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Does no one listen to The Chainheart Machine?
For me, their downfall started with FNF, and since then it's only been pop metal, not high quality gothenburg metal. My favourites are TCM and APP (their pinnacle). STD was the first album I sold away, and the next album I never even bought because the few songs I heard were so bad. After listening to the new album twice, I can only remember the blastbeat song's beginning a little bit. Everything else went into one ear, and out from the other. No memorable songs or even parts
10-15 times a day for 6 months, no lie. I can easily listen through the album without even having it playing 
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Does no one listen to The Chainheart Machine?
maybe emg 85's? not sure if soilwork switched to 81's aswell, but 85's have a tendancy to have a weird midrange.