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Although many fans gravitate towards harder rock partly to avoid trend chasing, which is prevalent in mainstream pop, our beloved loud-and-hairy genre isn’t immune to such attitudes, at least where record companies. Nonetheless, in the press release for , guitarist and songsmith Tony Clarkin reveals that after signing to Polydor that same year, “the label wanted us to sound as pop-oriented as possible. I used to hate that, despite the success.”