IN FLAMES geben wieder richtig Death Metallisch Gas, zumindest wenn die gerade erschienene Single `Foregone Pt. 1` vom neu für den 10 Februar 2023 angekündigten vierzehnten Longplayer „Foregone“ einen passenden Eindruck vermittelt. Hören und sehen könnt ihr den neuen erstarkten Song im Video.

Frontmann Anders Fridén:

„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 Forgone. This is a new era of In Flames!“

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Lyrics:

Find a way to bring me home

Darkness is washing over the sky

When all the trees have burned down

Where does the crow fly?

 

Take this as an offering

Empty promises are dead

All the rage and pain is gone

Soon all the rivers run red

 

All that matters is gone

There is nowhere else to go

No place for us to hide

Nothing above and nothing below

 

And the world has closed its eyes

Mother time draws her final breath

The innocent washed away

The condemned, the dance of death

 

It was easy to hide in the crowd

We acted numb to the warnings ahead

With everything that’s rotten

Even the marching ants have fled