Ranking Every IN FLAMES Album Including FOREGONE! 

I feel The Jester Race was their best album. Their are so many great riffs and melodies. The progression from Lunar Strain is pretty evident.

Unpopular af, I know, but my absolute favorite In Flames album is A Sense Of Purpose. I still listen to that album front to back constantly.

Colony will always be S tier for me. The pinnacle of late 90's MDM. 🤘

Love reroute to remain . This album made me fall I love with in flames .. I know there are better albums by them, but it will forever have that special place in my heart

I always consider Clayman and Colony as twin albums, their soundscapes are similar and they seem to be part of each other.

I am enjoying the New album a lot, to me it’s their best album in years

"ballads by killswitch inflames"💀

So glad you guys mentioned swim! The first melodeath song I listened to, and now im hooked

So, the Reroute tour was my introduction to In Flames. I immediately bought the album based on their performance. I loved it. Dug into their back catalog. Reroute is still my favorite album. I get why original fans don’t like it, but I love it and still listen to it at least 12 times a year.

The Jester Race supremacy checking in. S+ tier.

For me Clayman is still their best album (followed by The Jester Race). I'm revisiting this album constantly for the last 20 years and never get enought of it...

S: Colony, Clayman A: Reroute to Remain, Whoracle, Jester Race, Soundtrack to your Escape B:Foregone, A Sense of Purpose, Come Clarity, Sounds of a Playground Fading, I the Mask, Lunar Strain C: Siren Charm D: Battles

My favorite from them is probably the ep Subterranean

Good ranking.! Your #5 through #14 are probably exactly how I’d rank them. My top 4 would be in a slightly different order though. I’d go #1 Colony, #2 Whoracle, #3 Jester Race, #4 Clayman. As always I enjoyed your video, keep up the great work! 🤘

I am a very new fan of in Flames 😂just two months old,i saw them in release in Athens festival early June waiting after them Nightwish the big name of the day and i love them especially my boy friend who isn't metal fan found them very interesting band and he liked the singer, great performer indeed. I have listen now only two albums and quess...Clayman and Colony, RU-vid sent me these albums first😂, some video clips and their concert in Summer Breeze 2023 also but certainly i will continue to listen their music. You help me a lot, every start with an old band with many many albums is difficult 😦 but i am happy who find this band accidentally i should say and i found a great band to follow as well and listen their music. Thank you guys,my greetings from Greece.

"Colony" is one of the first underground albums that got me in to metal, and to this day it is easily my #1 favorite of IF and a personal metal top-10 of all-time. I'll never forget hearing "embody the invisible" for the first time... it was on one of those satellite TV music stations in the late 90's lol. I was like 14, and I would just sit there and listen to this channel on our TV for hours. I discovered many great bands that way (pre-internet of course). When that IF song came on I was instantly blown away - I bought the CD and it's crazy how good every single song is. It still gives me the chills today... in my opinion, they never quite reached that level again. Clayman and RtR certainly came close - and that trifecta of albums is another one of my favorite things - but to me Colony is still king. I really started to lose interest after RtR... I haven't heard all of the new album yet, but I'm absolutely pumped to receive my pre-order and spin it all weekend

As a teenager, I was introduced to InFlames with Clayman. Then I got Soundtrack to your escape when it came out. I loved Come Clarity when that came out. Clearly I need to go back to some of their much earlier catalogue.

I love those ranking's! 🤘😃🤘

14) Siren's Charm 13) Battles 12) Sounds Of A Playground Fading 11) I, The Mask 10) Come Clarity 9) Soundtrack To Your Escape 8) A Sense Of Purpose 7) Lunar Strain 6) Reroute To Remain 5) Foregone 4) Clayman 3) Colony 2) Whoracle 1) The Jester Race * I'm gonna steal a comment i saw on a spanish review and say In Flames finally remember they're swedish, not american. And i think that's a way to put up how many of us feel about this new album.

Great list guys of one of my favorite bands … agree with most, but I actually like Battles and would rate it higher. But yes, the new albums is fantastic!!!

Pretty spot on with the rankings. I would move Colony up to S just for Zombie Inc alone. Probably one of the greatest In Flames songs ever. I really like Reroute that’s a B for me. Cloud Connected and Trigger are 🔥🔥🔥. Great tier list. Keep up the great work.

1. Clayman 2. Jester Race 3. Whoracle 4. Colony 5. Come Clarity 6. Reroute 7. Soundtrack 8. Foregone 9. Lunar Strain 10. A sense of Purpose 11. Sounds to a Playground Fading 12. I, The Mask 13. Battles 14. Sirens Charm

I don't know their whole back catalog well enough to rank, but the new album starts off solid. I need to give it another listen, because I didn't pay much attention to the back half. Thanks for doing the hard work here, now I know what IF album to target next!

Awesome review guys, I concur basically 100% on this. I'd probably place Whoracle as my top album followed by Jester, Colony and Clayman, but I love all 4. Clayman does kind of hint, subtly, at what's to come but it's still an excellent album in my book. Reroute hints a bit more, and so on (apart from Come Clarity's slight comeback). Lunar Strain also has a special place in my heart, it's not as polished as the following 4 but it has this primordial, even folky vibe that for me puts it a bit apart from the rest of In Flames, and more into a category containing DT's Skydancer and Gallery actually. I also enjoyed Foregone decently enough, first time In Flames have had a pulse in 15 years so I have to commend that. Like many I had truly given up on them, but they proved me wrong, somewhat (it's still no Clayman).

Cheers 🥂

I was introduced to In Flames with the song The Mirror's Truth on a Metal Edge sample CD and really liked it at the time. That said, at the time, I really wasn't into harsh vocals and the most extreme metal I liked was Fear Factory and early Big 4+ Thrash. I was just starting to pick up on Metal Core bands like As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, Still Remains, and Trivium and it was from there I grew more of a taste for harsh vocals and more recently, more extreme metal (you guys have introduced me to some stuff I'm really getting into like An Abstract Illusion). Now looking back at The Mirror's Truth, I've really grown out of that sound. I do still revisit that song for nostalgia's sake. So far, I've enjoyed everything I've heard from the new album.

Great list. The EPs are also excellent. Subterranean and the Black Ash Inheritance I played well into the 2000s

This is a smart and fair ranking. Love that you guys understand production and recording because it gives your opinions merit. My only gripe is how much you shit on "metaphor" because I think it's a wonderful song to come from a band like In Flames. I personally love how musically raw it is and the lyrics are well written as a double entender. IN Flames definitely did a lot of experimenting and Reroute/soundtrack was during that time.

Clayman was my gateway album back in the day, i heard pinball maps and i was hooked, it got me into the heavier metal. I was the biggest inflames fanboy until siren charms, it went down hill but foregone has got me back into inflames.

Great ranking. It’s exactly how I had it too.

I think ya'll got it pretty spot on, my list is: S: Whoracle, Jesters Race A: Colony, Clayman, Lunar Strain B: Come Clarity, Soundtrack to Your Escape, Foregone Everything else is kinda of doo doo. The problem with In Flames is when they're good, they're amazing, but when they suck, they suck bad. Foregone is such a step in the right direction. Honestly, I'm just glad they're back to writing good songs.

Foregone's my third favorite longplay from this band, fourth overall favorite; under Colony, Lunar Strain and then Subterranean (I'm kind of a snob for the very early non-Anders stuff, even though I am starting to love Skydancer) -- but do like a good number of IF albums when I'm itching for melodeath / their occasional deviations -- good tier list and laughed my ass off at the later album critiques👍

Oh man I had a mouthful of water on the “ohhh yeaaahhhh” part 😂😂😂 I’ve never been able to listen to some of those albums that have that really tiny sound to them & Anders vocals on them are like hearing someone else eat to me….for context they enrage me & hurt my ears. I think he sounds much better on foregone & have to say I think it’s a banging album. never really gone back to the very start of their catalogue but think I may have to after watching this🤘 On a sense of purpose I do really like sleepless again think that’s a killer song. But I do vibe with the lyrics on that one. Have a great weekend lads!

Another great video guys! How about a tier list for Soilwork?

Totaly agree with your rating and yes "swim" is one of their most unterrated songs!

Love that you put Clayman in S, hate that you shat on every song I enjoyed from RtR and Soundtrack. I feel like I'm in a weird position, I got into In Flames when Sounds of a Playground Fading was their newest album, but only really stuck to their "classic" melodeath albums because of preconceived notions about "new" In Flames from online fans. I even avoided some tracks from Clayman because I thought they were from later albums. It wasn't until songs from Reroute onward started playing on Pandora that I listened to their whole discography and discovered that I really liked a lot of it. It kind of made me feel sour about other In Flames fans honestly. And even now the only In Flames albums I dislike are Battles and I, the Mask which still has some songs I regularly listen to. I love the new album though. It was incredibly difficult to rank honestly. 1. Clayman 2. The Jester Race 3. Colony 4. Whoracle 5. Come Clarity 6. Foregone 7. Soundtrack to Your Escape 8. A Sense of Purpose 9. Lunar Strain 10. Reroute to Remain 11. Sounds of a Playground Fading 12. Siren Charms 13. I, the Mask 14. Battles

A Sense of Purpose is their best album, Soundtrack to Your Escape second, then the first melodeath ones all the way through Come Clarity, worst is probably Battles or Playground, and Siren Charms is underrated.

Great review! I should have swopped place between Clayman and The Jester Race though. 😊 The Jester is #1 in my book.

I agree. Good opinions. Nice to hear that some more people like the song ”I'm the highway" still I think the album from Halo Effect is better than In Flames "Forgone". Mostly due to the pop-chorus that In Flames stick to.

I got massively into In Flames as a teenager in the early 2000s. Decided to revisit them after my niece asked me for some heavy recommendations. Clayman and colony still stand up as awesome! Totally agree with the point about production on reroute. The drums are just a mush!

Jester race introduced me to melodeath. It may not be my absolute favorite album for me (I'm more Clayman / Colony fanatic), but man does it hit me in the feels. A++. I really loved black ash inheritance around that time too. Something pretty special there, makes my hair stand up on some of those songs. S: Clayman, Colony, Whoracle A: Jester Race (borderline S tier), Come Clarity B: Lunar Strain, Reroute to Remain C: Soundtrack to Your Escape, Siren Charms, Sounds of a Playground Fading, A Sense of Purpose D (oof tier): Battles, I, the Mask TBD on Forgone. Has some catchy songs ala my favorite 2000s era stuff, but some other songs are a little meh for me. Needs some time to stew. Maybe B ?

Out of your top 4, I couldn't really decide which one is the best of them but I'd put Reroute to Remain in B tier before Foregone, cause I really like that industrial sound that came in that album although Foregone has some really good tracks, Foregone part 2 probably being my most favourite, the lyrical content together with the other instruments were well crafted for this album, and put A Sense of Purpose above Sounds of a Playground Fading. Also maybe put Soundtrack to Your Escape in lowest B tier, otherwise I think I agree with most if not all of your takes.

I think your guy's order is pretty spot on, except I may be one of the few that actually still enjoys pretty much every album in the newer era. For me though, I would put battles as the weakest album. There was something I liked about siren charms, to me it felt like they were trying something a little moodier and it worked for me. Battles felt a little phoned in but I still enjoyed it. I would also maybe rank a sense of purpose higher, but that's more for nostalgia sake cause it was the first album I heard in full of theirs

My personal ranking S: Clayman, Whoracle A: The Jester Race, Colony B: Lunar Strain, Foregone, Reroute to Remain C: Come Clarity D: I, the Mask, STYE, ASOP F: SOAPF, Siren Charms, Battles

Come Clarity is my S tier album. I can listen to that album every day and not get tired of it

As someone that's learning to produce and mix music I'm just curious what about the late 90s drum sounds makes them terrible? Are they under mixed?

Clayman was my introduction to In Flames. They were opening for Iced Earth and I hadn't heard anything from them. The Austin Powers theme started and I was extremely skeptical. Then Bullet Ride started. I was hooked immediately.

A friend dubbed me a copy of Jester Race in high school, and I was obsessed. That dropped off after Reroute, which still had some solid songs, but was obviously moving in a different direction. I haven't really listened to enough of their material after that to have an opinion. (A New Dawn is fucking incredible, though). I definitely need to grab the new one. S: Colony, The Jester Race, Whoracle A: Clayman B: Reroute To Remain C: Lunar Strain, Against The Elements (sorry, wrong band haha) F: The rerecordings on the Clayman anniversary edition S++++++: Black-Ash Inheritance. Goliaths and the Acoustic Medley are absolute top-tier tracks.

I'm a big defender of Siren Charms. As I've gotten older I really love that one. Got it tattooed on my shoulder. I still don't love it to the extent of Whoracle, Colony, Clayman, or Jester Race but for what it is, I really enjoy it. I think the first half of I, The Mask showed a lot of promise and I'd honestly put Foregone in the Top 5.

It's fun to see what other people like about in flames. Reroute to remain and Soundtrack to your escape is S tier on my list.

Great list! I partially agree with it, but especially so when it comes to the D-tier picks. I love Reroute to Remain, it's the album that got me into In Flames, but I have to agree that - while I don't HATE the way the drums sound at all - the drums are still waaaayyy too upfront in the mix, and drown out the vocals somewhat. Soundtrack To Your Escape is kinda in the same boat. Here however, I just don't like how the drums sound. That splash cymbal especially is just [vomits in Danish]. Quiet Place and My Sweet Shadow still rules though. Going back in the catalogue from there, I fell in love with the entirety of Clayman, Colony and Whoracle as well. Jester Race, Subterranean and Lunar Strain weren't really my cup of tea overall, but Moonshield is one of my all-time favourites. The C64 version is underrated af too. Come Clarity is my hands-down all time favourite record from In Flames. The mixing is amazing, the brutal bass tone is insane, and Dead End is on it. And if you wanna go with the spin-offs as well, the Passenger album is so so great, even if the lyrics are a bit too edgy for my liking sometimes. Can't believe that album is turning 20 this year. Anything after Sounds Of A Playground Fading is where I kinda stepped off the ride though. I wanted to like I, The Mask, but the way some of those choruses sounded ... specially Call My Name, where the end note of the chorus would blend into a bridge and a verse in the worst way possible. Like the vocal register feels like it should've been a fifth below what it actually is or something. Stay With Me is my favourite on the album though. ... and then Foregone is where I got right tf back on the ride. Meet Your Maker kicks all kinds of ass. While this comment may not sound much like it, In Flames remains as my favourite band ever, right alongside Pendulum. Been listening to both since the mid/late 00's. So you can imagine how my life flipped upside down when I found out my two favourite bands made a song together in the early 10's

I really liked "Stay with me" on "I, the mask".

My personal ranking: 1. Clayman 2. Whoracle 3. The Jester Race 4. Colony 5. Foregone 6. Come Clarity 7. A Sense of Purpose 8. I, The Mask 9. Battles 10. Sounds of a Playground Fading 11. Soundtrack to Your Escape 12. Reroute to Remain 13. Siren Charms 14. Lunar Strain

Clayman is the shit! Maybe my favorite, too.

Great list! Clayman was so awesome that I have been disappointed with every new In Flames record since.

What always bums me out THE most is the production when it comes to In Flames records. Especially in the 2000s, I feel like those records could have been legitimately great if not for the horrendous production. I'm very much a layman when it comes to those kinds of things, but I've heard people more knowledgeable than me point to the "loudness wars" that amped up in the 2000s, and it seems to me In Flames were possibly a victim of that as well. I came across a youtube channel that fixed these - they had Second Stage Turbine Blade from Coheed uploaded, completely redone. I couldn't believe the difference. The editing work to "fix" it jumped the album from maybe my 4-5th favorite Coheed album to one of my favorite records of all time. I legit couldn't believe the difference. Would love to hear this done with In Flames' stuff as well. Wish I could find that channel again....

I paused the video to write this comment while you are are discussing siren charm... Basically the bottom line is just stick to their first 5 albums. When it first came out they kinda lost me with Reroute to Remain , so ive been good for 20+ years just sticking to those 5.

Clayman is definitely their best album! And those early 2000's drums sounds are awesome

My Favorites are : Colony\ Clayman, A sense of purpose\Sounds of a Playground Fading. Both seem like a part 2 of their predecessors.

dark tranquillity next please

I love how it was stupidly easy for them to put al 2000's and previous to B or Up and all the debate was in the 2002 and fowards, that's what true in flames fans debate.

I bloody love Come Clarity. I am so glad someone else doesn't like My Sweet Shadow, twice when I saw them live they closed the show with that and I hate that song, lol.

My favourite album will always be The Jester Race... Moonshield will be my favourite... This album made me a fan of Melodic Death Metal with COB - Follow the Reaper

my sweet shadow is track that got me into In Flames..

My tier list; S colony,clayman A jester race, whoracle, Soundtracks to your escape B Reroute , Come Clarity , Foregone C Sense of Purpose, Sounds of a playground, Siren charms D I, the mask, Battles

Defenitly check out BloodRed HourGlass🤘

I think Come Clarity is the most UNDERRATED album of them. All the songs are impressive and the melody is fine. This Album is my alltime favorite from In Flames. And The Chosen Pessimist is AWESOME. Its like when Disturbed make a cover of Sound of Silence. No one expected but needed. But of course its not a "In Flames" type of song. Underrated songs for me: Ordinary Story, System, World of Promises and Scorn. My Tier list is: S: Come Clarity, Clayman, Colony A: The Jester Race, Reroute to Remain B: Whoracle, Lunar Strain C: A Sense (...), Foregone. D: Rest F: Battles

Jester race is S tier no question !!!!

Just curious how old you guys are?

Not going to lie I like all of their stuff I haven’t listened to lunar strain so I wouldn’t know but I’ve listened to everything else and I like all of it I wouldn’t put anything under a b except battles.

S: The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony A: Clayman, Come Clarity B: Lunar Strain, A Sense of Purpose, Foregone C: Soundtrack To Your Escape, Siren Charms D: Reroute to Remain, Sounds of a Playground Fading Z: Battles, I the Mask

I’ve always felt reroute and come clarity are their best albums. While I do enjoy the 90s stuff, I felt that At The Gates did that genre better, meanwhile their ‘alternative metal’ stuff in the 2000s is unique and I love it.

Come clarity is a brilliant album!!! A +

Say it say the word ....Numetal It's okay fellas The numbers didn't lie

Crawl through knives is still my favorite.

What are your thoughts on The Halo Effect?

I know it's just an EP, but I feel like Subterranean should have been thrown in there.

S+: Whoracle (top 5 metal album all-time for me) S: Clayman, The Jester Race A: Colony, Come Clarity B: Lunar Strain, Soundtrack to Your Escape, A Sense of Purpose C: Reroute to Remain, Foregone, Sounds of a Playground Fading D: I, the Mask F: Battles, Siren Charms

Come Clarity is a Masterpiece

I shed a small tear while listening to this... While some bands kind a should evolve a little (amon amarth for example), in flames did evolve. sadly into something i don't like anymore... but that's just me. bands just can't do it right for me in that sense it seems 😂 still one of the greatest bands out there over all..🤘.

gotta be honest, clayman was the first in flames album I ever heard and it really turned me off them, didn't feel any interesting moments and never hit hard, didn't bother checking the rest out until soapf, which also got me into the older stuff and I saw it's not at all like clayman lol, anyways my lists a mess, although Ill adjust for ur rules ig s: sounds of a playground fading, whoracle favs: A new dawn, worlds within a margin, where the dead ships dwell, deliver us, episode 666, jotun a: reroute to remain, foregone favs: metaphor, in the dark, cloud connected, a dialoge in b flat minor, free fall, meet your maker b: come clarity, soundtrack to your escape, I the mask favs: crawl through knifes, my sweet shadow, quiet place, dead end, voices, deep inside c: colony, a sense of purpose, jesters race favs: the chosen pessimist, december flower, scorn d: siren charms, battles, clayman, lunar strain favs: when the world explodes, wallflower

It's hard for me to rank In Flames albums, because I'm a big fanboy of them and I love their different sounds and genre and basically love all of their albums in their own way, except for the first one and Clayman, which i just can't seem to get into them. Gonna rank them based on how much I've listened to each album and the number of songs I love in them: 1) Colony 2) A Sense of Purpose 3) Whoracle 4) I, The Mask 5) Forgone 6) Come Clarity 7) Reroute To Remain 8) Soundtrack to Your Escape 9) Sounds of a Playground Fading 10) Siren Charms 11) The Jester Race 12) Battles 13) Clayman 14) Lunar Strain

I largely agree with the list, expect I'd swap Jester Race and Clayman. Jester Race and Whoracle are my god-tier In Flames albums, with Clayman and Colony right up there. 🤘🤘

I think battles is an absolute snorefest and i the mask is not much better but i kinda came around on Siren charms more recently and i think it has at least some kind of identity unlike battles. And then there is the rest of their discography besides those three albums, and i honestly love all of those albums unconditionally. Favorite Band of all time.

Reroute to Remain would be an amazing album if the mix was better... that mix is bad... just bad. However, so many of the songs on that album are AMAZING live and for that I still think it's a great album... just needs a remaster... badly lol. Great vid guys.

my favorite track (don't hate me) is the radio part of Your Bedtime Story is Scaring Everyone from Come Clarity...damn, so epic...when I have kids they'll have to get used to it

I got into in flames with clayman... So for me it's their best...

hated soundtrack to your escape when it was released, ended up loving it after re-listening a few years later. can't believe no mention of SUPERHERO OF THE COMPUTER RAGE. that song fuckin rules my dudes.

Reroute to remain is amazing

Done come clarity dirty. Easy S right up there with Clayman. Though respect, I think it is the best middle ground album between melo death, metalcore and alt metal. The best elements of all. Did I, The Mask the dirty def between Playground and a sense of purpose. All 3 albums are decently produced even if they all have there fair share of stinkers. When I, the Mask is ticking the boxes it's very good. I often come back to the first half of that album. I am biased, Come Clarity was my introduction to the genre and my top metalcore like album. I had a compilation promo cd (when they were a thing with Take This Life). Leeches is the perfect example of great melo death with metalcore sprinkles.

I think Reroute is a masterpiece

Seems everyone's opinion on where this album goes in a tierlist is about the same. I agree, mostly. B tier, but if it ends up being something I come back to a lot, definitely A tier. Only reason it's not A tier right away is because of Pure Light of Mind. Everyone seems to like that song, but it's bland and cheesy (in a bad way) to me. Every other song had great moments. I can stomach Sense of Purpose and Playground Fading being C tier (I was introduced to In Flames with Sense of Purpose, so it's B tier for me. Playground is halfway between B and C.), but having Soundtrack to Your Escape in the same tier is absolutely criminal. Yes, it's a post-Clayman record, but that album has better riffs than any of the other albums in the category. Neat list though. Cool to see where everyone stands.

I can't put jester race so highly. Considering it has many aspects of the later three records, they're done just a bit better. B. Whoracle as an S, for sure. Colony, with some more accessible components, still just pumps, over and over, S. Clayman can't be denied as their tentpole, finishing off their sound, refining all their previous works, S. Reroute, has some weaker components, but pumps hard with memorable hooks, B. Soundtrack is the reroute that works. Highly synth, but operating on all cylinders, with some classics, - my sweet shadow was played at live shows for years after, B. Come clarity, is relentless. Their heaviest and most brutal, understandably divisive, but hits my buttons, and still had live show favourites, S. Sense of purpose was the first to properly lose me, with weaker moments in the second half and recycled riffs, - still some strong moments, C. Playground fading, was back on form, with a sense of band-identity and storytelling, memorable and full of hooks, B. Sirens is definitely divisive, but stands out as an original take, and atmospherically holds up as a record, depending on your mood, B. Battles, with good intentions killed me, with the children choruses, weak moments and little to stand out, - poor production and the band sounded tired, D-. I, the mask, certainly bright back the strength of the band, but needed a second take at the edits, certainly enjoyable, C. Foregone, - a jump back in, with some new energy, interesting after the four ex members released their own album onto Spotify, - maybe the group realised that their friends we showing them up. Certainly fun, but still not holding a memorable position. The acoustic writing are oddly weak for a band that Knows how to do this, B. However... their live shows still absolutely rock. Go see them whenever they're near you.

S tier - Jester race Whoracle Colony Clayman A tier - reroute to remain Sense of purpose I the mask Foregone B tier - come clarity Soundtrack to your escape C tier - battles Sounds of a playground fading Sirens charm

Most in flames albums are treasures. I've probably listened to foregone about a dozen times already maybe. It's like candy

Reroute to Remain was brilliant for what it was. Literally everyone who'd gone through the Metallica, Slipknot etc progression suddenly found In Flames and their entry/transition into a new taste in music. I get it in relation to Clayman, but as a stand-alone and for what they were clearly trying to achieve, think it was pretty damn good. Conversely thought Soundtrack was average at best.

Just love the fact how much feelings this band stirs up, and the diversity i peoples opinions. Anders and Björn says it Well: it is your first contact with the band that sets the benchmark. I respect those who has been around since Lunar and thinks that everything after Whorocal sucks, but i got in to them later, and im not fond of the earliest stuff. The two most solid albums for me, with few or almost no set backs, is Clayman and Foregone.

My S tier: CLAYMAN, Colony, Reroute to remain, Whoracle, Battles, I the mask and Come Clarity The rest, about the Foregone and Soundtrack to your Escape i would put it between A and S

Basically I agree, but I love "I, the mask". 😷❤

I think In Flames was hindered from record labels and production overall after clayman. I think it took a tole on the members too. An interview with Jesper I heard sounded like he wasn’t able to be as creative or sound like what he wanted. His other bands kind of show that to me. But hopefully with this new album we see a revival. Love the new record.