content: This album, though recieving some overly critical responses from death metal and traditoinal In Flames devotees, is an excellent album, dare i say one of the years best albums, all genres included. Though I readily admit, this album isn't as heavy as their previous albums, I in fact like the 'new sound' just as much as the old. I would again caution * if your looking for some 'simple' thrash/death metal these guys and especially this album are not it. This album breaths new complexity and shows off a dark, raw, melancholic, yet purely poetic and flowing In Flames sound: so for all those who shun all Death metal, this is your perfect intro, and for those of you who shun 'the new sound' I beg you to give another listen, and fall in love all over again.