great riffs, if Anders didn't whine like a teenager at the end of every scream this would've probably been the most inspired they've sounded since Clayman

surprisingly non-cringe

Surprisingly good! Their best since Come Clarity, no doubt.

The riffs gave me At the Gates vibes which is pretty cool but I wish it didn’t sound so overproduced. Still, it is definitely one of their best songs since Come Clarity.

Slaps

Slaps

wow, what a blatant 'slaughter of the soul'- rip off. And as that easily the best thing In Flames have done in 20+ years...

Definitely the best song In Flames have released in over 15 years. Still sounds fairly by-the-numbers compared to stuff like Come Clarity and obviously their early albums still trump this by a mile, but at least they're giving us something more energetic than the butt-metal that plagued Siren Charms and Battles.

Man, this is great! very excited for whatever comes next. Great riffs and good vocals.

Better than expected

I really dig this track as it reminds me of something off their albums in the mid 2000s. Maybe The Halo Effect inspired them to write good music again?

great riffs, if Anders didn't whine like a teenager at the end of every scream this would've probably been the most inspired they've sounded since Clayman

surprisingly non-cringe [2]

Lol

Are the riffs that great? I've heard about 10 kids play it on the guitar they're trying in a music shop

I guess it's a step up but I haven't even heard their last 2 albums

Riffs are okay I guess. Something about it still feels like by the numbers In Flames nowadays though.

Song definitely sounds like their mid 2000s shit, which is a clear improvement

Let's hope the rest of the album is more like this, because this was the best song they've released in years, and that's coming from someone who enjoys the new In Flames as well.

I'm always willing to give them a chance, but come on, this is just generic Blinded By Fear riffs with those obnoxious clean vocal choruses

To be fair there are only about 20 possible melodeath riffs

lol true, but that leaves 19 that aren't the forbidden Blinded By Fear riff.

"To be fair there are only about 20 possible melodeath riffs"

Lol, yeah there are only so many possible combinations of

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anything sounds decent when the bar is in hell

was kinda distracted by the seizure-inducing video but this was cool for a couple mins

still ended up clicking The Jester Race under "related" and listening to that instead

Exept for the weak vocals the song is decent. Maybe the best track since the come clarity era.

"anything sounds decent when the bar is in hell"

I think this effect is very real. We've heard garbage for so long that this sounds better than it is. Putting this side by side with stuff from their golden era makes this sound pretty uninspired

honestly this is alright, definitely better than just about everything on their last few albums but let's face it's not saying much

Before I listen I just want to say OH NO.

Ok it was better than I thought it was going to be. Definitely a Slaughter of the Soul rip-off but I'll take it.

anything sounds decent when the bar is in hell [2]

this is definitely a song that people can listen to

someone should do a mashup of this and the new demi lovato single

Needs moar Opeth

wtf is 2022 in flames is good again!?

holy fuck this is almost a carbon copy of blinded by fear

so this is good guys??

@spec it's a clone of at the gates with anders friden not sounding as bad as he usually does

so by default it's their best single in a long time

fuck it works for me

gotta check after work

"holy fuck this is almost a carbon copy of blinded by fear"

It's similar but I wouldn't go that far. Could probably find several other Gothenburg songs that sound more like that one lol

Agreed, even ATG rip off themselves sometimes lmao

I'm honestly not complaining about this. It's derivative, but I've been hoping they'd be back to being this kind of derivative again.

I'm pretty sure ATG has been accused of rehashing SotS every time they've released the first song off a new album since 2014.

That said, I'm a fan of this song, cheesy chorus aside.

THE FACE OF ALL YOUR FEARS headass riffs

It's not so bad, way better than expected.

I wonder what band-shirt Anders is wearing. It looks pretty br00tal. Maybe an inspiration?

Not total ass, surprisingly.

Finally good in Flames

anything sounds decent when the bar is in hell [3]

What a glorious comment. Super true also.

good news: they're back on Nuclear Blast worldwide
bad news: they had Howard Benson producing again

song is a slightly good sign but I'm not getting my hopes up

not bad!

still not very good

ugly solo imo but other than that at least they tried

Don't do this to me now In Flames, don't make me raise my hopes up for something good from you again - it took me ages to accept that you were dead.

as far as I’m concerned, they have no chance at redemption as long as they have that vocalist who thinks he’s a superstar

lmao well put

seriously why does he sound like a 20 y/o metalcore singer from 2005, it's so out of place

seems like an inconvenient spot to set up and play music in

Like others and myself have admitted this is clearly a SOTS rip-off. Relistened and the Blinded by Fear comments are spot on. I love that song. It's one of the songs that got me into death metal. It is so blatantly obvious though guys like holy shit! I can't in good faith admire something like this. In Flames are not "raising hopes" here, they are ripping your hopes up and shitting on the shreds. But hey whatever sells tickets right?

verses slap, chorus is crap

Well well well….looks like someone’s been listening to The Halo Effect.

and I totally agree that this sounds like Blinded by Fear, only with totally flacid production compared to the absolute savagery that is the production on slaughter of the soul.

"if Anders didn't whine like a teenager at the end of every scream"

thats what makes his vocals great and unique. also he doesn't do it after every scream.

yeah im down with this hope they keep it coming

people here are crazy, anders is great vocalist, the ''whine'' people bitch about is what I always liked about his vocals, and it isn't whiny at all. far as it being an at the gates rip off, nah, not hearing that. if anything this is more like the band ripping themselves off, something off their mid 2000's/early 2000's sound.

i love his vocals

Holy shit i havent listened yet but this is a comment section filled with hope.

"far as it being an at the gates rip off, nah, not hearing that"

listen to Blinded by Fear

It's like... kinda similar to the blinded by fear riff. But I mean, yeah, it's a pretty by the numbers gothenburg song. Structurally similar to blinded by fear and has a riff that sounds similar. But I'm sure that's accidental and more just because it's a by the numbers gothenburg song amd SotS is the gothenburg blueprint

Best thing theyve done in quite sometime… Fuck the dumb shit is what I always say

anything sounds decent when the bar is in hell [4]

"...though the band have stated that they're planning on releasing a new record sometime this year."

That's too bad.

good rock on metal songs you tube but i liked CD I am the Mask this was okay... some pop to be good

Damn! Totally digging it!

oh wow its hasan our savior

I hear a lot of At the Gates, not really Blinded by Fear in specific. For the low expectations I had, this is surprisingly good. Combined with the fact that they started to play old shit again, I am actually kind of excited.

I find it funny people don't like that lead section. Sounds pretty nice to me

I didn't make it that far to find out. Relistening now it's fine, kinda comes out of left field.

What the fuck, they finally decided to start playing melodic death metal again? I mean what, 13yo kids stopped coming to the gigs and hot topic to buy their emo merch so they went like "guess there's no more money in that anymore, so what the hell"? I'm seriously confused here

Will still take The Acacia Strain's "Slow Decay" over this, but this is shockingly good for this band lol

Honestly, SO SO much better than their more recent releases. If the album (assuming this is signaling a new one) is consistently on this level, it'll be at least Come Clarity quality, maybe a more solid return to form. IDK, I'm probably being naïve because In Flames has been so garbage for years now that I'm impressed with a "by the books" Gothenburg tune, but I'll take it. Now just fix the sterile quantized production and I'll be totally on board!

This is not Come Clarity quality, lmao.

It's not very good. Don't kid yourselves, people.

Not amazing by any mean but it's at least decent

Didn't say it was Deathconscious lol. I said if the whole album was of this quality (highly unlikely) it would be. Also, Come Clarity is the last good In Flames record but it's also like their 5th best album so it's hardly an impressive feat.

ut everything on come clarity is good. this is not

Everything except title track is solid on come clarity and scream. Take this life chorus is probably the whiniest thing anders has ever done though

Releasing the heaviest song first is all part of their release strategy. Don’t be fooled.

come clarity t/t is great and take this life is prob a top 3 in flames song tbh. tho i agree scream is the worst track there

Don't get me wrong. Take this life riffs hard. But I just think anders could've made that chorus pop a lot more if it was more pissed off as opposed to whiny

What do you want man, Anders is a sensitive boi

this is actually good

There's no question that this is heavy but In Flames' classic albums aren't renowned for being brutal.

"Didn't say it was Deathconscious lol. I said if the whole album was of this quality (highly unlikely) it would be. Also, Come Clarity is the last good In Flames record but it's also like their 5th best album so it's hardly an impressive feat."

*sense of purpose and sounds of a playground fading exist*

Jaysus, when did they get good all of a sudden?

siren charms and even their last album had better songs than this one.

Sounds like At the Gates, which is much better than them sounding like whatever theyve been sounding like.

you rehearsed that comment nicely, we are all so proud of you.

Yeah, I feel like this at the gates stuff is one of those internet things where one person says it and then everyone runs with it

cringe band tbh

I enjoyed this song. Much better from their previous releases. Are they not allowed to copy a fellow Swedish metal band? I mean a lot of metalcore bands from USA have been plagiarizing them and AtG for a long time right?

most of the negative comments are about this being not good. Not about it sounding like atg

"State of Slow Decay"

What a perfect title

"it'll be at least Come Clarity quality"

"Didn't say it was Deathconscious lol. I said if the whole album was of this quality (highly unlikely) it would be."

So first you said the album will be Come Clarity quality if the rest of it is like this, then you said you didnt say this was Come Clarity quality, and then in the same sentence you say if its this same quality then the album will be Come Clarity quality. Huh?...

it's something like a 3 to 3.5 and by that easily better than anything In Flames has put out in the past 20 years.

kek

"thats what makes his vocals great and unique. also he doesn't do it after every scream."

it actually makes him sound like a whiny bitch and it's at that point when he started doing such inflections that they started going down the drain

and yeah he doesn't do it after every scream i exaggerated

Anders is one of the whiniest vocalists of all time. Sometimes I feel like he thinks he's in an emo band or something. It's just terrible and ruins the music a lot of the time.

not for me

not masculine enough I guess

edit: not aimed at Flug!! ninja'd

Surprisingly okay besides the chorus

Anders is one of the whiniest vocalists of all time. Sometimes I feel like he thinks he's in an emo band or something. It's just terrible and ruins the music a lot of the time.

[2]

not that the music has been particularly good for the last 20 years unfortunately

Whatever gate they're using on the vocals should be made a little more aggressive so it clamps down quicker before Anders can get that signature whine out after each vocal line

Deathconciousness learn to read dude. It WILL be is is different than IT IS. And that's once again predicated on if the album MAINTAINS this level of quality. A thing I said I doubt.

quit gaslighting

Yeah, so you think that if the album maintains this level of quality that the album could be Come Clarity quality, therefore you think the song is Come Clarity quality. I said its not, and then you said you didnt say that, while continuing to imply the song is Come Clarity quality. Unless you think that the song is below Come Clarity quality and yet somehow still indicates that the album will be Come Clarity quality? This dudes an idiot lol.

Let me spell this out for you.
Come Clarity has a pretty big gulf between its best songs and its worst songs.
This song is better than the worst ones but not as good as the best ones.
If the new album is consistently somewhere between Come Clarity's best and worst songs, it will be the same quality as Come Clarity in my eyes.
Now kindly fuck off and listen to something else if my mild enjoyment is bothering you.

pooped yourself

This sounds reasonably Swedish for a band that is now mostly Americans

band is plastic

if this album ends up being over a 3.3 i'll be extremely surprised and might actually consider putting myself through the agony of listening to a post CC IF album

here's hoping i won't have to bother tho, these guys were my absolute favorite band growing up and somehow ended up being more embarrassing than Disturbed

It's mandatory to always listen to a new album since it's 99% guaranteed you'll laugh at least a little

I definitely laughed at stay with me and call my name off the last one

Not this is our house??

Oh yeah, that one too. That one was almost too painfully bad to laugh though

Hahahaha true

this new drummer is earning that paycheck

Yeah, Tanner Wayne is definitely the best part of this song. The drumming is nice.

"Now kindly fuck off and listen to something else if my mild enjoyment is bothering you.

Its not your enjoyment, you just werent making any sense and then you got mad when i pointed that out.

"It's mandatory to always listen to a new album since it's 99% guaranteed you'll laugh at least a little"

True.

No. I got mad because instead of asking for clarification of what I meant, you called me an idiot. Like an idiot. This exchange literally only started because you just assumed that I think something I don't and decided to be a dick about it, ignoring the fact that I called the song a "by the books Gothenburg tune", called the production "sterile", and said that it would be unlikely that the album would be even as good as this "pretty good" song.

new users really be picking fights these days damn

You bet

Yeah, after you told me to "learn to read" lol, calm down, kiddo, everythings okay.

Lol yeah. "Learn to read". Unless you're offended by the idea of processing information with your eyes and brain, I said nothing worthy of being called an idiot. You however, in your incuriosity, certainly seem pretty dumb.

"Calm down kiddo, everything's okay"

No. Apologize.

An argument? On the internet? What an age we live in.

Nah, stay mad.

apologize :DDDDD

I don't think i've ever seen someone on the internet apologize but I guess it was worth a shot.

It would be a rare sight, Deathconscious maybe you should just be the martyr and do it, give us something new.

Ok ill do it for you guys.

LOGOS, im sorry you got offended when i correctly called you an idiot. Friends?

holy shit of all the stupid fucking bands to argue over in 2006+16

Please explain to me how I'm the idiot when you once again prove that you can't read.

We werent even arguing over the band, we were arguing over something much more important: semantics.

I want a real apology for you being an asshole and I will accept nothing less.

sorry

Thanks spec, apology accepted.

im just happy to be here

:D

It's good to know that this shithole community gets off on the unjustified mockery of others. Just apologize Deathconscious. You know you were being a dickhead for no reason.

bruh this is almost as funny as the Demon Hunter thread hahaha

oh no... LOGOS we don't get off to it, but come on man, you can't just demand someone on the internet apologize to you. I don't even know what the argument is about (or really want to get involved) but let's have realistic expectations.

It's just as easy to type a kind comment as a shitty one. Not unrealistic.

Lmao i thought he was joking, this is hilarious.

Would it be easier to apologize if I was nice first? Deathconscious, based on your ratings, you've got good taste in music and our tastes are very similar. I'm sure you're a good contributor on the regular who just made a mistake and said some dumb stuff. It happens. Just apologize and let's move on.

We gotta put you two in the gulag and the loser will end up apologizing

Also the song is pretty cool even if its ripping off Blinded By Fear

what's with all these dumb new users lately lmao

Ill just move on without the apology, i guess he'll be stuck in purgatory.

anyone watch the new batman

yeah man

No, but i kind of want to.

Can you apologize to me deathconscious? I don't have a reason. I just want my first ever internet apology

saw it in theaters 6 times and bought 3 copies of it on blu-ray

I sincerely apologize Eakflanderyof, it was a huge mistake and i will never do it again. Please forgive me.

Crossing my fingers for “Battles 2” the sequel to In Flames’ magnum opus.

"I sincerely apologize Eakflanderyof, it was a huge mistake and i will never do it again. Please forgive me"

Apology accepted sir. I will forever remember this day of my first internet apology

not bad

deathconcoius and logos reviving the attitude era of sputnik and i am HERE FOR IT

letsgooooooo

corn flakes

this is like a 1.5 track

>bruh this is almost as funny as the Demon Hunter thread hahaha

LMAO

God I hope this means they’re good again. Best single in years.

That is certainly an In Flames song.

They only had two really awful albums in a row so I’m high in my hoping of an album that is gonna be at least a 4.0

Anders confirmed this is from the upcoming new album.
Hyped. I love this and don't get the hate. In Flames are back baby.

I agree with LOGOs. People on here think their own shit doesn't stink and smart off at our different opinions. Just no respect anymore on this site. Get off the high horses it's the internet lol.

"Just no respect anymore on this site."

lmaoooooo, imagine unironically saying this. You really have no idea how toxic and chaotic sputnik used to be.

this site was so much worse years ago

I still remember when Futures and Sach were trying to make that "Sputnikmusic Constitution"

Yeah, this site is pretty much the chillest community out of all the ones I've been to on the internet by a mile lol. Most people get along well and even when there is some insulting or trolling it's generally pretty mild

Lmao I just read the Logo and Deathconcious stuff. That is awesome. Definitely getting that pasta, good job death. 🤣

i vote we go back to the toxic chaos days

same

If you insist, chicken bitch.

I agree with LOGOs. People on here think their own shit doesn't stink and smart off at our different opinions. Just no respect anymore on this site. Get off the high horses it's the internet lol.

chickin bitchin'

hehehe yeeeeeah thats how i like it

remy boyz they know us

At least this song doesn't contain lyrics like "I feel like shit, but at least I feel something". Ugh.

I wonder how many were moved by such lyrics.

i was

in rofls

we get it anders, you want your shit to be played in hot topics across the globe

god you guys are so pretentious lol

"It's good to know that this shithole community gets off on the unjustified mockery of others. Just apologize [insert username]. You know you were being a dickhead for no reason."

I think Toondude has forgotten his plea for another yser to apologize.

???

It's not pretentious to dislike criminally awful lyrics like this at all, flug

You could argue that early dark tranquillity lyrics were pretentious because of how over the top and poetic they were, but nobody seems to mind

This song still bangs tho