Oh look. Another classic member of In Flames quits the band after a dumpster fire of an album is released.

Gee, I wonder why?

I didn't mind anything up to the newest album... I couldn't listen to that at all. But I'm not saying any of it was technically 'good' and the whole 'A Sense of Purpose' and 'Sounds of a Playground Dying' era was technically garbage, but those albums were also guilty pleasures of mine and I really wanted to support a band that I once loved (even though they were barely a shadow of their former selves). Come Clarity was WAY better then A Soundtrack to Your Escape... I don't know, I'll give it a listen if they are at least moving away from that newer stuff.

They're going down in flames....

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/bassis ... in-flames/

It's absolutely astounding just how bad In Flames have gotten in the last 5 years. Say what you will about the albums from Reroute to Remain to A Sense of Purpose, but at least a few of those albums had good stuff on them, and a couple of them were pretty good altogether. Ever since Sounds of a Playground Fading, they've gotten unbearably awful. It's legitimately perplexing just how far In Flames have drifted from what they used to be, and it's just depressing to see a bunch of 40+ year old men look and act like 18 year olds partaking in a trend that was popular in 2009. They are a band that absolutely needs to just go away and never come back, if only to preserve whatever legacy they have left at this point.

In Flames has sucked since the beginning. Nothing but warmed over Iron Maiden riffs done in a melodic death metal style, and now they are basically just a metalcore parody band.

After "Black Sabbath", "War Pigs", "Victim of Changes", "Exciter", "Overkill", "Ace of Spades", "Iron Fist", "Prowler", "Where Eagles Dare", "Aces High", "Fight Fire with Fire", "Battery", "Blackened", "Hell Awaits", "Angel of Death", "South of Heaven", "Solitude", "Twist of Cain", "Evil", "A Dangerous Meeting", "Black Metal", "Satanic Lust", "Into the Crypts of Rays", "Invincible Force", "Curse the Gods", "The Exorcist", "Disintegrator/Incinerator", "Death Row", "Saint Vitus", "Charred Remains", "Internal Bleeding", "Infected", "Golgotha", "Demonic Incarnate", "What Kind of God", "Immortal Rites", "Rapture", "Lake of Fire", "Higher Coward", "In Battle there Is No Law", "The IVth Crusade", "Obscura", "When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water", "Heroes in Godly Blaze", "M.S. Bismarck", "The Tree of Life and Death", "Cromlech", "Kathaarian Life Code", "Natassja in Eternal Sleep", "Transilvanian Hunger", "Funeral Fog", "Sleep of Death", "Det Som En Gang Var" and "Dunkelheit" I can still come up with at least a hundred more. I have left out albums with intros and everything underground enough to not be known to mainstream metal zines, and still got a ton of vastly superior album openers.

In Flames has sucked since the beginning. Nothing but warmed over Iron Maiden riffs done in a melodic death metal style, and now they are basically just a metalcore parody band.

Well that's your opinion but Lunar Strain was great and no not warmed over Maiden riffs in a melodic death metal style.

sounds like 80's pop .....is this really the same band that wrote Zombie Inc?

That's funny cause I tried to listen to (1997) In Flames - Whoracle and (1994) In Flames - Subterranean again yesterday. I could not.

And how does that pertain to Lunar Strain?

There's a little known secret that I might as well let you all know: In Flames disbanded right after the Clayman tour and they haven't released a single album ever since. That was a good band. All of their output was good. Sad thing they disbanded and NEVER, ever released anything else past Clayman.

In Flames has sucked since the beginning. Nothing but warmed over Iron Maiden riffs done in a melodic death metal style, and now they are basically just a metalcore parody band.

Ever since Sounds of a Playground Fading, they've gotten unbearably awful. It's legitimately perplexing just how far In Flames have drifted from what they used to be, and it's just depressing to see a bunch of 40+ year old men look and act like 18 year olds partaking in a trend that was popular in 2009.

It's possible they just actually *like* this kind of music? Maybe when they were chasing trends oh so many years ago they came across something they genuinely liked and discovered who they really were as artists. Maybe this means the death metal albums people here are saying are the "real" In Flames were also just them chasing trends, trying to find the thing that actually fit their musical vision and artistic soul.

Yep, what you are hearing now is the *real* In Flames.

[What most people did not understand is that they kind of replaced these influences quite early in their career for american influences with nu-metal, metalcore, etc. being trendy in late 90s, early 2000s. When you grew up in that period most kids were exposed to bands like Korn or Slipknot first. You reach high school in the late 90s and it's Wait And Bleed or Freak On A Leash playing everywhere. Then once you got to love real heavy metal music maybe you stop worrying about Korn. In Flames' evolution went the other way around and that confused a lot of metal fans that kind of grew up with them, myself included. At least I stopped expecting anything from them a long time ago

Ok here we go again. 22 second clip of a new song, and it has promise.

http://www.metalsucks.net/2018/11/28/in ... -terrible/

It makes me laugh how an excerpt of twenty-two seconds makes people judge the band on social media. Some of those YouTube comments are hilarious. ''This sounds like old school In Flames!''. ''The new record will clearly suck!''. ''This is better than anything they have released in the past ten years!''. What do you know? Wait and see.