Milan wrote:
AlexandeR wrote:
Define Infinity wrote:
This is insanity... enough said. I really don't feel like arguing with someone when I know they're out of their minds! With mentions like Ihsahn, Amorphis, Katatonia, Opeth and Paradise Lost.
Amorphis and Katatonia had gone soft over the years, we have to admit it. And Iced Earth sucks since Days of Purgatory. I kinda agree with him on some bands, but not all.
Going soft =/= selling out. It can be but it doesn't necessarily have to. I've always been amazed about people who claim to know the band's intentions.
From the words of some musicians that I cannot remember, although, it might have been Omnium Gatherum, they have said, as we age we cannot listen to all the heavy and aggressive albums as much as we have listened to before. Now, this is a very personal thing because I find it to be quite the contrary as I still listen to a lot of heavy stuff as much as I did before. So as result a change of sound in a bands' direction does not necessarily result in a commercial direction but it can, nonetheless, as Milan has mentioned before. Maturing in sound is another case of evolution in one's musical direction. It's the 21st century. Music has to evolve, it will evolve and it has. There always will be bands bands that will change their sound. This might be due to commercialism or another logical direction like getting much more progressive and mature sounding in essence. For example I love the direction that Ihsahn, Katatonia and Amorphis have taken. I see nothing commercial about them for that matter.
