Welcome to this weeks edition of Devil’s Island! Every week we maroon a band or artist on the island and see what they get up to, how they cope with being all alone on a small island in the middle of the ocean. It’s not your average desert island and we’ll see just how each person copes with the extreme conditions.
This week when we arrived at Devil’s Island we find Before The Sirens sat on the beach. The island is far from their home, so how did they end up here and how did they cope with life on Devil’s Island?
Find out now…
Welcome to The Razors’e Edge and our somewhat lovely, warm desert island. Don’t worry about it’s name I’m sure it’s not as bad as that would suggest.
You’re marooned here on this island, but before you ended up shipwrecked you chose one album that you couldn’t live without. Which album did you each chose and why?
Alun: The Ghost Inside – The Ghost Inside – Big, angry, metalcore. The ultimate redemption record.
Chris: Breaking Benjamin – Phobia – Ben Burley and co. at their very, very best.
Adam: Killswitch Engage – The End Of Heartache. A close run thing with As Daylight Dies but one of the best classic metalcore records ever released.
Alex: Amen by Igorrr, very unique with no bad tracks.
Just behind that palm tree is a shack for each of you to stay in, with enough space for you to put up a poster on the wall of one album cover. What album cover do you each chose?
Alun: City & Colour – Sometimes – I love the trad tattoo nature of this artwork. It’s already tattooed on my arm so I’d definitely have it on the wall
Adam: Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache – Gnarly album cover particularly the alternative flower artwork (that Alun also has tattooed on his arm!)
Chris: Architects – The Here and Now. Really interesting artwork on this one.
Alex: Moving Pictures by Rush, a triple play on words.
There’s also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to choose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What’s your tipple of choice?
Adam: Tea
Alun: Banana Milkshake
Chris: Kombacha – Mixed Berry
Alex: Red Wine
Your suitcases were lost when your ship sank, but you each managed to salvage one item of band merch. What’s the merch and for what band?
Adam: My trusty Tremonti hoodie.
Alun: I have a While She Sleeps sleeveless that I love.
Chris: My old AC/DC t-shirt. I love that t-shirt.
Alex: Album: my Metallica t-shirt, always have cool artwork on their merch.
You’re sat on the island thinking “I’m stuck here on this island with my bandmates for eternity”… who would you rather have been shipwrecked with?
Alun: David Attenborough. I could listen to that man tell me about the world we live in until the end of time.
Adam: Alter Bridge.
Alex: Album: Stephen Fry, just to pick the man’s brains about the universe.
Chris: Alun.
There’s a walkman in your pocket, on the tape inside is the recording of the one live show that stands out for you. It could be any show, from any band, anywhere in the world. What show is on that walkman?
Alun: Parkway Drive at Wembley last year. The best damn metal show I have ever seen. So much power, so much fire, so many flying stages.
Adam: Alter Bridge at The O2. Really great live.
Chris: Metallica – Cunning Stunts. A beast of a show from the best metal band ever in their prime.
Alex: Iron Maiden Live in Rio. An absolute spectacle of a live show
You’re getting desperate, you decide the only course of action is to put a message in a bottle and hope someone finds it. Your message could be to any member of any band, but should be the most suitable for a rescue attempt. Who is it?
Before The Sirens: James Hetfield. When that man speaks, people listen. Help would be on the way in no time.
You’ve been stuck here a while and food supplies are running low. There’s only one thing for it… which fellow band member gets sacrificed to help the others survive?
Alex: Alun, it would be a lot quieter without him.
Adam: We all go down together. Never leave a man behind
Chris: I’d sacrifice them all, because why not?
Alun: I would agree with Alex, it would be quieter if I wasn’t around. But that’s just tough, so Alex goes!!!
Finally, when the ship sank you each managed to save one person from the wreckage. That person is the one musician that has influenced your career the most, shaped your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Who did you save?
Alex: Mike Portnoy. The most progressive influence on my drumming.
Chris: Killswitch Engage’s Adam D. A riff monster.
Adam: Metallica’s Jason Newstead. The biggest influence on my playing when I was teaching myself to play bass growing up.
Alun: Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage. The man’s writing, presence and vocal ability was a complete revelation to me and really transformed the way I thought about writing music.
In Flames’ albums span more than three decades, fourteen studio records, and one of the most bitterly contested evolutions in heavy metal. They helped invent the Gothenburg sound in the nineties, then spent the next twenty years walking away from it — gaining an enormous new audience and losing a chunk of the original one in the process. This is every In Flames album ranked worst to best, judged on what actually holds up now rather than what nostalgia says should. Fair warning: the album most people call their commercial peak isn’t at the top, and one from 1994 lands higher than four records made this century.
How this ranking was decided
Having followed In Flames through every phase — the early Gothenburg explosion, the mid-2000s reinvention, the modern rock era, the recent course correction — this comes down to what still hits, not what people remember fondly.
Three things matter: how strong the songwriting is front to back, how much the album actually moved the genre, and whether it works without nostalgia propping it up.
The only album in the catalogue that feels completely disconnected from what made this band important. The shift toward cleaner vocals and softer songwriting isn’t the problem — it’s the lack of tension underneath it.
There’s no push and pull. The riffs sit in the background, the pacing never builds, and nothing escalates into something memorable. It’s smooth, and it never hits.
13. Battles (2016)
Best Song: “The End”
This leans even harder into accessibility, but at least it does so with confidence. The hooks are immediate, the production is huge, and it comes at the cost of identity.
It sounds like a band adapting to a format instead of defining one. That’s why it lands here — it works, but it doesn’t feel like In Flames.
Worth noting: this was the first record with producer Howard Benson, a partnership that’s defined their modern era ever since.
12. Sounds of a Playground Fading (2011)
Best Song: “Where The Dead Ships Dwell”
The first album after Jesper Strömblad’s departure, and it carries obvious weight. You can hear a band trying to stabilise while simultaneously redefining itself.
There are flashes of the old intensity, but the songwriting feels unfocused. A transitional record that never fully commits to a direction.
11. I, the Mask (2019)
Best Song: “I Am Above”
This is where things start tightening again. The riffs are sharper, the pacing improves, and there’s a clear attempt to reconnect with a heavier identity.
The issue is control. Everything is polished just enough to remove the danger. Progress, but it’s still holding something back.
10. Soundtrack To Your Escape (2004)
Best Song: “My Sweet Shadow”
This is where fans usually push back — and it holds up better than it gets credit for.
Instead of speed, this album builds weight. The guitars are thicker, the tone is darker, and the atmosphere carries more of the impact than the riffs do.
Not classic In Flames. But a fully realised direction that still sounds distinct from anything else in the catalogue.
9. Reroute To Remain (2002)
Best Song: “Cloud Connected”
The fault line in the entire discography.
Clean vocals step forward, the songwriting opens up, and the band shifts toward something bigger. For some fans this is where everything went wrong. For others it’s where In Flames stopped being a niche act.
It sits in the middle for a simple reason: the songwriting holds up. The direction divides people. The execution doesn’t.
8. A Sense Of Purpose (2008)
Best Song: “Alias”
Overlooked because of what came before and after it.
What it does well is balance. The heavy moments still land, the melodies don’t feel forced, and the contrast between them is more effective than people remember.
It doesn’t fully commit to either version of the band — which is exactly what gives it depth.
7. Foregone (2023)
Best Song: “State Of Slow Decay”
The reset.
After years of drifting, the band reconnected with the aggression that defined their early work. Sharper riffs, faster pacing, a clear sense of intent from start to finish. They even leaned back into the folk-metal edges of the early records on “Foregone Pt. 2.”
It doesn’t erase the modern era — it finally integrates it properly. Enough so that we put it on our best metal albums of 2023.
6. Lunar Strain (1994)
Best Song: “Behind Space”
Raw, chaotic, and essential.
The songwriting isn’t refined and the production is rough, but this is where the blueprint forms. Every element of what follows is audible here in first draft. Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity handled vocals — Anders Fridén wouldn’t join until the following year, having gone the other direction and left Dark Tranquillity himself.
Not their strongest album. But without it, none of the top tier exists.
5. Come Clarity (2006)
Best Song: “Take This Life”
Where the modern version of In Flames finally locks into place.
Aggression and melody work together instead of competing. The pacing is tight, the songwriting is focused, and the album never drifts.
The clearest example in the catalogue of evolution done right.
4. Clayman (2000)
Best Song: “Only For The Weak”
The bridge between eras, and for a huge number of listeners, the entry point.
The melodies are bigger, the songwriting is tighter, and the band finds a balance that expands their reach without sacrificing impact. “Only For The Weak” became the biggest song of their career and effectively defined what melodic death metal sounded like in the new millennium.
Purists sometimes call it the weakest of the original four. The consistency across “Bullet Ride,” “Swim” and the title track says otherwise.
3. The Jester Race (1996)
Best Song: “December Flower”
This is where the identity becomes undeniable.
Everything aligns — speed, melody, structure — and the result is one of the most influential albums in melodic death metal history. Fridén’s first full album as frontman, and the dual guitars of Strömblad and Glenn Ljungström wrote the vocabulary half the genre still speaks.
The songwriting is sharper, the melodies are more layered, and there’s no drop-off anywhere on the record. It takes everything that came before and refines it rather than expanding it.
There’s a genuine argument for this being number one, and plenty of people make it.
1. Whoracle (1997)
Best Song: “Jotun”
The peak.
The aggression is focused, the riffs are relentless, and the songwriting never wastes a moment. There’s a rawness that never got polished out — which is exactly why it works.
It doesn’t try to balance anything. It commits fully to its own identity, and every track benefits from that clarity.
This is In Flames at their most powerful, and thirty years on nothing has touched it.
The interesting question is which direction it goes. Benson’s involvement points toward the polished modern era. Foregone pointed the other way. Whichever wins decides whether album fifteen slots into the top half of this list or the bottom.
We’ll update this page when it lands.
Where this ranking will divide fans
Some will argue Colony should be number one. Others will push Clayman higher on accessibility and impact.
The question that actually matters: is Whoracle really their peak, or does Colony deserve it?
TL;DR
The debate: Colony has a real case for number one, and Clayman is the entry point for most listeners.
Fourteen studio albums from 1994’s Lunar Strain to 2023’s Foregone, with a fifteenth recorded and unreleased.
Best: Whoracle (1997) — the most focused, relentless and uncompromising thing they ever made.
Worst: Siren Charms (2014) — the only album that feels disconnected from what made the band matter.
The fault line: Reroute To Remain (2002), where clean vocals arrived and the fanbase split. It lands mid-table because the songwriting holds up regardless of which side you’re on.
The comeback: Foregone (2023) is the closest they’ve come to their roots in twenty years.
FAQ
What is the best In Flames album?
Whoracle, released in 1997. It’s the most focused and uncompromising record in the catalogue — relentless riffing, no wasted moments, and a rawness that later production never replicated. Colony (1999) is the most credible challenger, and many longtime fans rank it first.
How many albums do In Flames have?
Fourteen studio albums: Lunar Strain (1994), The Jester Race (1996), Whoracle (1997), Colony (1999), Clayman (2000), Reroute To Remain (2002), Soundtrack To Your Escape (2004), Come Clarity (2006), A Sense Of Purpose (2008), Sounds Of A Playground Fading (2011), Siren Charms (2014), Battles (2016), I, The Mask (2019) and Foregone (2023). A fifteenth album was confirmed as finished in March 2026.
Did In Flames change their sound?
Yes, significantly. The first five albums defined the Gothenburg melodic death metal sound. From Reroute To Remain (2002) onward the band moved toward modern alternative metal with prominent clean vocals and broader production, expanding their audience while dividing longtime fans. Foregone (2023) marked a deliberate return toward their heavier roots.
Is Foregone a return to form?
It’s the closest they’ve come in two decades. The riffs are sharper, the pacing is faster, and the album reconnects with both the aggression and the folk-metal elements of the early records without abandoning what the band learned in between.
Who is in In Flames?
Vocalist Anders Fridén and guitarist Björn Gelotte are the long-serving core, joined in recent years by guitarist Chris Broderick, bassist Liam Wilson and drummer Jon Rice. Founding guitarist Jesper Strömblad, the band’s primary early songwriter, departed in 2010.
Fourteen albums, three eras, and an argument that’s been running for thirty years. Is Whoracle really the peak, or does Colony take it? Settle it in the comments. And keep it locked on the Loaded Radio stream — follow Loaded Radio for daily rock and metal news.
Nova Twins were awarded the Best Alternative Award at this year’s MOBOs, a category that they originally campaigned to be added to the yearly celebration of black British music and art.
The band were up against ALT BLK ERA, Blood Orange, Hak Baker, Michael Kiwanuka and Rachel Chinouriri for the award.
During their acceptance speech, Amy Love exclaimed, “Can we thank MOBOs for recognising rock music as black music, because that’s where it originates from.”
Whilst Georgia South added, “We can’t accept this award without thanking all the innovators that came before us. From Skunk Anansie to X-Ray Spex, Tina Turner, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Thank you for believing in us and being weird and wonderful with us.”
Today, Norwegian progressive trailblazers Enslaved are honoured to reveal their latest creation – two unique recordings of sea shanties, made in collaboration with the Storm Weather Shanty Choir, who hail from Bergen, Norway's great sailing ship the Statsraad Lehmkuhl.
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Last month, progressive doom metal band Elder announced their new album Through Zero was coming out on May 29. At the time, that was pretty much all the information we had. We had no single to get us hyped up even more (if that’s even possible), but now that’s changed. The band released the title track earlier today and it’s available to check out right now.
Speaking of the track, vocalist and guitarist Nick DiSalvo explained how it fits within the total Through Zero package:
“In a diverse album, the title track of our new album sits on the middle of the spectrum and is a perfect first impression of what’s to come. Dreamy, heavy, raw, electronic, there’s a bit of everything that makes this album special to us. Through Zero is about impermanence, coming to terms with mortality and the long struggle to not only make peace but to find a sort of solidarity with the dead. The more time passes, the more this theme returns to me, and always in a new light – much as our music always returns in a slightly changed state reflecting who we are becoming.”
Through Zero will be released on May 29 via Blues Funeral Recordings (North America), Stickman Records (Europe/UK) and Bird’s Robe (Australia). You can preorder your copy today.
Following the album’s release, they announced that they’ll also be heading out on tour. Plans are to see the band participate in the European summer festival circuit before coming back to the States for a run in the fall. You can check out the full list of dates below.
Through Zero Track List: 1. Sigil To Ruin 2. Capture & Release 3. Through Zero 4. Strata 5. Sight Unseen 6. Blighted Age
ELDER European & UK Tour Dates:
June 13 – Derby, UK – Download Festival June 14 – Colchester, UK – Colchester Arts Centre (w/Blood Incantation) June 15 – Southampton, UK – The 1865 (w/Blood Incantation) June 16 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2 (w/Blood Incantation) June 18 – Clisson, FR – Hellfest June 19 – Graspop Metal Meeting June 20 – Dortmund, DE – Junkyard Open Air (w/Kadavar) June 21 – Frankfurt, DE – Das Bett June 23 – Winterthur, CH – Gaswerk June 24 – Karlsruhe, DE – P8 (w/REZN) June 26 – Oslo, NO – Tons of Rock June 27 – Thyrnau, DE – Blackdoor Festival June 30 – Sofia, BG – Mixtape 5 July 1 – Thessaloniki, GR – Eightball Club July 2 – Athens, GR – Arch Club July 7 – Slunj, HR – Bearstone Festival July 10 – Pleszew, PL – Red Smoke Festival July 23 – Reutlingen, DE – Hafensounds Festival (w/Kadavar) July 25 – Tolmin, SI – Tolminator Festival July 26 – Milan, IT – Circolo Magnolia Summer July 28 – Rockstadt, RO – Rockstadt Extreme Fest July 30 – Breitenbach am Herzberg, DE – Burg Herrzberg Festival Aug 4 – Rostock, DE – MAU Club Aug 5 – Josefov-Jaromer, CZ – Brutal Assault Festival Aug 9 – Âncora, PT – Sonic Blast Festival Aug 14 – Valais, CH – PALP Festival
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Nearly two and a half years after their strong live UK debut at Steelhouse Festival, Elegant Weapons return with their second album, Evolution, which showcases a clear progression in both sound and songwriting. In Part One, MetalTalk discussed with Richie Faulkner about how the album prioritises melody, emotion, and overall song quality over technical showmanship.
Here, in Part Two, we dive deeper into this stunning Elegant Weapons album and find out that Richie Faulkner has exciting plans for the live sound and is full of ambition for the future. You can read Part One here.
Evolution is full of standout tracks. In Generation Me, the pace of the track rolls along really nicely, and to say Ronnie Romero’s vocal is great is a massive understatement. The song is an immediate nodder and had me smiling. Richie has the chance to throw in plenty of licks and solos. You imagine that in the studio, he has great fun sprinkling that type of magic dust on a track.
“Definitely, yeah,” Richie says. “As I said, the song comes first, and then if I can get any little licks and stuff in there, then I will. This is the second song on the record, and it’s a leveller. We got the first one out of the way, it’s right out of the gate, and it’s a fast song, and then it levels with this one. This was the first track on the record when I was writing it that really set the tone for where the album was going.
“Up until that point, I had a bit of a song here, a bit of a song there. I wasn’t quite sure where it was going. Generation Me came together quite well and quite quickly and really set the tone and made me think, Ah, this is where the album’s going. This is what it’s going to be, and everything flowed better from there. It was an important track to write for the record.”
Dave Rimmer impressively rolls along working with the riff in the style that must be a bass player’s dream to play. “He’s great,” Richie smiles. “I’ve known Davey for over 25 years. We went through the trenches in the bars, clubs and pubs around London and the UK. A quarter of a century ago, we were doing that together. We’re good friends, and it’s great to have him in the band. You know what he’s going to do, and you can trust him. He’s fantastic.”
You will read other Elegant Weapons interviews where Richie is talking about this album, allowing the band to evolve, and there may well be more to it in the future. If the prospect of live dates with Elegant Weapons floats your boat, then read on.
Elegant Weapons is a one-guitar band, and for Richie, this approach has its “pros and cons. Obviously, there’s more space to fill with one guitar. This album’s called Evolution, and maybe in the future it might be a further evolution. I’ve considered another guitar player or a guitar/keyboard player like in UFO, because there are a couple of keyboard tracks on this record.
“Adam Wakeman played keys on this record for two tracks. There are a few more tracks as well, and on the last record, we had some B3 Hammond-type stuff in there. So it might be enough to have someone who could play guitar, play Hammond and some backing vocals, to fill some space. But at the moment, it’s just me, and I like having the freedom. But I have considered adding another person in the future, so we’ll see what happens.”
Elegant Weapons – Steelhouse Festival 2023. Photo: Georgia Brittain/MetalTalk
Holy Roller has a Robin Trower feel, especially in the first part, and especially in the way Ronnie sings. But I love the way the track progresses, especially leading into Richie’s guitar solo. When you realise that that song is about the Jonestown massacre, you really get that sense of doom in his guitar solo. It comes across as quite goosebumpy.
“It’s a tragic story to anyone who doesn’t know what it is,” Richie says, “but it’s one of those things, isn’t it? It’s telling a bit of history and how people can be tempted by things that are out of this world, and they go along with it. But yeah, it’s got a bit of a Sabbath feel.
“Someone else actually described it as Trower, a bit of Hendrix in there, and that’s the DNA of the band, really. Ronnie is just the icing on the cake. It gets quicker as the song progresses and then races off at the end. I really love that song.”
Elegant Weapons – Steelhouse Festival 2023. Photo: Georgia Brittain/MetalTalk
Thrown To The Wolves is hard blues. The riff with the doubled bass in parts is great and here Richie had fun with his great friend Jared James Nichols dropping a solo. “He did about three takes, and it was done,” Richie says. “I did mine in about 1,000 takes. He laid it down, and it’s got all the heart and the passion and the fire that Jarrod James Nichols’ playing has. He did great, and I’m really grateful that he could come and do that.”
Rupture has the synth out again. This is one of those awesome instrumental deep dive album tracks that maybe gets lost in the streaming world, which is a real shame, especially when it runs into Mercy Of The Fallen.
“A couple of years ago, Adam Jones from Tool got in touch and asked me if I wanted to play a song with them at Bridgestone Arena out here in Nashville,” Richie says. “I said, yeah, that’d be great. I put the phone down, and I automatically thought, what have I done? What have I signed up for? Playing Tool songs is no easy feat.
“So I learned the song, and I sat there for about two weeks practising this song and learning all the parts, and did it, and it was great. But I think that all went in, and I came up with this guitar part that was kind of Tool-esque. I couldn’t think of any lyrics or melody to go with it, but I could hear a heartbeat through it. I could hear a pulsing heart.
“Sometimes when you write music, you get a movie in your head. You can see a scene that the music is painting a picture of, and I could see something that referred to my own experience. It’s like someone in a hospital bed with machines around them, plugged into tubes and life support machines. I could hear, and I could feel turmoil and concern and anguish, but I could also hear hope as well.
“So that’s what it was. The heartbeat going through there was someone’s survival. At the end, on the album, it flatlines, so the person flatlines. Luckily, I didn’t, and I’m talking to you today. But it crashes in with Mercy Of The Fallen after, so it creates a cool dynamic.
“Mercy Of The Fallen contains a reprise of that, so they’re related in some ways, so that’s a cool thing to get on an album as well.”
I love the way Ronnie sings “Redemption, see the light divine” in Mercy Of The Fallen. This brings so much emotion, and when played loud, you can really feel this strongly.
“Again, man, you can’t say enough about Ronnie,” Richie says. “Everything he does, and again when we were producing him, Andy would be right on top of that. He’d be saying, ‘Do that again. Make sure that this line or that line gets pronounced well. Emphasis on this word or that word.’
“He made sure that all those things popped out when they needed to. Kudos to Andy as well. He’s a major part of the team. Made sure that all those things came out when they needed to.”
Elegant Weapons Evolution – Out 24 April 2026 via Exciter Records
Elegant Weapons finish Evolution on Keeper Of The Keys. This is a beautiful song with a proper ending to cap a beautiful album. For me, Evolution is a triumph of songwriting and a real throwback to when albums were albums and were meant to be listened to all the way through. Keeper Of The Keys has that really classic ending as well.
“I really appreciate you saying that,” Richie says. “It’s what we try to do. You put an album together as an album. I don’t know if people do that anymore. Obviously, people of a certain age and above do. But it’s almost becoming a lost art.
“People listen to tracks or a couple of tracks alone. But that’s what we try to do and Keeper Of The Keys is exactly that. I couldn’t find any other place to put it on the record.
“It starts with Ronnie, the keyboard and the guitar, and it’s almost like a Deep Purple type intro. It didn’t need anything else. It just needed bare bones. It goes from there, and it thunders along at the end. It almost sounds like a live jam at the end, because of the keyboard and everything.
“When it finishes, the Hammond’s bubbling over, the rotary speaker’s going and it ends like that.
“I wanted it towards the front of the album just to showcase what the band’s doing now, but I couldn’t think of anything to put after it. So it had to go at the end, and it finishes it off nicely as you said. So I appreciate you saying that.”
Elegant Weapons – Steelhouse Festival 2023. Photo: Georgia Brittain/MetalTalk
The hope that we might see Elegant Weapons later in the year is a mouthwatering prospect. “I was on a call with Ronnie a couple of days ago,” Richie says, “and it’s getting everyone together. Ronnie’s doing his thing at the moment. Dave is out with Uriah Heep over the summer. Christopher’s out with Accept.
“It’s getting everyone together and planning it in enough time so that everyone’s free at the same time. We’re looking at a little bit later in the year, when Priest is off tour, and everyone’s off tour.
“We can get something together, maybe do something in the States as well. We would like to get over to Japan and places like that as well. Wherever we can really. Wherever we can take this and, as I said before, play live and connect with as many fans as we can.”
If Elegant Weapons hit London at the right time, are there plans to bring Ronnie along to Metalworks?
“That would be great, wouldn’t it? Fantastic. One of those things, whenever I’m in town, I always try to get down there, because that’s what it’s all about, really. Getting in front of people, playing great songs, and that’s where we all come from. So hopefully, yes, that’ll be great.”
Elegant Weapons release Evolution digitally and on CD on 24 April 2026 via Exciter Records, with a special edition vinyl pressing to follow later in the year. You can pre-save and pre-order Evolution from https://exciter-records.ffm.to/elegantweapons-evolution.
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