Stabbing the Drama [Limited Edition]

Stabbing the Drama [Limited Edition]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The first 50,000 copies of Stabbing the Drama will contain a bonus track (11 tracks total) and will be housed in a special digipak!

Tracks:

Stabbing The Drama
One With The Flies
Weapon Of Vanity
The Crestfallen
Nerve
Stalemate
Distance
Observation Slave
Fate In Motion
Blind Eye Halo
If Possible

Album Description

The first 50,000 copies of Stabbing the Drama will contain a bonus track (11 tracks total) and will be housed in a special digipak!

Customer Reviews:

i guess this album just makes me love old soilwork that much more.......2007-05-27

one thing that i have always enjoyed about soilwork is their riff complexity. whether it be the melodeth syncopated thirds riffs of steelbath, the thrashier speed riffs of chainheart, or the powergroove chugs of predator's portrait, soilwork has always done an excellent job in including a variety of rhythmic punctuations between riffs and a variety of different picking and chording techniques between or even within riffs. take the first minute or two of bastard chain as a perfect example. harmonized octaves sliding into a groove riff with a harmonized sweep at the end. beautiful! the drums always blew me away with their attention to detail. too often the role of the drummer in a melodic death metal (not so much gothenburg, however) is underemphasized, but he/she has full control of the momentum of the song and i love it when drummers approach the same riff with different types of beats, thereby actually exploring the possibility of sounds. a good example of soilwork doing this is the prechorus of grand failure at 57 seconds. i'm also a big fan of how soilwork used key changes to make the solos more expressive and frankly, interesting. some nice thirds harmonization (which they never used) weaving in and out of wichers' incredible playing. in sbs and chm i loved speed's fast-attack vocals, as they fit the tempos well. enter predator's portrait... the clean vox come in. now, i'm all for variety and clean vocals often make a song that much more interesting, but strid's choruses on that album were a bit more over the top than i had expected. i think they pulled it of with predator's portrait, but i could hear the foreshadowing in his voice. these choruses, which i always considered a brief cigarette break between the crushing riffs and melodies, would soon become the focus of the band.

skip ahead a couple albums: enter figure number five. remember all that stuff i said about variety and attention to detail? not here. not a bit. every song just seems to be full of filler riffs for the purpose of feeding into an overdone chorus. usually i don't think that solos are required to make a song great, and even though they were often incredible, old soilwork could have still stood their own without them. the riffs in this album are so homogenous and mundane that i looked to solos to at least salvage the album and remind me that this was still soilwork. the few solos that you'll find certainly did not do the job. everything just seems to be a bed of lettuce upon which to place the overdone vocals. seriously, the chording underneath and the notes that strid tries to hit make me turn red with embarrassment. they all sound like something you would hear from linkin park. i can't get over that...

all this being said, i gave the album three stars because it's two points for being a metal band, one point for the few catchy riffs that i admit i became a sucker for (stabbing the drama and nerve intros).

Soilwork: Stabing the Drama.......2007-05-07

It is a great CD, and I love the band. My only dissapointment is that there was no perental advisory in the CD and there were curse words on a few tracks. That aside, I would buy it agian.

A Slow Grow. Worth the patience........2006-12-22

It has taken several listens for this album to grow on me, but grown on me it has. Like a lot of my favorite albums, this one didn't reveal it's self to me right away. I don't know why it took so long to grow on me as it now seems so obvious. This is a awesome album by one of the best bands out there. I like this album better than In Flames newest album Come Clarity, and I like that album too. I hear Soilwork have gone through some lineup changes and are gearing up for a new album to come out sometime in 2007. Looking forward to it.

oops!.......2006-12-15

I'm not going to bash or comment on talent like some people on these reviews do but I will say Soilwork took a step backward wit this CD.

"Chainheart Machine", "Predator's Portrait", and even "Natural Born Chaos" were their best hands down, end of story. The guitars were some o the best I have ever heard and have yet to be duplicated.

Then there is "Stabbing the Drama", the guitars dropped off, "Speed" is trying way to hard to sing outside of his range, and the basic motion of the album makes them sound like they just got signed and are waiting to hit the big-time. What happened guys?

Don't get me wrong, the album is good if you are new to Soilwork, but long time fans will most likely agree with me... that it just falls too short.

If they had stayed on the same path of the older albums, this may have been their crowning achievement, instead it could be a swan song.

Still Soilwork.......2006-12-04

Soilwork is quite a crazy card. I love all their music in explanation of what I said first they have managed to do what many many bands cannot get mainstream exposure and still keep most of their dedicated fanbase. While some old fans dislike the newer soilwork many fans have enjoyed SW their whole way through and including this album which is their most streamlined effort to date but still most certainly not a Reroute or a Soundtrack or dare I say Come Clarity lol. Its still hard, heavy, in your face melodic death metal from one of Swedens finest exports.

Average customer rating:

stabbing the drama is KILLER comes

Stabbing the Drama
Soilwork
Manufacturer: Avalon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Figure Number Five

ASIN: B000793ESO
Release Date: 2005-03-07

Tracks:

Stabbing the Drama
One With the Flies
Weapon of Vanity
Crestfallen
Nerve
Stalemate
Distance
Observation Slave
Fate in Motion
Blind Eye Halo
If Possible
Wherever Thorns May Grow

Album Description

Japanese pressing of 13-track album featuring two bonus tracks 'Wherever Thorns May Grow' & 'Killed By Ignition'. Avalon. 2005.

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

stabbing the drama is KILLER comes.......2005-03-28

the new album by swedish metal greats "SOILWORK" entitled "stabbing the drama" is awesome. althought this album shows(greatly)the bands natural progression, it also shows that perfection (which they strived for on the previous "figure #5)and timing are are not factors when it comes to kick ass thrash metal! the tracks on this album sound mostly like one-takes, one-shot the best they could. don't get me wrong the production and sound is great.songs like "fate in motion" and "weapon od vanity" show just how unsimple the band could be, harmonizing two un-alike guitar riffs together withouth loosing the listeners attention. IN MY OPINION= better that "figure # 5". worth buying new!!!

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Stabbing the Drama
Soil Work
Manufacturer: Dream on
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00083F3I8
Release Date: 2005-04-04

Tracks:

Stabbing The Drama
One With The Flies
Weapon Of Vanity
Crestfallen
Nerve
Stalemate
Distance
Observation Slave
Fate In Motion
Blind Eye Halo
If Possible
Wherever Thorns May Grow (Bonus Track)
Killed By Ignition (Bonus Track)

Album Description

Asian pressing of 13-track album featuring two bonus tracks 'Wherever Thorns May Grow' & 'Killed By Ignition'. Dream On. 2005.

Average customer rating:

Stabbing the Drama

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000A2GRDC
Release Date: 2005-02-01

Album Description

2005 single from one of Sweden's hottest metal bands! Details TBA. Nuclear Blast.

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Stabbing the Drama
Soilwork
Manufacturer: Nuclear Blast
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007GFUJS

Tracks:

Stabbing the Drama
One With the Flies
Weapon of Vanity
Crest Fallen
Nerve
Stalemate
Distance
Observation Slave
Fate in Motion
Blind Eye Halo
Wherever Thorns May Grow

Album Details

Limited Edition Digi of the Nitrous Metal Bands 2005 Studio Release.

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Stabbing The Drama
Soilwork
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ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000LWYPCQ

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Stabbing The Drama
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Binding: Audio CD

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