The Halo Effect - New Album 2023/2024

[DE4life]

I just don't trust them anymore when it comes to timelines tbh. I'll believe it when I see it at this point.

 

[The Grayfox]

^ What he said

 

[eochaid]

I think that, they signing with Nuclear Blast was a bad decision.

 

[The Grayfox]

Patrik has filled in for Jesper so much that Google thinks they're the same person

 

[Cronopio]

Clear case of Swedeophobia.

 

[The Grayfox]

I mean, I know I am inherently anti-Sweden so I guess I get it.

 

[eochaid]

To be fair, it's difficult to distinguish a Swedish from another. They're all the same.

 

[Cronopio]

Swedes are gay, in every conceivable way.

 

[mindd]

"You can tell gays by their faces, there are always signs" - Anders Str8-Man Friden

 

[Cronopio]

Woke up this morning and had a nice cockfast.

 

[drawntoblack]

THE HALO EFFECT's Second Album To Arrive In Early 2025

In a new interview with Finland's Chaoszine, THE HALO EFFECT frontman Mikael Stanne spoke about the status of the band's sophomore album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It's been done for a while. Yeah, I think that's the hardest part for our labels, in order to squeeze stuff in...

blabbermouth.net

 

[Xpyro125]

Finally, straightforward and logical reasoning for the album’s delay— Even if it’s what we already figured, it’s just nice to hear them actually tell people how it is.

The way they’re describing the album inspires confidence too. Niclas and Jesper are writing together, and while it’s not a huge departure from DotL, they’ve made sure that new songs don’t remind people too much of old songs and were probably more adventurous with the songwriting. I hope Mikael and Peter are on the mark with that because that’s everything I want the follow-up to be. Should they have gotten everything right, it’ll have been well worth the wait.

Here’s to hoping, anyways.

 

[eochaid]

So Mikael is to he blamed for since he's such a hard worker.

 

[DE4life]

I think we can be confident (finally) of an early 2025 release, simply because it coincides with their headlining tour. It would be pretty shit if they went on tour again with only DotL having been released after 3 years or so.

I believe last time Niclas wrote most of the material and Jesper came in to the process later to basically add some finishing touches and contribute a couple of songs of his own (from memory Conditional and Last of our Kind) - whereas this time it sounds like it'll be much more of a Niclas/Jesper joint effort, which I'm really excited about. I'm itching to hear some genuine new material, so I hope we'll get to hear something in the next few months. Shadowminds came out roughly 9 months before DotL was released, so it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that we might get a single from a genuine new song (not DotL leftover) around September time, maybe?

 

[eochaid]

It's a full year of Stanne's releases, if we count the singles. How amazing is that?

 

[The Grayfox]

I think a December release would be a nice holiday present for all of us, but early 2025 seems realistic. I will consider the album a colossal failure if we don't get at least 4 songs that feature lines starting with "I don't wanna/want to."

 

[Cronopio]

lol

 

[mindd]

lol

agree

 

[Moonshield_]

I've just witnessed a THE live show for the first time this weekend in a metal festival in France. It was great but even Daniel was missing on drums.

I was full of joy when "Conditional" came in the setlist

 

[The Grayfox]

Something must've come up, because he was back with the band a few weeks ago. I assume they didn't play anything new?