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Gothenburg legends In Flames are releasing their twelfth studio album Battles on November 11. Treading the line between bulldozer heavy and commercial melodics, it’s not the sound of a band willing to rest on their substantial back catalogue. But what does it all mean? Here, frontman Anders Fridén and lead guitarist Björn Gelotte talk us through the new album from start to finish.
Drained
Nov 11, 2016 - In Flames - Battles (Limited Edition) (2016). Release Date: 11 November 2016. Length: 55:27. Tracklist: 1. Nov 29, 2016 - Release date: 11 November 2016 Style: Alternative metal Free Download. IN FLAMES To Release Battles Album In November By Larry Petro, News Monkey Friday, August 26, 2016 @ 1:05 PM. Ozzfest, Download Festival, Graspop, Taste Of Chaos. Following the release of Battles, IN FLAMES will be performing a string of dates in the UK alongside AVENGED SEVENFOLD and DISTURBED. Gothenburg legends In Flames are releasing their twelfth studio album Battles on November 11. Treading the line between bulldozer heavy and commercial melodics, it’s not the sound of a band willing to rest on their substantial back catalogue. Taken from the album 'Battles', out November 11th, 2016 SUBSCRIBE to NUCLEAR BLAST: SUBSCRIBE to IN FLAMES: http://bit.ly/yt-inflms-sub.
Anders Fridén (vocals): “We put a lot of thought into the way each album is built, we focus on the album not just the initial singles, and the dynamics between the songs has to be there. So there’s a reason that Drained is the first track and so on.”
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Björn Gelotte (guitar): “It sort of sets the mood for the album, it’s a nice dark intro with a big chorus – which we like obviously. We recorded in LA and we brought a bag of riffs and then most of the songs were finished or arranged in that house. Drained is one of three songs we wrote in LA, each and every melody, so that makes it sort of special.”
Anders: “Battles is about the struggles and inner battles we have waking up in the morning, from the day we start to think and feel when we’re really young, until the day we die. There’s also a lot of stuff about dealing with your past and making sure it’s sorted in your head, so that you’re able to move forward. That song in particular is about something that I went through years and years ago in a bad relationship with someone; we went through a bad era and I hung around when I shouldn’t and it turned ugly. It’s important you deal with those issues so you can move on. Not being destructive and so on.”
The End
Björn: “It’s the first track we actually showed people as we gave it a video; it’s energetic, really guitar-heavy and I think in a good way it really summarises, not just this album, but In Flames generally.”
Anders: “It’s about if you know you’re going to die – well everyone knows they are going to die, but if you have a little ‘heads up’, so to speak… Like, okay, you’re going to die in five minutes, what are your thoughts? Are you happy with your life? Do you feel you’ve done everything you could? Do you want to relive it? And how important is it that we talk to each other and treat each other in a good way? It’s sort of questioning, ‘Have we done everything that we could?’
“In today’s society everything is so fast, it’s like, ‘Next one, next one, next one…’ All we judge other people on is the way they look, the last vacation they’ve been on, the last beer they’ve had… with social media, what I want you to see is how happy I am, how great my life might be. It’s very superficial and we never say, ‘Dude, you’re a really friendly person, you’re good to me, I like the way you help others’. That’s sort of where that inspiration comes from. Like the world is getting more and more hostile and that’s not where we should be.”
Like Sand
Anders: “It’s about insecurity. You want to have everything – and that could be difficult. Even though I’ve done a lot of things and get all these praises and meet people who love what we’re doing… that should be like, ‘I’m done, I feel great, I don’t need to do anything now, no one else has to tell me I’m good’. But I’m still fighting at some points with these insecurities; ‘Is what I’m doing good enough?’ I should just say, ‘Fuck it’, and most of the time that’s how I think, but sometimes I’m drifting into this world of insecurity and I think that’s very common. Sometimes you feel like Superman, sometimes the dog from Garfield.”
The Truth
Anders: “It’s the other song we showed the audience prior to releasing the album and I think if The End has one side of us, The Truth has something else, though it’s still very much In Flames.”
Björn: “It’s at the other end of the spectrum in what we do. The other song is immediate, you get it – this one is related to stuff we have done in the past, all the way back to the first days, but in different clothes. And the videos are connected, you have to watch both to get the full story.”
Anders: “Lyrically it’s about how the most honest thing we have is our kids, because they are not programmed…”
Björn: “…yet.”
Anders: “Right, yet. You are formed by the society and people you are around, what you see and what people say to you. It just mystifies me how can grown-ups can treat each other in the hostile way we do and at the same time look at our kids and, say…”
Björn: “…‘It’s important to be nice’.”
Anders: “…and at the same time work on rockets that will take nuclear weapons into other countries. It’s weird and destructive. How can we teach a younger generation when we act like dumbasses ourselves? Having kids – not saying that we are perfect… well [Björn] is a bit more perfect than me…”
Björn: “I couldn’t have said it better myself.”
Anders: “…we try to give them good values. I didn’t have these thoughts before I had kids but I do now, looking at them and how much they absorb. You really have to be careful what you say and show them.”
In My Room
Björn: “This one was written really late. We felt there was something missing musically from the album.”
Anders: “Like most of the songs, we want to get to the point very quickly.”
Björn: “That was a song where we actually wrote the chorus at an early stage and wrote the song around that.”
Anders: “We let it rest for a little while and then went back to work on it. We never wanted to be a big epic band that write 20 minute long song of… space metal or whatever…”
Björn: “’Space metal’?”
Anders: “Ha ha ha. No, but we want to get straight to the point, write good melodies and this is a fine example I would say. Lyrically speaking… it’s so easy to stay in your room in your little bubble, and complain about everything outside of that, but you’re sort of not entitled until you go out into the world and take those battles yourself. That’s a typical view on society, everybody knows better than everybody else. You think you say something good and then someone comes with a stick and says, ‘You can’t say that, it’s wrong’. And we’re so fast judging people.”
Before I Fall
Björn: “It contains one of the first riffs written for the album.”
Anders: “Written back at home… in your room ha ha. Wont let me download itunes. I remember Björn playing me the riff for part of the song and immediately going, ‘This is it, this is the single’, just hearing one riff. That’s how I am, I get so blown away sometimes and attached to the riffs Björn is writing, I feel where the rest of the song is going immediately.”
Björn: “And it almost didn’t end up on the record.”
Anders: “It was the last track ‘in’ to be honest, because we had eleven tracks which was what we planned, but as we said, it’s important to have that dynamic on the album and we felt there was something missing, so we put it in there.”
Björn: “That maybe says more about the rest of the album, because this one felt immediate and right and almost did not end up on the album. Which is very positive.”
Through My Eyes
Björn: “We always have one song like that, which is fast all the way through. Sometimes it’s too easy in a way to create a really fast, energetic, aggressive song – we could probably do ten of those songs, but there’s a big lack of dynamics in that. We love that obviously, we’ve done that all through our career, but [we felt], ‘This album has so much more to offer, so we shouldn’t rush through it’.”
Anders: “That song is like ‘In Flames Format 1A’ ha ha.”
Battles
Björn: “That one came very late.”
Anders: “And it ended up being the title track. When I write the lyrics I don’t really know what I’m talking about ha ha, there’s so many thoughts, topics and feelings. So I have to step back and look at what I’m trying to say. I thought Battles was a short title that sounded good and was something everybody could relate to. Just as we’re not trying to be a space rock metal band musically, we also can’t write about dragons or war or politics in a big way – it’s not us and why should I compete with someone who can do it so much better? I’d rather write something that people can relate to. In the past we had a lot of fans say, ‘Oh this song means a lot to me and got me through this and this’, and that’s super-rewarding, so I’m going to stick to that.”
Here Until Forever
Retropie xbox 360 wireless controller driver. Anders: “Another track that came late.”
Björn: “I wouldn’t go so far as to say ‘ballad’, but that’s kind of what it is.”
Anders: “We did two slower tracks on the last album so we said, ‘Let’s do a slow song with an upbeat tempo’, because the drums in the verse is really upbeat and energetic. I was having the live environment in my head already and thinking about having this big chorus that people could sing their heart out to. I wrote the lyrics for Come Clarity – which I have tattooed – for my daughter when she was younger and my son saw this and asked, ‘Daddy can you write a lyric for me some day?’. I wasn’t ready to write a lyric that was good enough, because if your son asks for a lyric it better be good as it will be there forever, but writing this one it came pretty quickly in the end. You won’t be like, ‘Oh this is for Anders’ son and that’s it’, I think it can speak to someone you lost or someone you love or could be for whoever… but for me it’s super-personal.”
Underneath My Skin
Björn: “In the beginning it felt really dark and it’s interesting how it changed its audial appearance from the rough demos to being recorded properly. I’m amazed at the journey it took.”
Sqlplus download for windows 10. Anders: “The verse is slightly different tone-wise now.”
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Björn: “It’s not as ‘melodically-correct’ in a way. I don’t know the terms, I’m not a very theoretical musician…”
Anders: “Put it this way, we know how to write In Flames songs, we don’t know the theory to be able to talk about it!”
Wallflower
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Björn: “Anders was talking about ‘space metal’ earlier… we felt the album needed something that wasn’t ‘In Flames Format 1’ – quickly getting into the chorus and stuff – and wanted to have something that built all the way through the song to something big in the end. And that’s what we did. So it starts off with something small, and we add instruments and sounds and stuff to make it sound – not to sound too cliché – a proper musical journey. We haven’t done a song like this since [2008’s] The Chosen Pessimist, and it’s a format we wanted to try it again.”
Save Me
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Björn: “That came really late as well.
Anders: “I already had the line, I sang it into the demo but in a different place, we had the idea, but not the format.”
Björn: “We had a chorus and we thought, ‘Yeah this is okay’, but it didn’t feel right. So we re-worked the chorus a bit and all of a sudden we had the song.”
In Flames’ new album Battles is out November 11, via Nuclear Blast.
Their new DVD Sounds From The Heart Of Gothenburg is out now.
Swedish metallers IN FLAMES will release their twelfth studio album, 'Battles', on November 11 via via Nuclear Blast in all territories excluding North America and Scandinavia and Eleven Seven Music Group in the U.S. The CD was recorded in Los Angeles with Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson, who has previously worked with MOTÖRHEAD, BODY COUNT and SEPULTURA, among others.
A song from the album, 'The End', can be streamed below.
IN FLAMES guitarist Björn Gelotte described 'The End' to Decibel magazine as 'a fairly straightforward IN FLAMES song. Having said that, it's a really positive vibe [to] the song. It's not a slash-your-wrists kind of vibe; it makes you realize to just make sure you appreciate that moment.'
Gelotte also talked about how the recording process for 'Battles' compared to that of its predecessor, 2014's 'Siren Charms'.
''Siren Charms' had a very dark vibe to it,' he explained. 'We recorded it at a cold, damp and dark time during the year in Berlin so it gave it a certain melancholy to the record. Now recording in L.A. with the sunshine, it's a different energy. The writing process was different this time, too — that I would like for us to continue to explore. Also, working with Howard and his team was great. I got stressed taking a break for even five minutes because they were always ready to go for the next take and kept my energy up.'
'I think being in California really affected this album in the sense that we had a studio in the house that we were staying at and the vibe was really relaxed which lent itself to productivity,' added vocalist Anders Fridén. 'It really helped having a producer who could make us focus on what we needed to accomplish and keep us on track.'
'This was a very new approach for us because we've never let anyone else in the way we did with Howard,' said Gelotte.
'Battles' sees the band making the hooks sharper, the riffs tighter and honing the overall attack in a way that parallels their legendary live shows in an unparalleled fashion.
'When people hear this album I think they're going to instantly know that it's the new IN FLAMES without us repeating the same song over and over, and that's something I'm incredibly proud of,' Fridén said. He went on to downplay the changes in the band's sound, calling 'Battles' 'guitar driven, melodic… it's like they know what to expect. It's not like we're coming out with something completely different, but at the same time it's still new. If they already like IN FLAMES, they will like it — and if they don't like IN FLAMES already, they still might like it.'
IN FLAMES will release its new concert DVD, 'Sounds From The Heart Of Gothenburg', on September 23 via Nuclear Blast. The set was recorded on November 7, 2014 at Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
IN FLAMES last year inked a new management deal with Tenth Street Entertainment, which also looks after MÖTLEY CRÜE and FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, among others.
The band's last disc, 'Siren Charms', sold around 9,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 26 on The Billboard 200 chart.
IN FLAMES drummer Daniel Svensson announced last fall that he was leaving the band to focus on his family life. He said in a statement: 'It's hard to leave what have become my second family, but now it's time for me to take care and spend more time with the most important people in my life — my wife and my three daughters.'
IN FLAMES has not yet named a replacement for Svensson.
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Anders Fridén - Vocals
Björn Gelotte - Guitar
Peter Iwers - Bass
Niclas Engelin - Guitar
Björn Gelotte - Guitar
Peter Iwers - Bass
Niclas Engelin - Guitar