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• Manufacturer: Ferret Records
• Average Customer Rating: 4 / 5
• Amazon's Price: USD $13.98
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Too predictable

Rating: 2/5

The obvious goal of this recording was to reinvigorate the bands base by claiming that it was a sort of "return to form." In reality this album is most obviously in the basic template of the last couple that have caused the older fans to mostly move on. They attempt (very badly) to make it more aggressive but it still feels mostly catered towards the the new fans they picked up on their last couple. If your an old fan you might find a couple songs on here you like and if that's good enough for you then go ahead and get it.

*****RIP YOUR HEART OUT SICK!!!*****

Rating: 5/5

This is a fast paced super sick cd. All the tracks are fierce and unrelenting. Again this band has made a perfect Album. In my opinion is the best since Clayman!!!

Take This Life, Vacuum, and Crawl Through Knives!!!!
SICK SICK SICK!!!!!!

GET THIS CD!!!!!!!

10/10 FIVE STARS*****

Listen in silence, hear her voice...a great melodic death metal album!

Rating: 4/5

"Come Clarity" is actually my first album by In Flames, but I can guarantee all readers here that it won't be my last. I heard a few of their songs online at some point, but then forgot about them after a while. Then, a while back when I was at the music store, I had some extra money and was curious to get into a new band. In Flames was one that had always sparked my curiosity, and revisiting their material after forgetting it would be a good reason to get something of theirs. So of course, I picked up "Come Clarity".

This album has the elements of a truly great melodic death metal album. The bludgeoning but beautiful guitar riffs, the fast, pounding drums, the rough, almost screaming vocals, the huge-sounding, beautiful choruses and the harmonized guitar lines. Such standout tracks are "Take This Life" and "Vacuum", both of which have aggressive verses but break into beautiful, melodic choruses. Then we have some clean guitar melodies opening the title track and some instrumental experimentation on "Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone".

Overall, this is a great metal album and shows that In Flames is one of the few, true metal bands that remain in the modern day. I would have given this album a full, five-star rating, but I crave more guitar solos with my metal, and this album has less than the usual amount of solos I want. However, all in all, this is a great album for fans of In Flames, or melodic death metal in general. Be sure to pick it up and play it loud! Thanks for the time, and peace.

Great Album = For Music Enthusiasts

Rating: 5/5

In Flames is by far one of my favorite metal bands. I loved their last album, Soundtrack to Your Escape. I feel that with every new release the band keeps changing and improving on their music.

Have they become a little more mainstream? The question should be "who cares?".

I can't understand people who cling to a specific genre of music as if clinging to some sad identity problem. Many bands now a day defy clear labeling; maybe they are heavy metal, melodic metal, nu metal, etc. So what if a band sounds a little different than they did when they started? If they sounded exactly the same then they would be stale and old....

All these kids crying "they went mainstream" are a bit pathetic. If the album has catchy tunes or lyrics then so be it, stop complaining. If the music is good then just enjoy it and shut up. If it offends your 'hardcore' soul then stop listening to the album, go buy some black clothes at Hot Topic and make yourself happy.

In the end, this is a great album that In Flames fans and metal fan alike will thoroughly enjoy.

Come Clarity

Rating: 5/5

There may be nothing worse for a metalhead than hearing a favorite band go pop. Sweden's In Flames was one of the most respected acts in death metal, having emerged terra firma with The Jester Race in 1995 and steadily releasing solid albums thereafter. But then the band got a little too big for their britches, and when 2002's Reroute to Remain came out, it drew comparisons to Linkin Park and left purists slack-jawed in horror. Rather than try to win back their core audience, however, the band clung to their hopes and released their second radio-ready cherry bomb in a row--Soundtrack to Your Escape. For all but the most faithful, the future of In Flames looked bleak.

Of course, the trade-off of mainstream dilution is a wider audience, and their swerve toward pop culture granted them the exposure that allowed their incredible new album, Come Clarity, to be heard by people like you and me. They landed a premier spot at last summer's Ozzfest, and Come Clarity debuted on the U.S. Billboard charts at a whopping #58. The album was even reviewed by Pitchfork, the likes of which doesn't come near death metal with a ten-foot pole. As they say, three times a charm, and while Come Clarity won't pick up all the pieces of their shattered fan base, it thankfully finds the band moving back toward the melodic death metal that made them a hit.

When I say that Come Clarity is melodic, I mean it. Even the most skull-crushing riffs are quite tuneful, and as catchy as the limitations of death metal will allow. So, while vitriol-soaked thrashers like "Take This Life" and "Versus Terminus" will blow your ears clean off your head, they won't make them bleed. That principle lies at the core of the "Gothenburg sound"--a Swedish death metal subtype whose bands wrote songs-with-a-capital-S while working within metallic boundaries. These are songs, without a doubt; almost all employ bridges, boast killer choruses and end up around the three-and-a-half minute mark. I would call Come Clarity metallic pop if the term didn't make me think of Whitesnake, so let's call it death metal for beginners.

Despite the added melodicism, and the band's country of origin, Come Clarity isn't very "Scandinavian." The lofty, classically-influenced lead guitar is present, but their new label treats them like a hardcore band, shifting the focus to the chunky, earth-shaking rhythm guitar. Vocals run the gamut from a throaty, mid-range death growl to soaring, beautifully introspective alterna-rock bellows. Finally, there are none of those preening keyboards to hijack the rock; Come Clarity lets the bass, drums, and dueling guitars do all the talking.

A typical winter in Sweden is a little like being assaulted with 10,000 snowballs at once. The harshness of the winter months tends to influence the bulk of Scandinavian metal, but In Flames is more concerned with creating electricity, and you get the feeling that they would be much happier if the earth exploded than if it froze over. While their heavy metal brethren often set their sights on hell or the tops of castle towers, In Flames keep their music strictly earthbound.

Old fans may be hesitant to embrace Come Clarity because, even with the Judas Priest influence in tow, it still contains a healthy dose of nu-metal in the vocals and riffs. Grumble and seethe they may, but much of the Swedish death metal that saw its greatest days in the `90s is now beginning to show wrinkles. Come Clarity refreshingly extracts the best from both camps and fuses them into one cogent, powerful, challenging and electrifying statement of purpose. We desperately need albums like this--ones that are easy to access but never pander, and mold marginalized music into something that just about anybody can enjoy.