Album Rating: 2.5

poo

Digging: Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks

Album Rating: 3.0

Natural Born Chaos > A Predator's Portrait > Chainheart Machine > all the others

Band was never that good.

Digging: This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain

Album Rating: 3.5

The Crestfallen is amazing

Album Rating: 2.5

tedious, mainstream piece of crap. I'm so happy their latest turned out much better than this.

Album Rating: 3.0

The Living Infinite is pretty much ze bezt thing

Digging: Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony

Album Rating: 2.5

Tried to listen to this album after I jammed The Living Infinite. So fucking boring and bad. It makes me cringe.

Album Rating: 3.5

the drumming on this is so good though

Digging: Vice or Virtue - Enlightenment

Album Rating: 2.5

Only if it's present in the songs at all, most of the songs on this are lazily written, filtered electronic build-ups

Album Rating: 3.0

This is one off my favorite Soilwork albums honestly.

Digging: Polkadot Cadaver - Last Call in Jonestown

Album Rating: 2.5

y it sucks

it really does

Digging:

Album Rating: 2.5

Yeah new one and and their 2nd and 3rd ones are much much better than this

Digging: The Boxer Rebellion - Promises

new one is kinda cool, the vox are kinda bad but the guitarwork is great

Album Rating: 2.5

I think his screaming is pretty good but the singing is kinda generic yeah.

screamings are pretty generic but theyre ok, cleans are mostly bad but sometimes decent.
drums are also pretty generic on the first disc.

Album Rating: 3.0

Well why do you guys dislike this one so much? Mainstream appeal and high-quality are not mutually exclusive factors, you know. This is pretty well-executed as an alternative rock album that happens to include some metalcore and melodeath elements. The songwriting is also lot stronger than on an album like Figure Number Five, which while similar aesthetically, followed the standard songwriting template pretty exclusively.

That said, this is probably my fourth favorite Soilwork behind A Predator's Portrait, The Living Infinite, and The Chainheart Machine; it's about on par with Natural Born Chaos and The Panic Broadcast for me.

"Mainstream appeal and high-quality are not mutually exclusive factors, you know."
obv not, the beatles are one of the greatest bands ever

Album Rating: 5.0

finally, someone who wrote a review and rated it properly.

finally? this review was written 8 years ago