I have paused the new Soilwork to listen to these samples. I am going to jot down my thoughts in real time while I listen;
Cold - First off, the riff sounds okay and all in all the music sounds quite good, but Geoff sounds exactly the same as his solo album, flat and without melody. The song has potential though.
Dare - Reminds me off something from Tribe, but worse since I love Tribe. Shit chorus.
Give it To You - Oh fuck, straight away you know this isn't gonna be anything good.
Slave - Nice riff indeed straight up, I like that. Hang on, has Geoff got asthma or something or is he having a heart attack while trying to sing here.
In the Hands of God - This sounds okay and Geoff sounds like he slightly gives a fuck here.
Running Backwards - Nice music and guitar straight up, I like where this is goin........"Last time I looked you weren't feeling too good... about love." For fucks sake G-Dog!!! You've ruined another fucking song.
Life Without You - Again, music sounds really promising here and I love the try hard Mindcrime clean guitar sound. Geoff shoots, but misses. His vocals are just flat.
Everything - Now the samples are sounding pretty similar with not much variety showing which could hurt things. Not sure what Geoff is going for here, is this his 'sexy' voice or something, or can he not open his mouth to sing anymore?
Fallen - Okay, I'm over it now, I want to put my Soilwork cd back on, but the covers are coming up, I gotta check these out.
The Weight of the World - Oh fuck no! NEXT!
I Don't Believe in Love - What the fuck is the guitarist using here, a home made guitar and a $50 practice amp, Jesus. The drummer doesn't believe in this song either by the sounds of it, I swear the tempo got slower as the sample went on. Geoff sounds like a cat getting tortured here too. Absolute tripe.
Empire - The practice amps are out again. Fuck Geoff......fuck.........fuck no....NOOOOO!!!
Jet City Woman - "Everytime I LEAVE."
Is this that show where the contestants sing the song and have to sing the missing lines, holy fucking fuck!!
Silent Lucidity - Geoff 'chorus' Tate. I have never heard so much chorus and reverb saturating a vocal line.
Well, the re-recordings sound like they deserve to be hunted down and stabbed with pitchforks, they are just terrible, Geoff must be fucking crazy to put these on an official album. Eddie, Scott, and Michael are going to have the party of their life listening to these.
Although, I will say, there is some promise with the original material, and I will probably check it out. It's pretty much the same as Tate's last album, but I didn't mind some of that. The problem is he just can't keep a memorable or focused vocal melody, and it just sounds like he's scatting or something the whole time. Geoff is definitely the weak link here. I ahve no doubt the other version of this band will top this whole album in one or two songs.