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Loved this interview. These guys are such cool dudes. Their performance at blueridge rockfest was 100% the highlight

Earth And Sky, and Echo were amazing albums. I have high expectations for the new record.

I agree Tino, Defy really is criminally underappreciated. It's just an all around great record

I love OM&M and they've really grown apart and improved their song writing, arrangements are really well placed and the chorus of their songs are just as catchy! I've always been inspired to hear a lot of musicians especially the bands that I listen to talk about the music industry their drive and passion for doing music!

I remember seeing Of Mice And Men in March 2019 in freezing Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was around -30 that night. The concert also has Palisades, Badflower, And Nothing More. What a amazing concert that was and I wish I could go back to that day

Love you Aaron! We grew up together and he is so genuine and wonderful!

I won't lie, I was more into the "Myspace Era" of the band but let's be real, I'm ALWAYS all about the Myspace Era so 😅🤘🏻

Going from Transylvania to see them all the way in Amsterdam! Got a whole 3-day trip full of biking, pastry, and metal planned around that OM&M concert \m/

Shiver is my favourite of mice & men song ever

I wasn't as chronically online back then, bu it's shocking to me that Restoring Force got hate? I loved it when it came out.

Restoring Force and Defy were some damn good albums.

This dude was in my friends band Jamies Elsewhere. He recorded a dope ep for my old band too.

Great chat! I have a lot of respect for these guys.

My favorite band of all time.

Is he wearing a Cane Hill shirt? Fuck yeah🤘

Goddammit, I love you, Aaron.

Restoring Force was the reason I became a fan of the band

Love Of Mice & Men. Saw them back in 2017 at Carolina Rebellion and they were incredible! \m/

I absolutely love Defy. It’s one of my favorites from them tbh.

Saw them first time at Blue Ridge Rockfest, they were Amazing

Finn, my friend! I think either of the following would be great candidates for upcoming podcasts: Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) who has had a successful music career but has also now pivoted into content creation on youtube. Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation) on transitioning from grindcore to a reasonably popular metal band and their impact on veganism - that and I think just based on his vibe would be a good fit to talk shit with for an hour. Appreciate you and all you do!

These guys fucking slay. Great interview!

going butt rock lmao stoked for this Love of mice and mens old work

One of my favorite songs

Just listened to the first half of their New Album the other day. I liked it. Not as much as Restoring Force. Which was more what i expected.

Awesome 👌 band 🤘

They just weren't the same without Austin. I know he wasn't a great human, but a very enticing vocalist

Echo was an amazing fucking album

Idk what this guy is even talking about. To me the first two albums have solid structure and so much FEEL. The songs flow into eachother. If someone asked me what is metalcore I'd show them Ben Threw or something. That's top shelf. I'm only 5 minutes in but it honestly sounds like hes trying to sey they didn't sell out while at the same time we were fully motivated by other more successful bands and the mindset of how can we make more money. I don't resonate with anything after the first two albums and this just makes it clear why.

I tried listening to Sleep Token, didnt like them. I once speculated that they are fey indie pop musicinas doing metal, or older metal musicans doing pop metal. If the rumours are true, then its both. Oddly enough the first two Sleep Token records were recorded not far from where I live. A small metal/prog festival near me had them on the lineup.

Yo Resorting Force is a sick record! I dont really think it’s particularly butt rockey though

So much respect for this band for continuing on. Nothing they’ve done has grabbed me like the first two records just because Austin and Shayley were such an amazing combo however I’ll still check out everything they drop 🤘🏼 Also they should bring back Ohioisonfire live one day just to blow people’s minds 😅

Good morning

Im confused seeing as the last 2 or 3 albums have kess sales on itines and less views on all platforms, in fact most of the new songs havent hit 100k views 😳

I love how you still don't get Sleep Token. Maybe I can do some explaining?! So Vessel has a very unique way of telling a story. He uses beautiful metaphors, analogies and so on to do so. The stories that he tells are filled with pain and seem very personal. We (the fans) assume that he attempted suicide at some point and he writes about that. Vessel also has very visible self-harm scars. It seems like he faced a great amount of pain at some point. His music, especially the lyrics, speaks to me because I dealt with the same issues. Maybe you have never really read one of their songs? You don't have to. You can't argue about taste anyway and I understand that this music is not for everybody.

I hope they talk about Shay and Austin leaving. Still a bunch of unanswered questions (unless I just could not find them)

Im from broke tech mountain

crazy to hear a joey sturgis name drop. his wife is in conquer divide

I knew her.

I wish people would drop the “butt rock” term, it’s an insult to rock music imo I never understood why people hate rock music so much

❤️🤘

Is the jerky boys?

How dare they call ST radio rock 🤣

They still exist?

I like turdles

You shoulda probed about death metal…

No but something happened to my back. I laugh myself threw pain. Dok ken buuurah Im in high frequency battle zone. Who is Imy

AND WHY THE F U ARE NOT GOING TO TOUR WITH BAD OMENS, instead you play parallel concert in Leipzig, Germany, on the same day

😂

Oo. Am i still a what you made me this time?

No that was only special was only for nevermind ia that dont wamt of thoae things.

;)

Defending the selling out to buttrock is disgusting, and looking at that producers discography, he makes nothing but garbage. Insane how they think hes above Sturgis

Del taco me peep eta lotsa meat shrimp im in the phillipeans

Of Mice should change their name to Matte Black and tour with Flat Black. The aggressive Cookie Monster vocal into the clean Daughtry chorus is worn out. 🥱

i think earth and sky was their peak, for me personally i don't like anything they've released since i don't think the new stuff is bad but i think its just mid as hell and just forget-able

Top your old vocalist’s songs, must be embarrassing playing other people’s music

OMG His hair is so grody, it's all oily, what...did he wash his hair in Lays potato chips or something? WHATEVER! Gag me with a spoon!

After Austin left, I stopped listening. Flood was their peak, true as fuck

Love the band name