IN FLAMES - Behind The Jester's Door
May 15, 2011, 13 years ago
In a recent interview about the band's new album, Sounds Of A Playground Fading, IN FLAMES frontman Anders Friden discussed the mysterious and dark spoken word interlude 'Jester's Door', which has been pegged by some media people as a tip of the hat to the band's past, their 1996 breakthrough album The Jester Race in particular:
“Could be,” laughs Friden, who debuted as In Flames’ frontman on The Jester Race. “I want to keep it open to interpretation, but it came about because of the lyrics. The track had to be those 10 or 12 lines. I couldn’t make it into a whole song, they were perfect the way they were. As we were recording the album, we had to come up with a song order very early on and keep it that way. Having an album feel was very important to me. It had to have a certain flow, you could almost imagine it as having an A-side and B-side, like an LP.”“That song, for the dynamics, was meant as a breather; both ‘Jester’s Door’ and ‘The Attic’ were. For me, ‘Jester’s Door’ is an ode or a thank you to the world for giving me the opportunity to do this. I did an interview with a guy who said that I sound bitter and pessimistic on that track, and I was surprised. That was never my intention, but that’s his interpretation and that’s fine. That track could also be a beginning or an ending… I entered on The Jester Race and I now I leave through the Jester’s Door (laughs).”
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Sounds Of A Playground Fading tracklisting:
'Sounds Of A Playground Fading'
'Deliver Us'
'All For Me'
'The Puzzle'
'Fear Is The Weakness'
'Where The Dead Ships Dwell'
'The Attic'
'Darker Times'
'Ropes'
'Enter Tragedy'
'Jester’s Door'
'A New Dawn'
'Liberation'
In Flames have released their new single, 'Deliver Us'. Check out an audio snippet at here and on YouTube below:
Check out the single art below:
