This was an amazing listen ya'll! Man, Bleeding Out kicked my ass. Here are the time stamps: Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 1:11 - The Beginning of All Things That Will End 3:39 - State of Slow Decay 7:40 - Meet Your Maker 11:32 - Bleeding Out 19:32 - Forgone Pt. 1 22:56 - Forgone Pt. 2 27:23 - Pure Light of Mind 31:53 - The Great Deceiver 35:28 - In The Dark 39:56 - A Dialogue in B Flat Minor 44:24 - Cynosure 48:34 - End The Transmission 52:39 - THOUGHTS ON THE ALBUM

Best album in last 15 years, since A Sense of Purpose

Not enough people have done a full reaction to this album - it’s so good! Thank you

The quality of songwriting on this album has had me in tears several times. The whole damn band is just on fire again. Even the more mid tempo arena rock songs grew on me. An absolute banger from beginning to end.

as an In flames fan of both modern and old In flames is this their best album ever right now In my opinion, maybe changes, idk. But like I love this album. No single bad song, even that my least favorite is the last track on the album but it's still great! So right now my top 3 albums by In Flames is 1. forgone 2. Sounds of a playground fading 3. clayman And Anders sounds better then ever on this album. Like damnnn wanna hear all songs live!

it's been a long time since I've listened to an entire album, but this easily shot through the top of my list! In Flames we trust

Same!!! Completely agree. This album is amazing! The sound, the witting, the style...it all comes together! Hope they keep the momentum going! Thanks for the review man \m/

Bro, this album is ridiculous! I can't stop listening to it. This record the new Megadeth, the new lamb of God and Arch Enemy! Over and over lol

This album is probably in my top 3 in flames albums I got into them through reroute to remain Discovered their older stuff and was blown away That said i love the newer stuff aswell My favourite albums are sounds of a playground fading and reroute to remain Foregone has elements of everything in flames is all about so thats why its so high on my list Pure light of mind,in the dark and end the transmission are my favourite tracks

My most listened album this year. It sure brings back the classic Gothenburg melodeath sound we love, but also keeps the alt/ metalcore style they've been experimenting with in the last few albums, which I don't like much (I, The Mask had a few bangers though), but they did it tastefully on this album. Anders' clean singing improved a lot and I think his voice is great. This album isn't exactly what I've hoped for, but man it delivered and I truly enjoy all of the songs. I'd give it 8/10 after a month of listening and I think it's definitely their best since Come Clarity.

This albums is great! Feels like they found a good balance between their old stuff like Come Clarity, and their newer sounds like Battlegrounds.

i'm late to the party, just got around to listening to this album and meet your maker into bleeding out had me in perma chills. great mix of all in flames

Dude, great reaction vid! I think you absolutely nailed it with a lot of your comments, too! I listened to the singles as they came out, and State of Slow Decay was of course amazing, and I really liked the others as well. Then listened to the entire album when it was released, and I was like, "meh, there are a couple of good songs here, but that's it". But I listened to it a couple more times, because like you say, it needs to marinate a bit! Did the same thing with A Sense of Purpose, where I also immediately didn't vibe with many of the songs. But sometimes you need to listen a few times, and let it sit a bit, before you *get* the song! Now one of my absolute favourites on this album is A Dialogue In B Minor, which is one of those I dismissed the first couple of times I heard it. ;) Also interestingly, this is the second video today I've seen on this album that somehow mentions the idea that metal vocalists shouldn't do clean vocals, and that somehow that's not metal, and it absolutely baffles me! (In the other video it was the actual youtuber pretty much saying that...) Yet there is so much amazing metal out there with clean vocals! If people are just listening to metal with growling/hard vocals, they're omitting like 80% of the entire metal genre. Or are they saying bands Metallica or Dragonforce isn't metal? I'm stumped. xD

This is a great album! In Flames We Trust!!!

I love a In flames album after years also cool reaction

Love this whole fkn album

Immediately a fucking classic album

comparing this album conceptually to the previous few albums there is a change in focus on the lyrics and i think the whole focus on the album and tone. this album seems to be commentary on the state of the world and how that effects us. Covid 19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine i think impacted their creative process as well as having new members and production.

Question. Did this album influence your current song writing? If so, how?

I was just as impressed with I the mask. You should give it a listen.

I really enjoy your reactions dude. 🤘🔥 I pretty much had the same reaction to “Bleeding Out” that chorus is just incredible. And that solo completely melts your face.genuinely made me tear up as well, jaw dropping indeed. 👍I love this album so much, already! 🤘🔥💚 keep up the good work man , I’ll be watchin

Chris Broderick, bro….yeah

If there ever was an album to mesh the new and old, and put to rest the whole old in flames was better BS. Their last few really kinda ehh for me. But the from the get go hearing the acoustic with the "pallar anders visa", "acoustic medley" ish vibe. Think the last album from them I can legit say there wasn't a bad song was soundtrack to your escape.

Album is phenomenal. Maybe the one song that meh is the ballad song. Other than that best album they've done in a long time. Metal fans are toxic as shit. Just because the man wants to sing with a clean voice they dismiss the whole record. It's ridiculous. The melodies and guitar work on this are so good. Good reactions by the way, liked the video!

Also, holy shit, yeah I just listened to State of Slow Decay and ATG's Blinded by Fear side by side and it's the same song, basically... I don't wanna call it a rip-off, but dogdagmned... =P

As a longtime In Flames fan, this album is the best they've done in well over a decade. If I were to put it on a tier list, B tier, but damn near A tier. If it ends up being an album I come back to a lot, definitely A tier. The only thing that stops it from being A tier right off the bat is Pure Light of Mind. Everyone seems to like that song, but it's bland and cheesy (in a bad way) to me. Every other song had great moments in it. Even Cynosure, which you seemed not to like as much, but I loved the atypical time signature they used.

Good album! The main problem allthough is that the outstanding singles are the best. And as expected/feared from my side, these rest is mostly clean singing on the rest of the album... Very disappointed in that, cause most of the other songs is meh. Not bad at all, but too less of the other great screaming energetic songs. My favourite is probably Foregone part 1. Anyways, enjoyed listen to and watching your video 👍 Cheers man!

Better than The Halo Effect, but that's not saying much. Still fairly mediocre but at least there are 2-3 decent tunes on this album. The past 3 have been atrocious.

Anders was never a good singer tho. That's the thing. Live he sings off key and can't hold any notes. He has a decent tone of voice, but can't utilize it. That's where studio editing comes in handy. He has amazing screams tho. One of my favourite harsh vocals in metal. That's why I was kinda disappointed, when most of the songs had alot of clean vocals. The album has grown on me since those couple of days, but I'd still prefer like 70% of those cleans to become screams. Instrumentally this album is great. I can't complain here, cause they definitely delivered. Overall Foregone sits in the middle on my In Flames albums tier list. Not close to TJR, Whoracle, Colony and Clayman, but beating last 4 albums by a landslide. I MIGHT like it more, than STYE aswell. Not sure yet. Gotta listen to it more.

Dont want to sound like a metal elitist, but this album is way over rated. The clean vocals are whinny and weak. Strange muddy production so ruins the guitars. This is not a return to their old sound. This is not melo-death. This is not classic in flames. To be fair, this is their best album after clayman, but thats not saying much. I give it a 4/10. Very over rated

They tricked us with the singles. They were great. The rest of the album was slow, soft, and horrible.

Great video man I like watching your reaction! Album was a fuckin' banger I loved it 🤘🖤 I laughed when you said the Bleeding Out was a radio friendly song lol over here in Scotland bands like this are never on the radio lol 😭