A Calculated Use of Sound - Protest the Hero [Full Album]

[@unholyparagon5366]

I remember rody selling me this album at a show when they just released it cuz I was so blown away by them having no idea that they would become one of the top bands I still love to this day

[@pattyboy9183]

my old school teacher's sister is marred to rody and i got an autograph from him

[@sergeyprishvin2156]

@@pattyboy9183 Sounds unfair to me: she bangs Rody and you got just his signature. Still cool tho!

[@Dylanjamescraig]

Protest the hero is the shit no doubt dude always my go to. They are one of my constant staples

[@bigboygames6817]

fb I m i see u i a

[@carsontroeh127]

"I am Dmitri Karamazov and the World is My Father" I have never heard such an endearing, charming title in my life. Thanks, Dostoevsky.

[@mikeclark7418]

Criminally underrated debut. I wish they played these songs still..

[@HellfishHarper]

14 years later, and still ridiculously relevant.

[@Dylanjamescraig]

21 years later still relevant this band changed my life music wise

[@GhostProdigy]

This is truly a lost treasure

[@jamiemartin5999]

So, so great

[@Kyle11011]

Only makes this treasure more valuable

[@MorticiaObscurum]

I really enjoy this album, it felt so youthful and energetic.

[@erebus890]

So crazy hearing this then listening to Palimpsest!

[@dirtytacos89]

By the first 10 seconds of palimpsest I was thinking the same thing. I thought they would have this on Spotify or something but it doesn’t look like it. I looked it up because it reminded me so much of this.

[@croaker_]

Most of the band has changed out by Palimpsest

[@MrWalkswith3legs]

All around amazing music, considering they were still in high school when they made this. Kezia is my all time favorite album from them, and any metal head would appreciate this and their later work. Listening to a lot of this, you can tell that they are all about changing the world.

[@SaiyanStavi]

From a search for the truth all the way to palimpsest, these guys are one of the best to ever bless the world of music. Every song and every album are pure gold and I could not be more happy to experience perfection in the form of music

[@doogleswoogles6366]

I’d kill for this to get re-recorded

[@schat2724]

With the OG lineup....I'd pay in blood

[@dereklamarche8456]

I need this on vinyl

[@xoverHorizonx]

Seems like you are getting your wish to come true, they are releasing in november the guitar transcriptions and a 20 year anniversary vynil of this!

[@sergeyprishvin2156]

@@dereklamarche8456 It was released yesterday by Sheet Happens Records!

[@Kyle11011]

I remember being younger and hearing about some band playing music on main intersections… we now know this band to be Protest The Hero! Absolute underrated Canadian nation treasure! 🇨🇦

[@OfficiallyMaidenless]

These Colors Don't Run is one of the most incredible guitar driven songs I've ever heard. I don't even know how old I was when I heard it, and I used to play it CONSTANTLY but it's been at least 8 years since I last heard it. Fuck such an AMAZING album from start to finish

[@R7Mustaine1]

2023, still one of my favorites.

[@s871-c1q]

HC punk Protest The Hero was a brief but amazing fling. Still one of my favourite. HC punk is usually pretty bland to my tastes but somehow this really strikes. Thank you for posting.

[@epiclysynyster]

You could remove the entirety of the instrumentals and vocals from this EP, turn this into spoken work poetry and it would still easily be one of my favorite works of art. I'm yet to find an Album/EP with lyrics this meaningful, articulate and well constructed, while still covering such a broad base of topics. And that's without even taking into account this was written by kids in high school.

[@drumsno]

AND they aren't even into this EP. They basically don't like any of the songs on this.

[@austinstowe1718]

@@drumsno actually rody said he still likes some of this ep, he was talking about it on stream the other night, hence why I'm here listening to it again after 3 years lmao

[@drumsno]

@@austinstowe1718 they still like Dimitri and things, but they used to even say on stage how much they hated even playing this EP

[@MikeTotaro]

🤘🎵Ψ That is correct Ψ🎵🤘

[@Dylanjamescraig]

@@drumsnothis is still one of their best it’s so pure it’s messed up I remember downloading this on limewire and going to a show and being fully converted

[@Dylanjamescraig]

These colours don’t run is one of the best songs of all time for me this whole album is amazing fear and loathing in Laramie red star over the battle of cowshed it’s fd up how good this is

[@sneasel.99]

one of the greatest post-hc albums i've ever heard

[@mta3541]

+Piergiovanni Gianpollo Protest never considered themselves post-hardcore but I feel it. They just considered it punk back in the day. Definitely one of my favorite albums!

[@hartree.y]

They're technically mathcore, but they definitely have that kind of sound to them.

[@shroomsandmetal]

We need this ep more than anything these days!!!

[@Merokh]

Was missing this on Spotify...thanks for the upload, buddy! THIS SYSTEM FEARS SOLIDARITY

[@wldbyskater5]

Yes I want to topple the system.

[@schat2724]

Nuff said

[@Dylanjamescraig]

Led astray is one of my favorite protest songs ever god damn this album rules

[@TheSuperguero]

Thank you for posting this. Been looking for it for a good while. Big fan of these guys. I love hearing the progress this guys have made through the years. Can't wait for their new album.

[@dmcosiris1678]

2021 this shit still killing it.

[@Moe.Tactical]

2021 still a banger album!!!!!!!

[@jwarfield1623]

Now 2023 !!

[@SameBasicRiff]

a gosh darn legendary album. SO good!

[@lukasazdanovic6477]

HOLY FUCK I FORGOT THIS EXISTED OMGOMGOMG SUCH CHUNKY

[@Ch4rlie98]

this is really awesome, wish i'd found it earlier- been looking for a band like this for ages

[@christiankolb6319]

Dude...wtf. And I considered myself a true fan....1st time finding this. 🤯 Volition is.

[@shaynesullivan134]

Man This Record is too Hard! Thanks For This.

[@TheMutantMindframe]

word!

[@DudeGuy.Esquire]

2% controlling the power. Damn i feel old a.f. now. Yall remember the good old days when it wasnt 1?

[@pattyboy9183]

PROTEST THE HERO ROCKS!!!!!!!

[@HammersmashedTaco]

I know it's Protest the Hero, but I keep getting a hint of Rise Against from this. And I Love it.

[@brandontadday6288]

+HammersmashedTaco It does remind me a little of early Rise Against actually hahaha!

[@zipzapzop400]

Most of their albums tackle social/political topics, however they proceed to tell a broader story to deliver the message instead of straight forward punk styles.

[@LeadingTheFallen]

oh god Rody. XD i love this EP nonetheless, it's amazing to me. :3 thanks for posting this!!

[@TheMutantMindframe]

:3

[@jujululu222]

seriously in love with this!

[@kenbell182]

Need this on spotify, my IPod's battery life just isn't cutting it anymore

[@justinmiller6493]

I do agree!!

[@evan827]

i'm glad you put this up

[@mrrudigaer]

been a fan since kezia and i am hearing this for the first time like doooooood

[@TheJesamit]

This is such a great album it's nearly pinnacle early post hardcore I wish it was more influential

[@mrrudigaer]

@@TheJesamit it kinda is to us :D

[@tech-preistryzan9988]

i would love a rerocording of this album in there new sound, there are so many cool ideas in this ep sonically

[@apackalu2718]

This might be an odd take but it sounds a little like a punk rock System of a Down.

[@holdergk2660]

this and Kezia>>> all pth album

[@blueskythinking4745]

Holder GK lol fortress and kezia are superior to this in every way. Prog metal > pop punk

[@ComradeCrab93]

Blueskythinking This is closer to hardcore punk, but I get what you're saying

[@sevencdn6943]

I thin all work up too including Fortress is amazing

[@jaydeathcore8707]

Protess tous ce qu'il font est excellent continuer comme ça un des meilleur band dans leur style :)

[@chx_xhc3645]

Thank You

[@ByGeorge846]

Yo this shit still goes hard

[@kaskade5909]

*cough*CALCULATING INFINITY*cough*

[@andreneves1205]

I cannot help not to say that stuff like "their only good work" or "ABBA destroys Bee Gees" or any kind of ready-made comparison is kinda pointless. Kill me, coz I didn't knew this album. Always thought Kezya was their first. I love every single album... but I guess I'll have a new favorite very soon after a couple plays of this one. In a first glance, it's sad for those who love political hardcore (like me) that they strayed so far from it with the years. But a complete new and criative band came from this process. Bands are like this. Can't please you forever, coz they have to please themselves first. Suggestion for the "this is the best/only good album": grab a guitar, learn to play it and give humanity something worth sending the aliens in a box on the next stupid intergalatic vessel. jk but I wish this album was more influential... so many bands could have followed this influence and taken stuff from here, although PtH took it to other direction. If I'm just ignorant of bands that have done this, I need names, or it didn't happened.

[@OfficiallyMaidenless]

Early The Fall Of Troy is quite similar I would say, in fact both bands are the biggest influences to me as a guitarist

[@jakebergen1837]

A wilhelm scream, propagandhi

[@Broekhart]

Hey; I love this. thank you. From: A cat like you

[@thisisjayse]

because he was like, 16 or 17 lol

[@weedjuul6519]

Rody sounds like Dag from Angry Beavers in this. This band grew so much.

[@takayukiyamada7743]

Cool

[@jayrorabeck550]

11:33

[@CerealKillings]

Try also the subsequent Thrice album, The Illusion of Safety.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

Try Thrice's first album, Identity Crisis.

[@jayrorabeck550]

this is better . and heavier not saying thrice is bad. cuz thrice was my favourite band through many many years. but this goes harder

[@MikeTotaro]

🤘🎵Ψ

[@ald4604]

LoL I had to double check I was thinking it was Anti-Flag to be from co-workers where thinking the same thing lol.. Guess not

[@ShadowCrowX]

lol I know eh, but then he went through puberty and he's only gotten better since Kezia

[@ToKeepMeFromSinking]

This is the only PTH album I like. This Era of underground ops was so good. Bombs Over Providence, Closet Monster, Hostage Life. Political punk bands.. now look at the trash they sign and put out. It's a damned shame.

[@ToKeepMeFromSinking]

***** I wasn't calling Protest "trash". Underground Operations was known for being a Punk label and jumped on the emo/screamo wave hard, abandoming what the label used to stand for. These Silhouettes, Stereos.. Those are shitty bands. I respect PTH, but they lost my interest ten years ago. You cannot call UO a punk label, let alone one of the best independent punk labels. NOTHING will ever top Fat Wreck Chords, which has been releasing the best and most influential punk bands for the last 25 years. Hell, even Nitro, No Idea, Cyber Tracks are just a few labels that all top UO in that department. Chuck Ragan is the only good punk artist that's represented by underground ops. I won't even start on their "metal" bands.

[@ToKeepMeFromSinking]

+Kaelan Rasputin I'm not against the progression of PTH at all. I love bands like Strung Out and A Wilhelm Scream who've perfected fusing punk and metal. I have a hate on for Underground Operations, not Protest The Hero.

[@jayrorabeck550]

this guy knows. hostage life was dope. remember that band from the UK 21st impact

[@JulleHimself]

his voice is like sandpaper in my ears

[@schat2724]

But you kinda like it amirite?

[@jakebergen1837]

Agreed. But I also like Dave mustaine and leftover crack. I like sandpaper of all grits.

[@jordannijjar5414]

Let it scrape you up.

[@QabalisticBass]

I love Protest the Hero so much but I agree with Rody. This is so bad. I saw them open for System of Down in 2005 and hated them until I heard Blindfolds Aside. Hard to think this is the same name that made C'est la vie and Plato's Tripartite.

[@jakebergen1837]

Can't agree. I like everything they've ever released but kezia is my favorite album.

[@TheSnakeYouCanTrust]

The only good album Protest ever released.

[@PhalanxItHard]

^ this guy

[@Rotbeam99]

ololololololllolololol

[@Reiyichi]

so you only like the politically charged hardcore punk scene? I agree this was a great PTH album, but they have had many good ones after this too. Just cause they wanted to go in a different direction than you care to listen to does not change that fact.

[@TheSnakeYouCanTrust]

Derek Mathews What.... who said i only like that scene. I said this was protests only good album, nothing about the scene.

[@Reiyichi]

Tyler Johnson Well, like I said, they have had a few great albums since this one. This one is awesome, then again so were Kezia and Fortress. I won't mention Scurillious or Volition, as those albums are hit or miss for some people, but they are awesome as well imho. so I don't think PTH ever released a bad album. Which brings me back to your original comment. "The only good album Protest ever released." They have changed their sound since this album. This one was hardcore punk, now they are more progressive metal. That is why I figured you just didn't care for their new sound or metal in general cause you said this was their only good album.

[@earlmcmanus194]

The lyrics to "Red Stars Over the Battle of the Cowshed" are complete cringe.

[@jessenabs6653]

We’ll they were kids when they wrote that. Pretty damn good if you consider that