Idk I really enjoyed STB

Album Rating: 3.0

I enjoyed Stabbing the Drama more than Natural Born Chaos honestly.

Album Rating: 3.0

Was looking forward to this. So far the only saving grace is "epitome". Too bad because this is EASILY the best recorded disc they've ever done... The drumming is fantastic as always, disc just leaves me wanting more.........

Album Rating: 3.5

Haha no problem, I needed something to review because June kind of sucked and had no releases that interested me.



Thou - Summit





Great review and I agree on everything you've said about the album. First song is such a deceiver.

Album Rating: 3.5

Album is surprisingly awesome, I'm glad you guys pushed me to listen to this (namely Kyle, Trey and Brandon).



Btw the bonus track "Sweet Demise" rules face so anyone who enjoys this album should aquire that cut too.

Album Rating: 3.5

Agreed with Metalstyles about Sweet Demise, it's a great song. Glad you enjoyed this, dude.



And Karl, keep your eyes peeled.

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

I too like Sweet Demise. One of the few tracks Bjorn doesn't kill.

I really like the on song without the cleanvocals.
I mean the others are still far from bad but I think they shouldn´t try too hard to put clean vocals into the songs.These growls which Speed uses on this records came very surprising, even if there are only a few of them which is a shame.
The drumming is also excellent I think and the songs are, well, actual heavier than on their previous efforts.

^Are you drunk?

Album Rating: 3.5

Speed's clean vocals sound good to me, too bad he can't pull them off live.

Album Rating: 3.5

And Karl, keep your eyes peeled.



I'm shitting bricks in anticipation hahahaha.

Album Rating: 3.0

Let This River Flow is the best song.

Album Rating: 3.5

Okay, I'm probably going to say something really shocking to most Soilwork listeners now...



I actually loved Sworn to a Great Divide. People are always bashing that release for just about

everything. It actually grew onto you if you listened to it more. The beauty of that album was in

something other than "superd00per awesome solos", which it obviously couldn't have because of the

departure of Wichers. The more down-to-earth guitar sound was done intentionally, and the workmen's

effort-thing Soilwork always gets bashed about is exactly what is their trademark and carries the

beauty of a release like Sworn to a Great Divide. The songs were catchy, extremely tight, actually

pretty thrashy yet still quite passionate, although yeah, maybe a tad overproduced.



In fact, I kind of loved every album they wrote. Every album was kind of different to the other one

in some way, and somehow their own flavours all appealed to me. I love both The Chainheart Machine

and Stabbing the Drama to equal extent, but in a different way.



Anyway, what I want to say about the Panic Broadcast is that there is too much 'chugging' on moments

where you'd rather hear a short rest or something like that. The vocals seem too forced (both the

heavy and clean ones), and the songs Late for the Kill and King of the Treshold are way too

overdone... they don't remind me of their older stuff at all... they're just... forced, overdone.

King of the Treshold could have been way better. I think the entire album is both trying to get

heavier, but at the same time it sounds so much happier than any Soilwork release I've heard before.

Speed stated in an interview that the vocals were based on the two hardest years of his life, but

I'm certainly not buying that anymore. He's just grooving it the happy way. I think The Thrill, The

Akuma Afterglow, Epitome, and Enter Dog of Pavlov are my current favourites. Oh, and Deliverance is

Mine has the most annoying chorus Soilwork has ever written, I hope that the video for it will make

up for a lot (which will be some sort of sequel to the Light the Torch video).



I think the Panic Broadcast is a pretty awesome Soilwork album but the influence of Sylvain Coudret

is way too much present here I think. You can definitely hear that every bandmember has progressed

in their skills though. I've ordered the album and I'll probably listen to it a lot, but I don't

think I will ever like this album more than APP, NBC or STD.

Album Rating: 3.0

I thought the chorus to Deliverance is mine was awesome, reminds me a lot of The Chainheart Machine.

Album Rating: 3.5

The funky version of Distance at the end of the Nuclear Blast edition of the album is pretty cool.

Album Rating: 3.0

It's weird.

Album Rating: 3.5

Cool story above^^^^

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, don't leave comments that long in the future. Just look at Dryden, half his comments are one or two words long.

Album Rating: 3.5

Sorry for the long story, but it pretty much sums up how I feel about this one.



I got my official copy today. I listened it through a couple of times and I certainly feel that

especially the second half of the album (starting with Night Comes Clean) is really, really nice.

It's a good Soilwork album (once again an album without a single bad song, they keep doing that!)

but I still don't think this will ever be one of my faves.



Oh, there was also a DVD with it, and IT SUCKED. Seriously, the contents:



Studio footage: 20 minutes of the least interesting footage of the studio you don't even want to

see, all the bandmembers are silent and they look like they hate Dirk for filming them.



Image gallery: 12 photo's you could also find on the net, like wtf.



Drum recording video's: 2 short vids. Like wow.



Soilwork, how dare you disappoint me!



Right... my comment got long again.

It's a bit like my penis I guess.

tl, dr