Alright... let's get something clear here.
First.... "melodic death metal" cannot be related to In Flames and Soilwork... even Dark Tranquillity, anymore. It is all heavy metal. I don't see anything wrong with that. Death metal is usually brutal, with blinding double bass, very extreme vocals, and un compromising song structures. Ok.. so use classic song structures... and keep the vocals. Is it death metal anymore? I don't think so. But people just want to keep calling it that. It's heavy metal. What makes it heavy? Vocals... the drums, sometimes...
Anyway... about R2R.
Oftentimes a band falls to a point where they HAVE to out do themselves with EACH AND EVERY ALBUM... or become "sellouts".
It's all a matter if taste, in my opinion. It's just about us looking at In flames from a new point of view, instead of sitting there wondering why they couldn't make another Whoracle.
Personally, I don't like R2R. Why? THE PRODUCTION, FOR GODS SAKE! I could bet a millon dollars if Fredrik Nordstom could have produced those songs, they would have been 10 times better.
I don't blame In Flames, for the album sounding the way it did. I blame them for choosing that studio. Fredrik would not have let half that shit fly.
As for Soilwork... NBC happens to be my favorite album by them. It's got alot of melody. Wow. So it's heavy metal. But if someone can't figure out that Damage Done is a heavy metal album too... there is something wrong there. Melodic/aggressive/progressive/modern/electronic/thrash/death metal? We can call it that too.
Godamn.... it's all metal in the end. We're not rappers for God's sake. It's not about being "true" or "old skool".
To each his own.
Reroute to Remain is not good
Natural Born Chaos is good
Damage Done blows them both out of the water
But I still can't see why everyone likes Wages of Sin....
First.... "melodic death metal" cannot be related to In Flames and Soilwork... even Dark Tranquillity, anymore. It is all heavy metal. I don't see anything wrong with that. Death metal is usually brutal, with blinding double bass, very extreme vocals, and un compromising song structures. Ok.. so use classic song structures... and keep the vocals. Is it death metal anymore? I don't think so. But people just want to keep calling it that. It's heavy metal. What makes it heavy? Vocals... the drums, sometimes...
Anyway... about R2R.
Oftentimes a band falls to a point where they HAVE to out do themselves with EACH AND EVERY ALBUM... or become "sellouts".
It's all a matter if taste, in my opinion. It's just about us looking at In flames from a new point of view, instead of sitting there wondering why they couldn't make another Whoracle.
Personally, I don't like R2R. Why? THE PRODUCTION, FOR GODS SAKE! I could bet a millon dollars if Fredrik Nordstom could have produced those songs, they would have been 10 times better.
I don't blame In Flames, for the album sounding the way it did. I blame them for choosing that studio. Fredrik would not have let half that shit fly.
As for Soilwork... NBC happens to be my favorite album by them. It's got alot of melody. Wow. So it's heavy metal. But if someone can't figure out that Damage Done is a heavy metal album too... there is something wrong there. Melodic/aggressive/progressive/modern/electronic/thrash/death metal? We can call it that too.
Godamn.... it's all metal in the end. We're not rappers for God's sake. It's not about being "true" or "old skool".
To each his own.
Reroute to Remain is not good
Natural Born Chaos is good
Damage Done blows them both out of the water
But I still can't see why everyone likes Wages of Sin....
