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In Flames is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1990. Along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, they pioneered what is now known as melodic death metal.
In Flames was founded in 1990 as a side project of Jesper Strömblad who was at the time in a death metal band called Ceremonial Oath. Jesper formed In Flames with the purpose of writing songs with a more melodic musical direction, something which he was not allowed to do in Ceremonial Oath.
During 1993, In Flames wrote, recorded, and self-produced their debut studio album, Lunar Strain, in Studio Fredman. Since In Flames did not have a vocalist yet, Jesper asked Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity to provide session vocals. In 1994, Lunar Strain was released.
In Flames, along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, pioneered what is now known as melodic death metal. The founding members of all three bands all lived in Gothenburg, Sweden and they were all friends who shared the same musical interests.
Jesper Strömblad formed In Flames to write music that combined the guitar style of Iron Maiden with the brutality of death metal, something which Jesper stated he had never heard any band do. In writing songs, Jesper also decided to make use of keyboards, something which is uncommon in death metal.
In Flames, being one of the pioneers of a new music genre, have influenced many bands and most notably they were a direct influence on the new wave of metalcore. Many metalcore bands such as Darkest Hour, As I Lay Dying, and Still Remainsname In Flames as one of their biggest influences.
In Flames has been awarded three Grammis awards (the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy Awards) to date. In 2005, In Flames won their first Grammis award in the category of Best Hard Rock/Metal Album for Soundtrack to Your Escape. In 2006, In Flames won the Swedish Export Award, their second Grammis award. In Flames was the first metal band to ever win that award and the Swedish economy minister at the time.
In 2007, In Flames once again won the category of Best Hard Rock/Metal Album for Come Clarity.
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In Flames - Come Clarity
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2006 | Melodic Death Metal
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Come Clarity is the eighth studio album by In Flames, released on February 3, 2006 in Europe through Nuclear Blast Records and February 7 in the U.S. through Ferret Records.The first two songs...
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by itemvn | 5 years ago | 13,355 total plays
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In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose
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2008 | Metal
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A Sense of Purpose is the ninth In Flames studio album. It was released in Europe on April 4, 2008 through Nuclear Blast and through Koch Records in North America on April 1. The album was also releas...
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by itemvn | 5 years ago | 7,410 total plays
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In Flames - Sounds Of The Playground Fading
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2011 | Alternative Metal
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Sounds of a Playground Fading is the tenth studio album by the Swedish heavy metal band In Flames, released on June 15, 2011 through Century Media/Razzia...
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by Bastion45 | 9 months ago | 587 total plays
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In Flames - Clayman
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2000 | Melodic death metal
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Clayman is a melodic death metal album by In Flames. The album was released by Nuclear Blast in 2000. Most of the lyrics deal with depression and internal struggles. Clayman was the last In Fl...
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by itemvn | 5 years ago | 7,041 total plays
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In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape
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2004 | Alternative metal
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Soundtrack To Your Escape is the seventh studio album of In Flames. It was released on March 29, 2004 by Nuclear Blast. The album was available in both a regular jewel case release featuring 12 tracks...
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by itemvn | 5 years ago | 6,573 total plays
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In Flames - Colony
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1999 | Melodic death metal
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Colony is an album by the swedish melodic death metal, In Flames. It was released on June 22, 1999 through Nuclear Blast. It was the first album to feature the current lineup of the band. The ...
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by itemvn | 5 years ago | 5,341 total plays
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In Flames - Sounds of a Playground Fading
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2011 | Alternative Metal,Melodic Death Metal
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Sounds of a Playground Fading is the tenth studio album by the Swedish heavy metal band In Flames, released on June 15, 2011 through Century Media/Razzia...
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by mariqtereza | 7 months ago | 1,879 total plays
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In Flames - Lunar Strain
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2005 | Melodic death metal, Folk Metal
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Lunar Strain is the first album released by Swedish, melodic death metal band In Flames, in 1994. In this release, vocals were sung by Mikael Stanne, the vocalist of Dark Tranquillity, who was a sessi...
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by itemvn | 5 years ago | 7,618 total plays
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In Flames - The Jester Race
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1996 | Melodic death metal
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The Jester Race is an album by the melodic death metal band In Flames. It was released in 1996. It is also the first concept album by In Flames, and the first to feature Anders Fridén as the band's vo...
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by itemvn | 5 years ago | 4,845 total plays
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In Flames - Reroute To Remain
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2002 | Heavy Metal music, Alternative Metal, Melodic Deat
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Reroute To Remain is the sixth studio album by In Flames. The album was released on September 3, 2002 on Nuclear Blast. Reroute to Remain was In Flames' first big step towards mainstream music, and wa...
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by itemvn | 5 years ago | 8,282 total plays
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In Flames - Whoracle
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1997 | Melodic death metal
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Whoracle is an album by the band In Flames. The album was released through Nuclear Blast on November 18, 1997. Apart from "Everything Counts", which is a cover of a Depeche Mode song, all songs were c...
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by itemvn | 5 years ago | 5,027 total plays
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