If anyone cares...I fucking love this last Soilwork album. The last two are so killer, good stuff man. I totally dig their old stuff too, but I prefer melodic vocals, so this one fits in with my tastes. If they've changed to get more fans, then it worked, because they got me hooked now.
And what's wrong with a band changing to get more fans? Isn't that the point? Or are you just so jealous to see something you've liked privately get more attention. If you really like a band more than just for background atmosphere, like where you follow them personally or something, then you should be happy and support them when they get "more fans", because it takes a lot of album sales and a lot of tickets at the door for musicians to make all the time put in this worth the effort. And to see a band succeed in getting more sales and then walk away from them because you don't agree with other people having the same likes and tastes as you is pretty weird. I mean if you don't like it; you don't like it. That's fine. But if you choose to not like it because someone else just got turned on to it, you're missing the point.
Savatage is an example for me. I can only listen to the first album, Sirens. After that their sound changed and I didn't like it. But then I realized that as they changed more people liked them, so I figured that I didn't flow with the masses on this one, I'd let it ride. But if somebody likes the new stuff and doesn't like the old stuff, then that's their opinion. I still was happy for the band to have success getting more fans, more sales.
Soilwork is an up and coming band who pours their heart into their music. Rush, now I'm one of the biggest Rush fans since the 70's folks...I own everything, know every lyric, read history on the band, etc... But new Rush is boring to me. I still bought the new album, and I actually like it. I even already have tickets to their concert that's four months from now! But gone are the days when they tried to impress with musicality. Now they're hitting the mark on trend to coast out their careers. Remember when there was a certain mystic appeal to their songs? Gone. Hey, I like them and am not putting them down (sounds like it I know), but some of the newer bands - back to Soilwork, are trying new things and are enthusiastic about it and the energy shows in the final result. I can dig that.
Damm, what were we talking about before my amphetamines kicked in? Oh yeah, Chuck's going to add some booming vox duet style with that tall bald guy (Bjorn) and it will kick ass. You'll see...or at least, I will!!!
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