IN FLAMES new album being released by the end of 2016

[Clay-Man]

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[ciko_gfb]

How do people here feel about Like Sand?

IMO the best song on the album. Verse and chorus sound like they belong to the same song. The chorus is catchy and while not trying too hard with synths and children chanting. Anders is used appropriately.

The solo is really disappointing though. It sounds like it's a start to a build up to something epic but instead it lasts 10 seconds and just transitions into Anders' whining. How lame.

Like Sand is one of my favorites from Battles. I actually like Anders's performance in that song a lot. Pretty good song, and I agree with you on the solo part. Could be better if that section followed by a good solo.

 

[DE4life]

The only thing I really remember about Like Sand is Anders crying that the whole wide world is against him. Awww.

Weirdly the title track, which I didn't care for at the time, is one of the few I will on occasion listen to now. Battles, Us Against the World (not a good song, just kind of catchy), Greatest Greed and Before I Fall are the only songs from the album that I don't automatically hit skip on.

 

[Clay-Man]

lol you're such a dick

 

[DE4life]

You don't last very long around here if you aren't tbf.

 

[DE4life]

I forced myself to listen through Battles again yesterday and there were two songs that were actually better than I remembered. "In My Room" has a stupid title but I actually quite like the vibe of the song, and the solo is nice too (compared to the usual efforts anyway). Anders' vocals tolerable and the lyrics actually not so bad.

"Wallflower" was the other one that surprised me. I remember giving it quite a low mark on first listen, but I actually kind of like it. It's like a much improved version of TCP. It doesn't really fit in with the rest of the album but considering how bland a lot of Battles is, that's not really a bad thing.

My overall mark remains at about 6.5/10 for the album though. I still like it slightly more than Siren Charms just because the overall production sounds much better. SC sounds like they forgot to master it before release. Battles sounds sterilised in a lot of ways but at least it has a somewhat professional feel.

 

[ciko_gfb]

Any Ghost fans out here? I love the new single "Rats". And it has amazing solo actually im addicted to it right now

 

[Clay-Man]

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[Clay-Man]

The WFF clip has a more muddier and unclear sound than R2R, in multiplied numbers. Absolute shit sound. I don't know when you guys last saw IF live, but my last IF show was less than 2 years ago and it's the best one of the 7 ones I've been to. Partly because of setlist as well but also performance. I can definitely see the argument for shitty clean vocal performances live, but in general his live screaming and growling has never been shit. Not on most of the live videos I've seen and all the gigs I've seen them at. I think it has more to do with vocal approach than impaired screams. They always do Take This Life as last song and it always sounds great. His growls has always been sick imo, haven't really heard them change at all the last like 10-15 years. If anything they're better. To compare the growls in F(r)iend from Used and Abused has nothing at all compared to the last gig I saw when he only growled during the entire Food For the Gods song. My favorite live memory by far, sickest shit I've heard from him.

It was pretty much like this but a bit better and exclusively growls and obviously better sounding live than from a mobile recording. Comparing it to all the available old live performances from 15-20years ago it's MILES better. Same with Moonshield they've been doing the recent shows, sounds a lot better than it did during the old days live. Plus they added that guitar melody as intro instead of jumping right into the part after the acoustic guitars which makes it sound much cooler as a whole.



I mean compare Used and Abused's Moonshield to this recent live performance...To me it's not even close, recent one sounds so much better.



Seeing them again in November in a large stadium 10k+ people show, hopefully it's gonna be as good as before. I've seen much better setlists than the recent ones but as long as they keep Moonshield for the upcoming leg of the tour I'm good.

I already posted that this is hands down the best moonshield performance they've ever done

 

[krofius]

Yep it's phenomenal. The deathgrowl he's using nowadays and has been for the last like 10-15 years is way superior to the TJR studio version, it's just sad he rarely uses it at all in studio on songs from recent material.

 

[Buz]

Hey there IF fans! Anyone have info on the upcoming record??

 

[ciko_gfb]

Hey there IF fans! Anyone have info on the upcoming record??

Well we have new album thread over here, not so much information though we know that album will be out late 2018.

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/in-flames-new-album-being-released-in-late-2018.1266675