Best use of contrasting things? (Growly to clean, quiet to loud, etc.)

Yeah, but that was an obvious pre-planned exception, and even so it was marketed as balanced against the dark, heavy Deliverance... so the same kind of idea was being played on either way.

Don't get me wrong, I still love the band, just the more other music I listen to the more I think they could do a lot more with their sound.
 
Nothing, really, I just hate any sort of musical act where the ones performing are not the ones who created the music itself.

EDIT: and I just plain don't like those fucking poppy melodies they create

Before you post, take a breath and re-read what you're about to submit. This way, you'll avoid making a fool of yourself.
 
Do you have any samples of this? Could you upload something please? I've heard so much about how much worse their new album is than this one, I'm actually starting to want to check it out!

you want a song off the old album right? I'll get around to it sometime tonight (check your PMs later). The new album isn't a complete travesty...there are a few decent songs, but nowhere near as awesome as Back to Times of Splendor.
 
'Y know how some bands, such as Fear Factory, alternate between a couple of types of vocals, some tracks switch between slow and fast or loud and quite? Well, what is the best use of that type of stuff you've come across? Have you never heard it done well at all?


Remember, neither the band nor the track has to actually be good, just the use of contrast.

Um, don't you mean dynamics?