Metal Reviews

I think these, especially A Predator's Portrait, are some of the finer melodeath albums. Their guitarists have a unique way of phrasing and writing their riffs together that I haven't really heard any band sound similar to them. Also Bjorn Strid had a really nice scream and fairly good clean vocals. It also might be becase APP was one of the first 5 or so actual metal albums I liked...

Thoughts?

Chainheart Machine is the pwnest of them.

With that song Sadistic Lullaby, or something. I saw them live some time ago and they played the new shite, but also that song, I dunno what happened but it sucked tremendously, the lead guitar was almost inaudible so the whole idea of the song dropped dead.

Agreed.

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A Predator's Portrait would also be my favorite but i was never that much of a soilwork fan.

I don't really like Predators Portrait so much, but I do love the Chainheart Machine. I am a natural born chaos guy all the way........

I was so into A predators portrait when it came out. It was the first album with not totally clean vocals that I really loved. The solos were great, everything was great. When Natural Born Chaos came out I was as disgusted as I could get with an album. I fucking hated it. Still do. Ther are a few good songs, but that album "matured" so much it sucked. I think Devin Towsnend produced it, but it sucked anyway. The solos were all but gone and there was too much clean singing. I cuaght them live wth IN Flames right around when Figure Number Five came out and it was the worst show I have ever seen. Mallcore fuckbags.

I'm with ya on the last two comments. I just like Predator's Portrait, too. Natural Born Chaos rules!!

I love everything up to NBC. They were one of my favourite bands until FN5.

A Predator's Portrait rules.

Natural Born Chaos is pretty sweet too. I just listened to it again last night. Bringer is a kickass song.

I think probably APP was the better of their first three, with SBS coming in second. I love Bastard Chain, it has one of my favourite melodic death riffs.

Ive only heard Natural Born Chaos and surprised myself in thinking it was awesome.

I've only heard Chainheart Machine and it's damn good. I need to get more Soilwork.

They all rule up until FN5 ( NBC is also a lot weaker than the first 3 albums)... They went the same way IF and other "modern" bands did = replacing the sweet guitar melodies (including solos) with synth and the guitar just chugging around...oh and "singing" (I like Bjorns normal voice btw)

Man, Bulletbeast has such a SWEEEEEEEAT solo... ah the "old" times.
I find myself repeating that tought a lot in my mind lately ... a lot of bands "going down the drain"....

I don't know why so many people hate on the latest three albums. I think they're excellent. Different, but still awesome.

Never really payed much attention to Soilwork.. sure, they've got some nice songs, but I think there are other bands in pretty much the same style more interesting and appealing.. this band just strike me as somewhat generic and boring. I won't deny that they've recorded some great songs, but overall.. meh. And I have also gotten real tired of these chugging, lifeless guitars that doesn't really add much except acting as background "noise".

I like the first four albums, although not as much as I used to. I guess they will never find their way back to the sound they had earlier so nowdays I'm not that proud of where they are going.

Figured #5 killed my inner child by being the first album I was ever disapointed in :(

I guess I had my first zomg-disappointment album with Limp Bizkit's Chocolate starfish bla bla. Ah, growing up can be rough.