Deliver Us

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So, In Flames released their first single from Sounds Of A Playground Fading.  And guess what guys: it doesn't sound like Jester Race! Shock! Horror!  What it does sound like is a pretty good song.  As you may have gathered, those hoping for something that resembled In Flames's earlier work will be disappointed, as were the droves of viewers on YouTube queuing up to ladle hate upon their latest effort.  What people don't seem to realize is that IF have never made the same album twice.  There was Lunar Strain, which is better off not talked about all that much, The Jester Race, which is frankly just odd, Subterranean which is also odd but in a quite different way, etc etc.  Deliver Us is packed full of the synth stuff from Soundtrack, the great riffing guitar from A Sense of Purpose and the completely nonsensical lyrics that pervade every In Flames album.  If you were open-minded enough to appreciate A Sense Of Purpose for what it was (a great album, with some good songs and some poorer ones, but no worse than Soundtrack To Your Escape), you will like this song.


Some of the people who commented on the song to express their dislike did so constructively, but the majority simply concluded it was shit. To those people, I challenge them to go, write a song, perform it, record it and release it to the world. I feel pretty bad for In Flames, how whatever they release is met with derision by what feels like half the people who hear it.  So it's not another Jester Race. Are you really shocked? Melodic Death Metal =/= In Flames any more. I'm sorry.   I think the reason people get so hung up about In Flames more than any other melodeath band is that they seem to attract, like iron filings to a magnet, the kind of annoying fan boys who demand that they release the same album over and over again, dare I say the same people who would be first to claim the band was going stale if they did so.  


Other bands do exist, dare I say it, other BETTER bands, who are perhaps (dare I commit heresy a second time?) a little more reliable as to the quality of their work. I have posts lined up about some of these bands soon.

No digs to In Flames though, Deliver Us is a good song and I eagerly await the rest of the album.

Peace out. \m/