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This band has been through a lot... The last two albums were the ones that realy got them a bigger amount of commerical success, I personally though that those albums had potential but were somehow watered down in order to please the american market(Notice that I didn't mention anything about heaviness_They can do an accoustic album for all I care, the point is that on the last two albums, the song-writing was simplified so that everyone can appreciate it by the first listen_unfortunately this also made the albums to become boring after 3 or 4 listens).
Anyways, let's see what have they offered us now with the new album:
The production: It has improved a lot. It seems like Bjorn finally decided to get rid of that "vaccum cleaner" effect that he used on the last two albums. The drums also have more punch and sound less electric.
Guitars: Here's where I'm torn... there are some IF classic melodies... but then there are also some really filler material present, overal, it's a mixed bag.
Drums: Much improvement over the last two albums... still nothing spectacular but daniel has definitely improved... with more time changes and better use of double-bass and toms.
Vocals: i'm sorry but Andres' vocals have been mediocre since (and including) Clayman. here he tries a very strange kind of screamo vocals which gets monotonous and annoying after a while. The clean vocals have too much effect which is not always a bad thing, but in this case it just sounds distracting without adding anything to the music.
overall this a much better releas that Reroute or Soundtrack. It is definitely a step in the right direction, but they still have ways to improve.
7/10

Review by: lucifer6

this was one of the best albums. very refreshing after Soundtrack and Reroute (i didn't like those much) about as good as LUnarStrain thru clayman.

Review by: SurtrSvarden

The band has obviously not changed a bit since they started producing shitty albums. Claiming this to be a return to their metal roots, In Flames has decided to steal the money of their old demographic (the 12 year olds already spent their allowance on Cloud Connected).

Initially hearing this was a return to their metal roots, I was quite happy since I loved all their stuff until Reroute to Remain. A bit skeptical, I searched the net and downloaded "Take this life" to see if it was true. Now, what I witnessed was one of the worst screamo songs (which is the worst genre to date, which says a lot). In denial that they could produce such shitty music that will probably get a lot of MTV and radio play for the junior-high kiddies, I downloaded "Leeches". At this point, I was in an utter state of shock and had to be rushed to the ER. While I was there, In Flames recorded my screams as the doctors put the cathoder in my "doodle" to sample for their extended version of "Take this life" in their next single.

Review by: kuramaroze

According to In Flames, this album is a return to their metal roots. It partially is, while at the same time isn't. This album has some good songs, but they are scattered between metalcore and nu-metal songs, which to the majority of the fans of In Flames' older stuff, is the same crap that ruined them with Soundtrack to Your Escape and Reroute to Remain. I really have mixed feelings about this one. I mean come on, they can't possibly accomplish their two goals with this album: returning to their metal roots, and selling to the American demographic.

(For reference, I liked Reroute to Remain, but as a different genre, and I hated Soundtrack to Your Escape. That's my bias. Their other albums KICK ASS in my opinion.)

The album begins with the song "Take This Life", which is a damned good song. It sounds a lot like a song that you'd expect to be between Colony and Clayman. Anders' lyrics are Clayman-esque, but the music is loud and bass-heavy in the same sense as Colony. The only thing separating the music (minus the vocals) from a Colony song is the presence of a catchy chorus -- for better or worse. This song is exactly what they promised, and easily made its way on my Melo-Death playlist!

The next song is "Leeches". The music this time is harder to describe. The best I can put it is to mix a Clayman song with riffs that closely resemble but aren't quite Nu-metal riffs. Toss in Clayman lyrics, a very easy to notice chorus, and the occasional part where the vocals are singing instead of screaming. They're pretty badly timed here, though, and sound like they put a boyband over their music almost.

Reflecting the Storm is the first song that I'm not sure if I like. Picture music very similar to "Leeches", but heavier. The lyrics are borderline-emo mixed with breakdowns and colony-like lyrics tossed in there. If you can tolerate both metal and emo at the same time (a fairly rare trait), then you'll like this song. If not, I doubt it'll ever get played.

Dead End is the first song that I absolutely hate with a passion. The female vocals in this one really don't fit the music, and it's like that one Evenescance song that had the music video of some chick jumping out of her apartment and got a ton of MTV play. This is like that, but without the music video and Ander's vocals suck. Atleast Anders drowns out the female vocalist's voice for the majority of the song. Yuck.

Just by the title of the song "Scream", I expected some screamo metalcore garbage. That's what I got.

Come Clarity (the song) was very boring and partially acoustic but with an obnoxiously out of place electric bass guitar. It may just be my subwoofer, but it sounded REALLY bad. Then Anders' vocals come in all whiney and emo, as if he's about to cry. Sorry, I'm not a 13 year old girl, or a guy who wears the pants of one, so I skipped this track faster than I skipped Scream.

The next song Vacuum started out with a bunch of screaming. This really reminds me of Nu-metal and metalcore garbage that I hate with a passion. I hate it even more when they put it after some quiet whiney song. This doesn't make them seem artistic, which I venture to guess was their goal, but it makes them seem bipolar. If you didn't like the first 5 seconds of this song, skip it. I swear that's all they recorded, and then they just repeated it about 30 times, put in a breakdown, and repeated it again. The guitar solo also sucked, and didn't go anywhere. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO JESPER?!

Pacing Deaths Trail was a generic filler song, and sounded like a hybrid of every one of the songs I consider bad in this album (minus the one with female vocals and come clarity). There's a little feeble attempt of a guitar solo in the middle, but it's cut short. One of the guitars sounds like it's playing Embody the Invisible, but it's drowned out by the other ones, which play the same riff for all 3 minutes of this atrocity.

Crawl Through Knives, just by the name of it, sounded like a screamo song. It looks like I'm pretty good at guessing these songs by their titles! The song has its moments, but they simply aren't enough.

Versus Terminus sounds exactly like Crawl Through Knives, but more bass-heavy. Seriously, it sounds like the intro part of this song IS crawl through knives. Except this time, Anders shuts up for a little so you can hear 3-4 seconds of music between unintelligible screams.

Our Infinite Struggle is more filler. Wow, what a boring song. Screamo lyrics, half-assed nu-metal.

Vanishing Light was actually a listenable song, which my ears really needed at this point. Not headbang worthy, and Anders' vocals almost ruin it. It's very repetitive, and ends way too abruptly.

Your Bedtime Story is Scaring Us All isn't really a song. It's just static with a piano note or two that don't really mean or lead up to anything. Oh, random radio sounds to go with it.

Wow, this album really shot itself in the foot after the second or third song. I'd honestly rather listen to a week's worth of Anal Cunt than a single one of these songs past #2. That's saying a lot, since listening to that much Anal Cunt is worse than shoving a lit match down your urethra... To me, this wasn't a complete waste of time, since I can keep the first two tracks and give the rest to my little sister who listens to this kind of crap.

Review by: kuramaroze

All I can say is that I called it. Look at my review of STYE and you'll know what I mean. Faster, leaner, more brutal, less electronic, and much more emphasis on the guitars than STYE or R2R. Obviously not a step back to The Jester Race, but there are no American radio concessions like "The Quiet Place" on this album. Pairing the female vocalist, Lisa Miskovsky, with the most speed-metal song on the album was an interesting but very solid choice. Highlights: Leeches (solo is 30+ seconds long), Dead End, Vacuum, Crawl Through Knives (best song on the album), Versus Terminus, and Vanishing Light.

Review by: Rob

this album is the best ever !!!
especially Take this life and Reflect the storm are great songs but The quiet place stays my favorite song.

Review by: brecht

what In Flames well enough know is they should never look back. they're still top of the line and have no bad album. I really liked from the upper reviews that "this band's been through a lot" and "take this life lies between colony & clayman". it's just so.
COME CLARITY is yet another kickass album. Take This Life, Leeches, Vanishing light.. actually all of 'em. especially the title track - a very nice ballad that you should listen to the lyrics of

Review by: vegan-in-black

This is the best album by "new" In Flames. Great catchy songs and some heavy stuff too. It's not melodic death metal no more but still they're cool to me.

Review by: Naleway

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