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IN FLAMES Announces ‘Foregone’ Album, Shares Visualizer For ‘Foregone Pt. 1’

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Swedish/American metallers IN FLAMES will release their fourteenth studio album, “Foregone”, on February 10, 2023 via Nuclear Blast. The LP will feature the two songs IN FLAMES released earlier this year, “State Of Slow Decay” and “The Great Deceiver”.

IN FLAMES frontman Anders Fridén states: “Going into the ‘Foregone’ sessions, we wanted to make a record that was heavily guitar-driven, and that had a strong foundation between the bass and drums. We still approached our songwriting the same way, as we always have, as a juxtaposition between melody and aggression. That’s the DNA of our music. From the lyrical end of things, there was no shortage of inspiration to draw from, especially the concept of time.”

Fridén concludes: “It’s crazy that after everything we are still here and on our fourteenth album. I feel that we’ve found a great balance between the past, the present and the future with ‘Foregone’. This is a new era of IN FLAMES!”

IN FLAMES has also shared the visualizer for “Foregone Pt. 1”. The clip was created by Oleg Rooz and can be seen below. The Ukrainian graphic designer used groundbreaking AI technology to create the visuals. As one of the first bands relying on AI for a music video, IN FLAMES remain on the cutting edge.

“Foregone” features artwork designed by Blake Armstrong.

“Foregone” track listing:

02. State Of Slow Decay
03. Meet Your Maker
04. Bleeding Out
05. Foregone Pt. 1
06. Foregone Pt. 2
07. Pure Light Of Mind
08. The Great Deceiver
09. In The Dark
10. A Dialogue In B Flat Minor
11. Cynosure
12. End The Transmission

Fridén recently spoke to MoreCore.TV about IN FLAMES‘ upcoming album. Asked if the LP’s first single, “State Of Slow Decay”, is a good representation of what fans can expect from the record, Anders said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “IN FLAMES has always been about melody and aggression. The short answer is yes, but it’s not gonna be all fast. We try to explore all corners of metal with our music. Let’s put it like this: if you’re a fan of IN FLAMES, then you will love this album.”

Elaborating on what fans can expect from the upcoming IN FLAMES album, Anders said: “This is the fourteenth album. So if you know IN FLAMES, you know sort of what you’re gonna get. But I think this is a good mix of the past, the present and wherever we’re going, and [it] has a little thing for everyone; it has the heavy, it has the melodic, it has the uptempo and the slow parts. I think it’s amazing, and it really represents who we are at this time.”

“Of course, a break like that, it’s a pause, so when you get back into it, maybe unintentionally you have more energy across the board, [and] with the music as well,” he explained.

IN FLAMES performed “State Of Slow Decay” — which was produced by Howard Benson, mixed by Joe Rickard and mastered by Ted Jensen — live for the first time on June 10 at the Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden.

In early July, Fridén told Chaoszine about the songwriting process for the new IN FLAMES album: “Me and Björn, we live on different sides of [Sweden] — he lives in Gothenburg; I live in Stockholm — and we only saw each other once or twice during the whole pandemic. But towards the end, when we kind of felt like it’s gonna open up for real, we started talking and then we decided to take a trip to the U.S. and just get the machine rolling again — write some stuff; just get things out of our system. So we spent some time — like, three weeks — in L.A. And then we flew home and had Christmas and so on, and then we flew back again and started recording stuff for real. But as soon as we got together, a few weeks in the writing process, it felt like it always has.”

Anders went on to say that he and Björn “had to be in the same room” in order to maximize their songwriting efforts. “We feed off each other’s energies and ideas and so on, and I don’t think we can write apart,” he explained. “I mean, we can, but it won’t be the same. So we have to get in the same room and be amongst everyone in the band… Me and Björn, we are the ones that are writing everything. The other guys are obviously partaking and bringing in their energy and their skills to the band, but when it comes to the writing, it’s not much different.”

Wayne joined IN FLAMES following the departure of Joe Rickard, who played on “I, The Mask” and 2016’s “Battles”.

Tanner made his live debut with IN FLAMES in July 2018 in Brno, Czech Republic.

Paul has been playing most of the shows with IN FLAMES since longtime bassist Peter Iwers‘s November 2016 exit.

In August 2020, IN FLAMES released a special 20th-anniversary edition of its seminal, critically acclaimed album “Clayman”“Clayman 20th Anniversary Edition” came entirely remastered by Ted Jensen (PANTERADEFTONESGOJIRA) and featured all-new artwork in a 16-page booklet, a brand-new instrumental medley plus four re-recorded versions of fan favorites such as “Only For The Weak” and “Pinball Map”.

Source:  www.blabbermouth.net

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