a) in my opinion this might also be because we've grown accustomed to dt's evolution in music-writing. perhaps it was just
to be expected that harsher sounds and thrashier atmospheres were about to be involved again. i'm not criticizing your opinion, just trying to find a reason why.
b) i fail to notice the difference between haven and "just" melodic death metal. i find dd less standardized than the previous effort, in that it doesn't indulge in latter days trends as much as most melodic death records do. for instance, it seems to me that arch enemy's latest album or callenish circle's flesh_power_dominion are closer to haven (heh, sorry
) than dd, what with the overlong, "the same"-ish structure of guitar riffs and perfect alternance of slow- and fast-paced parts.
c) this is perhaps the point i disagree with the most. to me, language in dd's lyrics is used much better than in the previous efforts (unless of course we compare it to niklas' songs), the concepts are less cryptic and redundant, there is less "playing around" with verses used as fillers (
and takes us farther from... in, in, in, into my haven...) and the core of the message arrives sooner. i really cannot compare monochromatic stains with the inspirational, but way intimistic lyrics of any song on projector, or the almost endless juxtaposition of images of any song on haven.
rahvin.
