Short and sweet.
I remember hoping that this would be better than Reroute to Remain and it is. I also remember this being in regular rotation for a little while, particularly with my Servant Girl Annihilator drummer. I feel like maybe I'm misremembering that part - like maybe we listened to it once, all the way through, which is more than any late-period In Flames record, so by comparison, that's heavy rotation.
F(r)iend is good, dumb title.
Quiet Place has bad clean vocals, and a lot of that thing they do when they go from emo singing to screaming. It's lame, so is it's title.
Dead Alone is ok. As is it's title.
Touch of Red has a trick instrumental that's lame - they tricked me into listening to this instrumental, and the title isn't great.
Alot of it runs together at this point... I suspect it's a better record than Reroute To Remain, but I don't really like it. Evil in a Closet is the worst song, with the second worst title (Superhero of the Compter Rage?! Really?). The bloopy keyboard and that GIANT CHINA CYMBAL really pervade the record, kind of in a bad way.
In Search For I, despite it's title, is pretty dope, probably the best song on the record.
In general, this album sounds like Static-X and Slayer and a pop punk band had a baby. Generally the vocal performance is better and I think the band is better at using clean vocal parts at this point. It just doesn't sound like In Flames, except in tiny, tiny bursts. Also the song titles are stupid, but it's probably the most aggressive album since Jester Race or Lunar Strain, which gets it points in my book. I guess this sort of bodes well-ish for the next several albums of this challange.
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