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World Exclusive Hall of Fame: The Shape of Punk to Come
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Kingdom of Sorrow, Anathema, Call & Response with Soilwork, Decrepit Birth, Xasthur, The Sword, Norma Jean, Q&A with Aaron Turner, Streetwise: San Francisco, the making of Refused's The Shape of Punk to Come
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Soilwork
The Panic Broadcast
Let’s dance for fear | Nuclear Blast
After 2002’s Natural Born Chaos, Soilwork, perhaps influenced by American counterparts and “riff borrowers” Killswitch Engage, were relegated to the scrapheap of irrelevance. Despite charting consecutively higher (in most countries) and embarking on large venue tours (with Lamb of God, for example), Figure Number Five and Stabbing the Drama didn’t have the heart and/or mind of past albums. In fact, fellow Decibel scribe Scott Seward called Stabbing the Drama “workmanlike.” Uh-oh. Soilwork, from my point of view, improved considerably on 2007’s Sworn to a Great Divide (I awarded the album an 8), but what has happened to Sweden’s big chorus darlings in the three years since? —Chris Dick
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