new in flames album leaked...

RobLoge85 · Post by **RobLoge85** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:26 pm

yeah i downloaded a few songs off of it and so far its pretty bad... sounds worse than their last one(reroute to remain)

Set_Abominae · Post by **Set_Abominae** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:17 pm

Hell... I haven't heard it yet and I could've told you that. They get just a little mainstream fanbase and they're all of a sudden changing their sound to sucktacular levels.

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:29 pm

I saw their new video. Someone posted a link for it, but it's down now. Video 'looked' impressive with lots of funky editing and special effects. Someone obviously spent a lot of money to produce such a fancy effects laden video.

Too bad the band/music ULTRA SUCKS!!!

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:45 pm

rubyeye wrote:Too bad the band/music ULTRA SUCKS!!!

x 2

ithaqua · Post by **ithaqua** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:26 pm

It's like watching a nature documentary.

"Caught by suprise and unaware, the elitist metal-heads curiously ponder the newcomers to their den. Not liking what they see, they move on to newer pastures, preferring to stay among their own kind."

Of course, I'd be doing the same thing if it was Velvet Acid Christ becoming popular, so I feel your pain.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:51 pm

ithaqua wrote:It's like watching a nature documentary.

"Caught by suprise and unaware, the elitist metal-heads curiously ponder the newcomers to their den. Not liking what they see, they move on to newer pastures, preferring to stay among their own kind."

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Set_Abominae · Post by **Set_Abominae** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:59 pm

flint_the_dwarf wrote:
ithaqua wrote:It's like watching a nature documentary.

"Caught by suprise and unaware, the elitist metal-heads curiously ponder the newcomers to their den. Not liking what they see, they move on to newer pastures, preferring to stay among their own kind."
What the hell is that supposed to mean?

I think that means we're elitist metalheads. I've heard it enough to take it as a compliment.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:49 am

Well I got that much.

Is he trying to say that a good metal band gone bad and us not liking it makes us elitist?

Or is he just finding some clever way of pointing out the obvious: well they didn't like this album, so they're going to look somewhere more familiar.

RobLoge85 · Post by **RobLoge85** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:33 am

i'm not an elitist or metalhead at all but i like some metal bands here and there.

some of the new in flames sounds similar to something bands like korn would do though

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:12 am

Yeah, Anders' vocals do sound a little Kornish at times.

Ofcourse, this could be because he sucks (see The Tokyo Showdown for more graphic evidence) and not due to any flaw in the band's musical direction.

Of course, it's also that understandable that In Flames have become rapidly more commercial in recent years; they're crossing over, Dark Tranquillity blows them out of the water musically, and The Haunted and the rest of the New Swedish Wave of Thrash Metal absolutely wreck everything they've done since Lunar Strain in terms of aggro.

This being said Soundtrack to Your Escape (crappy title -- *this* area definitely has been going straight downhill since 1997) does not sound like it will be as bad as Reroute.... Most of the people I've heard from who got actual promo discs are fairly positive on it. I'm not sure, but I'm probably going to buy it anyway. It'll hopefully be at least consistent. If the last one had leaned either to its heavier or more electro side instead of wobbling in the middle, it would have been a decent and listenable record.

Well, if they left off the pointless whiny country song in any case. Javla country!

--K