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In Flames

In Flames are known to me and my friends as ”Johnny’s Gift”, you’ll have to read The Story of Rock and Roll to find out why but when I heard these guys I went seriously nuts. The earlier albums Whoracle and The Jester’s Race were so musically good and so interesting compared to all the Nu Metal coming out at the time that they became my new favourite band for a couple of years. They were the first band doing Death metal vocal style that I really liked and it made me appreciate it a lot more.

Somewhere along the line In Flames lost the plot and the last couple of albums are just not what they used to be. That’s OK, the same thing happened to Metallica and a ton of other bands. There is always a classic line-up that really defines a band and for me it was the one that was responsible for their albums 10 years ago. I saw them Live in Germany at Rock Im park in 2011 and that is really something else. Fantastic Live band.

JAMES DAUBENEY