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Anteater · 05-04-2010, 10:26 AM

Perhaps I'm just a minority in this opinion, but does anyone else think Scarsick is rather underrated? A lot of fans seem to be unhappy with it...despite the fact it is just as innovative, if not more so, than PoS's past efforts.

Also, I'm very much looking forward to Road Salt One. It's got AOTY written all over it!

DiSTANToblivion · 05-04-2010, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Perhaps I'm just a minority in this opinion, but does anyone else think Scarsick is rather underrated? A lot of fans seem to be unhappy with it...despite the fact it is just as innovative, if not more so, than PoS's past efforts.

Also, I'm very much looking forward to Road Salt One. It's got AOTY written all over it!

Agreed, I really liked Scarsick (albeit a few misteps - I never like 'America' among a few other songs) but it has some of their best stuff on it... plus any album the closes as well as it does with 'Enter Rain' deserves more attention. I think a lot of their fans tend to be turned off by the rather simple straight-forward way it explains stuff. It's not as metaphoric or symbolic as previous works. Then again those same people complain that Be is too excessively arty and hard to wrap their heads around. Go figure lol.

I still love it, and 'Cribcaged' is one of my favourite PoS songs.

Petula07 · 05-05-2010, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Perhaps I'm just a minority in this opinion, but does anyone else think Scarsick is rather underrated? A lot of fans seem to be unhappy with it...

I am happy with it or at least definitelly I like it

Well, I am not sure if this is a good place to say it but in some points of view (some!!), I agree with Daniel so I really like this album.
I love song Cabridged the most but I like also song America.
Eh, I have a feeling some people from USA take this album too serious. Yes, it is angry music, it has some provocative lyrics - but it's Pain of Salvation. All their albums are provocative in some way.
And did you realize melody of America is similar to Bernstein's West side story? Leonard Bernstein is native American and his song is also little bit provocative. So what's so wrong with this song by PoS?

Petula07 · 05-26-2010, 07:18 AM

Hello! So some opinions about the new album?

Not between my top albums of PoS but I like it really more than Ep Linoleum. And I love song Sisters...

Unknown Soldier · 08-09-2010, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Perhaps I'm just a minority in this opinion, but does anyone else think Scarsick is rather underrated? A lot of fans seem to be unhappy with it...despite the fact it is just as innovative, if not more so, than PoS's past efforts.

Also, I'm very much looking forward to Road Salt One. It's got AOTY written all over it!

I think "Scarsick" is one of the classic POS albums with its eclectic mix of tunes. Just how many metal groups, could put out a song as absorbing as "Disco Queen"

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