Hi, my name is François Faubert.

It was with great surprise that I happened to notice there was a new In Flames album out. Real Life having caught to me, I really am not the Web’s Favorite Webmaster that used to know what was happening on the music scene anymore.

Being an official fan of In Flames for a while now I bought the album even knowing I had not liked their previous release “Soundtrack to Your Escape” that much. Excited like a schoolgirl I galloped towards the closest set of speakers to give the new effort a chance.

“Come Clarity” is musically closer to “Reroute to Remain,” featuring heavy and powerful riffs without sacrificing the melodically driven side of In Flames I have grown to expect in time.

There’s even an appearance by Lisa Miskovsky, with is really everything but a metal signer. It adds more depth to the track “Dead End,” without turning too cheesy like, say, the Amy Lee/Sale Stuart duo.

The bottom line is that it’s a really good album. It sounds a bit like the others, but this is a positive in their case.

Good things sometimes fall from the sky when your are just going in to spend the gift certificate you got on Christmas.

I also bought and enjoy the new Rhapsody record, “Live in Canada 2005,” which I didn’t know but happened to be recorded in Montreal (my hometown). It was really strange to hear the guy speaking to the crowd in french out of the blue.