Album Rating: 4.5

Better to be a has been than never was I suppose

Album Rating: 5.0

Barely any metal bands or artists in general make all bangers over a 30-40 year career. More often than not, you get like 2 or 3 good albums

Album Rating: 4.5

clayman is hella fun and quality still tho

Album Rating: 5.0

Clayman is awesome. Poseurs gonna hate

Album Rating: 5.0

Here are my In Flames takes:



Lunar Strain and Subterranean are great but uneven



This is perfect except for one wack guitar solo in Wayfaerer



Next 3 albums are all various degrees of excellent and various degrees of uneven, with weird track sequencing decisions and Anders' frog vocals. The band was undisciplined even in those days



Reroute and Soundtrack would both be great if the production weren't so awful



Come Clarity and A Sense of Purpose are underrated bangers. The Mirror's Truth EP is great too



Sounds of a Playground Fading is still quite solid



Everything after that is either incompetent, boring, or both (and yes that includes Foregone, I've never heard a more cynical cash grab album in my life)

Album Rating: 4.5

How are Siren Charms and Battles not more of a cash grab than Foregone lmao

Album Rating: 5.0

Siren Charms is aimless and bad. Siren Charms is a further mainstream push that didn't work out for them. Foregone is just cynical nostalgia bait; it's a "return to roots" not because they actually believe in it, but because they're desperate to stay relevant. It's still the better album, but I find myself uniquely annoyed by it.

Album Rating: 5.0

In reality, if they had just kept making albums like Come Clarity, or even Sounds of a Playground Fading, they would have been fine. But they just had to keep pushing in new, shitty directions.

Album Rating: 5.0

People have the funniest fucking takes with this band sometimes

Album Rating: 4.0

playground sucks ass just like basically all of their 2000s material

anders' screechy vocals in that era are unbearable and make even come clarity hard to get through sometimes, started with clayman tbh

Album Rating: 5.0

Playground is so mixed. There is some genuinely interesting and great stuff there but also a lot of the most mediocre and bland stuff this band has put out. I may agree if they stuck to the interesting parts of Playgrounds but I am happy with the direction that Foregone will hopefully take them.

Album Rating: 4.5

Fair enough Ocean, good point



Playground was the start of the insane downfall. It became painfully obvious how important Jesper was for the band on that album.

Album Rating: 4.0

Come Clarity is their best post Clayman, unfortunately it’s not a very high bar to clear

Album Rating: 4.5

I like come clarity for what it is

Album Rating: 4.0

I'M THE MOOOOOONSHIELD

Album Rating: 3.0

Moonshield still goes. Wayfarer is cool.

(Remains) solid mellowdeath and I'm in sympathetic mood (for now)

Album Rating: 4.5

Band has one of the highest variances in quality and style so there's bound to be takes galore



It was also, from my experience and I'm sure many others', one of the most influential gateway bands into extreme music in the early 2000s, so there's bound to be a lot of nostalgia for the early stuff and a lot of angst about whatever the hell it is that happened to this britney spears band later in their career

Album Rating: 5.0

Pretty sure I originally 5'd this just for the December Flower solo lol

wow they really used comic sans

what assholes

Album Rating: 5.0

Fair point lmao