this album could easily be a 3.8. Solid track. Vocals are a low point for these guys nowadays
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Song is pretty cool, Tomas' age catching up with him it seems though.
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I hate when they release the opener/closer as a single. Ruins the album experience
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it's alright, i like that they're making it more melodic but they play it too safe and don't really full explore it. it's like they are almost forcing themselves to avoid escaping their usual keys and chord progressions
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That was pretty dope.
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the vocals are awful wtf
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This is pretty beneath their capabilities, bummer
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oh no those vocals! my man needs to just step away and let someone else fill
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Vocals are great. Sung with a set of stones cos the geezer is over the age of 35.
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It's alright.. was hoping for something more exciting and special though.
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Saw these guys live twice in 2014 and 2019 and can guarantee the old man's still got it. Not sure why his vocals don't sound as strong on this one.
Song is tremendous though, strongest opener from the new set of albums. those screaming guitars coming at 3:23 legit freaked me out.
This should be good
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“ I hate when they release the opener/closer as a single. Ruins the album experience”
I don’t mind the opener so much, but DAMMIT does it piss me off when they release the closer as a single. Like...what??
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I'm a big At the Gates fan, and I just finished listening to the track.
Based on the comments here, I was expecting the vocals to sound terrible, but to me they honestly weren't that bad, and halfway through the song I acclimated to them. I feel that musically, this song follows what they did with most of the previous album; while it may technically be more melodically sophisticated, I feel it lacks that simple At the Gates style catchiness that really pulls me in.
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lol did the vocals always sound like this?
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Was pretty surprised with the track. Really solid.
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The vocals sound fine. I like how this song and their last album have a more death metal presence than rather being just straight up melody.
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Song is pretty cool, vocals are fine. Some of the riffs are kind of bland, though, and the opening guitar lead playing the same notes as the arpeggiated chord (or whatever they did) just didn't sound good to me
edit: A couple of listens later and I'm digging it. Not as good as their last album or their classics, but it's still pretty cool.
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Agree with the comments regarding the weak vocals. Tomas had a traditionally jagged bark that sounds notably horse and dull here.
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I'm still holding out hope they will one day return to that Red/Fear style of riffing even though Alf hasn't been in the band for 30 years and Anders has left too
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Not very memorable
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it's alright, i like that they're making it more melodic but they play it too safe and don't really full explore it. it's like they are almost forcing themselves to avoid escaping their usual keys and chord progressions
Couldn't have said it better myself. They had some "alright" tunes on The War Within and while I appreciate that album as a stepping point back into their career, they probably should have just laid this to rest instead of retreading tired ideas.
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>they probably should have just laid this to rest instead of retreading tired ideas.
this is sooo true for so many bands it should be enshrined on a golden plaque somewhere...
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i liked this nd it reminds me of subterranean-era in flames
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Song is bland as hell and the vocals sound just tired, not really looking forward to the album
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“ I hate when they release the opener/closer as a single. Ruins the album experience”
Hmm... wait until the album comes out and don’t listen to the single? Solved?
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proabbly a 3/5 at best. Also, did I really just hear this guy say "death is the absence of all life"
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on second thought this was awful
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yep this is terrible
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sounds like an ATG tribute band
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proabbly a 3/5 at best. Also, did I really just hear this guy say "death is the absence of all life"
Sounds like the vocalist just discovered atheism on youtube
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and smoking pole
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Yeesh those vox...
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lol the track is great but the vox really do drag it down, no punch or edge to them at all
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The vocals do lack a punch but they aren't terrible imo. Honestly vocals is what typically make these older death metal bands new albums so disappointing to me too but here they're tolerable for me at least. The Red in the Sky is Ours has one of my favorite vocal performances of all time and I highly recommend anyone who hasn't heard it goes back and checks it and the Gardens of Grief EP. To me those releases were this band at their peak. Never cared for the Slaughter of the Soul sound as much though and based on the ratings here I suppose I'm an odd duck there. Main riff here is pretty solid. I'll give the album a shot
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really good song. for me lindberg voice is better now that in 90's. At war with reality is a great record
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Pretty sweet. Some of their best riffwork maybe ever imo but vocally Lindbergs age is creeping through in a bad way. They're not intolerable but certainly rather strained.
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i can't with these vocals
i just can't
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