Soilwork?

[Steiner]

To the original poster...Don't let these guys piss on music you like. First of all, you can't blame them...you asked and they answered. Secondly, you shouldn't care what other people think of an album that YOU like.

That being said, Soilwork fuggin sucks...ah just kidding. Their sound has changed somewhat over the years, but whether or not you like the more melodic direction they've taken, I don't think it's even debatable that every album they've made is SOLID. They are awesome musicians. Predator's Potrait and Natural Born Chaos were both 10/10 for me. I've seen them play live twice. They crush!

 

[SculptedCold]

I like all their albums, but Figure Number Five is admittedly lazy, and Steelbath Suicide is a little too comfortable with mimicking SotS, but for what it's worth, I enjoy SBS a lot more.

The Chainheart Machine and A Predator's Portrait are both amazing albums, and must-owns for fans of melodic death. Natural Born Chaos is quite different but for what it is, wonderfully beautiful.

 

[J.]

I'd probably like Soilwork, but I find it hard to like shitty music.

 

[Gronke]

I talked to their (Soilwork) ex-drummer (Rick) and he said that some "fans" were quite neurotic about him joining, like he wouldn't be able to play the old drummer's stuff and god knows what.

Was very funny, as I saw him play with Chimaira and he was competent in what he was doing. (Too bad that he's not with them any more, as he seemed to to the job well, and then some)

 

[Episteme]

I have Chainheart Machine, Natural Born Chaos, A Predator's Portrait and Steelbath Suicide. I enjoy CM, APP and SS the most.

 

[Freanan]

I have Natural born Chaos and Predators Portrait.
I really do not like A Predators Portrait, Natural Born Chaos is ok.
The new one i did not even try.
"Predators Portrait" is not more "metal" or better considering the riffs or anything, but it does not have the good melodies of the other album.

My reasons to like "Natural Born Chaos" despite the "populist" hardcore and pop influences, which i usually dislike, are nostalgia and the melodies... there is something positive about that album, what makes me, a hater of pop-influenced metal, like it.

 

[MasterOLightning]

I only have the two most recent albums. NBC is fairly good. It's better than the two most recent In Flames. I didn't like FNF at first. It's less creative and has less variety than NBC, but some of the songs grew on me after a while. I don't know of any hardcore leanings in Soilwork, but they have a very polished commercial sound, and songs with commercial catchiness. I think that if this band actually got some radio play, people would really hate them, but since they've failed to really crack the US market, some people like them still. I wish I knew which album thefuzixman was referring to.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

I'd probably like Soilwork, but I find it hard to like shitty music.

That's funny. I thought all you liked was shitty music.

 

[Edgecrusher]

Figure Number Five has some hardcore stylings, but it's basically just an overly catchy easy-to-get-into passage to metal for people like me (because FNF got me into metal way back in April of last year).

So would you say that they're like the new Metallica or Pantera in that sense? (obviously not the same size fanbase)

But when I was your age, a little bit younger actually, it was bands like Metallica, Pantera, and Slayer that got me into exploring the metal world.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

For me it was definitely Pantera. I still hate it when people call them jock rock.

Warrant anyone?

 

[skeptik]

Metallica's self-titled got me into Metal, hehe...

 

[anonymousnick2001]

\m/

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

So would you say that they're like the new Metallica or Pantera in that sense? (obviously not the same size fanbase)

I would say that the new wave of Swedish "melo-death metal" and new wave of American melo-death/Gothenburg-influenced hardcore/metalcore (or as I like to call it the NWoAM-D/G-HM) are the new Metallicas and Panteras.

 

[J.]

That's funny. I thought all you liked was shitty music.

You thought wrong. You should be used to that, though.

 

[Tanith]

Soilwork are pretty much terrible. I haven't heard their early albums, and while they're supposedly better than the new albums which I have heard (and hated), I dont really have much of a desire to get them.

 

[Edgecrusher]

if you guys like Soilwork's early stuff, check out Darkest Hour.

Yes, they were on Ozzfest and yes they're on Victory records, but yet they play the Swedish-style thrash.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

You thought wrong. You should be used to that, though.

You should get used to being anally raped by big, liberal, Christian, homosexual, Afro-American power metal fans who watch MTV, believe music does not necessitate limiting ideological boundaries, have friends, and make you call them Big Poppa.

 

[anonymousnick2001]

if you guys like Soilwork's early stuff, check out Darkest Hour.

Yes, they were on Ozzfest and yes they're on Victory records, but yet they play the Swedish-style thrash.

I don't mind Darkest Hour, but they are hardly original.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Darkest Hour is so boring.

 

[J.]

You should get used to being anally raped by big, liberal, Christian, homosexual, Afro-American power metal fans who watch MTV, believe music does not necessitate limiting ideological boundaries, have friends, and make you call them Big Poppa.

Is that a proposal?