Style: Melodic death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: the band finally fully embraces their melodic death metal roots on parts of the album and explores a bit of their entire catalog
Thoughts: What a journey Soilwork has been on. After A Predators Portrait they seemingly got lost in the isles of mediocrity for almost two decades. While they showed flashes here and there of what they were capable of, none of the albums got anywhere near the intensity or the craftmanship of the first three albums... that is until this one.
The Living Infinite is one of the best albums that Soilwork has ever released. They finally figured things out. They managed to create intense melodic death metal that fully integrates the pop melodies that they embraced the past few albums.
Opening up the album with a song like Spectrum of Eternity was all I needed to hear to know that the band had figured things out. The song is aggressive, mixes melody with blast beats in a way that they haven't done since The Chainheart Machine. Speed mixes his clean and harsh vocals to great effect, and most importantly the band doesn't just stop playing aggressively when the clean vocals come in. It's a fantastic realization of everything that the band has been trying to do for five albums.
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