IN FLAMES - The Jester Race

[Dick Sirloin]

What is your general opinion of this album? Or the comic sans font on the cover? What do you give it out of 10?

 

[Dick Sirloin]

for research purposes....

 

[neal]

10/10 if you dont like this album, FUCK YOU and FUCK YOUR MOM

 

[ChaosLee]

Easily one of the best albums from that scene. Stands up over time more than many.

 

[einride]

very good but that is not comic sans

i'd give it 8.5 or something

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1dqyzO08Tw&feature=related[/ame]

 

[dorian gray]

9/10

 

[einride]

i remember when metal was emotionally encompassing and passionate and exciting

 

[Vittra]

9.5/10

It's hard to achieve perfection but boy does this album come close.

 

[Agalloch]

One of the best albums ever, surely.

 

[dorian gray]

My son's name choice was inspired by this album

 

[lurch70]

i never heard this

 

[dorian gray]

the album?

 

[lurch70]

yep

 

[dorian gray]

Get it now

 

[lurch70]

i am not buying them shitz ... can't even find a decent torrent ... must be a sham this thing i tell ya.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Lurch, you've made some atrocious musical statements in the past, but this may take the cake. you never heard this? fo real, dogg?

Anyway, 9/10. For me it's the top vertex of the holy trinity (which also includes "The Gallery" and Eucharist's "A Velvet Creation"). Top notch.

 

[Vittra]

i am not buying them shitz ... can't even find a decent torrent ... must be a sham this thing i tell ya.

torrent? what the fuck?

GOOGLE BLOGS MOTHERFUCKER

 

[dorian gray]

Lurch, you've made some atrocious musical statements in the past

hahaha

 

[skyrefuge]

For me it's the top vertex of the holy trinity (which also includes "The Gallery" and Eucharist's "A Velvet Creation").

Maybe from a personal perspective, but for poetic-symmetrical-historical purposes, you've gotta swap out 'A Velvet Creation' for 'Slaughter of the Soul'. Eucharist had the misfortune of being too early (1993), and apparently not quite from Gothenburg. Check it out:

1995.11.14 - At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
1995.11.27 - Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
1996.02.20 - In Flames - The Jester Race

Three landmark albums out of Gothenburg all released within 3 months of each other, each representing a different corner of the triangle: the thrash, the prog, and the melody. Crazy. If I ran a record label I'd find a way to license these three albums and release some sort of fancy box set with an 80-page booklet rhapsodizing the genius the flowed through Gothenburg in autumn of 1995.

Neil

 

[lurch70]

Lurch, you've made some atrocious musical statements in the past, but this may take the cake. you never heard this? fo real, dogg?

fo shizzle ...

i didn't listen to metal much between 94-01 or so ... so reco away homeslice.