These Scandinavian metal gods helped forge a whole new subgenre.
About In Flames
Artist Biography
Formed in 1990, pioneering Swedish melodic death-metal band In Flames fused their aggressive sound with Iron Maiden-style guitars.
∙ Soundtrack to Your Escape was their first US hit album, making the Billboard 200 chart in 2004 and selling more than 100,000 copies.
∙ In Flames have won four of Sweden’s Grammis Awards, and in 2006 they were the first metal band to win the Music Export Prize, given to globally successful Swedish artists.
∙ Come Clarity was named the best Swedish album of the 2000s in a readers poll by the Scandinavian newspaper Aftonbladet.
∙ Eight consecutive In Flames albums have landed in the Swedish Top 5, including 2019’s chart-topping I, The Mask.
∙ Trivium, Darkest Hour, As I Lay Dying, and All That Remains are among the many American metalcore bands that have named In Flames as a major influence.
Hometown
Gothenburg, Sweden
Genre
Metal
Members of In Flames
In Flames was formed in 1990. Members of In Flames include, or have included, the following 7 members.