#fallingwithscissors

[kooplah]

happy birthday kanna !!! she is my favorite love bullet character so far!

original album cover, ramblings and unscaled version under the cut

this one is another music based redraw, this time based on fallingwithscissors' recent album, the death and birth of a cupid angel. i've really fallen in love with this album and i've been able to catch them live twice now! really fun stuff lol.

[cow-wife]

[Lettinggomakestheheartburnhotter]//[Openyoureyes]

[symmetricalscar]

fallingwithscissors - the death and birth of an angel

[thisworldisablackhole]

fallingwithscissors the death and birth of an angel

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FFO: DIGITALLY FRACTURED METALCORE, FROMJOY, STATIC DRESS / LISTEN

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While most bands seem to blossom into this world with open palms swaddling shard fragments and mosaic dreams, fallingwithscissors crashed through the skylight, bringing down the chandelier just to chew on glass with brilliant bloody grins in some juvenile act of defiance—destroying just to see what happens, and then destroying again because the reaction is fun. It's almost like the band is just trying to see how many stress fractures they can apply to their chaotic brand of electronic-infused metalcore before it collapses in on itself, and I think they might have found that breaking point.

the death and birth of an angel is an absolute mess, plain and simple. A mess that feels like it was thrown together with demolition tools and half an arm. fallingwithscissors didn't just find their breaking point here, they pranced straight over it like kids leaping the subway turnstile, leaving a trail of reckless abandon and mad laughter in their wake. It's disjointed, clunky, inefficient, ugly, I could go on. These songs show almost zero identifiable sense of structure, and are mostly held together by the violence of blood geysers rupturing under a pressure grid. It almost makes more sense to approach this EP as one long track that stumbles in and out of consciousness than trying to keep tabs on the tracklist. Even "atrophy:angel" sounds like it ends two separate times just to confusingly kick back to life and — wait... is this still the same song, or a different one? I have no clue. The occasional moment of brilliance does spring forth from the chaos, usually in the form of some zoomer techno fuckery like the hardstyle rave outro of "(un)equivalent_exchange" or the ambient breakcore that pervades the burdened agony of "tripping > wires", but unfortunately even the most tangible moments of the EP (y'know, the moments where fallingwithscissors just sound like a regular metalcore band) are hampered by a washed out and claustrophobic mix that makes the guitars and vocals sound like two sheets of sandpaper on a contact mic.

All that said, the death and birth of an angel is as clumsy as it is enjoyable, and it's biggest flaws become its most redeeming qualities. It's that uncontrollable, haphazard spit strewn across the sidewalk type of abandon that makes this experience memorable, and whether that memory is negative or positive depends entirely on who you are. It might be an incoherent mess, but the more I listen, the more I see the intention behind it, and the more I appreciate it's purposeful abrasiveness and borderline inaccessibility. There is certainly some potential here that the band has not quite tapped into yet, but I also think whatever my idea of a "good" evolution would be might be everything the band is grinding their axe against. And who am I to stop them from destroying another chandelier?

[comatosefiend]

[2017 - present]

[cherrwysx-music]

♫ Fallingwithscissors - The Death and Birth of an Angel ♫

[digitaltourbus]

[fallingwithscissors] takes you on a tour of the van that they tour the country in! Watch the video at https://www.digitaltourbus.com/features/fallingwithscissors-bus-invaders-ep-2036-video/

[stigmasochist]

Right click -> open your eyes This is not the end The question isn't HOW or WHY Not IF but WHEN i break you You've been predisposed to give in This is a gift from god so take it You want to be an angel so be it But it won't come for free

[crownhate]

last 7 days kinda goated rn tbh

[cow-wife]

[Openyoureyes]

[iguessthisismytigersuit]

AOTY lists are boring,

here are some of the albums that made me get through this year, released whenever. Most of them are recent and well known, call me poser.

La Quiete - La fine non è la fine (2004): If I were forced to forget all of human made music on Earth this album would not leave my synapsis, not even under torture. I love this record more than my life. I'm not joking.

Seeyouspacecowboy... - The Romance of Affliction (2021): ugh. The best modern emo record but whatever. Without this one I'd be under 3 meters of dirt. This has been the companion of every mental breakdown since it released. Cheers.

La Dispute - Somewhere At The Bottom of The River Between Vega and Altair (2008): the biggest achievement of my life up to now is sculpted on this record. It's warm with the love of some of my best friends.

fallingwithscissors - The Death and Birth of An Angel (2024): hell yeah. I want to be this record when I grow up. Hell yeah.

Sinema - Fear of The Fall (2024): the second record to which I owe my sanity. I genuinely thought this was originally released in 2005, if you consider this an indicator of how good this album is. I'll never be tired of unassuming twinks making the best music in the world.

Contention - Artillery From Heaven (2024): being straight edge automatically makes you play the best hardcore ever. Yeah this record is identical to 10000s of others, whatever, it's so so fun.

Maths - The Fires Courting The Sea (2015): the best 10 minutes and 9 seconds western music has ever produced. This is the best emoviolence EP of the century. I'd be a way worse person if I had never discovered this. Or maybe I wouldn't be so annoying about this record. You decide.

One Step Closer - All You Embrace (2024): this is one of the only three records of which I sing the choruses, as a person who is terribly afraid of singing. This should suffice to say how much I love these songs.

The Names of Our Friends - Should We Know Better Than To Wonder? (2024): this is like a dream, full transfem emoviolence band demonstrating they can make better music than any other non-queer person ever. It's so so close to my heart.

Chevalier - Un Dolore a Cui Non So Dare un Nome (idk??): I wrote a record with two of my new best friends. Without this I would be nothing. It's the main thing that kept me going. It should be out in a few months, I think. We're already bored of these songs, we're writing more.

Every album is a specific period of my year and is linked to every friend I have and had, I hope to hug and kiss them all soon :33

[strangled-with-a-halo]

why do i simultaneously want to start a band that is less mersh than thotcrime but also start a band that sounds like fallingwithscissors meets attack attack

[drpolishmatt]

Falling With Scissors at The Breakroom, Jan 14 2025, Omaha, NE

Awesome time at The Breakroom in Omaha! Great old-school metalcore vibes from Minneapolis!

@fallingwithscissors

[carcosapr]

156/SILENCE Announce Co-Headline US Winter Tour with VCTMS

Rising metalcore heavyweights 156/SILENCE are proud to announce their co-headline U.S. winter tour with VCTMS, spanning 24 cities beginning Jan. 9 in Detroit and wrapping up Feb. 8 in Chicago. The absolutely stacked tour features support from Heavy//Hitter, Saltwound, Monochromatic Black, Wiltwither, fallingwithscissors, and Banged Out on select dates. PURCHASE TICKETS: https://linktr.ee/156silence.tour Tour Dates: 1/9 - Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary 1/10 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground 1/11 - New York, NY @ The Meadows 1/12 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground 1/13 - Providence, RI @ Alchemy 1/15 - Syracuse, NY @ The Song & Dance 1/16 - Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery 1/17 - Raleigh, NC @ Chapel of Bones 1/18 - Jacksonville, FL @ Underbelly 1/19 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Purgatory) 1/21 - Orlando, FL @ Conduit 1/22 - Tampa, FL @ Orpheum 1/23 - Birmingham, AL @ LCY 1/24 - Little Rock, AR @  The Rev Room 1/25 - OKC, OK @ VFW 9265 1/26 - Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s Sports Cafe 1/27 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad (no 156) 1/28 - Mesa, AZ @ The Underground 1/29 - San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick (21+) (no 156) 1/30 - San Luis Obispo @ Humdinger Brewing SLO Taproom 1/31 - Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction 2/1 - Fresno, CA @ Full Circle Brewery 2/2 - Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s - Starlet Ballroom 2/4 - Midvale, UT @ The Pearl on Main 2/5 - Denver, CO @ HQ (16+) (no 156) 2/6 - Des Moines, IA @ Lefty's 2/7 - Cudahy, WI @ X-Ray Arcade 2/8 - Chicago, IL @ Reggies About the band:

156/SILENCE creates soundtracks for the pushed aside and marginalized. Equal parts frenetic, unhinged, passionate, and focused, their music resonates with outsiders of all stripes. 156/SILENCE is for anyone determined to peel back the façade of false pleasantries, shallow platitudes, and fakery. 

It’s a mission the band began in earnest with underground missives. (Metal Injection advised readers to “wreck your speakers with 156/SILENCE” on the eve of 2017’s Karma EP.) The group excels live, offering both community and devastation, while touring with the likes of The Acacia Strain, Unearth, Upon A Burning Body, D.R.U.G.S., Signs Of The Swarm, and Orthodox, among others. 

Howling personal declarations, jagged riffs, post-hardcore, noise, thrash, sludge, and ambiance collide within 156/SILENCE. In 2018, Kerrang! hailed the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, group as one of the “6 Underground Metalcore Bands Redefining the Scene.” Less than a decade after their emergence, 156/SILENCE delivers again on that promise with an incendiary fourth album, People Watching. 

No two 156/SILENCE albums are alike, from the unhinged frenetic chaos of Undercover Scumbag (2018) to the gloriously savage and technical Irrational Pull (2020), which Metal Hammer likened to Converge and Botch. The diverse ruminations found in Narrative (2022) took things even further. 

People Watching continues the prolific outfit’s tradition of steadfast evolution. Produced by Jonathan Dolese (D.R.U.G.S., Emmure, Attack Attack!), the album embraces melodic hooks without sacrificing any heaviness. The band’s golden age of metalcore roots shimmer and swirl together with influences ranging from Aphex Twin to Thrice, Glassjaw, and Deftones, from movie soundtracks to horror games. As the band says: “People Watching is truly the culmination of the last nine years of 156.”

156/SILENCE sounds ravenous, ominous, and haunting. Their songs are literary and cinematic, cerebral and brutal, drawing from real and imagined horrors, all intertwined with melody and might. 156/SILENCE is: Jack Murray – vocals Jimmy Howell – guitars Ryan Wilkinson – guitars  Lucas Booker – bass Max Bradshaw – drums Social Links: https://instagram.com/156silence https://facebook.com/156silence https://twitter.com/156silence https://youtube.com/@156silence Press: “People Watching not only establishes a new precedent, but positions the band on a whole new tier of potential.” — KNOTFEST “From the home of Code Orange come another hardcore band ready to explode.” — METAL HAMMER “…an unhinged force to be reckoned with.” — KERRANG!

[digitaltourbus]

[fallingwithscissors] - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2036