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Yeah, that made me think of Jesper telling their label that they had a whole album worth of songs just so they could get a record deal back in '93.

They should record AND be in the moment simultaneously, like I do! But maybe that skill comes with experience. :p I just hold my camera up horizontally with my right hand while I watch the actual show from the front row. Yeah, I think that song sounds great live, even more so when you're...

Very cheesy, but I think that's the point. I enjoyed this one. This could be completely baseless, but I have this strange feeling that Mikael doesn't want to (lol) be in this band. Mainly because of that social media video where he was revealed as the vocalist and he said something like "yeah...

Flew in to see the boys tonight. Some notes: - Setlist was mainly comprised of their '00s and '10s material. Food for the Gods was their only 90's song. Bullet Ride, Cloud Connected, The Quiet Place, Take This Life, Mirror's Truth, Alias, and Delight and Angers were their '00's songs. No...

I like the vibe of that video. The band-members-slowly-congregating thing is a little silly to me, mostly because it reads like they're buying into their own hype too much. Halo Effect's Shadowminds video was like this for me, too. But I suppose a performance video might have been both out of...

Pleasantly surprised that Stanne cleanly sang the whole song. Impressive performance, too.

One of my coworkers at my old job took her phone pretty much wherever while on Zoom calls. Hard to forget that one meeting where she took it into the bathroom and put it on the sink -- camera still on -- while she did her business. The camera was pointed up at the ceiling, thankfully. She was...

That's a collection of bands that sits firmly in the "metal that doesn't appeal to me" category. Stanne is the only bright spot here, especially if he does clean vocals primarily. I'll keep an open mind, however. For example, Gardenian was never really my thing, but 3 of their members plus...

Maybe this?

Mnemic showed up on a few of my Pandora stations back in the day. Jack Vegas, Deathbox, Climbing Towards Stars, Elongated Sporadic Bursts, and Transcend are still in my Spotify.

To me, WATV is to Fiction what Clayman is to Colony. A stylistically-similar follow-up album with more diversity, but a step down in overall quality. Granted, I'm not as big a fan of Clayman as the average IF fan. As far as Haven, Stanne once mentioned that it was going to be much more like...

inb4 tomorrow's big announcement is them saying Endtime Signals is their final album.

I thought I heard some Andromeda in it, too, and not just in the solo. I haven't listened to a ton of their stuff, but "Crescendo of Thoughts" is an excellent track.

Projector is tied with Fiction for my personal favorite DT record. I know WATV was the first real chink in their armor according to some, but I honestly liked it a lot when it came out. It was Construct where they seriously faltered for me, though I appreciate the intention behind it (I often...

Yeah, he made up his own language called hadlhaj. Has its own grammar and syntax and everything. Dude's dedicated.