I love scar symmetry's vocals, but i have to say you guys sticking up for the vocals are actually making me crack up over here. Silent is right... Let me refer to a few interview segments that i have conducted over the past few months with drummer Henrik. The first segment is about Symmetric in Design:
Zach the Viking: Have you noticed any differences in the sound from Symmetric in Design from the new material? What can we expect from a new album?
Henrik Ohlsson: Well, the clean vocals will be a little bit more rock and roll, I suppose. On Symmetric in Design, the clean vocals are kind of like boy band type of vocals, which sound great, we love it. But I think it's going to be a different approach on the second album for the clean vocals. Overall I think it's going to be a little bit harder album than Symmetric in Design, but will keep the key elements of the band, of course. You'll definitely recognize that it's Scar Symmetry playing.
Zach the Viking: You were mentioning the vocals. To be honest, that was one of the main things that set this album apart for me. When I looked at the press release, which it said, Scar Symmetry, a melodic death metal band, and so you know, I'm thinking it's going to sound like just about every other melodic death metal band out there. And then these amazing clean vocals come in, and it really kicked this album into a whole new territory for me. Right now it's on my list for top albums of the year, and I think the vocals play a big part in that. So it'll be interesting to see the evolution from that perspective.
Henrik Ohlsson: What I think Christian is doing on the second album, is really taking it a step further, because he's doing this really mellow kind of boy band vocals, as we like to call them, jokingly. But he's taking it a step further and goes into more of a heavy metal type of territory I think. It's really cool. It's an even wider spectrum, vocally, on this album, than the second one.
And for Pitch Black Progress:
Zach the Viking: Ok. Again, last time we spoke you said there were going to be some vocal changes. More of a “rock” approach and less of a “boy band” approach as you put it.
HO: [Laughs] Yeah!
Zach the Viking: Are you happy with the result of how the vocals turned out on this album?
HO: Yeah, definitely. It’s so cool to have more heavy metal singing and not just boy band singing. We have that too, because it’s an important ingredient. I mean, boy band vocals doesn’t have to be a negative thing. [Laughs] Not in this case anyway.
Zach the Viking: [Laughs] Right!
HO: We still have distorted guitars and all of that.
So you are all wrong, Silent is right, but she's wrong because the vocals are awesome.
And am i the only one that hears a bit of Russel in these vocals?
uke:
I can see why you'd call them that, but to me Christian sounds like a cross between Akerfeldt and Swano, so I'm in heaven. Nothing but love for the Swedes! 
