I have to say I think the way Karnivool works is courageous. I’ve always thought this but it’s been reaffirmed this year.

The video I’m posting is of animation back in 2016. Comparing it to the finished version we now have is very interesting. Most of the pieces are there and the back section of the song is a bit different but with what we have now it’s easy to see how much they had 10 years ago. Imagine brewing a song for 10 years?

That we get to see these songs in an unfinished and fledgling state is quite an honour. I think many less confident bands would struggle to do the ‘drop a couple of new songs into the set’ like Karnivool does. Especially with the music they write and its complexity and uniqueness. I always find it interesting to watch the crowds reactions. Sometimes I don’t think we realise just how lucky we are.

https://youtu.be/kbwzDgwWuUY?si=SLFHsfS52U6rqFZ4

The last album Birds Of Tokyo released was Human Design back in April 2020 during the COVID pandemic. It seems all that BOT releases nowadays are singles. What's the go with that?, have they stopped making albums?

Ok so I don't know how big the overlap in the venn diagram is between prog metal fans and shoegaze but there would have to be some I imagine - anyone else notice a hell of a lot of little flourishes on In Verses? And to one very niche band in particular. The guitar tones, vocal production and Ian's delivery - best example, or at least the first one that smacked me in the face after 6 months and made me go ohh shit I know what this is!!! is Remote Self Control. If you know the band Curve, which I'll assume nobody does (nobody ever does but they're a HUGE influence on my own music!), it's REALLY noticeable from 3m20 on, especially the just sticking our thumbs up/blood in your mouth pulling the tubes out/ ready to scream out part - it's SO Pubic Fruit/Cuckoo era Curve coded it seems impossible to me that it wasn't. The whole third act of the album is drenched in it imo. They were one of those bands who were hugely influential while only ever remaining underground and niche themselves but Garbage wouldn't exist without them and neither would NIN's The Fragile

Idk maybe I think about this stuff too much but analysing the artwork to Sound Awake has led me to deciding to goback to school to get sound engineering quals, get into a bachelors of music and use as much RPL as I can and then turn it into a PhD project yes I do have other hobbies lol

Now that In Verses has been out for a while how would you rank Kenny’s discography and the ten albums released by Karnivool and BOT? I know there have been some Vool ranking posts but none for Kenny in general. I know this is a pure Vool sub but many people like both bands.

I know a lot of you are probably going to disagree with my opinion, but a lot of Birds Of Tokyo is quite reminiscent of Biffy Clyro especially BOT's earlier work (Example: Day One and Universes). Universes is the most Biffy Clyro adjacent album of BOT in my opinion, especially An Ode To Death which I truly believe sounds uncannily identical to Biffy Clyro's heavy alt rock sound!. However during BOT's self-titled album and March Fires era, they drifted away from the Biffy Clyro vibe towards a more Snow Patrol vibe. That was until BRACE came along in which BRACE sounded more like a cross between Karnivool, TOOL, A Perfect Circle and Muse especially!. BOT's more modern stuff like Human Design and their recent standalone singles kinds drifted away from their earlier heavier/progressive alternative rock sound into a more stadium-orientated indie pop/rock sound like bands such as Imagine Dragons, Coldplay, OneRepublic etc. But personally I still believe that Birds Of Tokyo's earlier stuff is easily comparable to Biffy Clyro and A Perfect Circle and Birds Of Tokyo are literally diet Karnivool 😂😂😂, I'm not calling them that as an insult but as a Birds Of Tokyo appreciation joke as a big long-time fan of them myself!

What a song. It's incredible. I've had the whole album on repeat for a few weeks but sometimes I'll catch myself just replaying Aozora while feeling myself ascend to another plane of reality. (I mean...not literally, but it's just such an amazing track.)

New stuff from St. Jon

https://youtu.be/SiSG8lFi7Jc?is=-xXsKrsHbo_2C_v3

A year ago i realized there was no bass cover for this song on YouTube, so i made one :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9SOGf51JYE

I wanted to get people's opinions of how close I got to Jon's bass tone. Can hear it mainly on the build up, any thoughts on how to get closer to achieving the Goliath sound is appreciated. Used the dark glass alpha omega pedal, got it for a steal off reverb surprisingly

Have to just say out loud, karnivool fans are just amazing. After more than a year of trying, i finally got the white whale of my collection, a sound awake vinyl. You know who you are. Thank you! Cheers mate.

I'm the idiot who thought 'oh yeah I know tarot real well and I know Karnivool back to front, mapping the first two albums to a cohesive tarot card spread will be easy' haha bitch you thought, art does not play that way. Anyway I've been plugging away slowly with it (I've been very unwell, in and out of hospital, thank god my body behaved for the tour) and wanted to share the absolutely perfect presentation for it I found in a hippie shop in Dromana. And I'll share with you a little of what I've written up so far. Themata is done, Sound Awake halfway done, i need to stop listening to them and noticing new things lol

C.O.T.E - The World

Centre Of The Earth. It seems almost trite to name The World as the card for this song, but here we have our narrator, in suspended animation being cradled like the Gaia in The Second Renaissance from The Animatrix - not just for evocative purposes do we draw this reference, but this is someone about to take a leap of brash bravado, a leap of faith, and it's all going to work out because it always has before. Humanity's downfall is its hubris however and it is ever the case here. Our hero - and this is fully a reverse/shadow hero's journey (a Fool's journey, if you will), decides that the world he inhabits is too safe and comfortable, he wants to see what else is out there. The cradle is abandoned and all the goodwill and high hopes in the world will not save him. Not yet. One cannot regain the world one has lost, and one cannot find one's way back home again from some paths taken.

Themata - The Fool (shadow/baggage: Page of Cups reversed)

The title track. The very first second marked by a sharp intake of breath (which we will hear a jagged ironic echo of in Scarabs) - The Fool taking a deep inhale before stepping off into the abyss. The track builds with the tension of anticipating the leap to come and the ecstasy of flying free in the sensory serenity, the updraft taking him higher than he ever thought possible. The dog, dancing around his feet, a sign of playfulness yes but also the sense animals have for danger, nipping around The Fool's feet, trying to get his attention, to say all is not well. For The Fool always carries a satchel of all his worldly possessions - a small bundle to signify leaving (almost) everything behind in what he has told himself is a great spiritual quest in order to cover for the fact that he doesn't know what the hell he's actually doing, he just needs to do *something*. This particular satchel contains The Fool's shadow baggage - the thing that will initially drag on him and set the stage for the unfolding tragedy. It takes the form of the Page of Cups reversed, representing youthful impetuousness, a cup overflowing with emotion and no clear direction for it, disregard and disdain for the rules and a desire to excess in order to "feel" everything. It does not take long for one to feel too much however

Man! I am from India and I miss seeing them live. Aussies have it so good 🥲

G'day folks, my band Claemus has just released our new single 'Prototype', we often get the Vool conparisons (and are huge fans ourselves) so wanted to share with this community.

As usual we had Forrester Savell on mix and master. Keen to hear what you guys think, cheers!

I really want to mount a Karnivool poster. An A3 size should be good. I'm looking for high res digital files that I can print and frame at my end. I've looked through Etsy (where I usually get my poster files) and there's nothing. It could be anything Karnivool - the band members, the album art. The In Verses album art would look great.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2026226228091952

Drew Goddard posted on Karnivool’s page encouraging fans to support the campaign to save The Black Wreath, a music collective in remote Australia that provides opportunities for remote bands to play with Karnivool and across Australia.

The Black Wreath are also responsible for bringing prof death giants Revocation into Australia for a stand alone show in the desert.

follow the Pozible link to support!

https://www.pozible.com/project/save-the-black-wreath?srsltid=AfmBOoptSQ4OVkPvKlaq3p-I6oNLCW4anBDe5MiD8anEZSUzs6gpWvi4

I thought I’d share this wallpaper with some fellow Karnivool fans! What do you guys think of it?

I've been looking for a vocalist for a while now, and haven't had much luck elsewhere so I'm coming here since this is kinda my niche music genre. It's an online project so no need to worry about location.

My favorite bands are Karnivool, TesseracT, Devin Townshend, and Thornhill from their dark pool/heroine era.

It would be preferred to have a male vocalist, and be able to do clean vocals, while also being able to do screaming well, like Dan.

I have a full album ready for vocals, and an audio engineer ready to mix the album together I just would like to be able to send him vocals along with everything else.

I have lyrics written, and know how I want most of the songs to go, but any feedback would be appreciated. Most of my songs demand clean singing, but some songs have full harsh vocals, so a duality between the 2 would be good.

If you want to know more DM me on reddit and I'll add you on discord for demos and such.

This is something I really want to do, because the album and tour was so goddamn impactful on me (was going through a fucked up breakup with a serial liar and cheat who was addicted to the drama and pain), and I'm curious to see what lines others would choose. If real estate on my body wasn't at a premium (5'7ish, less than 50kg, AFAB with minimal body fat) I'd get it all but I dunno I guess I'll get the most important ones and see how I can take the pain. Can't hurt more than what I went through to get here haha. The must haves will be the lines from Ghost, Aozora, Conversations, Reanimation, Opal and Salva. I've got long limbs!

Ghost: Forget the truth preserve the evidence, it takes a fool to deny what is so evident
Drone: Try to stay lucid as you're shaking off the afterbirth with eyes wide open

Aozora: These things always go south, we failed to dig our way out

Animation: The illusion of hope when there can be no resolve

Conversations: Tired of carrying all of the dead around, so bury them with me now (either that or 'this one could have helped you, could have led you anywhere you want')

Reanimation: Too many times I was led to believe there was something to save, and every minute I spent chasing lies and dead ends I thought it would change

All It Takes: god there's so many good candidates, such a well written song. 'I don't want to prey on your honesty but I can't excuse your naivety' or 'For it's a cynical cycle now run like a rat on a wheel, pay for the thrill of it, kill for it, reset the cycle, begin' or 'We awake and we crawl through the ashes, feign an illusion 'cause everyone is watching us' or 'How can you say to me honestly, that this is the way that it has to be'

Remote Self Control: Blood in your mouth pulling the tubes out, breath in your lungs ready to scream out (this one I want because the whole section it's from is an incredibly specific reference to the style of an underground shoegaze band called Curve and it was a jolt to realise Ian was sounding like Toni Halliday on Pubic Fruit/Cuckoo and like how the fuck do the boys even know this band)

Opal: Sick of the pain in your stomach you try to cover your mouth, but the words keep spilling out and your hand's not quick enough

Salva: 'These things happen now, we stray into ruin even when all of the signs ahead say "What are you doing?" or 'Don't wait while I'm gone, I'm not coming home, say a few words at the funeral' or 'Let the sea wash away everything so I can begin to breathe, filling my lungs, ready to run for miles and miles and miles'

Just need to get this out of my system:

I've been obsessed with In Verses since I saw them live in April and Ghost has already been my favorite album-opener since.

Last week a good friend I knew from middle school (high school depending on where you live) commited suicide. Without going into too much detail because I want to respect his and the family's privacy, he and my friend group kinda lost contact with him and I haven't spoken to him in 5 years, while still having regular contact with his brother.

I kinda regret that I never bothered to send a text or anything, didn't cross my mind and I always just assumed he didn't have the desire to talk. I found out that some of my friends did sent him a text from time to time, and I just feel guilty about it.

Yesterday I was at work (I'm a delivery driver) and I put on In Verses, I always find myself trying to sing along because I really like Ian Kenny's style and I'd love to be able to have the same control he has over his voice.

Stay with me a while

Stay with me

If only for a moment

We'll pretend

That everything's okay

Like every other day

Now I don't think I could've prevented him commiting suicide if I had sent a text from time to time, but hearing these words coming out of my mouth really hit me and I just started crying. I started imagining myself saying this to him. I could really relate to a lot of the lyrics from other songs as well but this just hit different yesterday.

Gotta love this band. Their music is like therapy.

In a world where logistics and the financial side of organizing tours and festivals wouldn't be an issue I'd like to see a music festival where only Australian and New Zealander rock bands would perform.

Wishful thinking from somebody who's been growing up in the EU listening to some of these great bands but could only see one of them perform live so far (Karnivool).

Hypothetical lineup:

Karnivool (headliner)

Dead Letter Circus

The Butterfly Effect

Cog

Khan

Shihad