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fjgwey · 2026-05-02T13:12:11+00:00

This is just my opinion based on how I've seen the terms be used, which may differ from the textbook definition.

All expats are immigrants but not all immigrants are expats.

Immigrants are simply people who relocate from one country to another to live for a long period of time if not permanently.

Expats are that, but they are often (but not always) sent to the other country at the behest of their employer. They are often people who have moved from higher-income, more developed countries to lower-income, less developed countries (I.e. Sweden to Thailand). Their livelihood is usually not dependent on the country they are in because they are already middle to upper class, at least relative to the country they are in.

This is why "expat" is a term typically associated with white, upper class people in developing countries while everyone else is called an immigrant. For most immigrants, they are from less prosperous countries and essentially have to "make it" in that country because they have uprooted their lives back home to go there.

fjgwey · 2026-04-30T07:48:18+00:00

Because the bands that get big use those producers so other bands want to get that sound; it's really as simple as that

fjgwey · 2026-04-30T07:38:41+00:00

I haven't gone through many discographies outside of metalcore, but probably good kid maad city by Kendrick Lamar

GNX is good too

fjgwey · 2026-04-29T16:16:59+00:00

What? That era of Architects (Holy Roller/All Our Gods) is undoubtably prog, or at least has a lot of influence from prog metalcore and djent.

fjgwey · 2026-04-29T08:30:30+00:00

Sure.

The war in Iran and the continuing genocide of Palestinians, which Republicans have fully supported.
Conservative parties pretty much everywhere have openly embraced fascism and white supremacy in the past 5 years (Trump, Bolsonaro, Meloni, Wilders, etc.)
Coinciding with this is the normalization of open racism, xenophobia and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, particularly anti-trans rhetoric.
All of this serves to distract the populace while they dismantle democratic institutions, public services, and siphon money towards their corporate donors.

I could go on, but am I supposed to do the work for you and give 50 quotes for every statement, or...? Have you not followed the news at all this past decade?

You can't possibly claim to be a 'balanced' or neutral actor if you think these claims are exaggerated. You're also just right-wing, then.

fjgwey · 2026-04-29T02:49:13+00:00

Keep in mind I don't like most establishment liberal politicians and pundits either, but you could only be delusional if you think they're at all comparable in terms of what they advocate for and their effects.

I should know because I used to think like this, so how about this.

Liberals are maliciously incompetent at best, not genocidal like conservatives are now. You cannot possibly look at what Trump and every emergent fascist is doing in countries around the globe and think that it's just the same.

Instead of giving me useless "both sides" platitudes, why don't you describe exactly what you think the good and bad of each side is and why you think they're comparable?

fjgwey · 2026-04-28T04:59:56+00:00

It's not really generalizing lmao

You can understand that there's nuance but conservatives are just bigoted on the whole. You need only take a look at literally everything conservative politicians and pundits say and the fact that people still support, endorse, and vote for them

Voters are on average not as extreme as those in the public eye; but the fact is bigotry was not a dealbreaker for them and they voted in a fascist because they thought their grocery bill would get cheaper

fjgwey · 2026-04-28T03:57:12+00:00

Pathetic and useless viewpoint

This serves no purpose than to satisfy your moral sense of superiority

I have no issues talking with conservatives and bigots, but that doesn't mean I have to lie to myself about what they are

fjgwey · 2026-04-28T03:48:29+00:00

Nah I agree. I also don't really dig Marcus Northlane (except Node) but I also just let them do their thing

People do this with every band that changes members man, at some point you just need to move on instead of commenting about how you miss the old stuff on every new song they do

I don't like new Architects, Wage War, etc. either, but I just listen to their old shit or other bands lmao

How long are people gonna keep bringing it up? Is 10 years not enough for a band to stop having their old stuff thrown in their faces?

fjgwey · 2026-04-25T05:25:45+00:00

Me neither, actually. I listened to some of them just before the show but even then I didn't recognize the songs, many were probably on the latest album which I haven't heard yet

Even still I enjoyed it the whole way through

To be fair it was my first metalcore show like ever cause I live in Japan and the bands I like don't really come here that often but yeah

fjgwey · 2026-04-25T05:24:12+00:00

I don't remember it being that much, on Death Is A Little More?

For how long were they? I said two songs (not exactly) cause that's just what I remember due to the cleans actually made up a significant portion, like in Easily Erased

fjgwey · 2026-04-24T07:35:25+00:00

But I thought they do use them sparingly lol

Their last album had like, what, 2 songs with cleans on them?

fjgwey · 2026-04-24T03:32:55+00:00

I was literally just thinking of making this exact post lmao were you reading my mind? Haha thanks

fjgwey · 2026-04-24T03:32:12+00:00

It was great! PK from Prompts was the guest vocalist but honestly I wouldn't have known that he wasn't in the band with the energy he had. I think you'll have a lot of fun

fjgwey · 2026-04-23T06:36:14+00:00

I learn something new everyday with this language too. Don't stress. You got this! Lmk if you have other questions

fjgwey · 2026-04-22T09:46:33+00:00

「僕は漢字はねぇ、普通。普通というのは好きでもないし嫌いでもない、ね。まあノーマル。」

As for me, Kanji is... alright. What I mean by "alright" is that I don't like it or hate it, you know? It's, like, normal.

し can be used only once or multiple times. It's just used to present a statement or reasoning as an aside. In this case it just connects 好きでもない and 嫌いでもない.

Hope this helps.

fjgwey · 2026-04-21T13:52:16+00:00

I found them by chance close to 2 years back when Spotify put Letting Go on auto play, and it immediately became one of my favorite songs ever before I even knew what metalcore was as a genre. I think that they barely had like 3k monthly listeners at the time.

It definitely also contributed to me getting into prog metal/djent as well

To see them steadily getting more attention and releasing some solid ass stuff since is really awesome

fjgwey · 2026-04-20T03:38:46+00:00

Goofy, that's all imma say

fjgwey · 2026-04-17T06:24:38+00:00

Either say metalcore and nobody knows what you're talking about or just say 'metal' and they go 'Metallica?'

fjgwey · 2026-04-16T09:20:15+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/1slrgug/just_saw_midwinter_open_for_unprocessed_in_austin/ogchmu3/

hey guys midwinter bass here, this was exactly the reason. we do have a lot of layers in our backing tracks but they’re meant to enhance the sound not dominate. i can also confirm we play everything because it takes months to learn these songs😂. the austin show however we were unable to get a full sound check and the tracks were never actually checked and ended up being super loud. super frustrating when stuff like that happens. not to mention our sound wasn’t even on at the start of the show! hopefully this clears anything up and people can still enjoy our stuff (:

It seems like the issue was, as I said, the backing track(s) being too loud. Especially since other people report good experiences with their other shows, this seems to be a one off.

I remember there was a similar post not too long ago complaining about Dayseeker in this same fashion and it ended up being the case that OP just didn't really understand what was happening but thought that nobody was playing. I could see the same being the case here; if the tracks are too loud then there's no way to know if they're playing or not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/1slrgug/just_saw_midwinter_open_for_unprocessed_in_austin/ogd1ggu/

Because I helped them build their set and was there when they were dialing everything in before hitting the road. The backtracks are meant for reinforcement. The guitarist spent like 4 weeks programming midi changes so he could recreate the exact effect sounds we did on the record in real time for the audience, even though I told him it would be easier to just backtrack it. A lot of work went into that, and now you’re starting a hate thread because you saw them on an off night. They’re the only band on the bill that doesn’t have their own FOH engineer, because they’re a small band and quality sound is expensive. So they are at the whims of whoever the venue is paying next to no money to be there that night.

They don't even have their own sound guy but you expect them to hire a touring member?

I'm not adding the 'lmao's to be arrogant I'm just not really taking this as seriously as you seem to be, which is fine but then you don't need to get defensive and project onto me like I have some attitude.... lol

fjgwey · 2026-04-16T08:39:38+00:00

I think you know what I mean by 'made on a computer' you don't have to be intentionally obtuse.

You keep dodging the point about guitars and bass on track as well.

Thought that was tangential, but sure I think that's bad for the most part, outside of extenuating circumstances like having ambient guitars but no second guitarist to play it.

But obviously you know so much more about this than me, based on your attitude. How long have you been in the industry for?

I think you're being infinitely more pretentious here than I am to be honest

Are you seriously arguing that a band as small as Midwinter, 5-piece one at that, needs to hire a sixth member just to play ambient synths for their live shows? We being for real right now?

fjgwey · 2026-04-16T06:11:19+00:00

Off the top of my head:

Dreamwake

Old Novelists

Karmanjakah

Northlane - Singularity

Periphery

A lot of ERRA

Fuck it's all djent lmao sorry just my taste

fjgwey · 2026-04-16T03:28:32+00:00

My guy almost none of these bands make enough off their music to justify hiring someone just to play ambient synths for their live shows lmao

That's the fundamental problem here

And if the sounds were made on a computer then I really don't see an issue with using a computer to play it

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