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Octillus:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---I've heard Crawl Through Knives.
...meh.
--- End quote ---
Meh to you bro.
It's Come Clarity, and it kicks ass. Better than the last two albums combined. The song Vacuum cannot be denied.
surgerydrugsnrocknroll:
--- Quote from: Octillus ---
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---I've heard Crawl Through Knives.
...meh.
--- End quote ---
Meh to you bro.
It's Come Clarity, and it kicks ass. Better than the last two albums combined. The song Vacuum cannot be denied.
--- End quote ---
sorry, but they went from decent swedish melo-death to more generic swedish influenced metalcore.
not a good change.
go listen to clayman or whoracle.
muchmuch better stuff.
Octillus:
--- Quote from: surgerydrugsnrocknroll ---
--- Quote from: Octillus ---
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---I've heard Crawl Through Knives.
...meh.
--- End quote ---
Meh to you bro.
It's Come Clarity, and it kicks ass. Better than the last two albums combined. The song Vacuum cannot be denied.
--- End quote ---
sorry, but they went from decent swedish melo-death to more generic swedish influenced metalcore.
not a good change.
go listen to clayman or whoracle.
muchmuch better stuff.
--- End quote ---
Before I start, be warned that most of my response is due to the fact that I "have to defend" my tastes all the freaking time. It's like people tell me they've sold out, when 98% of the western world has no idea who the fuck they are. So really, I find it all silly. Don't take it personally, I don't.
Heh. I own every album dude. Don't tell me what i have to listen to, as Clayman is still my favorite album, ever. I can still find that I like the new album anyway. What's sad is that most people, after the previous album fail to give this one a shot. You'd be surprised, how many old school influences you can find. I understand it's still all a matter of taste, but to call them generic is a bit ridiculous considering the amount of experimentation they've made with their sound.
I of course expect you to respond with a list of bands that you find better. Fine, I've heard most of them: Ominum Gatherum, At the Gates, Dissection (blech!), Kalmah, Dark Tranquillity (way rad but can be boring), Nightrage, it doesn't really matter. Point being is that I find a lot of these bands to be generic (At the Gates aside, i mean they and IF started the genre) and I think it's the direct punch of IF's sound and emotion in the vocals that seperates them for me. So, maybe you disagree, but don't try and tell me I'm wrong because, just like you, I have my opinions
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Octillus ---
It's Come Clarity
--- End quote ---
I was talking about the song.
I saw In Flames live a month or so ago, and the amount they've changed since the last time I saw them before that (Hammered at Xmas) was incredible. Every track had had an oscillated electronic backing added to it, and all the heavy vocals had been down-graded. I could scarcely recognise Episode 666.
The problem with In Flames is that, indeed, they aren't generic MDM. They're generic to bands like Shadows Fall.
Also, because it looks like pet hates time, In Flames did NOT co-invent MDM with AtG. If you want a co-inventor, it was Edge of Sanity. Their trio of albums from 1992-1994 (Unorthodox, The Spectral Sorrows, Purgatory Afterglow) is absolutely seminal to everything that MDM has ever done, and 1996's Crimson maybe even more so, and it really amazes me that so few people have actually heard them. When you consider the kind of Quantum leap of experimentation they were committing when they wrote and recorded the song 'Enigma' in 1991/1992, it's pretty mind-boggling.
And on the EoS note, if you want vocals and lyrics with emotional punch, Dan Swano is your man. Listen to 'Elegy'. Zomg.
Octillus:
I'll give you that they were predated by Edge of Sanity (whom I never totally got into, but are very very good), it's just generally referred to as IF with Lunar Strain in 94, the jester race in 95 and 96 as being part of that scene's creation. And yes, considering the time period, WOW. And I've seen IF live 5 times, so yeah, it may be true, that they've added some electronic backing, but a bad show it makes not. As a matter of fact, seeing them in 04, the song the quiet place aside, was better than when I saw them with Iced Earth, simply due to the fact that they've cut from their sloppiness. If they've really changed so much since I saw them at ozzfest (no comments on that please, I don't care.), then that is really sad. Generic to Shadow's Fall? eh. I'd NEVER go that far. Everyone whom i've talked to that hates everything after colony, still thinks they sound like In Flames, just in their eyes a bastardized form of it. What bands like Shadow's Fall lack are anything besides, I dunno, constant riffing.
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