Fenriswolf
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I know 2020 and Covid fucked everyone's timeline up but I thought he only joined a couple years ago.
Jeff Loomis leaves Arch Enemy
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I know 2020 and Covid fucked everyone's timeline up but I thought he only joined a couple years ago.
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HeHasTheJazzHands
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I guess it's what happens when you do so little with a band + the band releases some of their most ZZZZZZZZZ music yet.
Fenriswolf
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Ya, I told my wife about it, so we were talking about them, and I forgot the chick from The Agonist is their singer now. You would think you get the people from 3 bands I really like together and they'd put out some jams, but nope...
Manurack
Nunavut Inuk
I heard he went back to university and got a degree in something, at least that's what one of the members said on one of the Gigantour Megadeth festival dvds.
Wages of Sin was amazing. Anthems Of Rebellion is when I think they started declining and slipping into a packaged product. It wasn't a bad album but I could see where it was going..and by the album after that they were already well into garbage land
Fenriswolf
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Ya, I listened to them for the first time in a while, and I listened to Nemesis, which is the song that got me into them, and that's when I realized what it is. How many, whatever form of popular you would use for a melodeath band, had a woman that did rough vocals?
That being said...we all know who Jeff is, if you haven't checked out Alissa White-Gluz, she also did good music before being a gimmick for The Michael Amott Band
For me the only interesting thing about Alissa is that she's dating Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein. That's pretty much it
Fenriswolf
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Eh, I was into The Agonist before I knew about that. I know it's blasphemy, but other than a handful of songs, I"m really only into Graves era Misfits.
OmegaSlayer
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These news suck! Just recently bought tickets to In Flames/Arch Enemy/Soilwork gig.. it will be November next year though.
I have always liked Arch Enemy and they have some killer songs even on the New records. Albumwise they peaked on Doomsday machine though. Amott has been one of my favourite metal guitarists for long time because his melodic side and how you can hear those 80's influences blended in with more traditional metal.
I was just telling my friend how cool is to see Michael and Jeff on the same stage. That being said, i feel that talent that Jeff Loomis has was not used enough in Arch enemy. He should have been more involved in the writing process to spice things up.
I hope thatJeff makes totally new band that slays instead of doing some Nevermore stuff..
I have always liked Arch Enemy and they have some killer songs even on the New records. Albumwise they peaked on Doomsday machine though. Amott has been one of my favourite metal guitarists for long time because his melodic side and how you can hear those 80's influences blended in with more traditional metal.
I was just telling my friend how cool is to see Michael and Jeff on the same stage. That being said, i feel that talent that Jeff Loomis has was not used enough in Arch enemy. He should have been more involved in the writing process to spice things up.
I hope thatJeff makes totally new band that slays instead of doing some Nevermore stuff..
StevenC
Needs a hobby
I'll never understand how you guys have the time to listen to so much aggressively mid metal, much less have opinions about it.
Because until doomsday it wasnt mid
I'm not even a huge Misfits fan. I only know a few songs. I just think Doyle is cool.
I really liked Loomis' playing when I was younger, but as I get older, it's a bit dimensional uber shred and power metal laden riffing that I find a bit dull. Even Conquering Dystopia is too straight forward in my opinion.
It's never going to happen, but if you put Loomis in with weird / interesting players who'd push him to write mad riffs and force him out of his comfort zone, then apply his mega shred style on top, I think that'd be really cool.
I think Dreaming Neon Black is one of the better Nevermore albums since it sounds like they wrote as a band (or at least, it sounds less of a Loomis shred fest) and sounds more dynamic than the usual later albums.
It's never going to happen, but if you put Loomis in with weird / interesting players who'd push him to write mad riffs and force him out of his comfort zone, then apply his mega shred style on top, I think that'd be really cool.
I think Dreaming Neon Black is one of the better Nevermore albums since it sounds like they wrote as a band (or at least, it sounds less of a Loomis shred fest) and sounds more dynamic than the usual later albums.
CanserDYI
Yeah, No, Definitely.
This is like saying "eh Master of Puppets was meh but have you guys heard Saint Anger?"
Arch Enemy used to be one of my favourite bands, but now they're boring as fuck. Saw them live in a festival this summer and it was like watching a DVD. Everything scripted with zero audience interaction.
Usually when somebody leaves a band, the media articles covering it have a lot of "sad" reactions. Not this one, so everybody kinda knew. In some interviews Loomis said he had to release more solo material to fulfill a discographic contract, so maybe we will see more of that. I recall more Conquering Dystopia was on the works as well (which I'd totally love).
Usually when somebody leaves a band, the media articles covering it have a lot of "sad" reactions. Not this one, so everybody kinda knew. In some interviews Loomis said he had to release more solo material to fulfill a discographic contract, so maybe we will see more of that. I recall more Conquering Dystopia was on the works as well (which I'd totally love).
Fenriswolf
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It's more like liking the album with an actual decent vocalist on it which I realize is very not punk of me
HeHasTheJazzHands
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I disagree with most of this lol, but DNB is a masterpiece and I was just saying yesterday how I wish Calvert was still with us. A partial reunion of the DNB lineup with a great vocalist would probably be the most excited I would be for a Loomis-related project in forever. Runner up would have to be Smyth and a reunion of the Godless Endeavor lineup.
Hah, that's totally fair. I don't think I'm the right audience anyway - it's mostly nostalgia at this point. I do like TGE - that's a shred fest that I'm into.
I'm more into artists pushing their own art and changing it up instead of harkening back to past efforts and styles. If it is what makes them fulfilled and happy, who am I to judge, but I find it more interesting to hear them change it up and take some gambles... even if it's bad haha.
