THKD’s Top 100 Metal Albums #8: In Flames – Reroute to Remain (Nuclear Blast, 2002)

This post was supposed to be about a different In Flames album.  I recently dusted off the band’s 2000 masterpiece Clayman for the express purpose of a top 100 write-up; it is after all the perfect melodic death metal album.  But then something happened; I also grabbed Reroute to Remain off the ol’ CD shelf just for hell of it, and subsequently remembered just how much I enjoyed this lovably flawed piece of metal history that began In Flames’ fall from underground grace and gained them legions of mainstream fans.