In Flames - Come Clarity review
| Band: | In Flames |
| Album: | Come Clarity |
| Style: | Alternative metal, Gothenburg metal |
| Release date: | February 03, 2006 |
| A review by: | Herzebeth |
Disc I [CD]
01. Take This Life
02. Leeches
03. Reflect The Storm
04. Dead End [feat. Lisa Miskovsky]
05. Scream
06. Come Clarity
07. Vacuum
08. Pacing Death's Trail
09. Crawl Through Knives
10. Versus Terminus
11. Our Infinite Struggle
12. Vanishing Light
13. Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone
Disc II [DVD - Live In Studio]
01. Take This Life
02. Leeches
03. Reflect The Storm
04. Dead End
05. Scream
06. Come Clarity
07. Vacuum
08. Pacing Death's Trail
09. Crawl Through Knives
10. Versus Terminus
11. Our Infinite Struggle
12. Vanishing Light
13. Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone
I don't know what happened to this band in particular, they never were that good neither though, but they used to be decent that's for sure (for example their album "Whoracle", which I sold for regrettable reasons), and now they became almost Metalcore. And before you all "In Flames" fanatics start spitting in my face let me explain a little more; Metalcore is a form of Melodic Death Metal which was created for Hardcore fans that wanted their genre to be more aggressive, so more o less is what In Flames stands for now, just with some complex guitar solos.
This time the music is just naïve and in one word "trendy", even the vocal work is annoying and weird, the clean vocalizations (for example in the choruses of "Reflect The Storm" and generally in the whole album) sound like an Emo kid singing the song he loves the most while watching the video on MTV. As far as the music goes, everything is a fuzzy riff with heavy harmonics and awful distortions also the drumming enters with simplistic and almost dull patterns, etc.; in the end the overall structure of each song is a catchy intro, ascending fillings in the middle then the chorus and a boring finale, nothing more nothing less.
A high point is "Dead End", I can't say that I know the name of that female vocalist, but she has a really familiar and beautiful voice, this feature at least made me open my eyes again and say "uh, that was interesting"; too bad the male vocals had to drown the beauty of this melodious feeling. Then everything gets back to normal beats, cheesy scales and one of the worst string jokes I've ever heard in an introduction (Come Clarity) which, by the way, was "dialogue with the stars" gone bad, so I guess when you're out of fresh ideas you just repeat what you or what others did correctly in the past; and I won't even say nothing about that Jonathan Davis Rip-Off from the same track, just hear it yourself; I swear I almost thought it was Jonathan doing guest vocals.
The album goes by and some riffs are decent some beats are horrid and the vocal work keeps that unpleasant Metalcore/Emo tone (I can't even explain how awful that voice is). What went wrong? Believe me I don't know, but it's such a disappointment because this is the first "2006" album I hear, and it was blatant immatureness.
Best Moments: unfortunately this album has no good moments; the female vocal work is decent at least.
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| silenius Posts: 531  |
this album is one of the worst thats ever been created in the name of metal! just pick out a random little emo band and they could have written this album in 5 minutes.. some of you talk about aggresive riffs and vise versa, thats just the crappy quality production scrambling in tha background mate, this album is to me only noice and mainstream money making comercial crap/think i made my point! i give it 1 out of 10
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| Danny Thomas Posts: 552  |
what i found odd was many people said this was a step up from soundtrack to your escape, but i cant listen to this very long without getting bored, whereas i like soundtrack, i don't see how some people can think this is a step in the right direction. i think i rated it about a 5 as well, maybe a 4
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I think the problem very well may be the audience attempting to listen to it... kinda like (and i know this is extreme) you guys trying to listen to nickelback.... or lest i say it......... justin timberlake...... MANY people out there (and considering the two bands in question... i wouldnt blame you for considering them to have homosexual tendancies) actually like those two artists... they like them a LOT... i think nickelbacks last album went like 5 times platinum or some shit... point is, if you are into really hardcore death/black metal, your not going to like the slightly less heavy stuff... me? i love this album... its right where i want to be musically, and inspirationall for my own music... along with several others (shadows fall, bleeding through, etc..) i know its not the end-all of hardcore metal, but its appealing to many... i for one dont care much for the cannibal corpse type vocals... i like a little bit of screaming, a little bit of harmony, and even the occasional slower song played using a clean setting... i like variety, without going too far off the deep end with the core level... thats just me... to those people, albums like this, and trivium are perfect.... its all in what you want... i do music reviews for another site... an all WOMENS rock site... not that i like it, but i do it to hopefully move elsewhere with my talents... and ill tell you, in order to have your opinions heard, and respected... you have to have an open mind to stuff whether you like it or not.... to me, this (and every other review ive read) seems more like an opinion than a review... and thats GREAT... nothing wrong with an opinion, but a review has to be unbiased... your like/dislike for the genre, style, or even the band cannot interfere with the review... the review has to be about one thing, talent.... are they talented? can you see their style appealing to an audience? do they lack in certain areas that will be a problem in the future? can those be improved on or is an overhaul in order? describe what it IS about the music that doesnt appeal to you... is it distortion levels? frequency of certain picking styles? mix of the vocals not being enough to keep up with the instruments? vice versa? theres a lot to be said that isnt being said... just a suggestion people, dont take it the wrong way  just tryin to help.
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| HELLilac Posts: 46  |
Written by [user id=18484] on 14.12.2006 at 17:34 IF all of their albums sound like this I wouldn't even listen to them in the first place. ANY albums that sound like this are bad albums on my book, period. It isn't my memory that gives this album a shitty rating, it's MY music taste itself.
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| Sunioj Posts: 3894  |
I dont think their earlier stuff is that similar to each other, the jester race was more melodeth as was whoracle..the next two after that were what we would call 'gothenburg'. But their recent stuff just doesnt do it, it sounds too plastic and the clean vocals..ugh. Whatever, this is better than STYE in a sense.
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I like it a lot.. there my fav band, and I got it for my b-day, so it has a sentimental meaning 4 me. well, I agree that the previous album were better.. the best songs are: Leeches, Come Clarity, Dead End and Take This Life
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| b0000mst1ck Posts: 547  |
Written by [user id=25475] on 19.01.2008 at 21:46 that's because they changed their musical style in order to be more commercial. and it's kind of hard to ignore commercialism when a band adapts itself to conform to exactly that. 
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695  |
Don't like this album. Without doubt their worst. The songs are very simple and shallow. I can't stand Fridéns whining either. 
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| VPeter Posts: 1450  |
an In Flames fan recommend me to listen to this album and keeped on saying that it was a powerfull comeback to the roots and after much whining I carefully donwload some songs(no hell I am going to buy there stuff blind) I quickly realised that the In Flames fanboy was bullshitting, this album is no good old melodic death metal, come clarity is poor mix of way to flawed melodic death metal with even worse metalcore.
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| Metalhead2 Skinhead1 Posts: 271  |
it is good for band that they play various things not always the same thing, this deserves 10/10
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| Uirapuru Liver Failure Posts: 2955  |
well... i liked this album... it has a good nu-metal sound but a little faster... the chorus are most pleasant to listen in Vaccum, Crawl Through Knives and Come Clarity. I prefer the old In Flames, but this one is good too, they change but still can do some good music as a experient band.
----  ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/
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| In_tallica Posts: 151  |
A few weeks ago, me and my cousin took this album, smashed it with an axe and then burned it up. So, officially, I don't own this album anymore. The only problem is that I can't erase it from my album collection, does anybody have the slightest clue on how to eradicate this fowl piece of crap from my album collection?
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
Out of all the crap that In Flames managed to release in the last few years, this was the best. Some of it was very bad and the lyrics are getting more and more basic. But it's still better than A Sense of Purpose.
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| MeloDeathViking Posts: 516  |
I actually really like this album and A Sense of Purpose, i feel like im the only one though. O well, to each his own, if everyone liked the same stuff, what kind of boring world would we live in. This was actually the first In Flames cd I ever heard, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Well like I said, to each his own!
---- "I am not superstitious, but I'm a little 'stitious." - Michael Scott
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10092  |
Written by MeloDeathViking on 11.06.2009 at 05:43 nah man, you're not alone lol i'm not one of those fringe-scenesters trying to pose as cool, i love almost every single song i've ever heard by these guys, those riffs, ultra-catchy choruses and guitar hooks after guitar hooks simply do it for me. in flames i trust!
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| ravendeath Posts: 240  |
If these album was done by any other new group, then people will applause it. Be serious... it's a great album!
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