 | Soilwork The Chainheart Machine
3.8
excellent
| Ranking: #98 for 2000 | |
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| 4.0 excellent | XfingTheSullen | May 6th 11 |
The apogee of their old sound, and their best album overall. If you're an emo faggot, don't touch this and go for Figure Number Five instead.
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| 2.0 poor | Santa Koopa | May 9th 22 |
the mdm equivalent of a premature ejaculation, as a direct result of bjorn sucking anders' dick
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| 3.5 great | zaruyache | November 6th 18 |
At the Gates-worship at its finest, maybe, but still just standard melodeath. Soilwork had the benefit of being exceptionally aggressive for ATG-y melodeath tho, which definitely makes their music more powerful. And on 'Chainheart they were still "pure", not yet beginning to flirt with clean vocals a la the ever popular In Flames.
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| 0.0 | Blurry | August 18th 07 |
'The Chainheart Machine' sees Soilwork ditch some of their more melodic tendencies, concentrating instead on creating this hyperactive, aural gut-punch of a disc. A few changes to the line-up see the band get faster and tighter than on 'Steelbath Suicide', but unfortunately, the additional focus on speed is slightly detrimental to the songwriting. It's not terribly noticeable, but the album lacks part of the more emotive edge of it's predecessor in it's quest for velocity. The album isn't all high paced though, as 'Spirits of the Future Sun' provides the listener with a nice slower, melodic respite late in the album, before the band slips back into high gear with the intense closer, 'Room No. 99'. Overall, The Chainheart Machine is a strong disc, but a little weaker than Steelbath Suicide, which would be a more ideal place to begin investigating Soilwork's early phase.
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| 2.5 average | Piem | October 16th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | anchors | July 16th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fatbop | November 17th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Parasite | September 22nd 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | blou52 | July 1st 24 |
| 3.5 great | FunJan | August 8th 23 |
| 3.5 great | haley | May 31st 23 |
| 3.5 great | Brabiz | March 31st 23 |
| 4.5 superb | haxxiy | February 20th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | EvoHavok | February 13th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Kos | January 17th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kopkiwi | August 10th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Davey | May 5th 22 |
| 3.5 great | JoneHK | December 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | gocsa666 | September 25th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jips | July 28th 21 |
| 2.0 poor | jc3494 | March 26th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Zac124 | February 12th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Hehe | December 14th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | bSmith | December 12th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | botman | October 9th 20 |
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| 4.5 superb | luca91 | June 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | SuzyC | March 1st 20 |
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| 3.5 great | mEyck07 | November 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ray91 | September 19th 19 |
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| 3.5 great | nbats | July 15th 19 |
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| 4.5 superb | Josh | March 10th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Elynna | January 12th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Ryan P STAFF | January 10th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | mikep87 | July 17th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | alamo | July 16th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Metz | June 3rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ElSomni | April 3rd 18 |
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| 4.0 excellent | RAGG | December 2nd 17 |
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| 4.0 excellent | P0laris | March 29th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Freitag | March 14th 17 |
| 3.5 great | trilo | February 22nd 17 |
| 3.5 great | chanson | February 10th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | El Olam | February 4th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Scoob | January 9th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Rodstar | December 20th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | tellah | December 1st 16 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Corinth | October 25th 14 |
| 3.5 great | ariich | October 5th 14 |
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| 2.5 average | adr | September 14th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | heck | September 4th 14 |
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| 4.5 superb | Ringo00 | January 23rd 14 |
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| 3.5 great | COSM | November 9th 13 |
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| 4.5 superb | Saikon | February 23rd 12 |
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| 4.0 excellent | rica | October 6th 11 |
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| 5.0 classic | Zool | August 24th 11 |
| 3.3 great | Trey STAFF | July 14th 11 |
| 3.5 great | alexts | June 18th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Asator | April 16th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mixxd | February 23rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Virium | February 22nd 11 |
| 2.5 average | Meggs | February 2nd 11 |
| 3.5 great | YUJOS | January 17th 11 |
| 3.5 great | endtyme | December 16th 10 |
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| 3.5 great | Spotter | September 11th 10 |
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| 4.0 excellent | KevHals | November 11th 09 |
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| 3.5 great | mar1s | December 17th 08 |
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| 5.0 classic | Gabbo | November 2nd 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ben101 | October 8th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | chr1s | March 14th 08 |
| 2.5 average | Essence | November 2nd 07 |
| 3.0 good | spooKk | October 28th 07 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jmaj14 | September 13th 07 |
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