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OMG VINCE GOOFED!!! OH NOES!!!

 Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 10:03am by

Many of you expressed a deep satisfaction last week when I goofed and [accurately] proclaimed Demon Hunter’s “Collapsing” a Figure Number Five-era Soilwork ripoff, not realizing that Bjorn “Speed” Strid actually made a guest appearance in the song. Oops! Congratulations folks, you really pwned me on that one. But hey, guess what? You still like Demon Hunter and therefore fail at metal. QED.

Here’s the video for “Rejection Role,” the opening track on said Soilwork album. This video is particularly appropriate because it features a guest appearance by Soilwork’s own forebears in In Flames. The difference is that this song doesn’t suck.

Soilwork are working on their new album The Panic Broadcast right now… as in probably right this very minute. They’ve been posting updates over at The Deciblog, including this nugget from Speed in the most recent entry: “… we really feel that it’s a schizophrenic masterpiece. There’s a lot of surprises and trippy parts and sometimes so full-on that it leaves you absolutely breathless. It is the most intense Soilwork album so far, without a doubt.” That quote gets me more excited for the new album than watching bassist Ola Flink do his goofy stage moves… and those get me really excited!

-VN

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  • You Don’t Know Me

    Man, I haven’t heard that song in forever. Good stuff. I hope the new Soilwork album is good. Sworn to a Great Divide was just so awfully bland.

  • Zoker

    Best song ever. Not heavy, not technical, not fast… just catchy as hell.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rik-Powell/286400508 Rik Powell

      Best song ever? It’s not even the best song on the album, by a long way. It’s not bad though.

      • http://metalmadeincanada.ca Legion

        I always love it when people try to force us to agree with their taste…

      • Zoker

        Since I simply love Soilwork I’m genuinely curious to hear what’s the best song out of FNF in your opinion.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rik-Powell/286400508 Rik Powell

          I don’t know if I have a favourite as such but I’d say Rejection Role is one of the weakest… not that any song on the album is bad at all. Departure Plan might be my personal favourite but I don’t think I’d say it’s necessarily the best…

  • MSalonen

    Love Soilwork, very excited for the new album.

    And fuck Demon Hunter.

  • Me

    Vince, you’re a dick…

  • Fufkin

    Great response. You really turned that around – and some latin too for good measure.

  • Andy Synn

    Damn, I fail at metal…

  • Lorenzo

    In case you didn’t know the full story, there is also the “In Flames version” of the fight between them and Soilwork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esWqSqSTFa4
    I think it’s a funny idea for a videoclip…anyway, “Trigger” is way better than “Rejection role”, in my opinion.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rik-Powell/286400508 Rik Powell

      Agreed, Trigger is immense.

    • Kuranes

      I love those two videos. I wonder if Dark Tranquillity felt left out.

      • brent

        Here comes one of those “elitist a-hole” comments (but I can’t help it): I honestly hope Dark Tranquility felt left out. Maybe that would get them to stop sucking.

        • Steph

          And In Flames and Soilwork have done nothing but improve with each album, right?

  • petefeinstein

    QED! Awesome first use of that ever on a website that wasn’t connected to the OED.

  • M@

    I love that song, though not my favorite album of theirs

    But if you were going to put up one song to prove that Soilwork rule, it has to be Follow the Hollow. This song rips my face off every time I hear it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfBCYeUjIxU

  • As_the_chalices_burn

    “But hey, guess what? You still like Demon Hunter and therefore fail at metal. QED.”
    Says the guy who likes HIM and therefore fails at metal

  • cyrollan

    vince was wrong again when he said, “the difference is that this song doesn’t suck.”

    • evilfatguy

      Someone tried to get me into Soilwork when they first came around, and I just didn’t see what the big deal was. Everything I’ve heard from them since then has reinforced that feeling.
      Your sentiment is accurate; these songs sound almost identical.

  • Andy Synn

    I hated “Collapsing” when I first heard it…

    Weirdly, now that Soilwork has been mentioned I am starting to see exactly how close the sound is and am starting to like it more. Now that I am listening to it in “a soilwork frame of mind” I am actually starting to enjoy it.

    Ever considered how weird it is that the context in which you listen to a song affects how you react to it?

    And I still like FN5, was the last in a run of 3 superfluous albums… A Predator’s Portrait, Natural Born Chaos and FN5.

  • http://lordsofmetal.nl/index.php?lang=en Kavorka

    I always thought ‘Light The Torch’ was a better FNF-era song, which was also released as a video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a733LewgmD0

  • ryan

    I had no idea the video for Trigger was tied to this video as well. When it started I couldn’t stop thinking this looks exactly like it.

  • Lucifersmile

    Christian music will always suck.

  • villanj1

    Fuck my balls, I love this song. This, with the matching Trigger video, gave me crossover excitement I hadn’t felt since Sgt. Slaughter became a G.I. Joe.

  • mike

    I have always said that newer Soilwork (NBC onwards) > older Soilwork. Their early material was just bland, heard it all before MDM.

  • Dr schwine-hoot

    Ya, tat is very contradicting like always. Likes HIM and 7dust etc. But not DH, so everyone who does, fails at metal? What a moron… PPL like what they like, doesnt mean they “fail” at anything, your about as narrowminded as most christians with that statement… IMO, the triptych and the world is a thorn blow away anything soilwork and even IF attempted with their “crossover” records… Hell, ill put DH new Guitarists right up againt soilworks and IF’s any day of the week.

  • Shep

    “You still like Demon Hunter and therefore fail at metal.”

    I’m still laughing at that….