This one will be short, too, I think. Increasingly, I'm finding that later In Flames is very stylistically consistent. It's musically fine, I guess, but the vocals are too voicy and emotive. I think Anders was not a great singer, and he is really not a good clean singer at all, and he's ruining it for me. Even if he just didn't sing, I wouldn't mind these later records. But he does, so I do.
This was the last record with Jesper Stromblad. He should do more Dimension Zero,
Disconnected, a song that I didn't enjoy, was in a Guitar Hero game, woot woot.
Anders says "shit" on this record, which is the only In Flames song with cursing that I can think of. I'm proud of them, though. I didn't think they had a deep enough grasp of English to drop metaphoric gems (actually, it's a simile... so simileric gems?) like "I feel like shit." again, woot woot.
According to Wikipedia, according to sputnikmusic:
"...A Sense of Purpose shows getting rid of what was intrinsically In Flames, the harmonies. Now in their place are hackneyed synth passages and down tuned nu-metal style riffing. In an attempt to grab the attention of the fans of nu-metal's corpse, In Flames have stuck it to their old fans, again ... I'm sorry to say it, but In Flames are out of any worthwhile ideas. They even admit it in the opening track of the album, 'Without even trying' shrieks Anders on 'The Mirror's Truth'. At least he's being honest."By and large, I agree. Way to go In Flames. The last track was my favorite one, it was like 10% better than the other songs.
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