Never lose hope in your local music store
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 in music 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 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. Like the others, which is good in this 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.