IN FLAMES Frontman On Parting Ways With Guitarist Jesper Strömblad - "I Wish Him The Best, And I Want Him To Get Better"
June 26, 2011, 13 years ago
Anders Friden, frontman for Swedish bashers IN FLAMES, discusses the band's new album Sounds Of A Playground Fading in a new interview with Australia's Loud. An excerpt is available below:
Sounds of a Playground Fading is In Flames’ first album without Strömblad. The vocalist is decidedly open when discussing this sensitive topic:
"The songwriting didn’t change that much; it’s Björn (Gelotte/guitars) and I writing instead of three of us. We’ve been doing it since The Jester Race. It was really bad the way everything ended, but it’s not musically as big of a deal as some people have suggested. The way we were (previously) doing it (was) as a unit, but the problem was the unit didn’t work anymore and we had to make a change. He had a problem with alcohol and that affected all of us. You have to be able to trust each other if you do what we do, touring all the time and being in a band. He’s still a good guy – I played him some new tracks a few weeks ago… I think that was difficult for him. We didn’t part ways because of musical differences or being enemies, it was because of addiction. I wish him the best, and I want him to get better. It can be really tough… It’s a disease and if you have to treat it or it goes to hell."Go to this location for the complete story.
Sounds Of A Playground Fading is out now via Century Media Records:
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'
Check out BW&BK;'s new interview with Friden and Gelotte here.
