Metal band In Flames will release their fourteenth studio album “Foregone” on February 10, 2023 via Nuclear Blast. The record will include two songs released earlier this year: “State Of Slow Decay” and “The Great Deceiver”. If you’ve been following In Flames singles during 2022, you’ve definitely noticed that the band has really stepped up their heaviness. Vocalist Anders Frieden says that this was done intentionally, apparently because The Halo Effect released a pretty good old-school melodic-death style debut. Well it’s just a guess, at any rate the band obviously got more of an old-school sound and a lot less of the clean vocals. Proof of this is the new single “Foregone, Pt. 1”, which you can check out below.
Frontman Anders Fridén stated:
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.
Humanity as a whole was forced to slow down and take breather. In that break, many of us spent time evaluating and reprioritizing. Time is a constant, but what do we do with it and how we perceive it varies. Especially now looking at where the world seems to be headed faster than ever before.
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!
Well, we’ll see.
- The Beginning Of All Things That Will End
- State Of Slow Decay
- Meet Your Maker
- Bleeding Out
- Foregone Pt. 1
- Foregone Pt. 2
- Pure Light Of Mind
- The Great Deceiver
- In The Dark
- A Dialogue In B Flat Minor
- Cynosure
- End The Transmission
