Unbroken, your views

[Master Ray]

So, having listened to it a couple of rounds more I start to like it better. It might not reach "my-favourite-album"-status but it's growing on me. Mostly this is due to the fat and gritty, kind of hardcore-/punkrock style production which I like in general. I also focused more on the lyrics and some songs and the production decisions make much more sense to me now :-)

More than a year later and dozens of listens of UNBROKEN...I still think it's a solid album, "First summer after", "Cold wind", "I did nothing wrong", "Legend", "Idumea" and "If i am still me" are very good songs from NMA...but there are still 3/4 songs that I avoid ("Reload", "Deserters" and "Do you really want to go there?") where I still find energy but a more average inspiration.

I still like Unbroken but I have to admit I don't listen to it all that often these days.  Don't get me wrong, I still like most of it!  It's a solid album, as had been said, but it wouldn;t make my top ten.   

[Guillaume]

it wouldn;t make my top ten

NMA's peaks are so high that we've become hard on the band! I'd say UNBROKEN can be in my Top 10, but in ninth or tenth position. I don't find it better, probably worse than FROM HERE, but the album is maybe better than WINTER, CARNIVAL, STRANGE BROTHERHOOD...I still think there are at least 6 very good songs on UNBROKEN ("First summer after", "Cold wind", "Legend", "If i am still me", "Idumea" and "I did nothing wrong") that are worth the "classics" of past NMA albums.