Album Rating: 3.5
Best IF song oof, not an easy one
Can't decide between Morphing Into Primal, Zombie Inc. and Food for the Gods
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Album Rating: 4.0
that would be Jotun, but I like the album picks you got going there
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It's just Whoracle and Colony, kek.
We agree that In Flames doesn't exist from 2008 - 2020, yeah? We just ignore that 12 year period. ex dee
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Album Rating: 4.0
Jester Script Transfigured is an underratedd gem and probably my favourite of theirs. December Flower, Coerced Coexistence, Resin, Goliaths Disarm Their Davids, Man Made God and The Hive are also among my favs.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I don't think I could possibly pick a favorite. I could do a top 10 in no particular order probably
1. Food for the gods
2. Pinball map
3. Dead god in me
4. Another day in quicksand
5. Episode 666
6. Ordinary story
7. Resin
8. Moonshield
9. Versus Terminus
10. Coerced coexistence
Honorable mentions, the hive and December flower
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Album Rating: 2.0
Best song is Stand Ablaze or Dead Eternity
I recently learned that they toured with Slipknot just before they started recording this album btw lol, pretty funny and explains a lot really
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First two Slipknot albums are absolutely savage, though, and sound nothing like this.
hot take: The "mediocre" In Flames albums actually aren't that far off from their "well liked" albums if you look at the composition. Comparing RRTR and Whoracle, for instance, there's a TON more similar than different. Food for the Gods would have fit on RRTR or STYE just fine. I have the entire 2008-2020 catalogue basically rated as "trash tier" but they were still heavier than, say, Metallica, that entire time. The albums were just super boring and at times painful to listen to (Anders seems to sometimes be a good singer and other times be a horrifically bad singer, to the point it completely ruins songs that might otherwise have been tolerable, at least).
The "nu-metal" song structure has always been a part of In Flames. They were never particularly fast, and never particularly tech or shreddy. The biggest differences across the discog are mostly Anders performing well or poorly, insanely bad lyrics being too upfront some times, and different kinds of production that are hit or miss, sometimes hit or miss on specific songs on specific albums, even. One might argue "atmosphere" - but RRTR and STYE and CC all feature a unique atmosphere per album, across the whole album.
I think their 2023 album is easily one of the best they've ever done. Taking the old albums at face value the 2023 album has tighter songwriting, the execution on the ideas is generally better, and the production is obviously superior compared to albums like Whoracle or Colony. Sure, it's what we'd call "pop metal" now maybe, but KSE was doing that back in 2006, too, and everyone loves End of Heartache.
Anyway, nobody asked for this shitty hot take from an idiot. If you read or didn't read this, and agree or disagree, cheers fren.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Out of their large discography, I would say half their albums are 4 or 4.5s at best.
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Would have to agree. I really don't think there's a MASSIVE departure from something like RRTR and Whoracle. There are just a few albums that have uninspired riffs, poor vocal performances. What do you want, these guys have been doing it for 30 years, not every album is gonna be a banger.
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Album Rating: 4.5
m/ m/ m/
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Album Rating: 3.7
Reroute to Remen
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Album Rating: 3.5
Reroute To Ramen
The new noodle shop I opened
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Album Rating: 1.0
congrats
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
pika arent u too old to be trolling in flames in ur late 30s
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Album Rating: 4.0
album's good
anders' best vocal performance will always be the chosen pessimist tho
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Album Rating: 4.0
Great album with awful production.
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Album Rating: 4.5
man im still getting nostalgic shivers these days listening to Trigger and getting transported right back to my days grinding away in Guild Wars listening to the in flames discography like a madman. good times.
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Album Rating: 3.0
hell yea, tryna get that hall of heroes win with melo deaf playing in the background is nostalgic af
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Album Rating: 3.5
Anders' best vocal performance will always be The Jester Race because it has none of his awful cleans or weird frog vocals.
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Album Rating: 4.0
good to see some diversity of opinion, I'd say his best vocal perfomance is definitely Colony overall. but yeah, anything containing anders' cleans can't be in contention by default
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