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About In flames

Line-up
Jesper Strömblad – Guitars
Björn Gelotte – Guitars
Anders Fridén – Vocals
Peter Iwers – Bass Guitar
Daniel Svensson – Drums

In Flames was formed by Jesper Strömblad back in 1990. The band as it was at the time consisted of Jesper, Johan Larsson and Glenn Ljungström. A demo was recorded and soon after the band got a record deal and released “Lunar Strain” and it did not take long before the album was a classic in the fast growing Scandinavian death metal scene.

With a new line up consisting of Jesper, Johan & Glenn along with two new additions: Anders Fridén on vocals and Björn Gelotte on drums, In Flames signed a license deal with Nuclear Blast Records and soon started recording the follow up: “The Jester Race”.

“The Jester Race” quickly became a big hit all across Europe and Japan. After the recording of “Whoracle” in 1997 Johan and Glenn decided to leave the band and Peter Iwers (bass) joined. Niklas Engelin (Gardenian, Engel) was temporarily in the band filling in on guitars.

With a fresh line up the band set sails and headed out on tour. Short after a very successful European tour Niklas had to focus on his other projects, and Björn switched from drums to guitar and Daniel Svensson joined the band, and this is the In Flames as we know it today. With the completion of the line up “Colony” was recorded and released in 1999.

“Colony” took In Flames to a new level and the band sold out venues across Europe, USA and Japan and quickly became one of the biggest and most popular Melodic Death Metal acts around.

“Clayman” which was released in 2000 even topped its predecessor and the awards started pouring in and the band kept growing in popularity. In 2001 “The Tokyo Showdown”, In Flames first live album was released, and gave the public and insight to the band’s live competence.

Modern and more mature “Reroute To Remain” (2002) again confirmed the status of In Flames and marked another milestone in their career. Two years later and it was time to take In Flames to a new level. “Soundtrack To Your Escape” did just that and was the logical continuation after “Reroute To Remain”. In Flames continued to tour the world and documented these escapades, which resulted in the release of the phenomenal DVD/CD package “Used And Abused – In Live We Trust” in 2005.

With an incredibly successful world tour behind them, In Flames recorded the masterpiece “Come Clarity” which was released in March 2006. “Come Clarity” got an amazing reception in the media and has today sold over 400.000 copies worldwide. The song “Take This Life” from the album is featured on the new “Guitar Hero III” game. A game which has been deemed the bestselling video game of all times and has today sold six million copies.

In Flames have sold over 2 million albums worldwide to date!!!

In September 2007 In Flames entered IF STUDIOS, in Gothenburg, Sweden, to record what you hold in your hand today. The new album was Recorded and produced by the band together with Daniel Bergstrand (vocals) and Roberto Laghi (Bass, guitar & drums) and mixed by Toby Wright in LA (Metallica, Slayer, Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, Motley Crue etc) and mixed by Stephen Marcussen at Marcussen mastering studios in LA. With this new album there is no doubt that In Flames will take a step up the ladder towards becoming one of the biggest metal bands of all times.

A Sense Of Purpose is released on April 4th 2008 “The Mirror’s Truth” Single/EP incl 3 Exclusive non album tracks is released March 7th 2008

In flames Website:
www.inflames.com
In flames myspace:
www.myspace.com/inflames
Wiki In flames:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flames

Inflames used to be good once. Now, like I've seen, have become sell-outs.
Old material was heavy and catchy. And according to a recent interview, they have decided to change style because they had bad relationship with D.Tranquility. Rather than being friends like old times, they drew apart, and dont accept the fact that people prefer D.T. as a better Melodic Death band.
Changing ur style just because there are another bands with the same type of genre just doesn't cut it for me. Remember Metallica with Load/Reload.

Mark wrote:Inflames used to be good once. Now, like I've seen, have become sell-outs.
Old material was heavy and catchy. And according to a recent interview, they have decided to change style because they had bad relationship with D.Tranquility. Rather than being friends like old times, they drew apart, and dont accept the fact that people prefer D.T. as a better Melodic Death band.
Changing ur style just because there are another bands with the same type of genre just doesn't cut it for me. Remember Metallica with Load/Reload.

simfwnw palia oi IF itan polla pio kaloi, to whoracle, to jester race gamoun, tora alla3an para polla. Alla re file oi IF en k arkepsan na allasoun sto teleuteo tous to cd (sense of purpose). Allasan idi p proigoumena albums opws to come clarity.
Alla en3 opws k na exi areski m arketa oi douleia tous, gia mena en san na ananeonete sinexia ena band. N n toso ashima ta jenourka tous

If you look at it only music wise, and not the way the band progressed then yes. simfonw, en pou to Come Clarity pou arkepsan this "new path". Na ananeononte men, ala na eshi stixia pou palia, the Original InFlames.
Anw, fair enough, they made their path known in the street of Death Metal.

InFlames kick ass left right and centre

I agree with the posts above...In Flames were one of the best bands but now, i cant really understand why they 've changed...

allaksan gia ton idio logo p ulli prepi na allasun.musiki ekseliksi k piramatismos.allios grafis sta 25 k alios sta 35.fantazeste poso kurastiki 8a ginonte an ekseramen p prin ti peripu 8a akuamen?pantos sigkrotimatara i a8ropi je me ixo p perni tus topus

simfwnw me ton darkface..jai ena band enen aparetito na meni stasimo..dete tous maiden..3erw oti oti jai na fkalun kenurio ena eshi stixia p palia koma8kia tous..asp thats maiden..en lalw en kako touto for gods sake! alla kapou u must evolve,expand the possibilitys and playability of you..jai oi c.o.b palia itan polla pio gamatoi apoti twra, alla an akusis to are you dead yet en polla pio thrashiko apoti ta proigumena ts me polla pio llio to lead crazyness tou laiho(which i miss A LOT!)etsi jai oi in flames e3lixtikan stadiaka gia na ftasun sto a sense of purpose.pistefkw to a sense.. en polla pio wraio apoti to come clarity...vsk en parapanw in flames ex: im the highway-(molis to akousis lalis touto en In Flames gamwto!) but thats just my opinion..

Simfono me ton panai (post above me!) pos even though In Flames have changed to Sense of Pupose is alot better (in my humble opinion) than Come Clarity..
Also Sense of Purpose has alot more and better Melodies and Guitar Work than Come Clarity..
Finally Unlike Alexi Laiho (which is sloppy as hell.. believe me i saw him live) which used to be one of the best guitarists in his genre, the guys in In Flames are keeping up pretty well..

cant believe that u say that for alexi man!!!i just cant!!

ofeilw na xoumistw oti eida tous in flames live prin liges meres kai na omologisw oti itan oligon apogoiteutikoi gia sigkrotima me toso live experience.

Re Panai.. O Laiho panta ena gama and he is one of my favourite's ala prepi na paradehtis pos san Kitharistas and songwriter ehiroterepse.. sosta?
Bed of Razors and Towards Dead End or Are you Dead Yeat and Lobodomy?? (en thelis tse poli IQ na katalavis to point mu.. hehe )
Oso gia ton Rot N Roll.. File ida tus In Flames sto Gigantour stis 16 tou Mai sto Vancouver tse EGAMISAN.. esi pu tus ides?

Oi In flames en pragmatika ena polla spoudeo band kata tin apopsi m, k pisteuw oti k sta live show tous en toso kaloi oso k sta recorded albums tous.
En ekatafera akoma na tous dw live, alla ida dvds pu live shows tous k pragmatika ethoroun ta je etraoudoun mazi tous, epeza kithara, genika ida ta mia faousa fores je akoma kavlwnoun me. ;p

*Panta milw me tin diki m apopsi. Xwris pareksigisis guys!
Cheers!

WyldeMalmsteen wrote:Oso gia ton Rot N Roll.. File ida tus In Flames sto Gigantour stis 16 tou Mai sto Vancouver tse EGAMISAN.. esi pu tus ides?

Eida tous sto rock im park sti germania. Itan to mono sigkrotima pou me apogoiteuse o ixos. En ginetai se klassikes kommatares opws to only for the weak na men akoueis lead guitars! Akoua ta drums je ena vouito poupanw. Fysika mporei na eftaie o topos pou estekoumoun epeidi argotera akousa oti se allous topous o ixos itan pio kalos. An isxiei en megalo girisma.

rot_n_roll wrote:

WyldeMalmsteen wrote:Oso gia ton Rot N Roll.. File ida tus In Flames sto Gigantour stis 16 tou Mai sto Vancouver tse EGAMISAN.. esi pu tus ides?

Eida tous sto rock im park sti germania. Itan to mono sigkrotima pou me apogoiteuse o ixos. En ginetai se klassikes kommatares opws to only for the weak na men akoueis lead guitars! Akoua ta drums je ena vouito poupanw. Fysika mporei na eftaie o topos pou estekoumoun epeidi argotera akousa oti se allous topous o ixos itan pio kalos. An isxiei en megalo girisma.

e pelle an isxii efaes megali klatsa ;p xwris pareksigisi .. ;p