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Okay. I hear a lot of **** about these guys. They played at the SOTU tour with the number 12 and oother acts like that and basically got shat on there too.
I'm personally a huge fan. Back when they had Matthew Caudle was their best stuff-the dual vocals are simply amazing. Tell Shannon Her Crafts are Ready, Saran Wrap Love Affair, and Tragic Tragic Track Jackets are some of my most favorite songs and will probably be mix cds i make for years to come.

any other fans out there?

more like Heavy Heavy No No.

whyyyyyyyyy

The moaning "clean" singing is generic, they're breakdowns are predictable. The guitars are laughable, the whole high/low screams are too. Typical "experimental" hardcore scene band.

what do you mean by cleaning singing exactly? i don't think everything they play can be considered predictable, especially not on their new album. although yeah they usually end up in an open drop D for some portions of some of their songs it still sounds great.
I can understand why you don't like the guitar or screams. Not a lot of people do.
what bands of this genre do you listen to?

sounds generic, really.

like what exactly

like everything else

Isn't this the sort of tripe that gets played to prisoners in Guantanomo Bay to get 'confessions' out of them?

This band is completely generic, but I like "Tell Shannon..", just like "Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste" by Norma Jean.
Probably just a guilty pleasure.

I endorse this post.

Pure garbage. HHLL, #12 and TFOT could all break up, and I would be pretty pleased.

damnnn i thought there'd be at least one fan out there...if either one of those bands broke up i'd probably have a mental breakdown or something.

It's cool that if your favourite bands stopped playing you would have a breakdown in remembrance of their breakdowns.
Jud.

i can't group hhll with any other bands. my idea of generic is **** like the devil wears prada and drop dead, gorgeous. they don't break the mold at all and i've heard dozens of bands that sound exactly like them. the similar voices, guitars, dramatic singing, etc. Verse, chorus, breakdown, verse, chorus, breakdown. hhll has a completely different sound and i can understand if you hate them but they're not in the least bit generic. no the breakdowns are not predictable. the guitars are brutal and the bass lines are inventive as ****. if you're going to say they're some run-of-the-mill experimental hardcore scene band at least give me some bands they sound like.

Plothead - you in this band?

ha i wish

i dont think they sound like other breakdown bands and Im sure they influence a lot of other bands even though the oldest member is I think 21 or something. Even though they fit in with the rest of those generic bands, they do have some originality. I think the #12 and tfot are both original in their own right but at the same time capitalized on what other artists invented and added something to it. They get on a major record label and shunned the diy ethic of those artists they looked up to and voila, they change their sound to crappy originality haha.

I cannot count how many times I have had to defend this band. And I'll never tire of it.

These guys are more original than 90% of the other bands in the hardcore/metal world right now. Their riffs are original, and their lyrics contain as much depth as the listener wants them to. Consider the lyric, "Everyone around me is a ghost." That line is one of my all-time favorites; consider its implications. The same goes for the song "There's A Bat". Sure, on the surface it may sound like the most basic, uninspired song ever; yet I wrote an entire analysis paper on it.

A lot of people complain about the fact that they use breakdowns. What's your point? The breakdown has been a staple of metalcore for years. Besides, HHLL's breakdowns are creative, and, unlike most bands in the scene right now, not the cornerstone of their music.

The greatest testament to HHLL is the fact that they do not take themselves 100% seriously. They know that they're playing relatively basic music; they don't claim to be virtuosos or even innovators. They also have a great sense of humor, something which becomes obvious both in their tongue-in-cheek lyrics and their live performance. Humor was one of the original pillars of hardcore; it was lost somewhere along the way. HHLL, while I'm sure they've never heard Gorilla Biscuits, have brought this comedic edge back to hardcore.

Whenever I encounter someone who dislikes HHLL, 90% of the time it's due to their vocals. I can understand this; the guy sounds like he wants to die on every song. If you don't like it, don't listen to it. However, it does not make them a bad band.

****ing right.

by the way, three bands I can think of that sound similar are The Jonbenet (at times), Duck Duck Goose and Gwen Stacy (the latter is more melodic)

haha i guess the jonbenet yeah i guess. the jonbenet singer has a much whinier singer and he sings much more i just thought associated it as much different.

well put. I know a lot of people go to see them and listen to them even though they say they dont like them. It seems like they are a lot of peoples guilty pleasure or something. I think they're pretty cool, I like them a lot more than norma jean and all the other metalcore staples

That's the first band I thought of.
So ridiculously similar.

wow. it seems like every terrible band out there is being mentioned in this thread.

"Eating Lightning Part One" by The Jonbenet is a damn good song, I have to say.

That seems to be soo
This band is pretty horrible

bwaahahahaha.....

I usually hate this kind of nu-school bullplop, but HHLL are bizarrely entertaining. They're just avant-garde enough to pull it all together.

all you screamo whores stay out of this thread. all your bands sound the same. reverbed guitars and screaming, big whoop. oh snap, a crescendo!?!?!

no not really

You listen to Norma Jean.

lolz, i missed seeing your posts, you make things interesting.

point is Heavy Heavy No No is a genric band for hardcore kids who don't have a clue what real music is.

wrong


and ethan, i doubt you've ever heard Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child. excuse me for liking a metalcore band with great lyrics and unique compositions who manage to incorporate post-metal and sludge into their music.

I have 22 hours of screamo on my PC, and it is as generic and formulaic--if not moreso--as any other genre out there. HHLL are neither generic nor formulaic, so maybe you guys don't know what "real music" is, which is an ignorant statement in the first place.

doubtful. next time i need a lesson in genericore, i'll ask you. boy, solid state sure is signing some great bands these days, aren't they?

>>>:stupid:

I honestly hate when people say that.

gtfo

there are a lot of screamo bands that stick to their octave chords like metalcore acts stick to their breakdowns. and oh my geez solid state signs the best bands, probably my favorite label!!!! I like the bands that are still characterized as being a specific genre but gravitate away from the things that make that genre a stereotype. I personally cant stand the overuse of the ochtave chord just like I cant stand gratuitous breakdowns. Heavy Heavy low low is a popular band that a lot of people with tastes in the metalcore scene listen to. Bands that are mainly about playing octaves and breakdowns in their songs have little talent and are merely a novelty in their given scenes. Heavy Heavy Low Low isnt all about breakdowns even though most people that listen to them are only interested in their breakdowns haha. They have untraditional time signatures and chords for the scene that they are thrown into. I think a lot of people dont like them and call them generic because theyre associated with the bandana and ammo belt wearing, two stepping throwdown hxc dancing crowd. Gawd I dislike a lot of metalcore though, its become some new form of disco. I guess thats why As The Sun Sets stopped playing breakdowns nonstop after Each Individual Voice Is Dead.

...regardless of what they sound like, any band that abandons their d.i.y. ethic is just another lame sellout and doesn't have my support.

The lyrics are ridiculous and thoughtless. It is pretty apparent they don't take themselves seriously, which isn't necessarily a bad thing (particularly if you are just looking to cash in on the "metalcore" trend). I still don't understand why people try to convert all these different art forms into jobs...