New album Foregone out February 2023

[DE4life]

Fake, most likely. I've seen a lot of those kinds of images on Instagram in the past week or so.

Yeah, looks like another of these AI image fads that are going around at the moment. It did make me chuckle, though, so good job.

 

[The Grayfox]

As far as the pre-2000s albums - no chance. Everything pre-1999 got dumped like a sack of shit after Reroute, and even Colony only had a handful of songs played from it after 2002. Of course the modern audience is not going to care about those songs, and nor should the band expect them too. Randomly saying "if you don't like The jester Race you don't know us", as Anders has occasionally said over the years, rings hollow when you observe their treatment of the older albums in general. Even as far as both Anders and Bjorn talking about how the songs are basically shit because they weren't written to be played live - despite being played live successfully during the time period and growing their popularity enormously. For songs that are apparently dumpster fires live, they somehow managed to grow their fanbase like no other MDM band of that era. Must have just been because they looked so cool on stage.

Yeah, they backed themselves into a corner starting with Reroute. Before that, their sets were quite varied. There was still some variety after Reroute, but this is where it started for sure. They fell into the arena band formula. They played the same songs over and over and now that's what people expect at the shows. They did very little to introduce their newer fans to their old material. And now it's way too late for them to do and expect a decent reaction.

 

[Xpyro125]

I don’t really follow the channel, but this just came up in my feed. It’s nothing too special for me, but I’m just glad he’s putting the song out there to a big audience of newer metalcore fans without completely bastardizing it.

They both did a cover of one of the new Sleep Token singles, and I really didn’t care for it. Just felt like they didn’t understand that band’s songwriting, so that was the sort of expectation I had for this video.