WHAT WENT DOWN
In Flames headlined Göteborg Brinner in their own city and brought out Dark Tranquillity's Mikael Stanne and Trivium's Matt Heafy *†. Stanne sang "Behind Space" — the song he originally sang on In Flames' 1994 debut "Lunar Strain" *.
THE DETAILS
- Saturday, August 22, 2026 at Frihamnen in Gothenburg, the city the melodic death metal sound is named after *†.
- Heafy joined for "Artifacts Of The Black Rain" from 1996's "The Jester Race" *.
- Stanne traded vocals with Anders Fridén on "Behind Space" *.
- 21 songs, opening with "Colony" and closing on "My Sweet Shadow," per Setlist.fm *.
- "Gyroscope" got its first airing since 2012 *.
- Stanne posted a photo with Fridén and Heafy the next day: "The emotional hangover is real." *
THE TAKE
Two of the three bands that built the Gothenburg sound stood on the same stage in Gothenburg, singing a song one loaned to the other in 1994. In Flames have finished their fifteenth album at Howard Benson's Los Angeles studio, with Jon Rice making his recording debut *.
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