In Flames's Reviews

Clayman

(Average Rating: 8.92 out of 10)

Not For The Weak

(Rated this album with 8 out of 10)
Reviewed by child_of_the_jester_race from Atchison, KS

I feel guilty giving this cd 4 stars. The reson being that In Flames is one of the best bands that has ever been. I'm not kidding. The 4 stars are here only to tell people that this album is the weakest of all the In Flames releases. Notice that weakest does not stand for weak. In fact this album is everything but weak.

Ironically this album posseses a song called "Only for the weak" which is the song that mainly exposed them to a new larger audience. A most brilliant song that due to it's catchiness one finds it popular amongst metalheads.

The opening song "Bullet Ride" is a strong opener to the album. A most powerful song that makes me feel like headbanging straight away. The riffs seem to cut your body when listening to it and then the chorus comes in with a clean guitar and an atmosphere of tranquillity. What a song. "Pinball Map" another highlight of this album has to be the heaviest song here. Don't worry the melodies are still alive and kicking. "Only For The Weak" which was the band's first single from this record is a really good song. Different may I say from the others on this record. It must be due to its chilled rhythm but yet the band manages to impose a need for the listener to go crazy when submitted to its tunes. "Clayman", "As The Future Repeats Today" and "Square Nothing" are my three favoutire songs on this album. Beautiful harmonies that can cause you to lose all other senses.

The rest of the songs on this album cannot be compared to the songs mentioned above unfortunately, and it is because of this that I am forced to give this album 4 stars. However I must add that "Satellites and Austronauts" and "Swim" are two very good songs that even though are not as good as the mentioned songs, they still are way better than the crap that comes out from the Nu Metal scene nowadays, and if you compare it to that crap, any single song from this album is worth the money.

Buy this album on Amazon at $14.99