In Flames

Artist: In Flames

Country of origin: Sweden

Location: Gothenburg

Status: Active

Formed in: 1990

Years active: 1990-present

Genre: Melodic Death Metal (early), Melodic Groove Metal/Alternative Rock (later)

Lyrical themes: Astronomy, Fantasy (early), Inner struggles, Angst (later)

Current label: Nuclear Blast

Members:

Björn Gelotte: Drums (1995-1998), Guitars (1998-present)

Anders Fridén: Vocals (1995-present)

Niclas Engelin: Guitars (1997-1998, 2011-present)

Joe Rickard: Drums (2016-present)

Peter Iwers: Bass (1997-2016)

 

In Flames, along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, pioneered what is now known as melodic death metal.

 

 In 1990, Jesper Strömblad founded the band to write music that combined the melodic guitar style of Iron Maiden with the brutality of death metal, something which Jesper stated he had never heard any band do.

 

 During 1993, In Flames wrote, recorded, and self-produced their debut studio album, Lunar Strain. Since In Flames did not have a vocalist yet, Jesper asked Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity) to provide vocals. In Flames would eventually need another vocalist for the recording of the EP Subterranean, this time Henke Forss would do the job. However, it wasn't until 1995 that current vocalist Anders Fridén (Dark Tranquillity) joined the band.

Björn Gelotte originally joined as a drummer, then switched to guitars a few years (and albums) later.

 The Jester Race was recorded and became a classic melodic death metal album. Afterwards, In Flames got to tour with bands such as Samael and Kreator.

 The line up changed for the tour of 1997, Niclas Engelin joining as guitarist. However, by the end of that tour in 1998, Niclas left the band. Niclas would rejoin between 2006 and 2007, and then again in 2009 for another tour, this time as Jesper Strömblad's replacement, who couldn't participate in order to get treatment for his alcohol abuse problems.

 Strömblad quit In Flames permanently in early 2010, meaning there are no original members left in the band although all the other members at the time had been in the band since at least 1998 (prior to the recording of "Colony").

 In 2010 In Flames appears on Drum n Bass band Pendulum album Immersion on track Self VS Self (Fridén, Gelotte, Iwers are credited).

 In November 2015 drummer Daniel Svensson told he would split with the band after finishing touring.

 

 Compilation appearances:

 - "Eye of the Beholder" (featuring guest vocals by Robert Dahne of Ancient Slumber) on Metal Militia: A Tribute to Metallica, 1994; also on A Tribute to the Four Horsemen, 2002

 - "World of Promises", originally by Treat, on Power from the North, 2000

 - "Abnegation (Early Version)" - Viva La Bands compilation, 2007

 

Discography:

   Lunar Strain (1994)

Album: Lunar Strain

Type: Full-length

Release date: March 24th, 2004

Catalog ID: TFCK-87310

Label: Toy's Factory

Format: CD, Japan, Remastered

MP3 | 320Kbps | 48:57 | 115Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Behind Space  04:54

2. Clad in Shadows  02:49

3. Lunar Strain  04:05

4. Starforsaken  03:09

5. Dreamscape  03:45

6. Everlost (Part I)  04:16

7. Everlost (Part II)  02:57

8. Hårgalåten  02:26  instrumental

9. In Flames  05:33

10. Upon an Oaken Throne  02:49

11. In Flames (1993 Promo Version)* 05:49

12. Upon an Oaken Throne (1993 Promo Version)* 03:05

13. Acoustic Piece (From Promo 1993)* 00:38  instrumental

14. Clad in Shadows (1993 Promo Version)* 02:47

 

Recorded in the autumn and winter of 1993 at Studio Fredman.

 

   Subterranean EP (1994)

Album: Subterranean

Type: EP

Release date: 2003

Catalog ID: RR 176

Label: Regain Records

Format: CD, Remastered

MP3 | 320Kbps | 38:45 | 90,4Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Stand Ablaze  04:34

2. Ever Dying  04:22

3. Subterranean  05:45

4. Timeless  01:46  instrumental

5. Biosphere  05:06

6. Dead Eternity* 05:02

7. The Inborn Lifeless* 03:23

8. Eye of the Beholder (Metallica cover)* 05:28

9. Murders in the Rue Morgue (Iron Maiden cover)* 03:09

 

Recorded in the summer and winter of 1994 at Studio Fredman.

 

   The Jester Race (1996)

Album: The Jester Race

Type: Full-length

Release date: March 20th, 1996

Catalog ID: TFCK-88777

Label: Toy's Factory

Format: CD, Japan

MP3 | 320Kbps | 48:42 | 114Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Dead Eternity  05:01

2. The Jester Race  04:51

3. Graveland  02:46

4. Moonshield  04:58

5. The Jester's Dance  02:09  instrumental

6. December Flower  04:10

7. Artifacts of the Black Rain  03:17

8. Dead God in Me  04:15

9. Wayfaerer  04:41  instrumental

10. Lord Hypnos  04:01

11. Dead Eternity (Demo)* 05:02

12. The Inborn Lifeless (Demo)* 03:22

 

Original release licensed to Nuclear Blast Records by Wrong Again Records.
The band was under contract to WAR, but WAR never released their own edition of this album - early editions bore both labels' logos and stated "Licensed from Wrong Again Records".

Quotation in "Lord Hypnos" taken from William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood".

The release date of the album is uncertain. Nuclear Blast cites February 20, 1996 while it may not have been distributed widely until August.

 

Recorded and mixed in November, 1995 at Studio Fredman.
Co-produced by In Flames.

 

   Black-Ash Inheritance EP (1997)

Album: Black-Ash Inheritance

Type: EP

Release date: August 15th, 1997

Catalog ID: NB 251-2 / 27361 62512

Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: CD, Shaped MCD

MP3 | 320Kbps | 14:30 | 33,5Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Goliaths Disarm Their Davids  04:56

2. Gyroscope  03:26

3. Acoustic Medley  02:34  instrumental

4. Behind Space (live)  03:37

 

All tracks from this release also appeared on the Japanese version of Whoracle.

"Acoustic Medley" is a medley of three different In Flames tracks in an unplugged fashion: "Artifacts of the Black Rain" and "Dead Eternity" (from the The Jester Race album) and "Jotun" (from the Whoracle album).



 

   Whoracle (1997)

Album: Whoracle

Type: Full-length

Release date: October 7th, 2002

Catalog ID: NB 1063-2

Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: CD, Deluxe edition

MP3 | 320Kbps | 55:56 | 133Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Jotun  03:54   Show lyrics 

2. Food for the Gods  04:19   Show lyrics 

3. Gyroscope  03:26   Show lyrics 

4. Dialogue with the Stars  03:01   instrumental 

5. The Hive  04:03   Show lyrics 

6. Jester Script Transfigured  05:45   Show lyrics 

7. Morphing into Primal  03:05   Show lyrics 

8. Worlds Within the Margin  05:06   Show lyrics 

9. Episode 666  03:45   Show lyrics 

10. Everything Counts (Depeche Mode cover)  03:17   Show lyrics 

11. Whoracle  02:43 instrumental 

12. Goliaths Disarm Their Davids*  04:56

13. Acoustic Medley  02:34*  instrumental

14. Behind Space (live)*  03:37

15. Clad in Shadows '99* 02:21

 

Whoracle comes as a concept album, with lyrics by Niklas Sundin and synopsis by Anders Fridén. It describes the past, present and a hypothetical future of the planet Earth.

 

Produced and recorded in the spring of 1997 at Studio Fredman.
Co-produced by In Flames.
Mastered at The Mastering Room.

   Colony (1999)

Album: Colony

Type: Full-length

Release date: May 31st, 1999

Catalog ID: NB 399-2

Label: Nuclear Blast

Format: CD

MP3 | 320Kbps | 45:36 | 107Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Embody the Invisible  03:37

2. Ordinary Story  04:16

3. Scorn  03:38

4. Colony  04:39

5. Zombie Inc.  05:05

6. Pallar Anders visa  01:41  instrumental

7. Coerced Coexistence  04:14

8. Resin  03:21

9. Behind Space '99  03:58

10. Insipid 2000  03:45

11. The New World  03:18

12. Man Made God*  04:11

 

According to Björn Gelotte "Pallar Anders visa is "an old Swedish traditional song. [...] "Pallar Anders" is a name, but it means "Anders, the guy who steals apples" and it's his song". "Pallar" is a synonym of "to steal" in Swedish.

"Behind Space '99" (and also the bonus track "Clad in Shadows '99") are remakes of the original 1994 tracks, then sung by Mikael Stanne.

"Embody the Invisible" appears in the soundtrack of the video game Tony Hawk's Underground.

 

Recorded and mixed at Studio Fredman.
Mastered at the Mastering Room.

 

   Clayman (2000)

Album: Clayman

Type: Full-length

Release date: July 19th, 2000

Catalog ID: TFCK-87214

Label: Toy's Factory

Format: CD, Japan + US Bonus

MP3 | 320Kbps | 49:32 | 117Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Bullet Ride  04:42

2. Pinball Map  04:08

3. Only for the Weak  04:55

4. ...as the Future Repeats Today  03:27

5. Square Nothing  03:57

6. Clayman  03:28

7. Satellites and Astronauts  05:00

8. Brush the Dust Away  03:17

9. Swim  03:14

10. Suburban Me  03:35

11. Another Day in Quicksand  04:06

12. Strong and Smart (No Fun at All cover)* 02:20

13. World of Promises (Treat cover)* 03:50

 

Recorded and produced at Studio Fredman.

 

   Reroute to Remain (2002)

Album: Reroute To Remain

Type: Full-length

Release date: November 24th, 2014

Catalog ID: TFCK-87214

Label: Century Media Records

Format: CD, Digipak

MP3 | 320Kbps | 01:02:19 | 148Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Reroute to Remain  03:52

2. System  03:38

3. Drifter  03:10

4. Trigger  04:58

5. Cloud Connected  03:40

6. Transparent  04:03

7. Dawn of a New Day  03:40

8. Egonomic  02:36

9. Minus  03:45

10. Dismiss the Cynics  03:38

11. Free Fall  03:57

12. Dark Signs  03:19

13. Metaphor  03:39

14. Black & White  03:33

15. Watch Them Feed* 03:12

16. Land of Confusion (Genesis cover)* 03:23

17. Cloud Connected (Club Connected Remix)* 04:15

 

All songs written by Björn Gelotte, Jesper Strömblad and Anders Fridén. Lyrics by Anders Fridén except "Reroute to Remain" and "Dismiss the Cynics", co-written with his wife, Helena Lindsjö.

The complete name of the album is "Reroute to Remain: Fourteen Songs of Conscious Insanity", but there are some versions with the word "Madness" instead of "Insanity".

 

 

   Soundtrack to Your Escape (2004)

Album: Soundtrack To Your Escape

Type: Full-length

Release date: March 11th, 2004

Catalog ID: NB 1231-2 / 27361 12312

Label: Nuclear Blast

Format: CD

MP3 | 320Kbps | 46:59 | 107Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. F(r)iend  03:27

2. The Quiet Place  03:45

3. Dead Alone  03:42

4. Touch of Red  04:12

5. Like You Better Dead  03:22

6. My Sweet Shadow  04:38

7. Evil in a Closet  04:02

8. In Search for I  03:22

9. Borders and Shading  04:21

10. Superhero of the Computer Rage  04:00

11. Dial 595-Escape  03:48

12. Bottled  04:17

 

Recorded in Denmark except drums, recorded at Dug-Out Studios in Sweden.
Mixed at Galaxy Studios in Belgium.
Mastered at Cutting Room.

 

   Come Clarity (2006)

Album: Come Clarity

Type: Full-length

Release date: February 3rd, 2006

Catalog ID: NB 1309-2 / 27361 13092

Label: Nuclear Blast

Format: CD

MP3 | 320Kbps | 47:51 | 110Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Take This Life  03:35

2. Leeches  02:55

3. Reflect the Storm  04:16

4. Dead End  03:22

5. Scream  03:12

6. Come Clarity  04:15

7. Vacuum  03:39

8. Pacing Death's Trail  03:00

9. Crawl Through Knives  04:02

10. Versus Terminus  03:18

11. Our Infinite Struggle  03:46

12. Vanishing Light  03:14

13. Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone  05:01

 

The working title was Crawl Through Knives.

 

Drums, vocals, keyboards and programming recorded at Dug Out Studio.
Guitars and bass recorded at The Room.
Mixed and mastered at Tonteknik Recording. 

 

   A Sense of Purpose (2008)

Album: A Sense Of Purpose

Type: Full-length

Release date: October 20th, 2014

Catalog ID: 9984958

Label: Century Media Records

Format: CD, Digipak

MP3 | 320Kbps | 01:05:21 | 151Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. The Mirror's Truth  03:01

2. Disconnected  03:38

3. Sleepless Again  04:11

4. Alias  04:51

5. I'm the Highway  03:43

6. Delight and Angers  03:40

7. Move Through Me  03:07

8. The Chosen Pessimist  08:15

9. Sober and Irrelevant  03:24

10. Condemned  03:36

11. Drenched in Fear  03:31

12. March to the Shore  03:29

13. Eraser* 03:19

14. Tilt* 03:46

15. Abnegation* 03:43

16. Alias (Laid Remix)* 06:21

 

Spelling error on the back lists the Jesterhead fan club as 'Festerhead'.

 

Recorded at IF Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mixed at Skip Saylor Recordings in Los Angeles, California.
Mastered at Marcussen Mastering Studios in Hollywood, California.
Keyboards and programming performed at Wasteland Studios.

 

   Sounds of a Playground Fading (2011)

Album: Sounds Of A Playground Fading

Type: Full-length

Release date: June 15th, 2011

Catalog ID: 9977472

Label: Century Media Records

Format: CD

MP3 | 320Kbps | 53:41 | 122Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Sounds of a Playground Fading  04:43

2. Deliver Us  03:30

3. All for Me  04:31

4. The Puzzle  04:34

5. Fear Is the Weakness  04:03

6. Where the Dead Ships Dwell  04:27

7. The Attic  03:16

8. Darker Times  03:25

9. Ropes  03:42

10. Enter Tragedy  03:58

11. Jester's Door  02:37

12. A New Dawn  05:53

13. Liberation  05:12

 

Release dates:
June 15, 2011 – Sweden
June 17, 2011 – Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Norway
June 20, 2011 – UK, Benelux, France, Greece, Denmark, Portugal
June 21, 2011 – North America, Spain, Italy
June 22, 2011 – Finland, Hungary
June 24, 2011 – Australia, New Zealand

 

Recorded at IF Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Co-produced by In Flames & Daniel Bergstrand.
Mastered at Studio Bohus Mastering.
String arrangement by Johanes Bergion.

 

 

   Siren Charms (2014)

Album: Siren Charms

Type: Full-length

Release date: September 10th, 2014

Catalog ID: EICP 1612

Label: Epic Records

Format: CD, Japan, Digibook

MP3 | 320Kbps | 48:51 | 115Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. In Plain View  04:06

2. Everything's Gone  03:24

3. Paralyzed  04:15

4. Through Oblivion  03:37

5. With Eyes Wide Open  03:58

6. Siren Charms  03:05

7. When the World Explodes  04:38

8. Rusted Nail  04:54

9. Dead Eyes  05:23

10. Monsters in the Ballroom  03:53

11. Filtered Truth  03:30

12. Become the Sky* 04:01

 

In Flames released a teaser for the album by faking out fans and making it seem as though a hacker had taken over their website. A message promised a big announcement from the hacker, but once it was revealed, the link took fans to a preview of their new album.

 

Recorded and mixed at Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, Germany.
Mastered at Sterling Sound.

 

   Battles (2016)

Album: Battles

Type: Full-length

Release date: November 11th, 2016

Catalog ID: ESM 175-2

Label: Eleven Seven Music

Format: CD, Limited edition, Digipak

MP3 | 320Kbps | 55:35 | 128Mb

 

Tracklist:

1. Drained  04:06

2. The End  03:58

3. Like Sand  03:43

4. The Truth  03:04

5. In My Room  03:25

6. Before I Fall  03:27

7. Through My Eyes  03:50

8. Battles  02:58

9. Here Until Forever  04:19

10. Underneath My Skin  03:30

11. Wallflower  07:06

12. Save Me  04:12

13. Greatest Greed* 04:09

14. Us Against the World* 03:40

 

• Recorded during February - April 2016 at West Valley Studios in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States.
• Mixed at West Valley Studios in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States.
• Mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City, New York, United States.

 

 

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