YMMV / Scar Symmetry

• Broken Base: Many people don't like the new vocalists. While the stance on Roberth Karlsson and Lars Palmqvist has been much more positive over time, many fans still believe they lost defining characteristics after Christian left.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Subverted. Henrik Ohlsson seems to love them, to the point where The Unseen Empire is an entire Concept Album about conspiracy theories. But, it doesn't look like he necessarily believes in them, and the band itself has described that album's lyrics as being "equal amounts believable and preposterous".
• Narm Charm: A lot of the lyrical content. As to be expected, when you write songs about science fiction and conspiracy theories.
• Nobody Loves the Bassist: They haven't had a bassist since Andreas Holma was fired in 2019. Per tracked all the bass parts for The Singularity (Phase II: Xenotaph), and the band performed its most recent shows without a bassist (pre-recorded bass parts were put on the band's backing tracks).
  • The bass playing on The Singularity (Phase II: Xenotaph) is more prominent and more technical than on previous albums, though.
• Commuting on a Bus:
  • The band ended up doing this to themselves for several years. This was due to various reasons, includng Per's commitments with Meshuggah, multiple members of the band becoming parents, the departure of long time bassist Kenneth Seil and the sacking of his replacement Andreas Holma. The COVID-19 pandemic didn't help, either. Because of all of this, the next instalments of The Singularity trilogy ended up being massively delayed.
  • Henrik hasn't been touring since 2022 for family reasons.
• Replacement Scrappy: When Christian Älvestam left the band in 2008, the additions of Roberth and Lars to fill the vocalist roles provoked a negative reaction from some fans. However, they have been received better with time, and people have commented on how Lars has improved over the years.
• Revolving Door Band: Per and Henrik are the only original members left.
  • Averted with Lars and Roberth, as they've been consistent members since 2008.
  • Kenneth Seil and Jonas Kjellgren were also in the band for long periods of time (2004-2015 and 2004-2013 respectively).
• Signature Song:
  • "The Illusionist" or "Morphogenesis" for the Alvestam era.
  • "Noumenon and Phenomenon" or "The Anomaly" for the Karlsson/Palmqvist era.
  • "The Anomaly" could be considered as the band's signature song overall, as it's been their biggest hit to date.

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