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Exodus

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Thrash Metal

http://www.exodusattack.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/exodus
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29 апр 2025 :	Watch: EXODUS Joined By DEATH ANGEL's MARK OSEGUEDA For Cover Of SCORPIONS Classic At Anaheim Concert
28 апр 2025 :	TOM HUNTING On Next EXODUS Album: 'There's Some Elements That Are Just Straight-Up Hard Rock On This Record'
28 апр 2025 :	EXODUS Rejoined By Guitarist RICK HUNOLT, Early Bassist JEFF ANDREWS At First 'Bonded By Blood' 40th-Anniversary Concert
25 апр 2025 :	STEVE 'ZETRO' SOUZA Says He Has 'No Desire' To Play With EXODUS Ever Again: 'It's Been Done'
23 апр 2025 :	EXODUS's TOM HUNTING Picks METALLICA's 'Master Of Puppets' Over 'Ride The Lightning', Explains Why
22 апр 2025 :	EXODUS Teams Up With DEATH ANGEL's MARK OSEGUEDA For Cover Of SCORPIONS' 'He's A Woman - She's A Man'
20 апр 2025 :	EXODUS's TOM HUNTING On His Battle With Cancer: 'I'm Grateful For The Ability To Keep On Living'
17 апр 2025 :	ROB DUKES On His Return To EXODUS: 'I Didn't Expect It'
16 апр 2025 :	EXODUS's GARY HOLT On Split With STEVE 'ZETRO' SOUZA: 'One Guy Wasn't Enjoying It Anymore'
8 апр 2025 :	Watch: EXODUS Plays First Concert With Singer ROB DUKES In 11 Years
28 мар 2025 :	EXODUS's GARY HOLT On Latest Split With STEVE 'ZETRO' SOUZA: 'The Five Of Us Need To Be On The Same Page. And Now We Are.'
16 мар 2025 :	EXODUS's GARY HOLT: 'We're Recording Two Albums Right Now'
24 фев 2025 :	EXODUS's GARY HOLT Opens Up About His Guitar-Related Injuries: 'I Couldn't Even Play At All'
20 фев 2025 :	ROB DUKES Was As Surprised As Everyone Else When He Got The Call To Rejoin EXODUS
16 фев 2025 :	GARY HOLT: No New EXODUS Album Until 2026
10 фев 2025 :	GARY HOLT On STEVE 'ZETRO' SOUZA's Latest Dismissal From EXODUS: 'The Marriage Was Done And Over'
10 фев 2025 :	STEVE 'ZETRO' SOUZA On His Latest Departure From EXODUS: 'I Did Not Leave; I Was Let Go'
20 янв 2025 :	Returning EXODUS Singer ROB DUKES: 'I'm Looking Forward To Going Out And Playing Metal With The Boys Again'
15 янв 2025 :	EXODUS Parts Ways With STEVE 'ZETRO' SOUZA, Announces Return Of ROB DUKES
15 янв 2025 :	EXODUS Guitarist GARY HOLT: Limited-Edition Statue Coming From KNUCKLEBONZ
9 янв 2025 :	EXODUS Is Working On Music For Next Album: 'S*** Is Off-The-Charts Sick'
11 дек 2024 :	See EXODUS's Entire Tour-Ending Concert In Los Angeles
2 дек 2024 :	EXODUS's TOM HUNTING Recalls Seeing GUNS N' ROSES In Late 1980s: 'They Were A Mess And They Were Great Too'
30 ноя 2024 :	Watch: EXODUS Performs In New Kensington During Fall 2024 U.S. Tour
25 ноя 2024 :	EXODUS / SLAYER Guitarist GARY HOLT's Autobiography - A Fabulous Disaster: From The Garage To Madison Square Garden, The Hard Way - Due In Spring 2025; Pre-Orders Available Now
24 ноя 2024 :	EXODUS - Fan-Filmed Video Of Entire Toronto Show Available

19 ноя 2023

EXODUS's STEVE 'ZETRO' SOUZA: 'I Would Never Lip Sync' Or 'Use Backing Tracks'

EXODUS frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza has weighed in on bands who rely heavily on pre-recorded tracks during their live performances.

In recent years, more and more artists have been given a pass for relying on pre-recorded tracks, drum triggers and other assorted technology that makes concerts more synthetic but also more consistent. For better or worse, pre-recorded tracks are becoming increasingly common for touring artists of all levels and genres and they're not just used in pop music — many rock artists utilize playback tracks to varying degrees.

Speaking to the Syncin' Stanley YouTube channel, Zetro was asked for his opinion on singers who use pre-recorded tracks for their lead vocals. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "My take on metal singers who do not sing. I mean, I guess it's time to give it up. I practice all the time. I do a five-mile walk every single day, and I'm always singing on the walk, either my own songs or other songs, just to stay in practice, and just so I don't have to rely on that stuff.

"I'll be 60 in a couple of months, so I find that I would feel ripped off," he continued. "If you're going to a concert — hence the word 'concert' — and they're not singing live or using backing tracks… EXODUS isn't like that. We don't rely on things like that. I guess if you're a big arena act and you want to make the sound fuller, I guess it's okay. But at the level that I'm at, I don't think that I would try to fool the fans. You know what I mean? I want them to hear me and go, 'Wow, you're singing just as good as you sang or even better than you did in the '80s on those records.' So I think that that sort of thing you have to do.

"I would never lip sync," Zetro added. "I would never use backing tracks. I hate doing videos 'cause of the lip-sync thing. To me, it's all about being live. Everybody should be able to play their instrument or get out of the game and say, 'Yo, I can't do this anymore. I can't sing this stuff anymore. So instead of me stealing from you fans that are paying such good money to go to these concerts…' I mean, I don't blame you."

KISS frontman Paul Stanley, who has been struggling to hit the high notes in many of the band's classic songs for a number of years, has been accused of singing to a backing tape on KISS's ongoing "End Of The Road" tour.

Back in 2015, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons slammed bands who used backing tapes for not being honest enough to include that fact on their concert tickets.

"I have a problem when you charge $100 to see a live show and the artist uses backing tracks," Simmons said. "It's like the ingredients in food. If the first ingredient on the label is sugar, that's at least honest. It should be on every ticket — you're paying $100, 30 to 50 percent of the show is [on] backing tracks and they'll sing sometimes, sometimes they'll lip sync. At least be honest. It's not about backing tracks, it's about dishonesty.

"There's nobody with a synthesizer on our stage, there's no samples on the drums, there's nothing," Gene continued. "There's very few bands who do that now — AC/DC, METALLICA, us. I can't even say that about U2 or THE [ROLLING] STONES. There's very few bands who don't use [backing] tracks."

This past March, KISS's longtime manager Doc McGhee defended Stanley's vocal performance on "End Of The Road", explaining that the "Star Child" "fully sings to every song" at every concert. He explained: It's enhanced. It's just part of the process to make sure that everybody hears the songs the way they should be sang to begin with. Nobody wants to hear people do stuff that's not real, that's not what they came to hear."

When McGhee was asked to clarify if he was "actually saying there are backing tracks that [Paul is] singing to," Doc said: "He'll sing to tracks. It's all part of a process. Because everybody wants to hear everybody sing. But he fully sings to every song."

In March 2020, SHINEDOWN guitarist Zach Myers said that "90 percent" of rock artists use at least some pre-recorded tracks during their live performances. He told Rock Feed: "It bothers me that it bothers people. I'm, like, 'Why does this bother you?' It's the way it is. People have been doing this since the '80s. And we want the sound to be the best it can be. Could we go up there, just the four of us, and put on the best rock show ever? Of course. But that's not how we wanna do it."

Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach has previously said that he is "one of the last people" who are still not using pre-recorded tracks at their live shows. "I don't know how much longer I can say to you that I don't use tapes onstage, because I don't, and I never have," he told Consequence Of Sound. "And I still don't. When I have opening bands, and they're using tapes, and then I come out and I don't use tapes… sometimes, it makes me feel stupid, because I'm like, 'What am I doing, when all these kids half my age can come onstage and do all of my moves, but they don't have to warm up for an hour before the show, or weeks, before the first show?' Sometimes, I'm like, 'Why do I even bother, if the public is so used to this other way?' It's becoming very rare to come see a good band that's actually a real band — that's not miming or doing silly moves while a tape is running. It just becomes more rare as the years go on."

In 2019, IRON MAIDEN guitarist Adrian Smith said that he doesn't "agree" with certain rock artists relying on pre-recorded tracks during their live performances. "I tell you what, I see it with a lot of younger bands, and I don't think it's a good thing at all," he told the New York Post. "I mean, the music is getting too technical now. You have computerized recording systems, which we use, but I think we use them more for convenience than because we need to. We've toured with a couple bands that use tapes — it's not real. You're supposed to play live; it should be live. I don't agree with using tapes … I think it's a real shame."

One musician who has been open about his band's use of taped vocals during live performances is MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx, who said: "We've used technology since '87." He added the group employed "sequencers, sub tones, background vox tracks, plus background singers and us. [MÖTLEY CRÜE also taped] stuff we can't tour with, like cello parts in ballads, etc.... We love it and don't hide it. It's a great tool to fill out the sound."

In a 2014 interview, MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars admitted that he wasn't comfortable with the fact that his band used pre-recorded backing vocals in its live shows, claiming that he preferred to watch groups whose performances are delivered entirely live. "I don't like it," he said. "I think a band like ours… I have to say '60s bands were my favorite — '60s and '70s bands — because they were real, like, three-piece bands or four-piece bands, and they just got up there and kicked it up. Made a mistake? So what? Sounded a little bit empty here or there? So what? It's the bigness and the rawness and the people that developed and wrote the songs and made them and presented them. To me, that's what I really like. I mean, I could put on a MÖTLEY CD and play with it all day long. I don't wanna do that."

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19 ноя 2023

father

Кстати по видосу из предыдущей новости приятно удивился, что Exodus всё делают по олдскулу, даже вроде как без ушного мониторинга: тупо все хуярят без клика друг под друга, причём (в первую очередь видимо благодаря техничности Хантинга) звучит всё очень складно, т.е. чуваки явно и репетируют до усрачки. Конечно же щас тут распиздятся про крики свиньи, но их наличие не отменяет того, что Exodus вживую всё ещё ебашат за весь район залива, и ещё на сдачу остаётся:)

19 ноя 2023

Wasiliy

father, Ну не надо говорить за весь района залива про Exodus. Есть ещё Testament,не забыл,который тоже ебашит))

19 ноя 2023

father

Wasiliy, ни в коем случае не хочу обидеть Testament (да им и похуй на меня), эти черти тоже выдают на 200%

20 ноя 2023

klim

father, Кстати, Sacred Reich тоже играют без мониторингов - весьма этому удивился

20 ноя 2023

Dead Count

father, Метроном для барабанщика отличная тема, остальным не нужен, пусть под барабаны играют.)

20 ноя 2023

father

Dead Count, Я тоже думал, что у Хантинга клик в ушах, но в местах, где остаётся одна гитара, они просто всей бандой стоят и слушают, что играет Холт, чтобы не проебать вступление, в нынешние времена это так лампово:)

20 ноя 2023

klim

Dead Count, Проблема в том, что если всегда играешь под метроном, можешь впасть в зависимость и начать теряться без него

Плюс есть всякиех другие тенхические сложности: например, если у барабанщика нет нормального мониторинга, то в наушниках с метром не слышишь группу, а это вредит общему звучанию (вплоть до того, что все могут рассихнронизоваться, если кто-то ошибся). Ну и если песня сложная, задолбаешься программировать для нее смены темпа. Плюс жестко заданный темпотрек ограничивает возможности для всяких вставок, импровизаций

Да и вообще, если музыканты как-то рассинхронизовались, например, во время паузы, метроном может помешать выправиться. Мне как-то пришлось во время концерта прямо во время песни скидывать уши, потому что метроном на телефоне друг заглючил

Все это, конечно, в большинстве случаев не создает непреодолимых препятствий для группы, но я в последнее время стал с большим пониманием относиться к игре без метронома

20 ноя 2023

LU---

klim, к сожалению для МНОГИХ групп игра без клика Невозможна...
мне тоже нравиться играть без.....но.......

23 ноя 2023

Sw0Rn

Zetro боец!