Recent content by DE4life

Seems to be a common theme in Swedish MDM bands. Super talented musicians arrive and proceed to have no noticeable impact on the sound. Maybe it's a cultural thing.

Yeah, I just don't know who decided on the final mix and production style. My assumption is that Bjorn/Jesper decided for the music, and Anders for the vocals, due to the separation between those two elements of the band in 2005. Final mix, which would have been after vocals & music had been put...

Unlike most people, I actually thought Will to Power was a solid album. The second half wasn't as good at the first, and it was derivative at points, but I liked the upbeat energy it had. The Race and Blood in the Water are very nice MDM tracks. The World Is Yours is good if you can get past the...

I don't think Anders and Bjorn could respect the older albums even if they wanted to. Their idea of what good music should sound like is incompatible with what they released back then, totally divorced from the reality those albums existed in. It would be doubly ruined if Benson was anywhere...

AE wasted the opportunity to use Alissa's clean vocals. She's not some special talent in this regard, but she's good, and I don't understand why you wouldn't make use of that more often. It's not like Arch Enemy are some bastions of Melodic Death Metal integrity, protecting the fans from the...

I really like all of IF covers from the golden era of 1994 - 2000. Unique takes on songs that aren't adjacent to the MDM genre in any tangible way. World of Promises in particular is one of my favourites in their discography. So, I'm absolutely not against covers if done sparingly and with...

I can't really bring myself to care about covers as an EP album. It's the same when IF do it, I just don't care. I'll be interested as usual whenever they release some original stuff again.

Alissa has left Arch Enemy. The statements from both don't sound especially friendly. AE's is professional enough with a brief thanks. Alissa didn't give thanks to the band, just the fans.

Yeah and I get that, although I also wish they hadn't produced so many fucking albums, honestly. It just meant that great songs were retired for mediocre crap simply because the mediocre songs were new. It's nice that IF have a lot of songs, but a lot of them don't necessarily need to exist. It...

There will always be people like us there who appreciate various parts of their discography - from the oldest to the more recent stuff (although for me mainly up to 2011, and ITM to a degree) - but even with the crappier new songs, I know most of them at the very least and can tolerate some of...

It's a shame, too, because the old songs still sound really cool live. Stand Ablaze is epic in a live environment, but good luck getting more than 5% of the audience to care, because unless they were going to IF shows in the late 90s, or are hardcore fans like us, they'll likely have zero idea...

Seems so. Their only show in Sweden in 2026 apparently. Because they're doing another tour of the US, of course. I'm shocked that there are seemingly still so many US fans of this old band that hasn't released a particularly good album in at least 14 years. Enough to make it worth them...

Three of the announced bands don't even pass the five album test, so not sure what is going on here. Very disturbing.

DT announced to be at Borgholm Brinner, interesting.

Fortunately for him the only one he needs to impress is old Five Albums.