New album Foregone out February 2023

[DE4life]

One thing I will note is that the production still isn't quite there yet. You can hear from these examples that they sound more like demos than properly mastered tracks. The piano ballad is fine, but anything with guitars and bass has a lot of uneven levels. It tends to compress the first half and then everything gets louder as the song goes on. You can see it clearly on the sound wave when you put the track into an editor. It's better than it was, but still some way from what I'd consider close to studio quality. Also I hate the washy cymbal sound. That's still not been fixed.

 

[The Grayfox]

I read that you can only upload 120 second clips for "covers." Is that actually the case? If so, how did you give it enough material to make the Clayman and ATFRT covers so accurate? Splicing together clips? I'll probably do it for a month and see what kind of weird shit I can create.

 

[DE4life]

Nah you can upload full songs now. Think the 120s is an older model limit. Ideally you'd upload a cover or good quality live recording if possible, just to err on the side of caution as real songs are technically against the TOS. But Suno trained their entire fucking model on copyrighted material, so the chances of them giving a shit as long as you aren't trying to monetise it is extremely small, I'd wager.

 

[Riamu]

In Flames teasing coordinates that reveal the location of LevinSound studio in Gothenburg.. interesting.. new music being recorded back home? Maybe it’s nearly time for a new thread..

 

[ThePhobiac]

 

[DE4life]

It is around the time when you'd expect them to be prepping for a new album, but there are a lot of comments on socials about some kind of festival, so not sure if it's album related or something else.

 

[The Grayfox]

It is about time for them to head into the studio and deliver another disappointment. But on the plus side, the forum will be active again, so there's that...

Even if its mostly us talking shit about bad it is.

Seriously though. I saw a picture of the band the other day and my initial thought was "who the fuck are these guys... oh... Jesus."

 

[ThePhobiac]

If I were Bjorn and looking at that picture, my impostor syndrome would be near-fatal. Every riff I write I would think "will this impress Chris-senpai?" or "will Liam-san think this is cool?"

I couldn't do it.

 

[DE4life]

Fortunately for him the only one he needs to impress is old Five Albums.

 

[DE4life]

DT announced to be at Borgholm Brinner, interesting.

 

[eochaid]

Bring THE as a special act.

 

[DE4life]

Three of the announced bands don't even pass the five album test, so not sure what is going on here. Very disturbing.

 

[eochaid]

Anders said 5 albums before listening to the bands. Never said anything about sharing venues with them.

 

[The Grayfox]

I'd go for DT and Gaerea.

So is that all the 'teasers' were for then? Their festival where they sometimes play cool stuff, but it's too late because nobody cares anymore?

 

[DE4life]

Seems so. Their only show in Sweden in 2026 apparently. Because they're doing another tour of the US, of course. I'm shocked that there are seemingly still so many US fans of this old band that hasn't released a particularly good album in at least 14 years. Enough to make it worth them repeatedly going back there anyway.

 

[GraemeSinclair]

I'd really like to go to one of the Brinner shows one day, might be the best chance of hearing some pre-Clayman songs in person I'd never have the chance to see otherwise. However, the one thing I've always thought looking at the videos from Borgholm and Dalhalla is that the crowds are really tame - the setlists and performances are generally as good as it gets and it's met with the energy of people watching a round of golf. It's not like they can't work a crowd anymore - the Summer Breeze and Graspop pro-shot videos both showcased huge crowds that were really into them, and it's not like they've never played to a really raucous Swedish crowd before, I'm not sure what it is. Maybe with this one being in the city, it'll be different.

 

[Xpyro125]

I mean

Seems so. Their only show in Sweden in 2026 apparently. Because they're doing another tour of the US, of course. I'm shocked that there are seemingly still so many US fans of this old band that hasn't released a particularly good album in at least 14 years. Enough to make it worth them repeatedly going back there anyway.

Their music’s been Americanized for a while now, but now it’s been infused with totally rad modern metalcore, dude, so of course it’s got more American fans than anything. Foregone rules, don’t you know?

In all seriousness, for a modern metalcore album, it’s actually a tiny bit better than the shit we’ve been getting for a couple years now. Not a big compliment, but credit to where it’s due.