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Originally Posted by 1337Nerd
While I agree Blooddrunk isn't Bodom's best album, it's still up there for me. And A Sense of Purpose is one of my favorite In Flames albums. All a matter of preference I suppose.
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I promise I'll stop monopolizing this thread after this (I hope).
But yeah, I'm a fan of early melodeath, the stuff from the 1990s. Back then, In Flames really was melodic death metal, unlike now.
Bands like At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity (before they went all synth heavy), In Flames, Carcass, Unanimated, and their ilk blending death metal, thrash, classic metal, and black metal to form something new and awesome. The dual guitars (either in harmony, like In Flames) or in point-counterpoint (like At the Gates) chugged out swedish death metal riffs and melodic solos and interludes. Acoustic portions and interludes were no strangers, and everything was balanced perfectly.
Then around 2000, everything began to fall apart. At the Gates, Carcass, and Unanimated were no more. Dark Tranquillity changed to incorporate lots of synths (not always bad, but nothing compared to the early albums).Soilwork and In Flames bacame mainstream dribble.
Some of the new bands picked up the slack, like The Haunted, Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Nightrage, and CoB. But The Haunted are as much thrash as they are melodeath (even Arch Enemy borders on thrash). Arch Enemy hasn't evolved at all since Angela joined, and Amon Amarth and CoB's last several albums have all been the same stuff put out over and over again too (not that it's bad, but it gets boring after a while). Nighrage quickly faded and became borderline metalcore, especially after Tomas left.
In Flames has put out my favorite album of all time (The Jester Race), but they've also put out a series of albums I can't even listen to.