What is with the hostility towards that album? Frankly, it's my personal favorite. I feel like it gets a lot of hate for not being tr00 enough (i.e. you can hear every instrument). I think Slaughter of the Soul is their most well thought out album, and the songs have more structure. The songs on With Fear and Red In The Sky seem to just happen, not unlike early dark tranquility. It's utter chaos with relatively little evidence of conscious songwriting. Good stuff, but I think Slaughter is excellent. I really don't understand stuff like "SotS is pretty much a steaming pile of shit."
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Except I would invert the list, but that's all personal choice...