IN FLAMES

Release Year: 2014
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: modern dynamic harmonious death metal

seventh full length [2004] of dramatic Gothenburg sound pioneers marks a significant departure from their earlier melodic direction, breathing completely new life into a genre that had long since hit a wall, baldly pushing stylistic barriers with a wide range of atmospheres and clever use of electronic samples, not to forget classic thrash and blasting death metal episodes nonetheless - it has much to do with abandoning the standard C tuning, switching to drop A# tuning that provides way heavier and darker sound; diversity like this might have its drawbacks either - far from all listeners were overexcited with the end result, but still it is a focal release in their continuous evolution where traditional and modern In Flames dramatically collide; recent three panel digipak edition comes with five bonuses from The Quiet Place single