All tied up with the sterile ribbons of over-produced and hammy choruses, that feel more artificially inserted and commercial rather than a natural progression from the mood created by the riffs. Where Soilwork ruled the roost of thrashy riffs with large melodic choruses with soaring clean vocal sections that instantly stuck with you, newer Soilwork is an amalgamation of prog/classic rock, some mix of old-school heavy metal, and smatterings of the thrashy goodness that made Soilwork special.
The Soilwork of Stabbing the Drama is not the same as the one we get on Overgivenheten, and that is both a great thing and a retrospective disappointment. It was an internal debate of nostalgia and curiosity to see what one of my adolescent favorites measured up against my more developed sensibilities. That said, I largely moved away from Soilwork after that record, and completely lost track of the band past The Panic Broadcast. Truth be told, I was a megafan of Soilwork right up to 2005’s Stabbing the Drama and it was very formative in my metal journey. The Swedish melodeath giants, Soilwork are back in 2022 with Övergivenheten(Swedish for “Abandonment”), as a thematic follow-up to pre-pandemic 2019’s Veklighheten (Swedish for “Reality).
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