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In Flames - Whoracle In Flames - Colony In Flames - Clayman Mid-period In Flames, during the downfall. I used to like Whoracle well even, but I found it to be pretty boring and contrived this time through. Colony was better, more bombastic and less dull, with better melodies, but at this point they were basically just a Euro flower metal band. Clayman was the same, less interesting than Colony, but it still had a couple of good melodies and songs. The following two albums were among the first that I ever purchased, but I can't stand them now, recycle bin fodder.

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In Flames - Whoracle In Flames - Colony In Flames - Clayman Mid-period In Flames, during the downfall. I used to like Whoracle well even, but I found it to be pretty boring and contrived this time through. Colony was better, more bombastic and less dull, with better melodies, but at this point they were basically just a Euro flower metal band. Clayman was the same, less interesting than Colony, but it still had a couple of good melodies and songs. The following two albums were among the first that I ever purchased, but I can't stand them now, recycle bin fodder.
I can't listen to any of that shit either. Gyroscope makes me want to stick knitting needles in my ears and smother myself with a pillow.
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Hi! You disappeared shortly after I joined. Welcome back. I liked Massive Conspiracy when I heard it' date=' cool guitars.[/quote'] Thank you. Yeah I'm enjoying Leviathan, for a long time I dismissed these one man USBM groups like Leviathan, Xasthur etc. as Burzum knockoffs, and am finally realizing how close minded that was. Finished with that record and am enjoying a break from the onslaught with Coil's Musick to Play in the Dark 1.
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I can't listen to any of that shit either. Gyroscope makes me want to stick knitting needles in my ears and smother myself with a pillow.
Sadly, Gyroscope is probably the best track on that album, but it was a re-recording from the prior EP, so that's not surprising. They were never great, but it didn't take them long to shit the bed after Anders joined.
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Repeater is a fantastic album. Like punk with brains. I don't like punk, in general, too basic and meatheaded for my taste. You may like Today Is The Day, your taste is different from mine. Check out the album In The Arms Of God. My friend who's a fan of theirs swears by that album. I don't dig the guy's voice, but that album features the rhythm section that would go on to form Mastodon.
I just recently got way into Today is the Day. Sadness Will Prevail blew my mind, and Willpower is a very morose album. Also, his guitar playing somewhat reminds me of Zeni Geva, very churning and corrosive. As for the punk comment... I agree to some extent, but only if we're talking about "purist" punk. Bands like the Minutemen, Nomeansno, Hot Snakes, and Killing Joke really seem to take the genre to the next level. As for straight up punk rock, i like the Dwarves, the Offspring, the Adicts, and Krum Bums. A friend of mine is also trying to get me into more classic bands like the Clash, New York Dolls, etc. And now there's this "revival" of the classic style, one of the bands is hard that's worth checking out is the Briefs.
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That's the only album of theirs I really like anymore. I'm not sure what I used to like about his vocals' date=' but now they come very near to ruining the music for me.[/quote'] Honestly they're one of my favorite bands. They've just got those awesome melodies on their early records. I feel like they really started going downhill with Damnation and a Day, though, and even Midian doesn't hit me like the first three do. Dusk... and Her Embrace is easily my favorite.
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