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In Flames - Come Clarity
Yet another of my 14 year old (next months) son's offerings which he insists 'You must listen to this dad'. This is by no means my longest review as I am not going to 'fill' when I have not much to say.
Wikipedia tell me that these are a Swedish melodic death metal band.....not a good start, however, being am open minded dad I thought I should give them a a go. Though I do fail to see how Death Metal can be melodic, ho, hum.
This album was released in 2006 and looking at the art work on the cover I kinda had a good idea what it might sound like. Best album in the Swedish Grammy awards, well there you go.
1. Take This Life 2. Leeches 3. Reflect the Storm 4. Dead End 5. Scream 6. Come Clarity 7. Vacuum 8. Pacing Death's Trail 9. Crawl Through Knives 10. Versus Terminus 11. Our Infinite Struggle 12. Vanishing Light 13. Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone
I am not going to review every track as I have to say they are all quite similar. They are fast, drum based songs with some pretty fast and accomplished guitar work, both lead and bass. The vocals go from screaming to well, screaming. The intro drum work on every track sounds the same to me (apart from track 4), or am I just getting old?
Track 5 has some appeal to me as it is quite like old school heavy metal in the musical arrangements, though the damn screaming does my head in, I cannot understand a bloomin word (Old git, I hear you cry). Luckily the Manga like booklet included lists the 'lyrics', if you can read the extremely small writing.
The title track starts with some really nice acoustic guitar playing and is musically my favourite track, much slower hints of Latin, very angsty. Best track of the album by far, I would probably be inclined to listen to more of this band if they did more stuff like this.
The final track is quite interesting too as it starts with a whole heap of white noise, then introduces some slow piano chords and some background TV commentary. It is almost trancelike in it's composition which is okay, but it never really gets going until just over a minute from the end, then shocks you with some quite heavy and dark screaming vocals. I actually like this track a lot and it shows that they are very capable musicians, as well as being very creative intheir arrangements.
~~~~Final thoughts~~~~ As it is, I can say, hand on heart that they are good, as I appreciate their talent, but they are not really for me. Anyway, at £2 from a boot sale, no great loss!!
I am also starting to realise that my son is in danger of becoming very metal orientated, oh well, each to their own.
Oh yea, and if this won the Swedish Grammy's, I aint ever living in Sweden, not quite ABBA, lol.
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Good review. I like a few of their things, but the screeching/growling vocal thing that so many bands do these days annoys me. When the singer sings, he actually has quite a good voice. Re the below comment about their going on Eurovision: if Lordi can win Eurovision as they did a couple years or so ago, I guess anything's possible!
majeedkazi 01.10.2008 15:49
Nice review...
MarcoG 22.09.2008 18:34
However, they may be suitable for Eurovision??? Justa thought ;)
Advantages: Fantastic lyrical album with plenty of thought behind it Disadvantages: Some simple riffs where perhaps more complexity would have been better
Advantages: Fantastic lyrical album with plenty of thought behind it Disadvantages: Some simple riffs where perhaps more complexity would have been better
Advantages: Clearer Sound Compared to past albums, larger target audience, more adventurous drumming Disadvantages: Not for those who like raw death metal, more clean vocals could be a put off
Aug 22nd, 2008
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