History Music / InFlames

* SignatureStyle: Harmonized guitar melodies a la Music/IronMaiden combined with ferocious chainsaw riffs typical of DeathMetal. Nowadays the band has also incorporated ElectronicMusic elements into their songwriting. Also, Anders Friden has one of the most easily recognizable screaming voices in modern metal. Of the three big melodeath bands, they were the most accessible.

* SignatureStyle: Harmonized guitar melodies a la Music/IronMaiden combined with ferocious chainsaw riffs typical of DeathMetal. Nowadays the band has also incorporated ElectronicMusic elements into their songwriting. Also, Anders Friden has one of the most easily recognizable screaming voices in modern metal.

* TropeCodifier: For the more melodic and upbeat end of melodeath as performed by them and Music/{{Unearth}}, Music/SonicSyndicate, Music/ChildrenOfBodom, [=MyGrain=], Music/{{Soilwork}} and Music/BloodStainChild.

* TropeCodifier: For the more melodic and upbeat end of melodeath as performed by them and Music/{{Unearth}}, Music/SonicSyndicate, Music/ChildrenOfBodom, [=MyGrain=] and Music/BloodStainChild.

* TropeCodifier: For the more melodic and upbeat end of melodeath as performed by them and Music/{{Unearth}}, Music/SonicSyndicate, Music/ChildrenOfBodom and Music/BloodStainChild.

* LighterAndSofter: The song 'Metaphor' on ''Reroute to Remain'' and the title track on ''Come Clarity'' are softer than most of their usual work. The same could be said for their whole ''Reroute to Remain'' and afterwards records, compared to their previous material.
** Gloriously inverted with ''Come Clarity'''s opening track, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_fNutgheN4 "Take This Life"]]. Very melodeath-ish, isn't it?

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Older songs an 8-9, later songs a 7-8. "Take This Life" from ''Come Clarity'', mentioned above, is a very hard 9 bordering on 10, while "Scream", a song from the same album, is a ''solid'' 10.

* TropeCodifier: For the more melodic and upbeat end of melodeath as performed by them and Music/{{Unearth}}, Music/SonicSyndicate and Music/BloodStainChild.

** Played straight with "Whoracle," which is arguably the band's darkest and most negative album.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Older songs an 8-9, later songs a 7-8. "Take This Life" from ''Come Clarity'', mentioned above, is a 9, while "Scream", a song from the same album, is a ''solid'' 10.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Older songs an 8-9, later songs a 7-8.

* NewSoundAlbum: Arguably, ''Reroute to Remain'' is the album that solidified their "new" sound. However, ''Colony'' and ''Clayman'' showed the band gradually developing it.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Reroute to Remain'' and beyond.

* BadassLonghair: Again, Anders in his later years. He had some really badass dreadlocks.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Reroute to Remain'' and beyond.

A MelodicDeathMetal / AlternativeMetal quintet formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, In Flames is one of the more commercially underrated heavy metal bands, yet one of the most beloved by hardcore metalheads around the globe.

* BrokenBase: When they changed their sound with their 2002 release ''Reroute to Remain'', many longtime fans who had been following the band since they first emerged reacted negatively to their change in style, citing it as 'not being heavy enough', and describing Anders' clean singing as [[Wangst pussy]]. However, some fans loved the new sound, at times even more than the old. This conflict has led to many internet wars, particularly on heavy metal websites and on YouTube videos.
* CrazyAwesome: The band is notable for including folk music elements in their early music, and as being one of the first bands to do so. When people heard about this, they thought that it was a stupid idea, since metal and folk are like rap and classical when it comes to similarities. Why exactly does this situation fit this trope, you ask? NOBODY SUSPECTED IT WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO SOUND ''GOOD'', AND IT ''DID''. In Flames pioneered a subgenre of heavy metal nobody thought could be pulled off.

* EpicRiff: Stand Ablaze, Moonshield, December Flower.
** Behind Space. That is all. For an old In Flames fan (like, who met them with ''Lunar Strain'') this is THE EpicRiff from them.

* AlternativeMetal: Their later albums contain this sound along with their usual melodeath.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Averted. Their older work is darker than their newer work.
* LighterAndSofter: The song 'Metaphor' on ''Reroute to Remain'' and the title track on ''Come Clarity'' are softer than most of their usual work.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Reroute to Remain'' and beyond.
* ImportantHaircut: Anders recently cut off his dreadlocks, after growing them out for 9 years.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Older songs an 8-9, later songs a 7-8.

Despite this, the band felt like they were playing the same style too often around halfway through their career, and changed their style starting with their 2002 release ''Reroute to Remain'', which [[BrokenBase caused dispute between many fans.]] The new sound departed from much of their old sound, which involved high-pitched screams in replacement of the low death growls, the addition of melodic vocals, less raw production, and a more commercially acceptable tone among other elements. [[YourMilageMayVary Some fans, however, liked the change in sound, citing it to be 'a step in a new direction', and some even like the old and the new sound.]]

* CrazyAwesome: The band is notable for including folk music elements in their early music, and as being one of the first bands to do so. When people heard about this, they thought that it was a stupid idea, since metal and folk are like rap and classical when it comes to similarities. Why exactly does this situation fit this trope, you ask? NOBODY SUSPECTED IT WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO SOUND ''GOOD'', AND IT ''DID'' ([[YourMileageMayVary well, some people didn't think so]]). In Flames pioneered a subgenre of heavy metal nobody thought could be pulled off.

* MelodicDeathMetal: Their music primarily features this style.

* BeyondTheImpossible: The band is notable for including folk music elements in their early music, and as being one of the first bands to do so. When people heard about this, they thought that it was a stupid idea, since metal and folk are like rap and classical when it comes to similarities. Why exactly does this situation fit this trope, you ask? NOBODY SUSPECTED IT WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO SOUND ''GOOD'', AND IT ''DID'' ([[YourMileageMayVary well, some people didn't think so]]). In Flames pioneered a subgenre of heavy metal nobody thought could be pulled off.

* Bjorn Golette: one of two drummers and guitarists in the band.