It seems that there are some people that really don't like a live recording that differs in any way from the studio recording.
Literally no one said that.
Chucksteak heavily implied it. It's also something I've run into a lot before. I didn't mean to say you said that.
Live recordings will ALWAYS differ from studio ones, no matter how faithful you try to be. I have no problem with that at all. In fact, I even enjoy improvisation, re-arrangements of songs, solos, etc.
I have nothing against this new guy Ragnar and as I said before, I think he's a very good singer. I just didn't like him singing Daniel's parts. I am not saying that he didn't do a good job nor that he didn't sing them well. That's not the point. Since you are playing an entire album for the first time live, you try to reproduce it as faithfully as you can, which, instrumentally, they did. Johan didn't use to sing Daniel's parts. He did mostly backing vocals and his vocals worked in such a harmony with Daniel's that it makes me remember David Gilmour's and Richard Wright's vocal harmonies and how well they flowed together.
I think if Daniel sings certain parts in the studio he should also sing it live, specially if you are playing a whole album for the first time and specially if the concept of the album is what happened to Daniel in his life, which is very personal. So having another guy singing almost half of what Daniel sang in the studio is strange, since you can tell they tried to reproduce the album faithfully. They sometimes got lost in the lyrics too, if you listen closely. If they didn't want to take themselves too seriously, they would change some songs like they did with Undertow and Chain Sling on 12:5.