#James Harrison (Oceans Ate Alaska Vocalist) leaves band and releases statement

1 messages · Page 1 of 1 (latest)

summer anvil
hallow grove
#

scared for where this is gonna go

image.png
summer anvil
#

I love OAA and the other members seemed like good dudes. But with the other guitarist being fired/leaving, I have no reason not to believe this as being true

#

I am seeing them live next week as well since they are supporting currents on tour

#

Everyone will have a different story but sad to see that they treat the other members this way

drifting eagle
#

Oh dang

#

What does this mean for Chris Turner?

hallow grove
#

thats the only thing i really care about

summer anvil
#

Nothing I suppose. The band will still be active but by the looks they wont tour anymore. Just become an internet band

hallow grove
#

im just curoius if turner was also apart of the whole thing

#

leaving out the vocalist

drifting eagle
#

Same

summer anvil
#

I love Chris but my guess is when it comes to OAA, he is the main ring leader

hallow grove
#

lol

drifting eagle
#

Oof

hallow grove
#

unless this guy is completely lying which lets be real here its 100% possible

#

not saying he is or isnt but there was little to no proof

summer anvil
hallow grove
drifting eagle
#

I know that their music is kinda mid tbh

#

In my opinion

hallow grove
#

i dont think we should write off anybody as ''guilty'' when this guy didnt give any definitive proof

hallow grove
#

the cleans kinda suck

#

actually its not super bad its been a while since i listened

#

it just kinda feels like something is missing

#

in the songs

summer anvil
#

I've always loved their tracks and they are great live. Vocals and production were insane

#

I guess its just another case of separating the art from the artist

hallow grove
#

this has made me listen to the newest record

#

lol

drifting eagle
#

I suppose I'll give it a spin

summer anvil
#

its a solid album. I love it. Some of the tracks went hard live

hallow grove
#

first track is very good

drifting eagle
#

Oh wait, I do remember this track

#

This one's all right

silver coral
#

Jake's wife just confirmed this all to be true

summer anvil
#

Yeah, just read it

silver coral
summer anvil
#

I love the guy and not hating on him

silver coral
#

Adam is apparently also leaving

summer anvil
#

Just sucks when multiple people are saying the same/similar things about the band/members, it makes you think

#

Ill still see them next week and have a good time but just a shitty situation overall

#

Chris is on the downbeat podcast and apparently speaks about it so will see what he has to say tomorrow

drifting eagle
#

And I suppose there's a new OAA track dropping tonight too

#

Might as well check that out, I suppose

summer anvil
#

It's not terrible from what I heard but they have done better

#

their new vocalist Joel is a good dude

#

he probably just saw a chance to join a bigger band and took it

drifting eagle
#

Okay, so it'll probably be mid

#

To be honest, while I haven't gotten as deep into metalcore, OAA... it just doesn't hit for me.

#

I think my mind is equating their music to sounding like a less interesting combination of Born of Osiris and Bring Me the Horizon.

summer anvil
#

they aren't my favourite band by any means but I just enjoy them

drifting eagle
#

That's fair

#

Maybe one day they'll click for me

hallow grove
#

idk nothing has clicked with me

drifting eagle
#

Now that's surprising

hallow grove
#

the newest song is just not that great

#

at all

#

lol

drifting eagle
#

Haven't given it many spins

hallow grove
#

whats their best song?

drifting eagle
#

Ooh, that's a good question

#

I have a few in mind that I really enjoy

#

"Now Arise"

#

"Follow the Signs" is a wonderful opener for "The Discovery" (which is the album with Jason Richardson)

#

"Automatic Motion" is a pretty fun little groove

#

Same with "Silence the Echo"

next compass
#

Chris's ex also replied to Jakes wife on the post "Oceans ate our sanity"

summer anvil
#

I may be seeing BoS in March with Attila, Aviana and Crown Magnetar but i still need to buy a ticket when i decide if i want to go solo

hallow grove
#

lol

drifting eagle
#

Really

#

"Poster Child" is also a pretty fun song

#

"Machine" is the most popular BoO song, I believe, that one's pretty fun.

hallow grove
#

just starting out i love the electronics

drifting eagle
#

"Vengeance" is a fun closer for their third album "Tomorrow We Die Alive"

hallow grove
drifting eagle
#

Same with "The Composer" on their fourth album "Soul Sphere."

#

Oh, and how could I forget the combination of "XIV" and "Behold" to close out "The Discovery"? Beautiful end to a fantastic album.

hallow grove
#

i think i just might be too bias for breakdown of sanity

drifting eagle
#

I have yet to check them out

hallow grove
#

they sound very similar though at least for me

#

just with less electronics

drifting eagle
#

Since I have recommended MANY BoO songs, got any Breakdown of Sanity songs I should check out?

hallow grove
#

broken wings reminds me alot of BOS but heavier you could check that out lol

#

you could check that out first

#

ill check out more BoS aswell

#

ill let you know what i think when im done

drifting eagle
#

All right!

hallow grove
#

i really really like machine

pale stag
#

Yesterday i found out that James is the unclean vocalist of another band called Livealie

#

I was going down a rabbit hole of bands when I discovered the band and didn’t even know that James was the vocalist until I looked at the comments section

summer anvil
#

the band has two vocalists, James and the bassist. In their latest single the bassist is the one doing the cleans I believe

pale stag
summer anvil
#

Yeah the latest single is my favourite one so far

silver coral
#

it's gotten much worse

#

yeah...much MUCH worse

IMG_1497.png
drifting eagle
#

Is this Chris's ex?

silver coral
drifting eagle
#

Oooooof

#

That's definitely not good

teal hemlock
covert oxide
#

istg this band has been through so much shit with their vocalists

#

i feel bad for them tbh

silver coral
#

this time it ain't the vocalist...

drifting eagle
#

I listened to the new OAA song... yeah, they're still mid.

tidal crag
#

Cant find it anywhere

#

Did it get deleted or smth

drifting eagle
#

Pretty sure this is it

tidal crag
#

«This sounds like the kinda band you’d find in spotify discover weekly» OMEGALUL

drifting eagle
warped drift
#

for the future reference, don't share the leaks pls

drifting eagle
#

Wasn't this supposed to be released today, though?

tidal crag
#

It says it comes out today?

drifting eagle
#

I guess Spotify and YouTube are a bit slow (or they are OFFICIALLY releasing later)

tidal crag
warped drift
#

The song is not out yet

#

the one you shared is a leak

drifting eagle
#

Hm

#

There's also technically one under "Release - Topic" on YouTube. Is that the official one, or...

#

No, that couldn't be. That page doesn't have any other videos on it.

#

How weird.

#

Either way, my bad, will check channels properly next time before posting. I copied the link that someone in #🎶-bangers sent earlier and didn't really think twice about it.

warped drift
#

Topic videos are fine, it's auto generated by yt

#

it's just doesn't show up for me without VPN for some reason

drifting eagle
#

Huh

warped drift
drifting eagle
#

Oh okay

warped drift
#

i just didn't see it

drifting eagle
#

All right then! Search for the "Release - Topic" next time. Got it.

#

At least, if it's not on Spotify already (which according to Rei, it's not)

#

Annnnnd it's not

summer anvil
#

Joel is a good dude so hoping he doesn't get any negative shit thrown his way. I enjoy his vocals

drifting eagle
#

His vocals were pretty good

#

It still sounds like Oceans Ate Alaska (for better or worse)

candid warren
#

Damn this is disappointing to find out all that

#

Was the guitarist who left the one with this guitar

IMG_2558.jpg
#

I got that cause I saw OAA with it can’t remember which guitarist had it

rapid flint
#

Just read through it and damn

#

I was never really big into OAA but hearing stories like this is always really disheartening - not even talking about how I was initially excited to see them play live in two weeks but anyway.
Shit sucks, really unfortunate to hear and I really hope that none of the negative stuff mentioned relates to Chris but idk man.

#

Anyway, In the meantime I´mma go and finally check out Livealie

candid warren
#

This is my opinion because it’s getting annoying with every band getting cancelled

#

I’m just going to ignore the outside shit that doesn’t revolve around the music unless there’s 100% official confirmation on something

#

Literally every band look what just happened to architects

#

Like there’s likes 6 different sides to one story and nobody wants to say anything so what’s the point in caring it’s not gonna affect me

rapid flint
# candid warren I’m just going to ignore the outside shit that doesn’t revolve around the music ...

I get, understand and can respect that and in situations where it´s mostly ambigious I try to keep a mostly open mind but that´s not really how my brain works - when there´s anything like this in the air, I cant help but think about it whenever I listen to the music and as someone with a very strong moral compass and strict understanding of what I want to support and what not stuff even as ambigous as this really sours the tea for me. Not even gonna talk about Architects again, I´m still trying to figure out how to handle the current situation.

rapid flint
#

To close this about OAA, for now I´ll keep an open mind, see what else might come from this statement and go into the show as unbiased as I can and see from there

candid warren
#

It sucks because I wanna care about it and take it seriously but it happens so much it’s stressful to do so

summer anvil
candid warren
#

I don’t listen to as I lay dying very much for an example because there was 100% confirmation that he did what he did

#

And I get he had his time but personally I don’t agree with it still

rapid flint
#

AILD is always tough for me - I´m a stern believer in people being able to change but as it stands with AILD he´s done some grade a inexusable shit, time served or not, and I have yet to see anything making me think he´s a better person now. Idk, I dont listen to AILD anyway and try to avoid thinking about it too much because I just dont know what to make of it

half fjord
hallow grove
#

its stupid to stop listening to a band you like because the guitarist posted something you think is stupid

#

as for AILD the vocalist did some fucked up shit but served his time and the last record was super good so ima listen to it

#

lol

#

im not gonna worry about things that dont matter

hallow grove
silver coral
robust galleon
#

not surprising for a band that tunes to a=432hz lol

silver coral
#

oof things are really getting worse

robust galleon
#

so, if the guys were homophobic the entire time, kinda weird to have collabed with songs that saved my life considering they help the trevor project

hallow grove
#

from reading it, it seems like they just joked about it too much

silver coral
#

his ex would beg to differ

hallow grove
#

i have not looked at the new stuff that came out

#

honestly i kinda stopped caring after the first post lol

silver coral
#

i sent a screenshot yesterday

hallow grove
#

im curoius now though what happened with his ex

#

ill scroll up and lok

#

look

silver coral
#

i have another but idk

burnt jasper
#

the new OAA track is more OAA than their entire last album

#

it has much more of the first EP and first album feel

rapid flint
ebon wharf
glossy temple
#

feels like theres drama every 12 hours now compared to every week or 2nd week last year, im just here for the music man

jagged jungle
#

any vocalist that replaces james has to be a tattoo artist, according to the OAA prophecy

robust galleon
burnt jasper
candid warren
#

I liked disparity a lot I haven’t really enjoyed this one tho maybe the vocal change just feels weird rn or the mix

round hill
terse wind
#

It's not just James, but Adam Zytkiewicz also left Oceans Ate Alaska.

fierce thunder
#

this breaks my heart dude , disparity was so fucking good

#

Also why are they only getting vocalists whose names start with J for christ’s sake