Recent content by GraemeSinclair

Speaking of The Jester Race, it turns 30 today. Happy birthday to our favourite Comic Sans-emblazoned, stunningly innovative, soaringly melodic, furiously aggressive, infinitely replayable genre-defining absolute masterpiece. I'd hope that the band might do something to mark it, but it would...

For my money, The Burning Point is the most Jester Race-sounding thing that any member or ex-member of In Flames has produced this millennium.

For me, the heavy parts of Foregone are the logical foundation to build on for the next album. The time where I was most alienated from In Flames was the Siren Charms/Battles era where they seemed to have fully abandoned melodic death metal, firstly for weird alt rock, then weird pop metal...

I'd really like to go to one of the Brinner shows one day, might be the best chance of hearing some pre-Clayman songs in person I'd never have the chance to see otherwise. However, the one thing I've always thought looking at the videos from Borgholm and Dalhalla is that the crowds are really...

I was not prepared for how good the instrumentals on Episode 2025 were going to be. Do you think you could splice the isolated vocals from TJR-Clayman into September Dirge's acoustic versions of those albums with a bit of reverb on them? In my head, this concept sounds amazing, but I've no idea...

I had similar thoughts on some of the shots of him looking out over the crowd with that sunset in the background. Obviously, I'm not inside their heads, but it felt like a moment that must be really reaffirming in an industry where although the layperson's perspective is that artists are the...

Saw this on YouTube earlier, I thought I'd listen to part of a song to sample how it sounded. I ended up watching the full thing in one go - I thought it was excellent. Nothing pre-Clayman on the setlist, which would normally kill a lot of my interest, but the performance was so good that I...

You guys getting your Anders action figures?

I've wanted to hear Jotun live for 19 years, more than any other song except perhaps December Flower. If it comes back on this leg of touring and I miss out by accident of geography, it'll be a sore one unless it sticks around long enough for their next pass through Scotland. I absolutely loved...

Yeah, I wondered if length had something to do with it, but they have other short instrumentals that are nowhere close and it's a full 40 places above the next most popular song from TJR (Moonshield) so it's not just like people are listening to the album and that song's getting a lot of repeats...

I stumbled upon this page which lists an artist's songs from most listened to least on Spotify a while ago, and it turns out they have stats for In Flames: https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/57ylwQTnFnIhJh4nu4rxCs_songs.html Some interesting viewing in there, Only for the Weak is out in front...

I appreciate you taking the deep dive on this one even if it's not a trip you particularly enjoyed :tickled: . I've never had particularly strong feelings about Bottled either way, it struck me as a typical STYE song, mostly chugging chord-driven alt metal but no worse than the average track...

It's interesting how different people's perceptions are, for me it's probably a serious contender for the best post-Clayman In Flames song. It grabbed me instantly from the first time I heard it and I've never become bored of it. I think it has a great chunky groove, the best use of low growls...

Guilty as charged. It's one of the best things on YouTube, it really shows how good the Big Four are musically.

I'd been meaning to give my thoughts on the Halo Effect gig I was at last week, but Storm Éowyn decided to deprive me of electricity for three days, so I wasn't able to, and didn't get round to once the power came back. Long story short, it was excellent. Both support acts were enjoyable. I'd...