IN FLAMES

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.

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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. Niclas 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 Niclas 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. In Flames was quickly becoming 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. 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. The song Take This Life from the album is featured on the bestselling Guitar Hero III game.

In April 2008 A Sense Of Purpose entered charts all over the world including # 1 in Sweden and the band’s highest ever entry on the American Billboard top 200 with an amazing #28. In Canada, In Flames achieved the very same thing with a #7 on the Canadian Billboard top 200. A Sense Of Purpose was at the time of release the 7th most sold album in the whole of Europe! 2008 was spent touring, starting with a main support slot to Megadeth in North America, followed by breaking the attendance record at the famous Swedish Gröna Lund with 15.500 people in the audience. NO other Swedish artist has ever had that many people at a single show there. Moving on to 18 European summer festivals, in front of a total of 300 000 people. After that the band finished what became In Flames biggest ever European headline tour at the time attended by over 60 000 people ending with 4 completely sold out Swedish shows attracting 13 000 people. 2008 ended in style with the most successful North American Headline tour to date for the band. 2009 started off with IN FLAMES performing at the Swedish Grammi Awards, where the band also won a Grammi for best metal band.