmao

 

[FILTHnFEAR]

It's just.....ok. Howard's still got it for sure. The clean singing seemed kinda out of place in the song imo though.

I really can't stand Jared either, but he's a lot more tolerable when he's not going out of his way to be as obnoxious as humanly possible.

 

[Giest]

I like Howard's voice a lot, he is one of the very few clean singing metal vocalists which I think add something constructive to a song. The rest detract heavily, *cough* VOM *cough*. Never really thought he fit with KSE though Jesse left him some big shoes to fill, but now that Jesse has come back to KSE I actually miss Howard. Guess the grass is always greener.

I'm not going to talk about Dines as I never thought he mattered one way or another. I would describe his playing as unremarkable- said with a completely neutral opinion. It's a guitar, he plays notes on it. Not someone I would bend over backwards to jam with but he is proficient enough.

 

[Emperoff]

This is the Howard Jones crossover I'm all about.

I definetely dug that one more.

 

[Veldar]

Man the worst part about guitar youtube is it gave a platform to all these C tier local band guitarists, all their songs are generic as fuck

 

[RevDrucifer]

I got the last Light The Torch album after hearing one of the singles, but as I listened to the album and every damn song started off with the hi/lo passed guitar riff before breaking into the main song I had to chuckle. I seriously think all but one or two songs on that album starts off that way.

I saw them with a couple other bands, Fit For A King was one, I can’t remember who else, but Howard put them all to shame because he was the only dude who didn’t have his vocals on backing tracks. Fit For A King had their fucking guitars AND bass on backing tracks, which was evident when the dude went for a pinch harmonic, which kept playing over the PA while his hands moved somewhere else. Watching other live videos to confirm my suspicions….confirmed my suspicions. Fuckin’ lame as fuck.

I’ll check out this Jones/Dines thing because Howard writes some great melodies and I love his voice, but I’m not expecting anything magic from it. I figured it’d sound like a Trivium-soundalike with less interesting parts and Howard singing over it.

 

[makesexnotwar]

Looks like about the half of this thread is full of discussions about how bad Dines is instead of how is the album. We as guitar players might be a bit jealous to the fact that youtuber got a chance to create music with Howard. I can relate but anyway album turned out quite good.

 

[ArtDecade]

Looks like about the half of this thread is full of discussions about how bad Dines is instead of how is the album. We as guitar players might be a bit jealous to the fact that youtuber got a chance to create music with Howard. I can relate but anyway album turned out quite good.

In all honesty, I don't rate Dines or Howard. I'm here more out of boredom.