Line #5 YMMV/InFlames


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt:
2	** Say what you will about ''A Sense of Purpose'', ''Sounds of a Playground Fading'' and ''Foregone'', but the illustrations for the three albums look splendid.
3	** This goes double regarding the artwork for ''The Jester Race'' and ''Whoracle''.
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
5	** ''The Jester Race'' is considered a masterpiece and landmark in the MelodicDeathMetal genre
6	** Heck, their entire 90s discography (from ''Lunar Strain'' to ''Colony'') is nothing but this.
7	* BrokenBase:
8	** When they changed their sound with their 2002 release ''Reroute to Remain'', many longtime fans who had been following the band since they first emerged reacted negatively to their change in style, citing it as 'not being heavy enough', and describing Anders' clean singing as [[{{Wangst}} pussy]]. However, some fans loved the new sound, at times even more than the old. This conflict has led to many internet wars, particularly on heavy metal websites and Website/YouTube videos.
9	** While ''[=RtR=]'' is the album that solidified it, it can be argued the band had been drifting towards this stylistic change already since 1999's ''Colony''. That was the first In Flames album to feature clean singing (until then, their music consisted strictly of growling and some occasional mumbling), while the songs were noticeably less abrasive and more refined than on the prior three albums. ''Clayman'' was an even further departure from the band's roots, with Anders' growls becoming more scream-y alongside higher in tone and the music putting greater emphasis on catchiness. ''Reroute to Remain'' was simply the icing on the cake.
10	** Even the fans who defended the band's post-''Reroute'' work have reacted to the post-Jesper albums -- wherein the band pretty much ditched every trace of melodeath -- rather coolly.
11	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: While this doesn't necessarily reflect badly on the album itself, ''Lunar Strain'' is this for the band. During the production of this album In Flames was mostly an experimental side-project by members of Dark Tranquillity, and Mikael Stanne performed the vocals instead of Anders Fridén. The two would later switch positions, with Anders performing permanently as the vocalist for In Flames starting in '95 and Mikael Stanne performing the vocals for Dark Tranquillity. Consequently, ''Lunar Strain'' sounds much different from other albums in the band's discography, although the emphasis on melodic content and folk influences is readily apparent.
12	* EpicRiff:
13	** "Stand Ablaze", "Moonshield", "December Flower", "Jotun", "The Hive", "Scorn", "Cloud Connected", "Trigger", "Come Clarity", "Take This Life", "Scream", "Deliver Us"...so many examples....
14	** "Behind Space". For fans of the old In Flames, and ''Lunar Strain'' in particular, this is THE EpicRiff from them.
15	* FandomRivalry:
16	** With Music/DarkTranquillity and Music/AtTheGates, for whatever reason. Ultimately unfounded, however, as the members of each of the "Big Three" Swedish melodeath bands are all friends, have toured together, and have helped each other from time to time.
17	** Fans also have a notable rivalry with the band's side project The Halo Effect, due to it being comprised of former In Flames members who have continued to play in the style of "classic" melodeath. This is in spite of Anders Friden stating that there's no such rivalry between the bands' respective members (he's always been friends with all past members of In Flames), and guitarist Niclas Engelin (who joined before ''Reroute to Remain'') remaining in the official In Flames lineup.
18	* FanonDiscontinuity: As the band is considered one of the Big 4 of Main/MelodicDeathMetal, many metalheads will ignore anything that comes after ''Clayman'' [[note]]Or, if one could be so generous, anything after ''Reroute to Remain''[[/note]].
19	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Younger fans of MelodicDeathMetal and {{metalcore}} have little to no idea of what made In Flames' music so special, and those who have not heard their pre-''Reroute to Remain'' albums may as well easily mistake them for any early-2000s metalcore band.
20	* SignatureSong: "Behind Space," "Moonshield", "Only for the Weak," "Take This Life", "Deliver Us".
21	* SongAssociation: "Deliver Us" is gaining the title of signature song probably because it was featured in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV''.
22	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Parts of "Here Until Forever" sound eerily close to Music/BringMeTheHorizon's "Drown", particularly the chorus.
23	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Most of the band's recent albums have been met with this as a result of their shift away from the melodic death metal to alternative metal. This in turn has led to some fans moving over to rival acts such as Music/AtTheGates or Music/TheHaunted.
24	* {{Wangst}}: The lyrics on their material from ''Reroute to Remain'' onward (and to a much lesser extent, ''Clayman'') frequently stray into this.
25	* WinBackTheCrowd: ''I, the Mask'' showed signs of doing this, reintroducing more melodeath elements in a way that invites comparison to Music/{{Soilwork}} in particular, and being more well-received than the bulk of their post-''[=RtR=]'' material [[note]]''Come Clarity'' aside[[/note]]. Only time will tell whether it succeeds in doing so, and whether the band would continue pursuing the fusion of old and new sounds in future releases.

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