Their post-hardcore material from their first album Last Chance to Make Amends and their first EP The Burning was their best work imo, before original guitarist Jeremy Schwartz left the band. Then a friend of mine from high school Justin DeBlieck replaced him in 2009 and they went horror metalcore lol. He then left the band in 2019 to go into producing.
"While we were playing, a vehicle drove into the middle of the venue. I think the guy was trying to kill his girlfriend." We asked Ice Nine Kills' Spencer Charnas to give us some life lessons and man does he have stories
I actually did enjoy The Predator Becomes the Prey and Every Trick in the Book, and the latter was neat because it was the first time they were doing a concept like that. The Silver Scream 1 is fine but them being completely stuck on the theme now and becoming so incredibly far up their own asses with it turned me off. Obviously they were always up their own asses to a degree with the infamous rivalry with Jason but now it's on such a grander scale The re-record they did of Safe is Just a Shadow pre-Silver Scream was pretty cool too
Yeah agreed. I was torn because Justin DeBlieck (JD) was always a pretty chill guy but the music INK started to make when he joined just wasn't the same. I met Spencer and Jeremy outside a venue here in Rochester right before Taste of Chaos in 2008 when they were one of the openers and I dug their sound, but then they went in a complete different direction after JD replaced Jeremy.
I saw this thread I thought I gotta say my peice on INK.. I enjoyed their music but holy fuck when the hell did they got so massive all of a sudden to the point that when I saw them at download they pulled a bigger crowd than Guns N Roses who headlined the Saturday night and INK r gonna be performing the O2 next year which is insane!
It does seem pretty fitting how much they completely sold out and do every horror-adjacent collaboration under the sun nowadays lol
Ok, I need a sanity check - back when they were just “Ice Nine”, did they have Tux the Linux penguin as part of their branding?
These guys need to announce a new album already. It’s taken forever. There’s like 5 pre-release singles dating back forever now. Like, come on. I know they’ll milk it until Fall.
maybe another silver scream part 3? or just something new would be dope, though i enjoyed the movie themed songs, every trick in the book is one i revisit a lot.