@Rstrahs Love Stabbing Westward... And their "we don't own the rights to the name anymore" band The Dreaming.... Highly recommend their new official Stabbing Westward album (out earlier this year) if you haven't heard it. Walt is back, and so is their original production team. It's beautiful!
@theunabeefer I have heard some of it. It was not bad, the music was great. The lyrics, not so much. They have that problem that a lot of bands seem to have, that 20-something angst doesn't work when the band members are 40+.
@Rstrahs That's kind of how I felt with The Dreaming (they also had issues with the label bringing in producers that really changed their sound), but I didn't get that with the latest Stabbing Westward album... To me, I could tell it was the first album in a long time they actually had control over.
I'm also an audio producer, so I might be biased a bit there... Hearing nuances that I can tell a band has say over...
@theunabeefer I do think the music was excellent and it sounded great in my car. Really, the lyrics are just me being nitpicky.
@theunabeefer It makes sense to be called that, even if they were around before they hit it big. When Wither, Blister, Burn, and Peel came out it was during that time in the 90s that NIN was away. They filled that NIN-shaped hole on the radio dial. With that said, I believe Chris Vrenna was on Un-God, later he would find success as NIN's drummer. With that said, I think SW is a band that stands on it own, I prefer Burn and Peel over Darkest Days but both are great albums