The funny fact is that no one seems to be loving the whole band career and still there's people deciding what's a real fan.
I haven’t even touched the In Flames subreddit with a ten foot pole (… I’m not converting that to meters), I just don’t want to discuss shit with the people who say that you have to love everything (what’s a stand ablaze) to be a real In Flames fan. It was before Foregone came out, but I was so fucking tired of hearing “oh my god, it’s a return to form, this is just like Clayman”. No, it wasn’t. Not at all. You people do not know In Flames. It was stupid back during the release of Battles’ and ITM’s singles, but I know I wouldn’t be able to talk sense into the people who believe that about Foregone.Honestly the subreddit for IF is pretty dead, but most of the people on there seem quite chill. I met Xpyro either on the IF subreddit or another metal subreddit where IF was being discussed. There are some wild takes at times, but I think people are too scared of being downvoted to be too critical of anyone else's opinion, lmao.
That statement is absolute garbage.
I haven’t even touched the In Flames subreddit with a ten foot pole (… I’m not converting that to meters), I just don’t want to discuss shit with the people who say that you have to love everything (what’s a stand ablaze) to be a real In Flames fan. It was before Foregone came out, but I was so fucking tired of hearing “oh my god, it’s a return to form, this is just like Clayman”. No, it wasn’t. Not at all. You people do not know In Flames. It was stupid back during the release of Battles’ and ITM’s singles, but I know I wouldn’t be able to talk sense into the people who believe that about Foregone.
I know we interacted on two different posts in the MDM subreddit, but I forget what the first one was. The second one was a poll on ranking IF albums. I don’t remember all of my opinions there, but I do remember having ITM right above TJR. It might actually be similar to the one I posted, save for LS being ranked so high, though I might not have come around to appreciating Whoracle yet. I still don’t think I’ll ever interact too much with the MDM subreddit (Interacting with Reddit isn’t too much of my thing in general) since posts on the biggest bands are understandably limited on how often they can be made, leaving discussion to primarily be on medium-level or lower exposure bands or for general questions that can include bigger bands in people’s answers. I’m not into a ton of different MDM bands, and most of the ones I love are rather mainstream— I want to discuss In Flames, and I’d like to do it with people who aren’t braindead shills. This place is great.
And of course, never forget this absolute classic:
IN FLAMES SPEAK OUT AGAINST FANS NARROW-MINDEDNESS
Considering that the fans who do go to their live shows seem to react well to it (At least from the one I went to, anyways, and that TGD, Foregone Pt.1, and SOSD), I’m going to believe it’s the latter reason.What's the most songs from Foregone they've played at a single show? Three? And that's as part of a full setlist. There's clearly a problem. Either with the fans not reacting how the band wants or how the band themselves feel about it. Anders saying that Foregone is the best In Flames album doesn't track whatsoever.
As far as the verses go, if they can do Bullet Ride and Square Nothing live, they can do Suburban Me, and even when they're not touring with Arch Enemy, I'm sure Chris could play the solo like he's done with December Flower and Coerced Coexistence.Suburban Me is probably top 3 songs on Clayman.
Shame they never figured out how to pull off those whispered verses live, and yeah, the guitar solo too. That being said Amott also tends to half-ass his own solos from back in the day.