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Swarming1182
Underrated album. One of my favourites of theirs. Definitely the best since Clayman, and nothing since has come close.
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ArsLulrich
I don't understand the hate this album gets. Yeah, Sounds of a Playground Fading definetly ISN'T fucking Death Metal anymore. And yeah, I love the sound of the "old" In Flames too. But this album is in its own way a fucking masterpiece. In my opinion it's even their best work.
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EvenTheMinions
No denying that Where the Dead Ships Dwell, Ropes and A New Dawn are phenomenal tracks.
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Metality
Different strokes for different folks, I 'spose. I agree that the guitars lack punch, as people have said, but even then I don't see that as a bad thing, because I love what they DID put the focus on: the bass. I personally welcome the occasional metal that isn't 90% guitarcentric. Having said that, the only songs on this album I actually keep coming back to are All For Me and Where The Dead Ships Dwell.
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ABHORRANCE666
Easily my least favorite In Flames album. I have a hard time getting into the alt-metal direction. However, I do like a few songs on this album, but not everything overall. I really don't like the muddy, dull production (Reroute To Remain is my favorite tonally). The Jonathan Davis-esque vocals on this album really don't appeal to me at all. One thing that I like consistently throughout though is the ample guitar solos.
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Arthur_Dent_42
http://dr.loudness-war.info/ Database about the dynamic range of thousands of albums. Who's fallen casualty to and who survived the so called Loudness War? Find out for yourself. ;) Some brilliant and essential educational stuff on that for every musiclover important topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoudnessWar
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Sanity_Theorist
If they didn't overproduce the hell out of this, I might be able to listen to it.
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ErnstHaeckel
Fear is the Weakness,Sounds of a Playground Fading, Deliver Us - awesome ,but other is quite shitty or actualy crap, comparing to ASOP it is bad album
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fuelbomb
It's good to see some people finally acknowledging the awful production/mixing. It's been plaguing most of the big-name melodeath releases since 2002 (with Reroute to Remain being the first, I think), and seems to have become the "standard" sound for the genre. Like many people have said, the production leaves the album flat, lifeless, and without power, and it's brought down quite a few albums over the past 10 years; In Flames, Soilwork, Sonic Syndicate, Scar Symmetry, Nevermore, Mercenary, etc.
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Sanity_Theorist
This album is the perfect highlight of what's plaguing In Flames...the production. The guitar has no damn power whatsoever on this.
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