I take it by your tone that you agree and think that the above statement is obvious. If so, then why did yo disagree in the first place?
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I take it by your tone that you agree and think that the above statement is obvious. If so, then why did yo disagree in the first place?
I like Rusted Nail but the video is extremely pointless. Weird slow motion stuff, no story, does not connect at all to the song. Very meaningless. It looks like stock footage that can be used for almost any song.
Their videos between Reroute and Come Clarity were all pretty good. I thought the Cloud Connected vid was a cool concept (albeit stolen from Stargate) and Trigger was nice was the Soilwork cameo. The Quiet Place had some great visuals and My Sweet Shadow was well made if a little boring. Take This Life and Come Clarity's videos both fit the songs well enough, even if TTL was a bit gay
Everything since then has been very 'meh', though. Rusted Nail sort of fit in with the album theme so far, which seems to be laziness and lack of effort, but that aside it was somewhat disappointing.
That would be awesome but there's a problem in the band called "Anders" lol.
I wish they could do an instrumental song with acoustics. That would be awesome. But read an interview with Björn, he said "We have an awesome singer in the band. Why shouldn't we use him?"
They should just make slightly longer songs that have more breakdowns and musical landscapes like their older songs. They don't need to be like Dream Theater and have the singer off stage for 5, 6, or 7 minutes during a song. They should just add a minute or so to their songs.
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Good shit. I think there's a good chance Björn is featured on the upcoming The Resistance EP, since Jesper posted a picture earlier that Björn was in the studio during the recording. Also saw that Jesper wrote a song for some swedish rock-singer chick that according to both her and Jesper sounded very In Flames-ish. Will have to check that song out whenever that's released to see if it's true.
Also saw an ''old'' interview from 2008 or something with Björn and he said that he pretty much does all the leads and Jesper does melodies and choruses, not for a particular reason, it just happened to be that way over the years.
Pretty interesting.
Also saw an ''old'' interview from 2008 or something with Björn and he said that he pretty much does all the leads and Jesper does melodies and choruses, not for a particular reason, it just happened to be that way over the years.
Pretty interesting.
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ciko_gfb, I saw that on her webpage that is in Swedish.
Roughly translated by me her post says:
"We have been accompanied by Jesper Strömblad the last few days and we wrote and recorded a song that Jesper himself surprisingly stated sounds very In Flames-y"
And btw this chick is not known at all or anything, I have never even heard her name anywhere.
EDIT: After some research she apparently was somewhat known Sweden during the early 90's, and she was also during this period actually married to Yngwie Malmsteen.
She is now together/married with a guy called Daniel Flores who is a music producer and also drummer, and also Jesper's friend. If you didn't know, he and Jesper wrote the entire score for a movie called ''Isdraken'' that was released in 2012 in Sweden. So I guess that is their connection.
Roughly translated by me her post says:
"We have been accompanied by Jesper Strömblad the last few days and we wrote and recorded a song that Jesper himself surprisingly stated sounds very In Flames-y"
And btw this chick is not known at all or anything, I have never even heard her name anywhere.
EDIT: After some research she apparently was somewhat known Sweden during the early 90's, and she was also during this period actually married to Yngwie Malmsteen.
She is now together/married with a guy called Daniel Flores who is a music producer and also drummer, and also Jesper's friend. If you didn't know, he and Jesper wrote the entire score for a movie called ''Isdraken'' that was released in 2012 in Sweden. So I guess that is their connection.
Here's a full show from '99.
Wow look at the setlist!
Embody the Invisible
Jotun
Gyroscope
Stand Ablaze
Clad in Shadows
Insipid 2000
Moonshield
Zombie Inc.
Scorn
Colony
Ordinary Story
Behind Space
Episode 666
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Nope. This is not an honest review, likely bought (yes, that happens, believe it or not). No critic that is not a whored-out cash-cow with a working pair of ears and a sane mind calls Rusted Nail a "perfect" or "irrefutably tight" song. That's not everything wrong with what has been mentioned, but it is what pissed me off the most.
I can't believe we have to wait 1.5 months to hear the new album, its ridiculous...we've been waiting since December!!!
Thoughts so far:
Rusted nail - agree that its like 4 songs into 1. I don't like the verses especially the first one as they are quite weird (although they have grown on me) and I think the riff after the intro solo is quite weak, probably Engelin-influenced riff. But damn the chorus is great, especially the 2nd and 3rd chorus where you hear the guitar melody in the background.
Everything's gone - i love this song, Ander's vocals in the chorus and pre-chorus are the strongest I've heard since Come Clarity and the chorus is epic. The solo could have been a bit longer and agree with Cyberinflames that the song doesn't build up properly before it finishes...i could do with a bit more solo and more chorus at the end.
Through oblivion - I actually like this song a lot, especially if you forget that its In flames you are listening to Ander's vocals are much better than Rusted Nail and the song is very catchy...i don't mind that it that the riff/song is simple at all. I prefer this over Liberation as the album's 'soft' song.
Generally I was worried after Rusted Nail but i've got my hopes up now that I've heard the other two songs, especially Everything's Gone. Even though some people disagree, I think the new music is still of high quality but I agree that Anders is not the perfect singer for songs like Through Oblivion or for Rusted Nail verses, but its fine I still enjoy the music.
One thing that I am worried about is guitars...I think Bjorn can do much better than what we've heard so far from the above songs, I really enjoyed the fact that SOAPF was a guitar driven album and I hope that the remaining songs in SC will be better in terms of guitar playing and riffs.
Thoughts so far:
Rusted nail - agree that its like 4 songs into 1. I don't like the verses especially the first one as they are quite weird (although they have grown on me) and I think the riff after the intro solo is quite weak, probably Engelin-influenced riff. But damn the chorus is great, especially the 2nd and 3rd chorus where you hear the guitar melody in the background.
Everything's gone - i love this song, Ander's vocals in the chorus and pre-chorus are the strongest I've heard since Come Clarity and the chorus is epic. The solo could have been a bit longer and agree with Cyberinflames that the song doesn't build up properly before it finishes...i could do with a bit more solo and more chorus at the end.
Through oblivion - I actually like this song a lot, especially if you forget that its In flames you are listening to
Ander's vocals are much better than Rusted Nail and the song is very catchy...i don't mind that it that the riff/song is simple at all. I prefer this over Liberation as the album's 'soft' song. Generally I was worried after Rusted Nail but i've got my hopes up now that I've heard the other two songs, especially Everything's Gone. Even though some people disagree, I think the new music is still of high quality but I agree that Anders is not the perfect singer for songs like Through Oblivion or for Rusted Nail verses, but its fine I still enjoy the music.
One thing that I am worried about is guitars...I think Bjorn can do much better than what we've heard so far from the above songs, I really enjoyed the fact that SOAPF was a guitar driven album and I hope that the remaining songs in SC will be better in terms of guitar playing and riffs.
Here's a very long interview with Björn, he talks about old and new albums.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/inte...otte_ive_always_been_interested_in_drums.html
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/inte...otte_ive_always_been_interested_in_drums.html
It is indeed.
But one thing is very weird for me. Why they let the record company select the singles anyway? From the interview, I think Björn himself wanted "Paralyzed" as a single.
From the interview, talks about "Paralyzed":
It was actually one of the songs when we first wrote it and recorded it that we thought, "Well this is probably gonna be the first single." Because it sounded like that when we had the right tempo and the chorus was a big one and the keys were in there so we knew we were gonna play this live. But it ended up we had so many songs we wanted to have as singles and in the end we just said, "It doesn't really matter. Have the people that need to promote this decide what they think would be best." This is how it ended up and everybody was super happy with either one.
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