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- Artist: Soilwork
- Album: The Panic Broadcast
- Label: Nuclear Blast America
- Year of Release: 2010
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on 2010-09-08 Mr_Mackwo Said:
Being a long time fan of metal and Swedish metal that is, (e.g. Opeth, In Flames etc.) I had been pretty dissapointed with a long favorite of mine, Soilwork. They started out in 1998 with "Steelbath Suicide", which was a great first album for them. It was a very raw, but powerful collage of hardcore and speed metal riffs. They went onto release many more albums, with "A Predator's Portrait" and "Chainheart Machine" being my favorite albums. And then they seemed to do what most metal bands did....become popular. They changed their style, no more solos, quick 3 minutes of poppy crap, see "Stabbing the Drama" and " Sworn to a great divide".
I saw that they were releasing a new record and didn't even care to check it out, but to my surprise, i heard the good buzz about the album and i had to check it out. What i found was an amazing display of their older hardcore, mixed with progressive elements combined with hard crushing metal riffs. Being led by the amazing vocalist Bjorn, "Speed" Strid, and the veteran guitarist and main song writer, Peter Wichers comes the album, i've been waiting for. I haven't been this excited listening to a metal album since Opeth's "Watershed". The album has it all, thrashing crunching riffs, amazingly melodic, emotional, yet frantic solos, catchy memorable choruses and some of the best drumming i've heard in a long while. When i heard that Peter Wichers used many blues riffs for the album, but sped them up and put loads of distortion on it, it definitely caught my interest. If you actually sit down and listen you'll hear some amazing metal blues riffs in songs like "Two Lives worth of Reckoning" and "King of the Threshold". Obviously this won't appeal to everyone, but "The Panic Broadcast" has some amazing moments and in a year that hasn't really had that many great metal releases, i very much recommend this album to other music and metal enthusiasts out there. Be prepared to have your faces melted!!!!
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