Gave it a few more listens... rather unwillingly. It does seem better on repeat listens and you get to hear stuff you initially missed. But I can't see any of the songs being regulars on my playlist.

I guess this is just a genre that is easy to consume, so people drool over it. For now it seems like 6.5-7 album to me overall.

I would say that this is one of those rare recycled products that is actually very enjoyable. This will come off as a blasphemy but at times it almost sounds like upgraded version of Clayman. I swear that Coda is a rip-off of (multiple) In Flames song(s) that I cannot quite put a finger on but I do not care really, at least here are involved some of the same members that made the "original". The only thing that I am annoyed by are the Stanne's clean vocal moments - not that they are very bad or anything like that, but they usually appear in the weakest (parts of the) songs and do not add anything to the experience.

But it is true that I did not give this that many spins yet, at the moment I prefer it to the first one (which I also liked).

If this had been dropped cirka 2005, it probably would have been my favorite album ever. Cool melodies, I like them. Stanne sounds awesome, best I ever heard him I think. I'll probably revisit this every now and then, just 'cause it's so well done, but this is really not the kind of music I listen to a lot nowadays. But it's good to get a new album of melodeath that I can put on when the craving shows itself.

The Burning Point caught my ears badly.

This is not DT. It's not. Sounds nothing like it. Sounds like Happy Tranquility. 🤣

Love the album, loved the debut too. The riffs are really catchy. Favourite songs - what we become and between directions.

OK, after three weeks into it, I must confess.

This week, I started listening to Days Of The Lost and March Of The Unheard in sequence, and I must say, it's even better than listening to Wintersun Time 1 followed by Wintersun Time 2. This is the best modernized version of classic MDM that the genre has been missing for decades.

They make MDM great again!

An improvement over the debut, but not a marked one. That one had “Shadowminds” and this has “Detonate” as the catchy hits, but the rest is largely a dulled rehash of the golden days of DT/IF, except without anything noteworthy to set it apart (melody, groove, atmosphere…). Undoubtedly it will win best MDM next year tho

Where did i hear before the tunes of 'This Curse of Silence' and 'Coda' ?

Can anyone answer????

Its the same like their debut but slightly better in the second half especially tracks like 'The Death that.......'and 'The Burning Point'. Sad part is that there are clearly two rip offs in this as I mentioned earlier - The Curse of Silence (which I couldn't still figure out) and Coda - Dry County by Bon Jovi.

In Flames 4.0

Written by Languedocian on 12.01.2025 at 14:42
The true heir to Clayman?

Yes.
It's like a loveletter from the past, signed with "hugs and kisses" in the form of "Coda".
Happy times.

Written by Spacerunner on 14.03.2025 at 13:09

Written by Languedocian on 12.01.2025 at 14:42
The true heir to Clayman?

Yes.
It's like a loveletter from the past, signed with "hugs and kisses" in the form of "Coda".
Happy times.

Haha, I like the way you put it... Absolutely.