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SCAR SYMMETRY HAVE A NEW ALBUM COMING OUT?!

 Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 12:30pm by

scar symmetry - the unseen empire

Earlier this week we noted that a favorite band of ours had let the news of a new album fly completely under the radar. That band, Anaal Nathrakh, went and released a new song just two days later. Can lightning strike twice? Hey, Scar Symmetry, how ’bout it?

In case you haven’t gathered, Scar “Death Jovi” Symmetry appear to have a new album on the way, although MetalSucks has not heard an official peep from the band or from their label, Nuclear Blast, despite the fact the the supposed release date of April 15th is less than two months away. Can I get a “what the fuck?” in the house?

MS reader Scott Rubes stumbled upon a pre-order page for the new album on Nuclear Blast’s webstore, which makes us pretty damn sure that the album, called The Unseen Empire, is coming out on said date. Posts on Hails and Horns, Metal Storm and SS’s Wikipedia page all seem to corroborate that the album is in fact coming out. Either Nuclear Blast seriously dropped the ball here, or this is yet another example of metal record labels being completely fucktarded by insisting it’s still 2001 and staggering international release dates…. in which case Nuclear Blast is also seriously dropping the ball by leaving fat stacks of U.S. Dollars on the table. I guess Nuclear Blast really wants us to illegally download this thing when it isn’t available via official means in the U.S. but it is available everywhere else, also known as this new-fangled thing called “The Internet.” Of course, NB could start the U.S. press machine rolling tomorrow and I will happily eat my words.

But hey, on the bright side… new Scar Symmetry! Are these cats prolific, or what? They pretty much release a new album every 1.5 years like clockwork. While the loss of vocalist Christian Alvestam was certainly felt on 2009′s Dark Matter Dimensions, that album was still pretty good and I’m always interested in what this band is doing. Scar Symmetry is all Jonas Kjellgren anyway, and the dude’s a melodeath riff, melody and songwriting machine.

So… April 15th. New Scar Symmetry. Sweet.

-VN

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  • darkdragon

    Sorry. but I stopped caring about them when Christian Alvestam left and nothing you say will get me to give a shit about them again.

    • mrpoops

      THIS

      • Rik

        Christian’s an amazing vocalist, one of my favourites (if not my favourite), but he really had little input into this band other than his voice. On the first 2 albums he didn’t even write most of the vocal melodies. Their new vocalists aren’t quite as good but they still sound like the same band and DMD is just as good as their other albums. I think losing interest in them just because of that is an incredibly shallow viewpoint.

        But whatever, nothing I say will get you to give a shit about them after all :P

        • Anthony

          Who cares if he didn’t have input on the music? He’s still a better sing than the 2 douchebags who replaced him.

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Juan-Jimenez/1313838369 Juan Jimenez

            Yes, I agree. Alvestam is my favorite sing ever.

  • Strahalov

    Scar Symmetry are-.. Wait.. did I just say Sonic Syndicate? Or.. wait a minute, HOLD THE PHONE!! What was that, again? Degradead? Or one of the other 239654 fourth-wave At The Gates – Arch Enemy – Soilwork ripoff bands that sound LITERALLY identical? Well.. I seriously don’t know..

    • Jah Bro Knee

      I think somebody needs a hearing exam.

      • Strahalov

        Oh, right, because SS are… are what?! About just as entertaining and authentic as my grandma’s 99cents chinese slippers? Hmm.. no I think they are worth even less, like.. umm.. say, a “fuck” will do.

        • Jah Bro Knee

          My point was that those band are not “LITERALLY” identical (even if we don’t use the literal definition of the word literally ;) ). To be honest, they don’t really remind me of any of the bands you mentioned, apart from being a melo-death band.

          • Strahalov

            You’re right, “literally” was really too strong of an expression.. But you see I get really fucking mad when I hear about these guys because they are really not anything of a big deal and yet everyone seems to praise them like their music was like the peak of melodeath. I mean, come on, their song structures are boring, the lyrical themes are a joke, the lead guitar tracks have all been heard like a chillion times before and still this band gets the credit like they were anything special… It makes me kinda sad and I actually consider their works a huge contributor to the fact that this Soilwork-ish style (or let’s call it “mainstream”) melodeath got so close to pop music.

            But yeah even I, apparently a huge hater, admit that “Pitch Black Progress” was somewhat fun to listen to when it came out, for, like, a short period of time.. Anyways, I just don’t know why they are such a big fucking deal.

        • Trux

          I think that somebody needs not just a hearing exam but a mental check up……

    • Jester

      Umadbro?

    • Rik

      Scar Symmetry and Sonic Syndicate are like polar opposites, if not in style then definitely in quality and talent. And neither of them sound like At The Gates or Arch Enemy. Your post is LITERALLY retarded.

    • Axem

      If you can’t hear the difference between those bands, you must be into break downs!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Hurley/1289730334 Matt Hurley

      ITT: typical “br00tal’ metalhead who thinks anything with a level of melody is “g@y pu$$y $$hytt’. Go back to practicing brees to Waking the Cadaver

  • eMeyer

    i dont know, that last album was such a huge disappointment after the awesomeness of holographic universe

    • http://www.worksofein.com WOE

      ditto to that, not bad by any means but certainly not up to the standard of the previous album.

      • http://lordsofmetal.nl/index.php?lang=en The Almighty GOD

        1

  • VyceVictus

    I remain cautiously yet enthusiastically optimistic. Good news indeed. I also hope Alvestam has new work out this year as well with whatever band/project hes playing mercenary for.

  • Jah Bro Knee

    “Scar Symmetry is all Jonas Kjellgren anyway, and the dude’s a melodeath riff, melody and songwriting machine.”

    No love for Per Nilsson’s amazing lead work?? He probably has the most tasteful and unique phrasing in all of metal.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Austin-Pearl-Nutter/1418565949 Austin Pearl Nutter

    I’ll just put it on the record that the last album had some pretty good tunes. They have catchy vocal lines and guitar leads and that’s what they’re going for, so mission successful.

  • el fucko

    I love the NWO cover art.

  • Trux

    Last Scar Symmetry album > the .45 Solution album..

    • Sambo

      Are you serious? Solution .45′s album DESTROYS Dark Matter Dimensions any day.

      • Trux

        Tastes are like colors my friend.

        • Andy Synn

          Human beings can only appreciate a finite spectrum?

          • http://lordsofmetal.nl/index.php?lang=en The Almighty GOD

            I liked Sol 45′s album a bit more, probably because it had a 16minute epic track on it I love that song!

    • Rik

      Agreed. Christian’s the better vocalist but Scar Symmetry are musically superior by far. But either way, they’re both great albums.

    • Axem

      I prefer solution .45′s album just because there’s lyrics by Mikael Stanne.

  • Andy Synn

    I personally think the last SS album is the best… musically and song-writing wise at least. It remains to be seen as to whether the two vocalist equation can surpass the vocal arrangements of the past, so far they’ve primarily been replicating Alvestam’s patterns and delivery and not fully capitalising on having two separate vocalists.

    Have at thee internet!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Verdugo/1128951014 Ian Verdugo

    Yes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jordan-Hilker/1467760176 Jordan Hilker

    I cannot wait for this! They’ve never disappointed me, they are an underrated band in my opinion. Very cool music with a touch of prog in moments. LOVE IT!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Hurley/1289730334 Matt Hurley

    The problem with DMD wasn’t the new vocalists, its that it was obviously rushed (it came out barley a year after HU) – which in retrospect was probably good as a business decision to keep their name out there in spite of all the speculation – and got stale like halfway through. That said, its still a solid 3, maybe 4 star album…its just that Pitch Black Progress and Holographic Universe even more so were solid 5 star albums.

    I have a feeling this could be interesting – I noticed more Meshuggah influence (trans. = djent) on DMD. Putting more of that into the new album would keep the music more interesting and also most likely make them even more relevant with the “kids” or whoever. Even if we just get something more like HG though I would not be complaining, just hopefully the put more time and effort in this time.

  • Choronzon

    First album was good other shit is just shit

  • johan

    Christian is so fucking over rated. He may sound good on studio albums, but do you see many live videos when he was in Scar Symmetry, they don’t sound like that pitch corrected shit he does in the studio wuth over lapping vocals. Did anybody think to wonder why he left the band and came out with three new albums immediately, (The Few Against Many, Solution.45, and Miseration.) It’s because he only wants to record and not play live because he cannot replicate that sound and puts out a thousand albums that sound like Scar Symmetry just not as good. In most interviews the band members said he was barely around for recording and was kind of a douche.