If you had told me, when I started listening to In Flames nearly thirty years ago, that the Swedish Melodic Death Metal band would one day co-headline an arena the size of the Zénith... I probably would've said "Well, yeah! Of course!"
The real mindfuck isn't that a band from that genre managed to pull themselves out of the underground, it's that it took nearly three decades for the public to catch up to what fans have known all along: this music is made for the big time. The harmonized riffs, the epic songs, the pounding rhythms... This is all designed to blow minds on grand scale. It's Iron Maiden for the Death Metal generation.
Seeing them reap what they've been sowing since that first record Lunar Strain is a thing of beauty. An ocean of Metal Heads banging their heads, chanting the lyrics, crowd surfing and pumping their fists in unison: this is the power of live music, this is the power or Heavy Metal and this is the power of In Flames.
