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In Flames' new album, 'Sounds of a Playground Fading,' is the first in the Swedish metal band's 21-year career without founding guitarist Jesper Stromblad. After In Flames' last record, the guitarist left the multimillion-selling act because of a serious problem with alcohol abuse...

'Deliver Us,' the new video from Swedish melodic death masters In Flames, can be viewed below. The clip was filmed in April at Göteborgsvarvet (The Wheel of Gothenburg) in Gothenburg, Sweden with Patric Ullaeus in the director's chair. Ull...

'Deliver Us.' 'The Puzzle.' 'Where the Dead Ships Dwell.' 'Jester's Door.' Those are just a few of the song titles from In Flames' forthcoming new album, 'Sounds of a Playground Fading.' The album's 13 tracks of melodic Swedish death metal goodness are due out on June 21st...

After stints on Nuclear Blast, Ferret and Koch, In Flames have finally settled in with Century Media Records for their 10th album, 'Sounds of a Playground Fading,' due out this June. From 'Whoracle' to 'Jester Race' to 'Colony' to 'Clayman,' In Flames have served up heaping helpings of memorable metal for 20 years now...

Stunt Company On their new album, 'Immersion,' drum and bass hard rockers Pendulum collaborate with vocalist Anders Friden and guitarist Bjorn Gellotte of In Flames fame. It might seem like an unlikely pairing on paper, but the genres and bands aren't as disparate as you might think...

Norwegian extreme metallers Keep of Kalessin will release their fifth album, 'Reptilian,' on June 8. Like its 2008 predecessor, 'Kolossus,' the new album was recorded at the band's studio in Trondheim, Norway. Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Behemoth, Meshuggah) mixed the album...

Action! PR, the full-service, boutique agency run by former Relapse PR maven Carl Schultz that represents artists like High on Fire, the Sword and a host of others, will sponsor their first official South by Southwest showcase on March 17 at The Mohawk...

Congrats to High on Fire, whose 'Snakes for the Divine' sold nearly 10,000 copies its first week on shelves. That's nearly double what their last album sold in its first week, and this is their fifth studio album. It's incredible to see the band having forward progress deep into their career and reversing a trend...

According to reports, guitarist Jesper Strömblad has quit Swedish metal outfit In Flames, saying in a statement that "it is best for me to leave In Flames and to quit the band permanently." There is speculation that Strömblad's addiction fueled his decision to leave. While "th...

Arch Enemy guitarist Christopher Amott has released two out of three albums from Armageddon, the ever-shifting project he began in 1997 that never released music outside of Japan and Korea. Rather than allow the albums to be lost in time, Amott wanted to expose them...