Scar Symmetry

Knightfall wrote:

Blackwater-RiD wrote:

Knightfall wrote:

I'd say that Holographic Universe is easily their best, though the new one's pretty close IMO

Holographic Universe wasn't a scar symmetry album, it was a Christian Alvestam album with scar symmetry as a backing band.

Still an awesome album.

It's one of those albums that you like for about a few days and then realize "wow, why did I get all hyped up for this?". Meh album is meh. There are a few songs on there that are good, most of them are kind of album-filler crap.

I rather enjoy it.

I like Holographic Universe the best. How could you say it's a Christian Alvestam album with SS in the background? It's their most musically complex album, and my personal favorite.

The Great Wesdirect wrote:

I like Holographic Universe the best. How could you say it's a Christian Alvestam album with SS in the background? It's their most musically complex album, and my personal favorite.

Correction: It's a Christian Alvestam and a Per Nilsson album with SS as a backing band.

Holographic Universe has a few musically complex songs, so complex they can't play half of them live (even with the new singers) Look at a few live videos of the drummer trying to play the song "Hologrphic Universe", and listen to how sloppy that mother fucker is. But I think the band as a whole left the door wide open for Christian Alvestam to do catchy vocal work, and for Per to do some neat prog/80's metal riffage and soloing.

Blackwater-RiD wrote:

Knightfall wrote:

Blackwater-RiD wrote:

Knightfall wrote:

I'd say that Holographic Universe is easily their best, though the new one's pretty close IMO

Holographic Universe wasn't a scar symmetry album, it was a Christian Alvestam album with scar symmetry as a backing band.

Still an awesome album.

It's one of those albums that you like for about a few days and then realize "wow, why did I get all hyped up for this?". Meh album is meh. There are a few songs on there that are good, most of them are kind of album-filler crap.

I actually rather agree with RiD in this case. the album cover is epic, but definitely the best part of the album.

DMD ftw.

The Great Wesdirect wrote:

I like Holographic Universe the best. How could you say it's a Christian Alvestam album with SS in the background? It's their most musically complex album, and my personal favorite.

It's also some of the best material Alvestam has (which I do believe is what RiD was getting at).

Alvestam was the greatest thing Scar Symmetry had. He's also one of the main reason that band got so popular. If I hadn't listened to the vocal melody in the chorus of "Illusionist" I would have never started listening to this band.

Blackwater-RiD wrote:

Alvestam was the greatest thing Scar Symmetry had. He's also one of the main reason that band got so popular. If I hadn't listened to the vocal melody in the chorus of "Illusionist" I would have never started listening to this band.

I rather think that it's scary we had the same jumping on point for this band....

Haimerej wrote:

Blackwater-RiD wrote:

Alvestam was the greatest thing Scar Symmetry had. He's also one of the main reason that band got so popular. If I hadn't listened to the vocal melody in the chorus of "Illusionist" I would have never started listening to this band.

I rather think that it's scary we had the same jumping on point for this band....

Well, I more or less had some underdeveloped music taste as you did. I listened to classical music, some foreign music, what my parents/friends/relatives listened too, and whatever was on the radio (sadly, that was one of the only resources for music that I had). It makes since that one of Scar Symmetry's most pop-vocal influenced song's would get me into this band. In fact Scar Symmetry, along with Behemoth, and Nevermore, bands started me on extreme metal.