I've been having a listen to this album through youtube, and I have to say that it is a fairly spot on melodeth release.

The riffing is great, melodic work that remains catchy and heavy at the same time, while the vocals are thin and raspy, but still razor sharp.

I personally thought that some of the lyrics were pretty half baked, but it's not a huge deal, the point is, is that the instrumental side of the coin is solid as a rock, and I personally don't see why it catches so much flak.

I consider it streamlined melodic death metal. It has the elements, except it chops down the song times, and sticks with a generally simply verse-chorus-verse formula that a lot of pop metal has going. I think it works.

The only song I've heard from it is "Take this Life", which, for all its poppy glory, actually is a decent tune. I also heard the first minute or so of the title track, but as soon as the vocals came in...

You know, it seems a lot of people think this album is horrible... and they're right. It's an awful piece of shit.

I think I'd like to know what you consider bad riffing, if the riffing on this is 'great'.

Haha!

I have to agree; I mean, it isn't as bad as any of the other travesties to the very essence of metal they've released since Colony, but it comes nowhere near to approaching the quality of Colony - and Colony comes nowhere near to approaching the quality of their first 3 albums.

Yeah, I'm going to agree that "Take This Life" is a pretty good song, and one of the best on the album. "Crawl Through Knives" is another great piece, where Anders' clean vocals are actually used for good, and he has a badass scream somewhere in there.

Overall, though, the album is fairly lacklustre. They might've achieved something better with a more competent vocalist, but I'm not a fan of Anders. Sometimes he surprises me, but for most of his clean singing, it sounds more like whining. Better bands to keep me occupied.

Clayman is when they got really poppy. For what it is, it's enjoyable, but it's ultimately pretty shallow and I don't think I'll ever listen to new In Flames again.

I'm a huge In Flames fan and I like this album ok, but for the past year or so I've only been listening to The Jester Race through Colony. Come Clarity is probably the best post Clayman album, in fact I personally like it more than Clayman. As always with In Flames it's the guitar work I like the most, but they've done much, much better than the material on this album. Still, songs like Crawl Through Knives and Reflect the Storm are really enjoyable. I love the acoustics in the title track but Anders isn't the best clean vocalist, that's for sure. It's lightyears better than A Sense of Purpose, and will probably be better than whatever they put out next, now that Jesper's out of the picture... *sobs into my pillow*

Although it looks emo at first glance, I actually really like the album cover.

I can't even stand Clayman. I hate Anders' vocals; all of it. the "newest" song I can stand is Cloud Connected, and that is only because it is so damn catchy and poppy....I feel dirty just mentioning it, like I had sex with a monkey. A dude monkey.

call me shallow, but the artwork on A Sense of Purpose totally put me off and made me refuse to give it even a try, it gave the album a deathcore/post-hardcore album look haha.

the new logo as well.

Same for a lot of us. As for me, CC was a big album I got into when it came out, but better melodic death, black, and real death left it in the dust. Now I can't stand the album. Sooooooo bad.

You really don't think so? I have this weird opinion about In Flames that I don't know how to explain. I think as musicians they peaked with Colony. Just listening to songs like Embody the Invisible or Coerced Coexistence I can't help but noticing how fucking tight the band is. But still, for some reason I don't like it as much as The Jester Race or Whoracle (which are two of my all-time favourite metal albms), and I'm not exactly sure why, just the songs I guess. Although Lunar Strain is a really nice melodic death metal gem, I'd definitely say Colony is a better album.

always though Crawl Through Knives had some decent riffing and harmonies and the album closer is pretty epic but thats about it.

It's interesting how people called In Flames poser when they changed their logo to "emo" one on A Sense of Purpose when they hated Cryptopsy changing their logo to more clear one on The Unspoken King

Let me be sincere, this album is pretty good, it mixes elements from older IF album and the newest ones. It is like if you mix Clayman with Reroute to Remain. Its modern and catchy but with more riffing and guitar melodies than in RTR.

I know that a lot of old fans still hate this album but I say it seriously its the nearest thing to the old sound that IF will never release, so try to enjoy it hehehe(and yes, I like Reroute to Remain the most "nu metal" record of these guys).

Don't like it anymore. I used to when I got into metal, but since past years I can easily do without In Flames. ''The Jester Race'', which is their ''best'' (not saying much for me) has some damn catchy guitar riffs and fun solos, but that's it basically.

I thought this album was nothing short of horrible, just like every other post-Clayman album. Just thinking about it makes me want to throw up.

Scream is honestly one of my favorite songs by them. It's just got a a great intensity to it that gets my blood going right from the start. I was shocked when it came out and it's also one of my favorite releases from the band next to Whoracle and Colony. Wedges out Clayman from my top 3.

Their best post-Clayman album but its still mediocre, some decent songs

Job For A Cowgirl, Bullet For My Valentine, Waking The Cadaver, any porngrind band, basically.

I also think early At The Gates, pre Despise The Sun Suffo, Onward To Golgotha era Incantation, Painkiller era priest, it's all great riffing. I can keep namedropping if you wish.

Crap crap crap. Listen to Ander's vocals. They have always been horrible. Always. I don't think there has been a moment on any album where he has performed decently. I always listened to In Flames for the totally awesome melodies. Gyroscope has some of the best riffs in it In Flames has ever done and Clayman and Jester Race some of the best melodies. But after Clayman they took a horrible turn towards depending too much on vocal melodies and finding the "perfect" chorus. This is when they started to lose me. Now I couldn't care less. I have heard the albums and I will continue to check out the new ones just to see what travesty they are pulling out of their asses and smear all over the mixing board with this time.

I can't stand Come Clarity. From the stupid "hardcore band" cover art, to the boring uninspired nu-noisy riffs, awful vocals, and muddy production...it's just a mess. I'd call it In Flames' worst album (that or Soundtrack to Your Escape).

Even if you hated this album I don't see how you could call it worse than Soundtrack or ASoP. I'm a fan and even I admit those albums suck.

It's a fun pop metal album. I don't get the fuss. Then again I never listened to In Flames to begin with.

MDM so be more like The Gallery and less like shit like Come Clarity.

Some of the faster bits of the albun are ok until they get overused, and the titletrack is oddly catchy, but twelve songs its far too long for its shallowness. Its also nowhere near as band as Soundtrack and their godawful newest album

I used to like "Reflect the Storm" quite a bit but never really cared for the album as a whole.

Hmm... I was never much into In Flames, or melodic death metal of any sort really, except for some here and there. I decided to give this Take This Life song a listen, I don't really see the fuss either way. It's pretty middle of the road, I don't see how anyone can truly hate it with such a passion or love it dearly. I've never really been into this kind of melodic metal, though.

It was the album that got me into In Flames, and then into more metal. Looking back on it though knowing their earlier material and how good it was, it's a fairly "meh" album. Not good, not bad, has some cool spots in it, but overall rather mediocre.

It's called "band wagon jumping".

anders is the worst vocalist in melo death. I dont like modern melodic death metal and this album is a good example of it at its worst imho, even though there are still some traces of the classic stuff here and there.

Ill just listen to lunar strain and such.

Say what you want, but Clayman is probably the most emotional In Flames album, and I mean that in a good way.

As for Come Clarity, I enjoy Dead End the most, and Take This Life and Crawl Through Knives are decent. The title track is also pretty decent when I feel like listening to some alt rock.

The first 5 are In Flames to me though, all amazing in a different way.

This.

I really don't think it's such a horrible album. It's just one of those "fun" albums I'll throw on once in a while. There's some really catchy stuff on there, and it's nowhere near as bad as ASoP. So, yeah. I like it.

I don't like In Flames at all, so chances are I won't like the new album.

They're too poppy. NOT ENOUGH BROOTALS!

Eh, this album is pretty much garbage really. I sold it a couple years back and haven't regretted that decision since. There's a few okay tracks amongst a heap of shit. Oddly enough, the title track is probably the best, if only because it's the one song where they stopped trying to delude themselves that they were still a good metal band and just wrote an all-out alt rock tune. On the other end of the spectrum, the track "Scream" could be the worst song I've ever heard, regardless of genre. It just doesn't work - at all.

So maybe the album isn't totally worthless, but I have to laugh at anyone who tries to say it's actually "good." In reality, In Flames started losing things on Reroute to Remain and have been on a downward spiral ever since. The biggest positive about Come Clarity is that it's <i>not</i> A Sense of Purpose. That album is a fucking steaming nugget of diarrhea.

Go back to UG.

I find it hovers between inoffensive and bad, but more toward the former really. The title track is alright, even though it shouldn't be.

Don't know what that means.

Let me re-phrase-

Take your stupidity, back to that immense gathering of idiots known as Ultimate Guitar.