Anders Friden is such a bitch now, screamo emo bullshit is absolutely rediculous after such masterpiece albums like The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony... seriously I've never seen a band fall so hard on their face. They made reroute to remain to try to tell everyone "HEY LOOK GUYS, WE ARE GOING TO PLAY WORSE MUSIC NOW. Just got done with JD from Korn and got some new ideas, lets go MAINSTREAM!" and holy balls was I pissed. Then came the worst album they've ever made; soundtrack to your escape. Yeah, I sure as fuck escaped from that flopped piece of shit.
Seriously, you don't need to change your whole sound to be fucking different. Look at Dark Tranquility, they are a PRIME FUCKING EXAMPLE of how to make amazing music every single album, while keeping it to their original sound. You tell me Come Clarity is change for the better? I wish people would fucking understand that making a similar-masterpiece cd is better than alienating your sound which made you a good band in the first place. Could you imagine if Mikael decided to change to Fall Out Boy's singing style because it's change for the better?
Anders probably sat down and said, "hey guys, this album we are ditching every idea of dual guitars with interweaving solos, and lay off the lead guitar will you? In Flames is going to be MORE HARDCORE than ever with emo lyrics, repetitive power chords and pointless screams, Korn went popular and now we can do it guys! LETS GO!"
I also find it quite funny how Mikael Stanne and Jesper Stromblad wrote nearly all the lyrics up to colony for them, and after they "made their own lyrics" they INSTANTLY went downhill with clayman release.
Sorry for ranting so much, it's just sad to see one of your favorite bands fall victim to shitty trends.
