Reroute to Remain: Fourteen Songs of Conscious Insanity by In Flames

Reroute to Remain: Fourteen Songs of Conscious Insanity, In Flames' sixth studio album, came out on Nuclear Blast in September 2002, and it's the sound of the Gothenburg band deliberately kicking out the walls of the melodic death metal house they helped build. Daniel Bergstrand produced, and the lineup of Anders Fridén on vocals, Björn Gelotte and Jesper Strömblad on guitars, Peter Iwers on bass and Daniel Svensson on drums steered hard toward alternative metal: tighter hooks, cleaner choruses, guitars tuned way down, with "Transparent" dropped lower still.

Plenty of the old faithful hated it and said so. It hardly mattered. The friendlier sound pulled in a wave of new listeners, put the band's name on the American metal map and helped land them a prime slot at Ozzfest. It was also their first album to spin off singles, "Trigger" and "Cloud Connected", while the title track is the one rock radio's countdowns picked up.

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