Eighteen Visions celebrate 20 years of 'Obsession' with re-recorded reissue
Rob Wallace
Orange County's metalcore/hardcore legends Eighteen Visions celebrate 20 years of their album Obsession by reissuing the album today, re-recording the album and including additional tracks.
The band will continue the celebration performing the album this year at Furnace Fest 2024. The band also announced east coast performances with It Dies Today, This Is Hell and Walls of Jericho.
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Post Commentthey are one of the very few bands that managed to do re-recordings the right way. The Vanity re-recording f*cking slaps, stoked to hear this. They should to this with Yesterday and Ink as well. The production was so terrible that the songs didn't translate well.
What is up with bands rerecording albums that sounded fine to begin with and making them worse? I get that it is a move to regain your rights to the songs, but God damn. Drums sound like straight asshole. And don't get me started on the 96 Bitter Beings abomination that came out this week. The state of the music industry is a joke.
Write some new shit instead. How about you guys try writing the best shit that's ever been written instead of living in the old days
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It's weird. I'm not a fan of this band but objectively speaking the re recorded version sounds terrible compared to the original. Drums sound awful.
celebrating 20 years of the record that alienated them from huge swaths of the "metalcore community" because they blatantly tried to pivot into MTV2 crossover butt rock territory like some sorta Daughtry with breakdowns nonsense? wasn't it that failure to "crossover" that led to them being dropped by a major and fizzling out within a few short years?? hilarious how these shit bands try and retcon their career now. trying to celebrate/immortalize some dated ass metalcore band fronted by a hairdresser with pink chunks dyed into his head wearing an ascot. good luck selling less than a thousand reissues.
2007: "While the break-up might have appeared somewhat abrupt, frontman James Hart stated on his MySpace blog that this was not the case on July 13, 2007: "18V had been a band for 10+ years, [...] it just got to the point where we all had different goals and ideas for the band on a musical and touring basis. We all felt it was time to move on to something fresh and new." 2024: We're poor and struck out in every other endeavor in life. Please come see us and buy our 20 year old album again.
" What is up with bands rerecording albums that sounded fine to begin with and making them worse?" Because it didn't sound good to begin with. Listen to the original Vanity album and the re-recorded one. If you tell me that you'd rather listen to the original, you're f*cking nuts. Eighteen Visions are doing it right. All their pre-self titled albums sound f*cking awful. Give it a change to the new one.
This record in now at needed to be re recorded. Honestly one of my favorite productions of a record ever. This sounds worse. I understand vanity and hopefully the records before but from obsession on they sounded so good. Waste of time
" celebrating 20 years of the record that alienated them from huge swaths of the "metalcore community" because they blatantly tried to pivot into MTV2 crossover butt rock territory like some sorta Daughtry with breakdowns nonsense? wasn't it that failure to "crossover" that led to them being dropped by a major and fizzling out within a few short years?" LMAO no You have no clue of what the f*ck you're taking about. Please refrain from making such comments without doing your research properly. Their butt rock album was the self titled one, not Obsession. Obsession is highly regarded as a metalcore classic and the reason that Epic Records signed them.
Hilarious that theres actual pigeon toed overweight Eighteen Vision fans defending this dog shit band in the comments. Band tried to make the mainstream leap and failed and now they want your reunion/nostalgia tour money.
U guys should break edge to celebrate this re-recorded re-release 20 years later
Rick's Stalker here. I saw Rick at the Gas Station the other day in Tampa, Florida. He was standing in front of a 6'7 BBC. Rick kept looking behind him at the BBC. Rumor has He was scared of getting analpoundingz from the BBC. Rick bought himself some Nachos and a silver ice Rockstar energy drink and ran out of the gas Station as fast as he could. It was the last time I'd ever seen him
James Hart here. Ill be cutting pubes at Furnace Fest. Ask for Rick.
Rick's stalker here, I take 18 dicks to my mouth every week. The sperm keeps me young and spry.
I would buy this site in cash right now, and pull the plug on it the same day.
So what's on streaming sites the original or re-recorded shit?
Josh James' massive ego wrapped in a confederate flag.
Crazy thing is that nobody in this band is fat or bald.
Rick's Stalker here. Where are you Rick. I wanna fight you.
The amount of ads crammed into this site are just absurd.
I actually love this band, but I tried to force myself to like this in 04 and the original hasn't aged well and this highlights the butt rock parts of James vocals. Only highlight is no cutting the mustard in tower of snakes
That towers of snakes breakdown still hits like a alcoholic dad
38. i was there. tower of snakes is a top 5 breakdown all time with memphis, time bomb, all hail the dead, american hollow and stiletto.
Marty Gilroy here. I may have been dressed like a pro bowler last night but I can still f*ck you up.
Hey, for real, can't even look at this site without getting bombarded by ads
Buy physical copies of media when possible because streaming will eliminate them. See: Dogma
"Their butt rock album was the self titled one, not Obsession. Obsession is highly regarded as a metalcore classic and the reason that Epic Records signed them." Yo this is just wrong. I Let Go is literally the song he is talking about and that WAS the MTV2 video where homie looked like Papa Roach. Also, I was around at the time and Epic struck a deal with them before Obsession, they even took over the rights of that record. You think you're right, but the first guy was actually right. This was the record that led to the s/t. That's all he said.
James is single handedly responsible for 20 years of bullshit and they couldn't even capitalize on that and had to go butt rock in 2004 and fail mistakenly. "38. i was there. tower of snakes is a top 5 breakdown all time with memphis, time bomb, all hail the dead, american hollow and stiletto" 36 and was there. Agree.
Rick's Stalker here. I saw Rick in Walmart the other day wearing a headband, sunglasses, and a greasy gray T-shirt with a cat also wearing sunglasses on it, and the T-shirt said "I do what I want" and Rick was yelling at a customer for buying the last box of Kleenex with lotion, rumor has it the lotion is for his mustache. Anyway the spat ended with Rick flipping off the customer as he said "I don't need this, I have an entire herd of people on lambgoat who will literally write about this moment in every single comment section and you'll be so humiliated." He swaggered off to the self-checkouts and bought himself some Nachos and a silver ice Rockstar energy drink. It was the last time I'd ever seen him.
anonymous 1 day ago Write some new shit instead. How about you guys try writing the best shit that's ever been written instead of living in the old days Check out this buttslammer. Literally all of their new releases including the covers record have been nothing short of awesome. Go jam some Turnstile and Knocked Loose.
Dudes that have been on prescribed painkillers but still claim their edge are stoked
" "38. i was there. tower of snakes is a top 5 breakdown all time with memphis, time bomb, all hail the dead, american hollow and stiletto" 36 and was there. Agree." Time Bomb??? Stiletto?? Which songs are these??
Guess putting pink streaks in people's hair isn't paying the bills anymore.
Her illustrations Paint a picture Now her dirty tears bleed
anonymous 13 hours ago " "38. i was there. tower of snakes is a top 5 breakdown all time with memphis, time bomb, all hail the dead, american hollow and stiletto" 36 and was there. Agree." Time Bomb??? Stiletto?? Which songs are these?? Kids, your autism is showing. You missed licking some spots of the windows.
Also, posting your age doesnt mean shit. it just shows how you've sat complacent in an "underground" scene waiting for something new to latch onto. Your lives are jokes that write themselves. Go for a walk and leave your teen angst in the 90's where it belongs. sincerily- scene that, done that.
i'm here for this. Obsession rips and anyone who thought otherwise was always a stangry groce metalturd
anonymous 1 day ago 38. i was there. tower of snakes is a top 5 breakdown all time with memphis, time bomb, all hail the dead, american hollow and stiletto. Good breakdowns but I'm pretty sure you're talking about Carbomb lol
anonymous 2 hours ago Time Bomb??? Stiletto?? Which songs are these?? Kids, your autism is showing. You missed licking some spots of the windows. All renowned breakdowns that came out within a year of Obsession, which was 20 years ago, so you're the idiot for not knowing
" All renowned breakdowns that came out within a year of Obsession, which was 20 years ago, so you're the idiot for not knowing Can you please answer my question properly without acting like a dick? Thank you.
"Can you please answer my question properly without acting like a dick? Thank you." Uhhh. We don't do that here
" Uhhh. We don't do that here" Can you please answer my question then?
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