This was an amazing listen ya'll! Man, Bleeding Out kicked my ass. Here are the time stamps: Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 1:11 - The Beginning of All Things That Will End 3:39 - State of Slow Decay 7:40 - Meet Your Maker 11:32 - Bleeding Out 19:32 - Forgone Pt. 1 22:56 - Forgone Pt. 2 27:23 - Pure Light of Mind 31:53 - The Great Deceiver 35:28 - In The Dark 39:56 - A Dialogue in B Flat Minor 44:24 - Cynosure 48:34 - End The Transmission 52:39 - THOUGHTS ON THE ALBUM
The quality of songwriting on this album has had me in tears several times. The whole damn band is just on fire again. Even the more mid tempo arena rock songs grew on me. An absolute banger from beginning to end.
Same!!! Completely agree. This album is amazing! The sound, the witting, the style...it all comes together! Hope they keep the momentum going! Thanks for the review man \m/
as an In flames fan of both modern and old In flames is this their best album ever right now In my opinion, maybe changes, idk. But like I love this album. No single bad song, even that my least favorite is the last track on the album but it's still great! So right now my top 3 albums by In Flames is 1. forgone 2. Sounds of a playground fading 3. clayman And Anders sounds better then ever on this album. Like damnnn wanna hear all songs live!
My most listened album this year. It sure brings back the classic Gothenburg melodeath sound we love, but also keeps the alt/ metalcore style they've been experimenting with in the last few albums, which I don't like much (I, The Mask had a few bangers though), but they did it tastefully on this album. Anders' clean singing improved a lot and I think his voice is great. This album isn't exactly what I've hoped for, but man it delivered and I truly enjoy all of the songs. I'd give it 8/10 after a month of listening and I think it's definitely their best since Come Clarity.
This album is probably in my top 3 in flames albums I got into them through reroute to remain Discovered their older stuff and was blown away That said i love the newer stuff aswell My favourite albums are sounds of a playground fading and reroute to remain Foregone has elements of everything in flames is all about so thats why its so high on my list Pure light of mind,in the dark and end the transmission are my favourite tracks
Yo, I got into them about the same time period. I remember loving Sounds of a PLaygroung fading when it came out and people saying "they sold out". I'm like nah, from old to new, it was all great to me!
i'm late to the party, just got around to listening to this album and meet your maker into bleeding out had me in perma chills. great mix of all in flames
Dude, great reaction vid! I think you absolutely nailed it with a lot of your comments, too! I listened to the singles as they came out, and State of Slow Decay was of course amazing, and I really liked the others as well. Then listened to the entire album when it was released, and I was like, "meh, there are a couple of good songs here, but that's it". But I listened to it a couple more times, because like you say, it needs to marinate a bit! Did the same thing with A Sense of Purpose, where I also immediately didn't vibe with many of the songs. But sometimes you need to listen a few times, and let it sit a bit, before you *get* the song! Now one of my absolute favourites on this album is A Dialogue In B Minor, which is one of those I dismissed the first couple of times I heard it. ;) Also interestingly, this is the second video today I've seen on this album that somehow mentions the idea that metal vocalists shouldn't do clean vocals, and that somehow that's not metal, and it absolutely baffles me! (In the other video it was the actual youtuber pretty much saying that...) Yet there is so much amazing metal out there with clean vocals! If people are just listening to metal with growling/hard vocals, they're omitting like 80% of the entire metal genre. Or are they saying bands Metallica or Dragonforce isn't metal? I'm stumped. xD
Thanks a lot man. I really appreciate your kind words. I think there is a brand of metal fan (kinda like I used to be) that does not like when bands "experiment". They are metal purists and want their favorite band to maintain their "current" sound and just improve upon it. The problem with this is, creativity can be really fluid. (I know this because I write music). It's like Naughty Dog ONLY making uncharted for the rest of their lives. That's essentially what metal purists want. But if Naughty dog didn't experiment, they wouldn't have ever made The Last of Us.
Yeah, that's exactly it! And I'm sure I've had periods of my life where I thought the same way about something, myself. It's probably a bit human nature, until you start thinking of people(including artists) complexely. And yeah, TLoU was an absolute masterpiece of video game storytelling, which arose from breaking a bit out of the mold! I'm a creative person myself, and getting locked into any one thing is basically the death of creativity. Creativity needs the freedom to explore what it wants. Which is why you see all these artists having side projects completely different from their "main band". Or why you see other bands, like In Flames, do new stuff every one or two albums. Cheers, man! :D
Yes, I think the more "controversial" In Flames albums had to happen for this level of mastery to be achieved. As a creative person, I can confirm you MUST try many things to keep the creative flame alive.
comparing this album conceptually to the previous few albums there is a change in focus on the lyrics and i think the whole focus on the album and tone. this album seems to be commentary on the state of the world and how that effects us. Covid 19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine i think impacted their creative process as well as having new members and production.
I really enjoy your reactions dude. 🤘🔥 I pretty much had the same reaction to “Bleeding Out” that chorus is just incredible. And that solo completely melts your face.genuinely made me tear up as well, jaw dropping indeed. 👍I love this album so much, already! 🤘🔥💚 keep up the good work man , I’ll be watchin
Thank you so much for that man. Yea this was a RAW listen. I love encountering metal songs that bring tears! This was one of those rare cases! Spectacular album!!
Album is phenomenal. Maybe the one song that meh is the ballad song. Other than that best album they've done in a long time. Metal fans are toxic as shit. Just because the man wants to sing with a clean voice they dismiss the whole record. It's ridiculous. The melodies and guitar work on this are so good. Good reactions by the way, liked the video!
Thanks a lot sir! I agree, Metal purists can be a bit much sometimes. They wouldn't say shit about Iron maiden clean singing, but then talk ish about In Flames doing it... Just silly
If there ever was an album to mesh the new and old, and put to rest the whole old in flames was better BS. Their last few really kinda ehh for me. But the from the get go hearing the acoustic with the "pallar anders visa", "acoustic medley" ish vibe. Think the last album from them I can legit say there wasn't a bad song was soundtrack to your escape.
Also, holy shit, yeah I just listened to State of Slow Decay and ATG's Blinded by Fear side by side and it's the same song, basically... I don't wanna call it a rip-off, but dogdagmned... =P
@@KrimsonMatt if you don't know At the Gate's seminal album Slaughter of the Soul, then yes, you should check it out for sure... although you might know it already, but yeah, like compare both songs... obviously not a 100% the same, but yeah...
As a longtime In Flames fan, this album is the best they've done in well over a decade. If I were to put it on a tier list, B tier, but damn near A tier. If it ends up being an album I come back to a lot, definitely A tier. The only thing that stops it from being A tier right off the bat is Pure Light of Mind. Everyone seems to like that song, but it's bland and cheesy (in a bad way) to me. Every other song had great moments in it. Even Cynosure, which you seemed not to like as much, but I loved the atypical time signature they used.
I hear ya, I think like most things time will tell for some of the non-singles. But Cynosure has def grown on me! I do think Pure light is a tint but cleche, but I do still like it!
Good album! The main problem allthough is that the outstanding singles are the best. And as expected/feared from my side, these rest is mostly clean singing on the rest of the album... Very disappointed in that, cause most of the other songs is meh. Not bad at all, but too less of the other great screaming energetic songs. My favourite is probably Foregone part 1. Anyways, enjoyed listen to and watching your video 👍 Cheers man!
Better than The Halo Effect, but that's not saying much. Still fairly mediocre but at least there are 2-3 decent tunes on this album. The past 3 have been atrocious.
Anders was never a good singer tho. That's the thing. Live he sings off key and can't hold any notes. He has a decent tone of voice, but can't utilize it. That's where studio editing comes in handy. He has amazing screams tho. One of my favourite harsh vocals in metal. That's why I was kinda disappointed, when most of the songs had alot of clean vocals. The album has grown on me since those couple of days, but I'd still prefer like 70% of those cleans to become screams. Instrumentally this album is great. I can't complain here, cause they definitely delivered. Overall Foregone sits in the middle on my In Flames albums tier list. Not close to TJR, Whoracle, Colony and Clayman, but beating last 4 albums by a landslide. I MIGHT like it more, than STYE aswell. Not sure yet. Gotta listen to it more.
I've heard him sing live. He sounds fine. Just way to many people are stuck in the 90s with those early records. The second they hear him come in with cleans "oh this sucks its not Whoracle or TJR." Like enough with that shit already. Move on with your lives like In Flames has DECADES AGO."
@@tylersmith2849 If you're a #1 fan no matter what, then sure, he might sound fine to you. To me his singing live is not even close to good. It's like denying that Corey Taylor sounds like a dying goat, when he sings for slipknot, after destroying his vocal cords not properly growling. Ahhh 9.0:live... now that was a disappointment on another scale. But back to In Flames. Why do you make an assumption on others, that they have to be attached to oldest stuff if they don't like it? Some don't like his cleans, and like screams, some the other way around, some love older stuff, some newer. That's a music taste. I started listening to IF maybe like 2 years before ASOP dropped. First songs I ever heard were The Quiet Place and Trigger. I got my hands on TJR and Whoracle few years after and they just blew my mind. That was exacly what I was looking for. More of his screams and crazy guitar harmonies. Also unpopular opinion... I really liked ASOP.
@RunninWithMos I make that assumption because people that complain about his cleans always bring up how good the old 90s melodeath albums are. And they are good but hearing how good those albums are it gets repetitive and annoying. They arent going to do that sound anymore, they are pushing 50 and people expect them to play the same shit they played when they were in their 20s? For example the old In Flames sound is scattered through out this album on the guitars just with a more modern take and people shit on it. What do you want?!?!?!? If you don't like the album simply because he sings clean that a ridiculous short sighted complaint.
Great video man I like watching your reaction! Album was a fuckin' banger I loved it 🤘🖤 I laughed when you said the Bleeding Out was a radio friendly song lol over here in Scotland bands like this are never on the radio lol 😭
lol true. So generally, yea songs like this would only be on particular radio stations in the states... but I mostly say that to convey the idea that it is a "vocally clean dominant song". I honestly don't really consider it a "Radio song" in the same way that some (not all) metal purists might insult a song.
Dont want to sound like a metal elitist, but this album is way over rated. The clean vocals are whinny and weak. Strange muddy production so ruins the guitars. This is not a return to their old sound. This is not melo-death. This is not classic in flames. To be fair, this is their best album after clayman, but thats not saying much. I give it a 4/10. Very over rated
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This was an amazing listen ya'll! Man, Bleeding Out kicked my ass. Here are the time stamps:
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:11 - The Beginning of All Things That Will End
3:39 - State of Slow Decay
7:40 - Meet Your Maker
11:32 - Bleeding Out
19:32 - Forgone Pt. 1
22:56 - Forgone Pt. 2
27:23 - Pure Light of Mind
31:53 - The Great Deceiver
35:28 - In The Dark
39:56 - A Dialogue in B Flat Minor
44:24 - Cynosure
48:34 - End The Transmission
52:39 - THOUGHTS ON THE ALBUM
Not enough people have done a full reaction to this album - it’s so good! Thank you
The quality of songwriting on this album has had me in tears several times. The whole damn band is just on fire again. Even the more mid tempo arena rock songs grew on me. An absolute banger from beginning to end.
Best album in last 15 years, since A Sense of Purpose
Yea, it's nice seeing so many people give love to A Sense of Purpose. I adore that album!!
Same!!! Completely agree. This album is amazing! The sound, the witting, the style...it all comes together! Hope they keep the momentum going! Thanks for the review man \m/
Yes, I'm hoping they can keep the life essence going! This and I the Mask are a great return to form for In Flames!!
it's been a long time since I've listened to an entire album, but this easily shot through the top of my list!
In Flames we trust
as an In flames fan of both modern and old In flames is this their best album ever right now In my opinion, maybe changes, idk.
But like I love this album.
No single bad song, even that my least favorite is the last track on the album but it's still great!
So right now my top 3 albums by In Flames is
1. forgone
2. Sounds of a playground fading
3. clayman
And Anders sounds better then ever on this album.
Like damnnn wanna hear all songs live!
I agree man, Anders is scaring me on this one lol. Really good!
My most listened album this year. It sure brings back the classic Gothenburg melodeath sound we love, but also keeps the alt/ metalcore style they've been experimenting with in the last few albums, which I don't like much (I, The Mask had a few bangers though), but they did it tastefully on this album. Anders' clean singing improved a lot and I think his voice is great.
This album isn't exactly what I've hoped for, but man it delivered and I truly enjoy all of the songs.
I'd give it 8/10 after a month of listening and I think it's definitely their best since Come Clarity.
Sounds nothing like whoracle, the jesters race, subterranian or even clayman
@@Yalboulisten to the instrumentals again
This album is probably in my top 3 in flames albums
I got into them through reroute to remain
Discovered their older stuff and was blown away
That said i love the newer stuff aswell
My favourite albums are sounds of a playground fading and reroute to remain
Foregone has elements of everything in flames is all about so thats why its so high on my list
Pure light of mind,in the dark and end the transmission are my favourite tracks
Yo, I got into them about the same time period. I remember loving Sounds of a PLaygroung fading when it came out and people saying "they sold out". I'm like nah, from old to new, it was all great to me!
i'm late to the party, just got around to listening to this album and meet your maker into bleeding out had me in perma chills. great mix of all in flames
Dude, great reaction vid! I think you absolutely nailed it with a lot of your comments, too!
I listened to the singles as they came out, and State of Slow Decay was of course amazing, and I really liked the others as well. Then listened to the entire album when it was released, and I was like, "meh, there are a couple of good songs here, but that's it". But I listened to it a couple more times, because like you say, it needs to marinate a bit! Did the same thing with A Sense of Purpose, where I also immediately didn't vibe with many of the songs. But sometimes you need to listen a few times, and let it sit a bit, before you *get* the song!
Now one of my absolute favourites on this album is A Dialogue In B Minor, which is one of those I dismissed the first couple of times I heard it. ;)
Also interestingly, this is the second video today I've seen on this album that somehow mentions the idea that metal vocalists shouldn't do clean vocals, and that somehow that's not metal, and it absolutely baffles me! (In the other video it was the actual youtuber pretty much saying that...) Yet there is so much amazing metal out there with clean vocals! If people are just listening to metal with growling/hard vocals, they're omitting like 80% of the entire metal genre. Or are they saying bands Metallica or Dragonforce isn't metal? I'm stumped. xD
Thanks a lot man. I really appreciate your kind words. I think there is a brand of metal fan (kinda like I used to be) that does not like when bands "experiment". They are metal purists and want their favorite band to maintain their "current" sound and just improve upon it.
The problem with this is, creativity can be really fluid. (I know this because I write music).
It's like Naughty Dog ONLY making uncharted for the rest of their lives. That's essentially what metal purists want. But if Naughty dog didn't experiment, they wouldn't have ever made The Last of Us.
Yeah, that's exactly it! And I'm sure I've had periods of my life where I thought the same way about something, myself. It's probably a bit human nature, until you start thinking of people(including artists) complexely.
And yeah, TLoU was an absolute masterpiece of video game storytelling, which arose from breaking a bit out of the mold!
I'm a creative person myself, and getting locked into any one thing is basically the death of creativity. Creativity needs the freedom to explore what it wants. Which is why you see all these artists having side projects completely different from their "main band". Or why you see other bands, like In Flames, do new stuff every one or two albums.
Cheers, man! :D
This albums is great! Feels like they found a good balance between their old stuff like Come Clarity, and their newer sounds like Battlegrounds.
Yes, I think the more "controversial" In Flames albums had to happen for this level of mastery to be achieved. As a creative person, I can confirm you MUST try many things to keep the creative flame alive.
Bro, this album is ridiculous! I can't stop listening to it. This record the new Megadeth, the new lamb of God and Arch Enemy! Over and over lol
Same. And now the new Judas Priest as well. 🤘🤘
This is a great album! In Flames We Trust!!!
The lead in Bleeding Out is Chris Broderick
@@michaelseagraves5404 Thank you sir, that's what I figured. That was so insanely good!
comparing this album conceptually to the previous few albums there is a change in focus on the lyrics and i think the whole focus on the album and tone. this album seems to be commentary on the state of the world and how that effects us. Covid 19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine i think impacted their creative process as well as having new members and production.
I love a In flames album after years also cool reaction
Thank you for the love man!! In Flames is great!
Love this whole fkn album
Immediately a fucking classic album
I really enjoy your reactions dude. 🤘🔥 I pretty much had the same reaction to “Bleeding Out” that chorus is just incredible. And that solo completely melts your face.genuinely made me tear up as well, jaw dropping indeed. 👍I love this album so much, already! 🤘🔥💚 keep up the good work man , I’ll be watchin
Thank you so much for that man. Yea this was a RAW listen. I love encountering metal songs that bring tears! This was one of those rare cases! Spectacular album!!
Question. Did this album influence your current song writing? If so, how?
I was just as impressed with I the mask. You should give it a listen.
Yes sir, I have. I LOVE that album, that was the start of In Flames true return in my opinion! Then this album reassured everyone!
Album is phenomenal. Maybe the one song that meh is the ballad song. Other than that best album they've done in a long time. Metal fans are toxic as shit. Just because the man wants to sing with a clean voice they dismiss the whole record. It's ridiculous. The melodies and guitar work on this are so good. Good reactions by the way, liked the video!
Thanks a lot sir! I agree, Metal purists can be a bit much sometimes. They wouldn't say shit about Iron maiden clean singing, but then talk ish about In Flames doing it... Just silly
I do love the guitar work on the ballad
And the drumming!
Anders' clean vocals have progressively gotten worse.
@@vorpalblades really? They sound better to me on this album.
Chris Broderick, bro….yeah
His influence is so evident.
@@lilzak1121no it isn't.
It sounds nothing like music Broderick has actually written.
If there ever was an album to mesh the new and old, and put to rest the whole old in flames was better BS. Their last few really kinda ehh for me. But the from the get go hearing the acoustic with the "pallar anders visa", "acoustic medley" ish vibe. Think the last album from them I can legit say there wasn't a bad song was soundtrack to your escape.
Also, holy shit, yeah I just listened to State of Slow Decay and ATG's Blinded by Fear side by side and it's the same song, basically... I don't wanna call it a rip-off, but dogdagmned... =P
Hmm interesting, I'll have to check that out!
@@KrimsonMatt if you don't know At the Gate's seminal album Slaughter of the Soul, then yes, you should check it out for sure... although you might know it already, but yeah, like compare both songs... obviously not a 100% the same, but yeah...
Not even similar.
@@vorpalblades you need to clean your ears.
As a longtime In Flames fan, this album is the best they've done in well over a decade. If I were to put it on a tier list, B tier, but damn near A tier. If it ends up being an album I come back to a lot, definitely A tier. The only thing that stops it from being A tier right off the bat is Pure Light of Mind. Everyone seems to like that song, but it's bland and cheesy (in a bad way) to me. Every other song had great moments in it. Even Cynosure, which you seemed not to like as much, but I loved the atypical time signature they used.
I hear ya, I think like most things time will tell for some of the non-singles. But Cynosure has def grown on me! I do think Pure light is a tint but cleche, but I do still like it!
Good album! The main problem allthough is that the outstanding singles are the best. And as expected/feared from my side, these rest is mostly clean singing on the rest of the album... Very disappointed in that, cause most of the other songs is meh. Not bad at all, but too less of the other great screaming energetic songs. My favourite is probably Foregone part 1.
Anyways, enjoyed listen to and watching your video 👍 Cheers man!
Thanks a lot Kim. Yes I think bands nowadays have a hard time fining the balance between screams/growls and cleans.
Better than The Halo Effect, but that's not saying much.
Still fairly mediocre but at least there are 2-3 decent tunes on this album.
The past 3 have been atrocious.
Anders was never a good singer tho. That's the thing. Live he sings off key and can't hold any notes. He has a decent tone of voice, but can't utilize it. That's where studio editing comes in handy. He has amazing screams tho. One of my favourite harsh vocals in metal. That's why I was kinda disappointed, when most of the songs had alot of clean vocals. The album has grown on me since those couple of days, but I'd still prefer like 70% of those cleans to become screams. Instrumentally this album is great. I can't complain here, cause they definitely delivered. Overall Foregone sits in the middle on my In Flames albums tier list. Not close to TJR, Whoracle, Colony and Clayman, but beating last 4 albums by a landslide. I MIGHT like it more, than STYE aswell. Not sure yet. Gotta listen to it more.
Yes, this is kind of true. He has improved, but yea he has always been one to be a bit off key and such with singing.
I've heard him sing live. He sounds fine. Just way to many people are stuck in the 90s with those early records. The second they hear him come in with cleans "oh this sucks its not Whoracle or TJR." Like enough with that shit already. Move on with your lives like In Flames has DECADES AGO."
@@tylersmith2849 If you're a #1 fan no matter what, then sure, he might sound fine to you. To me his singing live is not even close to good. It's like denying that Corey Taylor sounds like a dying goat, when he sings for slipknot, after destroying his vocal cords not properly growling. Ahhh 9.0:live... now that was a disappointment on another scale. But back to In Flames. Why do you make an assumption on others, that they have to be attached to oldest stuff if they don't like it? Some don't like his cleans, and like screams, some the other way around, some love older stuff, some newer. That's a music taste. I started listening to IF maybe like 2 years before ASOP dropped. First songs I ever heard were The Quiet Place and Trigger. I got my hands on TJR and Whoracle few years after and they just blew my mind. That was exacly what I was looking for. More of his screams and crazy guitar harmonies. Also unpopular opinion... I really liked ASOP.
@RunninWithMos I make that assumption because people that complain about his cleans always bring up how good the old 90s melodeath albums are. And they are good but hearing how good those albums are it gets repetitive and annoying. They arent going to do that sound anymore, they are pushing 50 and people expect them to play the same shit they played when they were in their 20s? For example the old In Flames sound is scattered through out this album on the guitars just with a more modern take and people shit on it. What do you want?!?!?!? If you don't like the album simply because he sings clean that a ridiculous short sighted complaint.
@@RunninWithMos ASOP is great, I agree with you on that.
Great video man I like watching your reaction! Album was a fuckin' banger I loved it 🤘🖤
I laughed when you said the Bleeding Out was a radio friendly song lol over here in Scotland bands like this are never on the radio lol 😭
lol true. So generally, yea songs like this would only be on particular radio stations in the states... but I mostly say that to convey the idea that it is a "vocally clean dominant song". I honestly don't really consider it a "Radio song" in the same way that some (not all) metal purists might insult a song.
Dont want to sound like a metal elitist, but this album is way over rated. The clean vocals are whinny and weak. Strange muddy production so ruins the guitars. This is not a return to their old sound. This is not melo-death. This is not classic in flames. To be fair, this is their best album after clayman, but thats not saying much. I give it a 4/10. Very over rated
They tricked us with the singles. They were great. The rest of the album was slow, soft, and horrible.