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Thanks to Crustcake for posting this awesome live video of vintage In Flames — featuring pre-dreads Anders — performing the classic “Behind Space.” The song first appeared on 1994’s Lunar Strain, a landmark melodic death metal album that pre-dated At the Gates’ Slaughter of the Soul by a year but doesn’t seem to get 1/10th of the credit that album does, perhaps because In Flames never broke up. “Behind Space” was later re-recorded for 1999’s Colony with new vocalist Anders Friden.

The Lunar Strain version of “Behind Space” was performed by session vocalist Mikael Stanne, the Dark Tranquillity guitarist (later vocalist) who Jesper Stromblad tapped to do vocals on the album since In Flames didn’t yet have a vocalist. A year later Stromblad tapped another Dark Tranquillity member, this time their vocalist proper Anders Friden, to join In Flames as a full-time member, resulting in the landmark album The Jester Race. The band re-recorded “Behind Space” for 1999’s Colony, resulting in the version seen here, which is still a staple of their live set even today.

In Flames new album A Sense of Purpose (Koch Records) comes out next week on April 1st. Check out the video for the first single “The Mirror’s Truth.”

-VN

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