Kai Stromler wrote:Yeah, Anders' vocals do sound a little Kornish at times.
Ofcourse, this could be because he sucks (see The Tokyo Showdown for more graphic evidence) and not due to any flaw in the band's musical direction.
Of course, it's also that understandable that In Flames have become rapidly more commercial in recent years; they're crossing over, Dark Tranquillity blows them out of the water musically, and The Haunted and the rest of the New Swedish Wave of Thrash Metal absolutely wreck everything they've done since Lunar Strain in terms of aggro.
This being said Soundtrack to Your Escape (crappy title -- *this* area definitely has been going straight downhill since 1997) does not sound like it will be as bad as Reroute.... Most of the people I've heard from who got actual promo discs are fairly positive on it. I'm not sure, but I'm probably going to buy it anyway. It'll hopefully be at least consistent. If the last one had leaned either to its heavier or more electro side instead of wobbling in the middle, it would have been a decent and listenable record.
Well, if they left off the pointless whiny country song in any case. Javla country!
--K
I like Dark Tranquillity a lot from what I heard and I agree with the fact that they're better than In Flames(well a lot of bands are at this point, I'm kinda getting sick of IF since their last one was pretty bad and STYE doesn't sound much better so far)
The band should just get another vocalist, one who can sing preferably, I'm getting sick of the whole growling thing with them. The musicians I don't have a problem with because I think that they're pretty good at what they do when they actually try.