84. The Halo Effect - "Days of the Lost"

The Halo Effect are a new outfit constructed solely of former members of In Flames. Understandably they sound an awful lot like the collective former paymaster, in fact they sound a lot more like In Flames than the current incarnation of the band does. Days of the Lost feels like it comes from a parallel universe where In Flames never made “Reroute to Remain” and instead followed up the astonishing “Clayman” with another slice of exquisite melodic death metal. But this isn’t just an exercise in fan-appeasing nostalgia. The Halo Effect manage to update the melo-death sound without significantly diverting from its core components. What you end up with is a rather satisfying peep into what In Flames would have sounded like now if they hadn’t decided to go off and emulate Linkin Park.