Thoughts on In Flames "Sounds of a Playground..."

[tohellwithhades]

I like it. A lot. Better than A Sense Of Purpose.

[willasher]

This CD is on my wish list. First CD I got of theirs was The Jester Race which is probably their best. A lot of reviewers don't like the newer stuff at all, but, though I do like the older stuff better, I still like their newer music a lot too. The song "Trigger" from Reroute to Remain helped me to aquire a taste for metal vocals when I was first getting into heavy metal. While The Jester Race is my favorite full CD of theirs, my favorite individual song is Crawl Through Knives from Come Clarity. The Come Clarity album in general wasn't good enough to buy the full CD, but I downloaded a few songs from it (legally & paid for).

A Sense of Purpose was the album of theirs I got most recently. It definetly has its high points (Alias, Delight and Angers, Move Through Me, and I'm the Highway), but it also has a few songs to skip after the first listen (Sleepless Again, Sober and Irrelevant).

I sampled a few songs from Sounds of a Playground Fading on Youtube and I agree, it sounds better than A Sense of Purpose. Looking forward to hearing the whole thing.