The Halo Effect Days of the Lost
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Flugmorph
August 12th 2022


34274 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

new music video https://youtu.be/XeQbC8OYDQA

Poet
August 12th 2022


6144 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

They really recorded two separate music videos on the same roof! Hahahaha

DungeonBoy
August 12th 2022


9718 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Some say it's the best roof in all of Göteborg

Willie
Moderator
August 12th 2022


20213 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7 | Sound Off

Why spend a ton of money on multiple locations when most people will only watch the video a few times, at most. One set-up, one tear-down, multiple videos. A project like this probably doesn't have a ton of money being thrown at it for promotion and videos. Besides, it's a wonderful roof. ;)

Crysis
Emeritus
August 12th 2022


17628 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The singles on this were kinda meh but I'm going to give it a go regardless because I want this to be a banger.



This gives me hope:



Fortunately, though, Days of the Lost isn’t just a guitar-driven Dark Tranquillity clone. While there are songs that would fit comfortably in that band’s discography, there’s also a welcome throwback to Colony-era In Flames as well as a handful of songs that blend all the influences together.


Eakflanderyof
August 12th 2022


5460 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Sounds like what I expected. Sounds like 90s in flames and current DT formed a supergroup and released the b-sides as an album

BladeRunner
August 12th 2022


599 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Hey Crysis!



Long time; hope all is well with you. Been out to any shows lately/post-pandemic?

Crysis
Emeritus
August 12th 2022


17628 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Sup Blade, haven't been to many shows, last one I went to was to see Full of Hell in Portland ME back in March. Haven't been over to Worcester in quite a while, I think the last time I went there was to see Horrendous before COVID. Definitely need to get out to more shows.



Listening to this now, "Conditional" slays for days and "In Broken Trust" is catchy af

BladeRunner
August 12th 2022


599 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Same here - not a ton of shows for us, but no threat of a biohazard will stop my wife from attending the DT shows, so we made it over to Worcester for the DT/Kataklysm/Nailed to Obscurity show. Place was mobbed, and just as high energy as always.



Yea - Conditional is a stellar track, with some other highlights for me being Gateways and A Truth Worth Lying For...

Crysis
Emeritus
August 12th 2022


17628 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

First impressions are that I like this better than the new DT if only because this actually riffs. I've always been a strong proponent of guitar-driven melodic death and DT lately has been far from that. The biggest issue with this album is that it is super formulaic, if they were more daring with the songwriting this could have been something pretty special. It gives us glimpses of something more - the strings in "Last of Our Kind" for example - but that kind of experimentation is never explored more than surface-level and never implemented in portions of the songs other than the intro, outro, or bridge. I will say though that I loved the lead into and execution of Matt Heafy's vocals.



This definitely has a ton of replay value and would probably be ridiculously fun live, but it never leaves its comfort zone when it would probably benefit significantly from doing so.

Josh D.
August 12th 2022


17845 Comments


I will not listen to this and you can't make me.

Nazzadan
August 12th 2022


2372 Comments


Album owns, Mikael has more energy than he's had since at least before Atoma and instrumentally this sounds like a sort of tri-way halfway point between Clayman, Reroute, and Damage Done. There was basically no way I wasn't going to love this though.

It's also great that they showed some restraint and made it a tight 40 instead of overwriting it and having it be an hour or more

DungeonBoy
August 12th 2022


9718 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

The good news if you dug this is they announced in a recent interview they have a ton of material left over from this that they are already considering for the next album

Nazzadan
August 12th 2022


2372 Comments


Oh, that is good news. I don't think its a stretch to say this is better than IF's next album will be and is on par or better than DT's eventual next album so more of this will be nice.

Source
August 12th 2022


19917 Comments


gon check

Pikazilla
August 12th 2022


29772 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

IF will never release anything as good as Dark Tranquillity's latest output this late in their career

GhostShelter
August 12th 2022


946 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

If you don’t like Dark Tranquillity’s latest album ‘Moment’ then you won’t like this and vice versa. If you like this and haven’t heard Moment yet, then get on that. Both albums are a lot of fun.

Toondude10
August 12th 2022


15186 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

new Arch Enemy is better than this and it's not even close

GhostShelter
August 12th 2022


946 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yikes… AA has been trash since Angela left.

Toondude10
August 12th 2022


15186 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

AE's always been fine, they've just been stagnate for the past several albums



new one actually feels like they're having fun and I enjoyed it a lot



this on the other hand feels like 70% DT B-sides, 30% IF B-sides from 20-25 years ago



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