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After Digimortal, which was kind of a subpar album for FF I had read news that they had broken up which being that they were one of my favorite bands years ago made me a little angry.

Well, this might be old news for some of you, but I just recently found out they are back together again and going on tour to promote their new album "Archetype" which I just got and am listening to it as we speak. Sounds good so far, better then Digimortal off the bat IMO.

Just wanted to post something about it

I'm not actually quite sure why so many people were disappointed with Digimortal. Overall I thought it was pretty equal with the rest of their work. The only thing I didn't like about it is that I didn't feel Dino's tone was as powerful as it was on Demanufacture.

I have 1/2-2/3 of Archetype so far though, and I like what I'm hearing generally. I still like Dino's rhythm work better, but Christian is good enough I guess. As seems to be the case with all of their albums, the bass blends in so well with the double bass and guitar that I can barely tell Byron's now at the bass helm. I'm still new to SYL though, so I'm not that familiar with what his style for them was, as compared to FF.

Demanufacture and Soul of a New Machine were their two best albums followed by Obsolete IMHO.

Ironically those are their first 3 albums, not in that order, flip flop SOANM with Demanufacture and then Obsolete came after that. I don't count remanufacture

Digimortal, Concrete and this newest one are good, don't get me wrong, but great albums don't tend to have songs that just seem to drag on because they all blend into eachother and sound the same, which has been the case for atleast Digimortal and Concrete as far as I'm concerned.

Archetype seems to follow along the lines of being about as good as Obsolete was.