I hate it when people say a band should stick with a certain sound, although I know it's natural to want that sound and all, it gets annoying and whiny like, like when everbody goes I want Metallica back to the MoP days...
Anyways, I thought the first half of FoN was pretty good, was kinda waiting for the punch, got to In Pursuit of Vikings and thought wow, cool song, but then I got to Ride of the Valkeries or whatever, and was tempted to skip that song...
Anyway, thought Crusher was a great sound, loved the old sound, the stuff in the bonus disc for VtW, but it sounds similar to a lot of other bands, even if it is better raw. One thing I think made VtW was variety, I mean, I never listened to AA before, saw them on yahoo's launchcast thing with the video and all (yeah, I'm one of those idiots who hopped onto the bandwagon :rolly eyes: ) and when I got VtW the first four songs blew me away, each conveyed different emotions and sounded unique, the rest of the album was awesome, but the first four
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Plain and simple, I think they shouldn't be constrained to what the fans want, they should go out, do their own thing, and make something unique, fans limitations often cripple a band and the range that the band will explore, think AC/DC, Fate of Norns wasn't bad guys, just wasn't super killer heavy, had different emotions in there. Although I will say, some of the lyrics really annoyed me, simple with emotion is good, primitive is good, but some of the lyrics didn't seem to be thought out as I had hoped.
