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Originally Posted by Il Duce
i don't see any much complexity in In Flames' earlier melodic death sound - maybe the vocals are harsher and harder to carry off live but that's about it
but i'm speaking as one who likes IF's commercial sound so i'm the worst person to ask about them - my fave IF album is Reroute to Remain - the only IF I don't have is the debut and Whoracle
i think Metallica just got fed-up of having rabid metal fanboys and wanted a more diverse audience - add to that long complex songs are pretty exhausting to play live
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Whoracle is an essential, and this isn't coming from an oldschool elitist, I love their new alt metal sound but that's beside the point. I'll have to look at lolpacalypse's link but i'm pretty sure not playing Jester Race and Whoracle stuff live had more to do with just the scale of the songs more than difficulty. For instance, it would be hard to reproduce "Jester Script Transfigured" night after night on a world tour. There are simply too many guitars, sound effects, and it would take considerable endurance to put out a quality death growl night after night as someone else pointed out.