The Don said:
I was thinking clean vocals along the lines of Eternal Tears of Sorrow! Maybe a track or two like The River Flows Frozen or Red Dawn Rising?
WTF?!
NO !!!
even nightwish have more balls than etos now
you want skyfire to go all silk and satin? where's the crispness then, the specialty?
skyfire ought to keep doing what they're up to anyway.
if that includes a good amount of clean vocals, so be it. i'm sure IF that's gonna be a part, it will be in skyfire-manner.
the clean vocal thing is wearing off anyway - everyone has it meanwhile, it doesn't add anything exceptionally special to a song anymore. it's sad, but the overuse has destroyed the effect it once had.
no need for further absurd suggestions like "something like etos, something like soilwork, something like xy" .
if skyfire need a new feature, perhaps they could try some cold-ish electronic additions, or explore a new way of constructive aggressiveness in music - like the latvians neglected fields for example.
there's other ways to remain interesting than clean vocals.
damness! what's that ladida here lately!?