Not going to police on the should you/shouldn't you listen front all I'll say is I instinctively hit play on "Melanie" after years of listening to the shitty sounding live rip on youtube and instantly felt something in my brain hard reset
Yeah, that's where I land. They ultimatley choose to shelve it due to Chi's accident, I don't need to listen to it unless they want to release it.
Yeah I’ve always been curious about this one. Totally respect anyone who doesn’t want to listen, I’m enjoying so far though
Hearing close to finished versions of Trempest and Brianna, both heavily featured in those studio videos... it's so surreal
Yeahhh I'm not gonna grandstand about this one. "Melanie" into "Smile," my god and "Electra" and "Margot" are just...fucking crazy. man.
Just going through snippets on the YouTube playlist, I feel like there's definitely a throughline from S/T to Eros to Ohms vibe wise. Guess I'd love to get one more Terry Date helmed record then
someone also apparently leaked an early version of Ohms with an unreleased song called Sensations. Crest (the OG opener for Gore) might've also been leaked, but i'm not 100% sure. edit: Crest is definitely out there, albeit in low quality.
I seriously can’t help but wonder who is the one doing this or how they obtained such recordings. Guess we’ll never know
someone on Reddit said they teamed up with folks to buy them off of someone who originally got them from another source supposedly close to the band. the purchased files weren't leaked by the purchasers, but an attempt to get some soundboard recordings fell through, so another person who also bought the files leaked them in retaliation.
Curious to see what happens next. I can’t imagine the band being happy about this. I’ve read theories it may have been an internal leak because it was Chino’s birthday recently, but the predominant theory is someone close to the band sold it behind their backs. If that’s the case, what a betrayal. Maybe it was a cybersecurity issue? Regardless, the genie’s out of the bottle now.
I don’t really see anything happening next tbh. At this point, it’s out. I don’t really see them commenting on it or anything like that
Although, correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Chino attempt to release a song from it at one point, but then it got taken down? I thought he was the one behind Smile being released a while back. I also wouldn’t be suprised if they just didn’t care that it’s out lol
If anyone would be so kind to point me in the direction of a link so I can actively make sure to avoid it, I would be very grateful!