Soilwork - Figure Number Five
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Free Music Review: a very good album
Hit: 4 Stars
very good... some really catchy tunes. just an all around good band. i recommend this and other albums from soilwork.Free Music Review: Eh, solid.
Hit: 3 Stars
The problem is that all these new metal bands sound the same nowadays. I can't distinguish one band from another. Soilwork, however, at least does it well. I approve.Free Music Review: 1, 2, 3 . . . cook! With a chorus.
Hit: 3 Stars
They do this mixed metal/pop thing pretty good, you could even imagine some strings on the chorus in "Cranking the Sirens". But good grief, this formula is so overworked at this point it's hard to take it seriously anymore. The only reason I bothered to review this is that they have a talent for writing hooks in the choruses, and that shouldn't be thrown away. If these guys dropped the speed metal riff/croaking rap vocal parts, they might actually have something that would be worth recording. I realize that would completely change who they are, but when you're tromping over the same ground time and time again, maybe change isn't such a bad thing.Free Music Review: Disappointing (2.5 stars)
Hit: 3 Stars
In general, this is not a terrible album. But when you put this one up against everything else Soilwork has done, it's really not impressive. I loved the abrasiveness of Soilwork's classic A PREDATOR'S PORTRAIT, but that really doesn't show here.
FNF is composed mostly of formulaic song structure and tries a little too hard. If I didn't know Soilwork better, I'd mistake this album for an attempt at the mainstream. Don't get me wrong, there are a few saving graces. Rejection Role is a great, intense song and one of my favorites. Other than that, there are a few impressive guitar solos interspersed throughout FNF (check out The Mindmaker, Brickwalker).
Like I said, not a terrible album; I own it. But unless you're hell-bent on owning every last Soilwork album, I'd opt for APP, NATURAL BORN CHAOS, or STABBING THE DRAMA.
Free Music Review: Please note this is NOT the import version as described
Hit: 5 Stars
The Amazon description of this title as having a bonus disc is NOT CORRECT. This is the domestic 1 disc version. The double disc set is the much more expensive import release.