Siren Charms


Siren Charms is the eleventh studio album by the Swedish metal band In Flames. It was released on September 5, 2014 and September 9 in the United States via Sony Music Entertainment. Siren Charms is the first album to feature guitarist Niclas Engelin and the last album to feature long time drummer Daniel Svensson before his departure in 2015.
The eighth track on the disc, "Rusted Nail", was the album's lead single, released on June 13, 2014. Shortly after this release, the band briefly streamed a second track, "Through Oblivion", online. On September 9, 2014, In Flames released an additional music video for the song "Everything's Gone". Finally, a video for "Paralyzed" was released on February 15, 2015.

Critical reception

Siren Charms received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 52, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 4 reviews. Gregory Heaney of Allmusic described Siren Charms as "a bit too casual." However he stated it as "a solidly written and executed metal album" and that fans of the band's latest material will likely enjoy it. Kyle Ward of Sputnikmusic however panned the album, describing it as "an unforgivable misstep containing oversights in both songwriting and execution that such a veteran band should be able to spot and correct."

Track listing

Personnel

;In Flames
;Additional musicians
;Other personnel