In Flames is coming to town

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Well, not quite my town, but 2 hours south to Portland, ME. I can't stand any of their new stuff, but I remember the days in the late 90s, early 00s when they were an unstoppable force endowed by inalienable power from the metal gods hailing from high atop the snowy peaks of Gothenburg. So, now I'm just sitting here jamming to The Jester Race and reliving a time when I put way more energy into guitar and wanted to write and play melodic metal songs like they used to and take over my town's music scene.
 
Matt300ZXT said:
Well, not quite my town, but 2 hours south to Portland, ME. I can't stand any of their new stuff, but I remember the days in the late 90s, early 00s when they were an unstoppable force endowed by inalienable power from the metal gods hailing from high atop the snowy peaks of Gothenburg. So, now I'm just sitting here jamming to The Jester Race and reliving a time when I put way more energy into guitar and wanted to write and play melodic metal songs like they used to and take over my town's music scene.
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I saw them on this tour in Arizona. They overtly stated “we read all the shit online about you all wanting to hear old stuff so here it is and you had better mosh.”

True to their word a majority of the set was older music. I see them every tour and it was the best set I had seen in years from them
 
I liked Clayman too, I was jamming to a tune or two from it before The Jester Race....all that stuff back then was good.
 
I got to open up In Flames and it was my fav show ever
 
I bought Whoracle for $1 in a bargain bin at my local record store and jammed it for years. It would be cool to see them play that stuff live! Where are you btw? I used to live right outside Brunswick ME
 
Soundstorm said:
I bought Whoracle for $1 in a bargain bin at my local record store and jammed it for years. It would be cool to see them play that stuff live! Where are you btw? I used to live right outside Brunswick ME
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I live in Bangor
 
Soundstorm said:
I bought Whoracle for $1 in a bargain bin at my local record store and jammed it for years. It would be cool to see them play that stuff live! Where are you btw? I used to live right outside Brunswick ME
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Legit question for the Maine folk. Where are the fun places to go in the state as far as towns or cities. I have been to Brunswick a couple of times but just wanted to know what parts of the state are worth going to and which parts suck.
 
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Legit question for the Maine folk. Where are the fun places to go in the state as far as towns or cities. I have been to Brunswick a couple of times but just wanted to know what parts of the state are worth going to and which parts suck.
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If you want to see any kind of metal show you have to go to Portland. I’m from the south so I loved living in Maine even if there wasn’t much of a music scene. Acadia National Park, Boothbay harbor, Bar Harbor, Kennebunkport, Mt Katahdin, skiing at Sugarloaf, ice fishing in Bowdoinham, driving up the coast to Lubec. Most of those are very tourist centric places but I really love Maine. I traveled around a lot over the few years I lived there. Lots of great food and scenery, and I made some lifelong friends there.
 
Thanks for that. If my current housing pursuit didn’t work out I’ve long contemplated getting a house on the water in Maine where it’s low key but still livable which is also part of why I asked haha. Thanks again
 
I got to see them live in the mid 2000's in Atlanta. I think it was right before their Used and Abused Live DVD came out. There were like 200-250 people at the show, tops. Small venue, I was standing probably less than 10 feet from the stage. They turned on the 5150's and slowly pushed up the faders on the cab mics and the whole place started to rumble. The majority of the show was Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony, and Clayman, with some of the new stuff thrown in sparingly. Jesper and Daniel were still in the band, everybody's playing was on point. They played all their best old stuff. I found the band outside and got to talk to them after the show for a bit.

All things considered it might have been the best show I've ever been to.
 
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i was a super fan from 1998 to about 2006. saw them at least a dozen times. some great memories in there. tons of pictures. They're a totally different band now. i'd still go see them if its a good set list. i got to open for them kinda on my tail end of them being my favorite band. jesper wasn't on the tour i saw them on and quit soon after. besides that it was still the core line up from back in the hey day. anders and peter watched my bands set, which i hold as a high honor...even though they just might have been bored of sitting on the bus all day. I haven't really been to geeked about their output in the last 20 years or so. after reroute to remain, it got a little watered down, repetative, and kinda half assed. alot of filler type songs with less than stellar production value imo, that are just limp and forgettable. its sort of how people don't really like new metallica, because their first 5 records were so great, and once they peaked, they really peaked hard. no new in flames will compare to their old stuff, especially because so many bands have drug their style through the mud in the last 20 years.
if they played a set list that was like 75% or more materal from RTR and back, i'd be there.
 
JimAnsell said:
i was a super fan from 1998 to about 2006. saw them at least a dozen times. some great memories in there. tons of pictures. They're a totally different band now. i'd still go see them if its a good set list. i got to open for them kinda on my tail end of them being my favorite band. jesper wasn't on the tour i saw them on and quit soon after. besides that it was still the core line up from back in the hey day. anders and peter watched my bands set, which i hold as a high honor...even though they just might have been bored of sitting on the bus all day. I haven't really been to geeked about their output in the last 20 years or so. after reroute to remain, it got a little watered down, repetative, and kinda half assed. alot of filler type songs with less than stellar production value imo, that are just limp and forgettable. its sort of how people don't really like new metallica, because their first 5 records were so great, and once they peaked, they really peaked hard. no new in flames will compare to their old stuff, especially because so many bands have drug their style through the mud in the last 20 years.
if they played a set list that was like 75% or more materal from RTR and back, i'd be there.
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I've seen them a bunch and always try to give them the benefit of the doubt, there's still one or two songs on each newer album that wants to have that old school sound. Live, I just can't take it anymore. All the recycled pop tunes, none of the old album heavy melodic stuff. I used to sit and play along to their albums front to back, now I'm lucky if I can remember a few riffs.

You should check out The Halo Effect, it's the guys from early In Flames line up writing exactly what people have been begging for. I think that's why In Flames was pushed into trying a return to form with Foregone. I still can't stand the clean singing Anders tries. My ears are still scarred from Come Clarity.
 
Saw them with jag panzer and iced Earth in the early 2000s, one of the best shows I've ever seen. They were unstoppable.

Oh how the mighty have fallen ?
 
vultures said:
I've seen them a bunch and always try to give them the benefit of the doubt, there's still one or two songs on each newer album that wants to have that old school sound. Live, I just can't take it anymore. All the recycled pop tunes, none of the old album heavy melodic stuff. I used to sit and play along to their albums front to back, now I'm lucky if I can remember a few riffs.

You should check out The Halo Effect, it's the guys from early In Flames line up writing exactly what people have been begging for. I think that's why In Flames was pushed into trying a return to form with Foregone. I still can't stand the clean singing Anders tries. My ears are still scarred from Come Clarity.
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all jespers other bands start out great, but fizzle out. I know hes got some addiction and depression issues, so maybe hes hard to work with. dimension zero was the best of his side bands.
 
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