We know you depend on us to sift through the mountains of daily metal news so you don’t have to, to separate the wheat from the chaff, and then bring to your attention only the truly vital information without which your lives would be drab, insignificant, and not worth living. A heavy fucking responsibility, but we’ve got broad shoulders and we’re up to it.
That’s why we’re telling you, hot off the presses, that Amaranthe singer Elize Ryd (pictured above) has been selected to fill the female guest singer spot on KAMELOT‘s upcoming European tour in April/May.
What’s that you say? You think this “news” is bullshit? You say you’ve never heard of Amaranthe and that with a lead singer like this, they couldn’t possibly be metal?
You say you think KAMELOT sounds like an Andrew Lloyd Webber creation? Or maybe like what would happen if Siegfried and Roy decided to start a metal band?
Basically, you’re thinking I made up this “vital breaking news” horseshit as just an excuse to put a hot piece of eye candy up on our site in a desperate attempt to lure more readers?
Well, so fucking what if I did? Just cut me a little slack. Just this once. I had a late night.
(Thank you Blabbermouth for this vital piece of news.)
[...] Fans of In Flames will often concede (and I’m not particularly one, so I may be wildly wrong) that the band either sounded better in the darker days of Whoracle and Clayman (although that could be said about almost every band in existance). The very first riff on the album, opening “Leave Everything Behind” immediately evokes memories of a good In Flames, continued when the first of three (3!) vocalists leaves his raspy growls all over the place. It’s good! The lovely token female singer soon kicks in and it soon sounds more like Eurovision than any kind of metal. Fortunately, she’s actually a damn good clean singer… and has her fair share of fans for other reasons. [...]