Sonic Syndicate have had a few years to reconcile and think about their direction over the last few years. They went on a temporary hiatus in 2011, and regrouped in 2013 to numerous line-up changes and the announcement of a new album. It was an announcement that nobody seemed to particularly care about, as in all honesty things couldn’t have gotten much worse for the band after the tragic release that was 2010’s ‘We Rule the Night‘. But then the announcement followed that Mr. Bjorn ‘Speed’ Strid of Soilwork would be making an appearance on the album, and if Sonic Syndicate could convince a Gothenburg legend to feature surely the record that would be self-titled effort ‘Sonic Syndicate‘ would have some redeeming features?