Recent content by CladInShadows971

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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    Which is really telling when you realise Clayman was only the second album he actually wrote the lyrics for, and the first one where he was doing it without assistance. Anyway, one thing IF and DT have in common for me is that their lyrics were best when they were being written by Nicolas Sundin...
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    Honestly, I think he's always been fairly similar in his lyrics and the variety in DT's early days came from Sundin doing a lot of the writing.
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    I'm personally really impressed by the variety on this album so far. Almost sounds like musically they all call back to slightly different periods or styles from the MDM golden age.
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    A video by Jesper and Niklas on the writing process for the new album. Jesper looks to be doing well, and I actually think the short hair suits him.
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    Even Lord Hypnos and Artifacts of the Black Rain have pretty uplifting melodies if you ask me. Plus a lot of stuff on Subterranean.
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    The happy upbeat lead guitar parts was pretty much pre-R2R IF's whole thing. Not sure why you'd be looking for something different from this group of guys.
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    I'm on too many forums to remember which ones accept swearing and which don't. Anyway, this song is just growing on me further. I love how there are constantly little leads layered into every part of the song. Reminds me of Colony and Clayman. This definitely feels like Jesper had more...
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    Song just came online in Australia and my first impression is holy **** it is good
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    The Halo Effect - Days of the Lost or Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals?

    DotL is much better for me, but the only DT album I ever really got into was The Mind's I. DotL on the other hand is probably my favourite melodeath album in many years.
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    A new Cemetary Skyline track, complete with an "I don't want ... " chorus has appeared on Google Music for me.
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    Saw these guys in Melbourne last Sunday and got to meet the band beforehand. Show was great - Michael really does sound great live. They played all of DotL plus The Defiant One and Become Surrender, was hoping for another new song but no success. Michael got a lot of mileage out of jokes about...
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    The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

    I hope that means we get a single or two soon
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    Cyhra - The Vertigo Trigger - August 2023

    Funnily, the vocalist Blood Stain Child had on one album (with the song Freedom?) is the closest I think I've ever heard someone sound to Anders' screaming style
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    New album Foregone out February 2023

    I'm really liking the guitar on In The Dark
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    New album Foregone out February 2023

    As an aside, that's the second reference so far to "Mother Time" as opposed to Father Time and Mother Nature. Wonder if that's intentional or just Anders mixing it up.