First song released was the first time in a long while you could put fantastic and in Flames in the same sentence.
Second song released blows. Excitement dwindling.
I've definitely found that In Flames albums have two to maybe four really legit solid songs and then the rest is fodder. Especially from Soundtrack to your Escape and onward.
EDIT: You know what? Even Reroute to Remain was like that.
I think they've suffered tremendously when Jesper left...though they weren't trending in the right direction with him I'd agree.
Anyways when it comes to best of the year the two albums that keep me coming back for more in 2016 are Anthrax "For All Kings" and Lacuna Coil "Delirium". The former being a continuation of the strong work on Worship Music since Belladonna's return and the latter because they finally let Andrea go back to his strength (more guttural and gritty vocals). It also helps that Lacuna Coil were great to talk to after the Kansas show I went to and indeed the show was fantastic.
At that show I also picked up the album of one of the openers: Painted Wives. It's been an enjoyable listen as well (lyrics can be iffy but love the music).
I liked Hardwired but it was sort of paint by numbers Metallica. MIF is fantastic.
Metallica was on Howard Stern this week. They said it took two years to do this album because they do it in bits and pieces around their family time and such but the Hardwired to Self Destruct single was done at the very and recently (June) and written in a week as they felt they needed an energetic short song to promote the album.
MONSTER MAGNET will enter the studio in November to begin recording its new album for a tentative summer 2017 release. Frontman Dave Wyndorf told Ivaylo Alexandrov from the Bulgarian cultural/lifestyle portal Sofia Live about MONSTER MAGNET's planned follow-up to 2013's "Last Patrol": "This is full-ahead rock. This one is a little bit shorter album — like ten songs — full-ahead Detroit-style-, early '70s-, MC5-, STOOGES-type rock. And I'm gonna see if that makes any difference to the fans at all. I mean, it still sounds like MONSTER MAGNET, of course, but it's a little less on the psychedelic side and more on the power-rock side."
Man I really wasn't digging the new Avenged at first but each additional listen it's been growing on me to the point where I am legit addicted to this thing. Front to back. Brooks Wackerman on the dums does an awesome job.
The lead singer was right, it's a grower not a show-er.
not sure I'd even call them metal, but I've been absolutely crazy about Ghost lately ... what a great band. Meliora really is an outstanding album from front too back, you don't see consistency like that very often. Not too ecstatic about the Popestar EP, except for the brilliant "Square Hammer".
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