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Band Name: In Flames
Album Name: A Sense of Purpose
Rating: 4.5 / 5 User Rating: 4.7 / 5
Label: Koch Records
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Tracklist
1. The Mirror's Truth
2. Disconnected
3. Sleepless Again
4. Alias
5. I'm the Highway
6. Delight and Angers
7. Move Through Me
8. The Chosen Pessimist
9. Sober and Irrelevant
10. Condemned
11. Drenched in Fear
12. March to the Shore
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When bands like As I Lay Dying were still attending elementary school, Sweden's In Flames were making melodic, heavy, fast metal music. In Flames have been pioneering the "metalcore" or melodic death metal sound since 1990, ten years before the metalcore genre started gaining the popularity it knows today. Bands like Still Remains, Darkest Hour, and Trivium would not exist without In Flames.
Now releasing its 9th studio album 'A Sense of Purpose', In Flames continues to be the powerhouse it was when it began in 1990. In Flames is one of those rare European metal bands that didn't start out as a growling death metal band that went melodic on its third album. Take a listen to In Flames first album 'Lunar Strain' and you will hear a similar sound to 'A Sense of Purpose'. Of course In Flames has perfected and refined its music over the years but it has always retained that signature sound, which consists of fast, shredding lead guitar, complicated rhythm patterns, and shouted/sung vocals. Songs like 'Sleepless Again' start with a pretty instrumental intro and then head into shredding guitars, and eventually the epic chorus. Anders Friden has been the permanent vocalist of In Flames since 1995 and he executes the mix of shouting and singing perfectly. The epic chorus, consisting of anthem-like melodies, is a staple of the In Flames sound that has inspired countless other bands. One can't talk about In Flames though without mentioning the incredibly complicated guitar riffage. The use of riffs like this throughout the song, instead of during the designated "guitar solo" is what really helped define the Metalcore sound. Like 'Sober and Irrelevant' which opens with one of the aforementioned guitar riffs and then has blistering little guitar solos throughout the song.
In Flames is will be on tour this summer along with Megadeth and Children of Bodom for the fourth installment of Dave Mustaine's Gigantour. I don't know about you, but I will definitely be there head banging along to the songs from 'A Sense of Purpose' and the rest of In Flames set list.
Review by: Colette Claire
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