Yeah, I wasn't really being serious about them renaming themselves...heheh. Of course, whenever people talk about In Flames nowadays, "selling out" always comes up. In my very humble opinion, it doesn't really matter. Of course it lowers my outlook on a band if I think they've sold out, and changed their sound to make more money...but you know, I didn't stop listening to Metallica because they sold out, I stopped listening to them because I can't stand their music now. Same with In Flames...even if they sold out, if they still produced good music, I would be like "Well, that kind of sucks, but hey, everybody wants money, and after 10 years in the underground barely breaking even, some mainstream success is nice." I totally understand underground bands' desire to break through, for whatever reason. But as soon as the band heavily sacrifices their sound, well, that's when I stop listening.
Also, thanks for not starting a shit-storm. For some reason, people tend to get really riled up about the whole In Flames new against old thing. People get so hardcore about "selling out" and stuff...like on their forum here, some guy was literally like.. "In Flames are the gayest band". I really hate shit like that. It's just music people, no need to crusade about it.
