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It's a bit like how they ended SOAPF with Liberation. A nice outro-type track, gives the listener some chill vibes as the album comes to a close. Bottled just makes me want to erase music as a concept from my brain, which probably isn't what they were going for.

I don't think it's so much people sleeping on their best material as the people listening to newer In Flames just not really being traditional MDM fans. I would imagine these people listen more to stuff like BMTH, Korn, Ghost, etc than Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Carcass or DT. Plus, as Galvanized...

I genuinely laughed out loud at Bottled being fun because it has a "party's over" vibe. Isn't that a bad thing?

I think you can maybe get away with Cena not being at Raw tonight. It's not ideal, but you can build the show around people acting shocked at what happened - focus promos, backstage vignettes, etc on people trying to process what happened. Kinda similar to how WCW had various wrestlers...

It definitely helps the build to Cena Vs Cody at Mania for Cena to be heel. Should have happened a long time ago, and I think if Vince hadn't been in charge it would have, but oh well. Cena has made it clear in interviews that he's wanted to go heel for some time (I think he wanted to be a full...

WWE goes to one of the last big 'what ifs?' still viable and turns Cena heel. Have to say I didn't expect that on his retirement run. Interesting to see where they go with this.

Production continues to be ass. It's embarrassingly worse than the last three albums, and you can really tell their budget is cut. With that said, there's no excuse for it to sound this muddy. I've heard home productions from people on YouTube that sound better than this. With better...

Honestly most pub food here is pretty good. Wetherspoons is one of the cheapest options, so that always raises the risk that you're going to get a below par meal. If you're paying a decent price then you almost always get good food - in pubs around here, anyway.

Lmao, I haven't been to a Wetherspoons in a while, but the food was always okay back in the day. It's a budget pub so you can't expect fine dining, but it used to be quite decent for the price. Possible that's no longer the case though.

What I will say in Anders' defence, is that at least on IF albums he's often trying new things, going back to when Reroute came out. I was listening to STYE the other day and it's clear that Anders is being very creative with his vocal melodies and trying a lot of different things. Sometimes...

It's possible that in 2010/2011 when SOAPF was being conceived and recorded Bjorn was still listening to new stuff. He just claims he isn't now - although he used that as part of his excuse for not listening to THE, which he surely has done, so maybe he's just chatting shit. The amount of riffs...

Ah yes, the pesky five album rule. Although I think we established that this only applies to those beneath the mighty Anders, so IAS doesn't count. I think it would have done Bjorn good to branch out and do some stuff on his own. It was really disappointing to read that interview where he said...

Y'know, it ain't the kind of music that interests me, but good on him for branching out and doing something different beyond the In Flames name. A shame that a Passenger revival is probably dead after the weird way Engelin left In Flames. Does this leave Bjorn as the only member of the core...

Inspired by the STYE talk, I'm listening to STYE via the official IF channel. Can't help but notice they've mispelled "Borders and Shading" as "Boarders and Shading", WTF. Maybe Microsoft sued them.

I may disagree with people when it comes to liking a song, but I always have respect if someone can articulate why they like a song (or album). I still may not agree, but that's fine, I still appreciate the effort to try and convey a different viewpoint. It would be pretty boring if we all liked...