Mans a beast

that is some BS bro ... you can´t always live in the past, most bands don´t survive as long as they did with only making the same shit over and over every album has its right to exist they evolved yet still didn´t ever lose their mojo u may not like every album and that is totally fine, but they never lost two steps

I agree. I still can't listen through either Siren Charms or Battles. Both do absolutely nothing for me. I, the Mask was better... but still never bothered to purchase it (only cared for a handful of songs). Foregone's offerings have all been bangers, super pumped and preordered after hearing the first 3 singles.

Maybe their most solid from start to finish, not the highest peaks but probably the album i resist the skip button most on.

Very much pulls elements from Soundtrack to your Escape and Sounds of a Playground Fading

It is really dang close imo

feel good vibe? You know the song is about dying right? lol

@@00gZa the song makes me feel good, fantasizing about natural death and what happens at that time is an uplifting thing for me. Now go ahead and call me a psycho in the next comment, please

Lol what??! 😆

For real, I like Forgone part 1, Stay of Slow Decay, and this track. this still comes nowhere as close to Come Clarity and Reroute

I wouldnt even come close to calling those albums perfect... The production on them is atrocious, and the songwriting follows a very basic 4/4 time signature with poppy song structure. It makes everything feel very basic and generic and all the songs fall into this chugga chugga verse with a fluttery chorus pattern. Top it off the very poorly mixed vocals, not to mention some of the worst clean vocals, on Reroute and Soundtrack making everything sound muddled and you get some of In Flames worst albums to be honest. The only song on all 3 of those albums that even comes off decent is Dead End.

@@eliisaac agree to disagree then... production i see what you mean on RTR. So many great songs therr though... and sp many good memories attached to that album. production on CC is epic imo. Take this life, leeches, crawl through knives and the title track are all 10/10 for me...

@@eliisaac okay in your opinion what are the good In Flames albums?

@@michaelbuczko4967 colony, clayman, jester race, and the first one. Not s huge ran of whoracle for some reason.

Reroute to remain while being very experimental was still the last album to have that In Flames musical sound feel and framework in its writing. After that it was a different band that slowly became a hot topic product by the time playground, battles and what other conveyor belt lowest common denominator level of quality. I'm not go ing opinion history shows Reroute was where most of there OG fans hit the eject button and when the band had success with younger fans. Sounds like with this one and by releasing five tracks before release the band knew, they had something good and something they are proud of but needed to build some goodwill with their fans long gone from a yester year and would take that many tracks to assure those fans. That many was smart they k ew the resistance to trust the band was nigh impossible as old fans were hurt by their latter recent period out put to many times. Younger fans don't understand that the earlier albums if you were there to experience the 99s and the boom of the Gothenburg sound was a magical time in metal. New sounds new was to perform metal a new sub genre within death metal one beautiful and brutal. It was nothing but exciting. In Flames were at the fore front of developing that sound along with a host of new fresh sounds. Sounds like with this album the band can regain their legacy and some of the old fans with it. Having old and new fans all enjoying what is a respectful honored approach the writing of this album got (Probably pushed by Chris being a huge fan who lived the early times of the Gothenburg sound) it dues and a return to form that for first time in 20 years sounds like the soul of what and will make Inflames great again. It's like Chris found the band in the woods after being missing for 20 years. The new members are obviously huge fans and owe their ability to play and all of their influences to OG In Flames and certainly if joining the band wouldn't be right unless the raging In Flames long retired to be exhumed and resurrected. GLAD they found themselves again and now all people of all ages can enjoy together. Smart move similar to Iron Maiden when Brave new world was released. I am in for the Third Era of The Jester Race feeding the food for the gods. I'm excited. Maybe the album has an Episode 666 in it. Welcome back anders and Borjn a whole generation that lost you not only missed you but most certainly need in their lives again. Anders you resist those nu metal Korn whines now and you will be fine. \m/

@EddieTHead2266 I'm gonna disagree with you and say I hear old elements of In Flames on every single album they've ever done. Some better then others. For example A Sense Of Purpose is very old school on the guitars but what's different is Anders vocals and lyrics.

@@tylersmith2849 I hear tide bits of In Flames in many bands. Doesn't make them In Flames. Same applies to In Flames. You can like those albums but they are so far from feeling or being an In Flames work. Not since Reroute. Many members left. Because the band kept sliding the scale toward mall core kiddie music.

@@EddieTHead2266 what the hell is mallcore kiddie music dude? Can you define what that is? That's not a genre it's just a dumb way to insult their music. Jesper was still in the band up until 2008 and you can hear it. You don't like post reroute music because it doesn't sound enough like 90s In Flames, period. That's your opinion it's not fact. Get over yourself. The music still sounds like In Flames it's just different then music they were making when they were in their 20s!!!

@@EddieTHead2266 let me also add my favorite album is Colony. But I'm not going to sit here and say "anything after 2002 isn't In Flames." That's ridiculous.

100% agreed!

Soundtrack was trash

Bjorn is great at melodies too. He did all the beautiful melodies and solos on "sounds of a playground fading". He was the only guitarist on that album

@@kobayashidragor4564 Truth. Not to mention he wrote tons of classic songs from Jester Race onward

@@jaimesantiagolonga jesper couldn't even attend the halo effect documentary and their live shows. I rly don't know what's up with him, I hope he heals 😔😔

@@kobayashidragor4564 Me too, Jesper is a genius as well and a good guy. I'm glad he's making music again and prioritizing what he needs to stay healthy. He doesn't care about all the drama that people try to make between Halo Effect and In Flames and, on the contrary, has been praising In Flames' recent tracks

Battles and Siren Charms are there worst. But I love Wallflower and Through Oblivion from those albums lol

As I said, even that album has good cuts.

Lol, you mean Clayman?

@@nolanblodgett4466 probably a loose translation from whatever language that person speaks

@@nolanblodgett4466 Oh,LoL yeah,Clayman,sorry .it's my mistake. Humain Clay it's a Creed album. And to Leaf4,english is not my 1st language.I do the efforts to speak english. The important thing here it's that you understand what i'm trying to say. Right?

In 2 months they will be returning to Australia as part of Knotfest to hopefully play shows here for the first time in 9 years. I feel bad for the Kiwis in NZ and hope In Flames return for a headline tour

I'm just curious which albums let you down?

@@tylersmith2849 Battles, Come Clarity. Not quite made it for me. I have no idea why people stepped away from Siren charms for example, such a great record, totally underrated, also A Sense of Purpose, such a great album as well.

@juanselainez9828 Battles was bad, Come Clarity is a masterpiece of middle era In Flames.

@@tylersmith2849 Not all bands are good enough to have three eras, In Flames I Trust!

Thats him

@@APREACTS I'm buying the album immediately

That goes without saying, but when I look at sound, design, production, vocals, lyrics and guitar/solos, no album is better in the last 20 years. Not to me at least.

I like this album more than Come Clarity.

I definitely believe this will be the best since Come Clarity.

This album was recorded before anything Halo Effect released anything.

This album was recorded before Halo Effect released anything

You realize the members of the halo effect were the other 4 parts of the band that made those "garbage" albums don't you?

@@Leaf4IF actually no I didn't. Like I said, I started listening to in flames last September. When I noticed the drastic change in style after clayman I lost interest. When I saw the halo effect had the singer from dark tranquility and read that they were a supergroup made up of the pioneers of Gothenburg melodeth, I assumed it was made up of members of dark tranquility, in flames, and at the gates. I thought I read that in an article. Turns out I was mistaken. Regardless, I still believe that the formation of that band and their return to the OG sound absolutely had an influence on why in flames went back to their original sound for this project.

this album was recorded before Halo Effect released anything...

@@WreckInSilenceRecords Mikael is the original vocalist of In flames