Colony (In Flames album)
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| Studio album by In Flames | ||||
| Released | 21 May 1999 (Japan) 31 May 1999 (Rest of the world) |
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| Recorded | 1999 (Studio Fredman) |
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| Genre | Melodic death metal | |||
| Length | 41:31 | |||
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
| Producer | Fredrik Nordström and In Flames | |||
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| Metal Storm | 9.4/10 |
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Colony is the fourth album by Swedish melodic death metal band, In Flames, released on May 21, 1999, through Nuclear Blast Records.
It was the first In Flames album to feature the classic line-up (up until Jesper Strömblad's departure in 2010, Daniel Svensson's departure in 2015 and Peter Iwers departure in 2016), with Peter Iwers on bass and Daniel Svensson on drums, filling in for Björn Gelotte who was the previous drummer of the band but permanently switched to become the new rhythm guitarist, after the position for guitar was empty when Niclas Engelin quit the band, the year before this album's release.
The title of The New Word is subject to debate. According to the track list on the back cover of the original 1999 release, the official In Flames web site, and the lyrics printed in the original 1999 CD booklet, the correct title is The New Word; however, according to the heading of the lyrics printed for the song in the original booklet, the track list on the 2004 re-release, and the official Nuclear Blast Records web site, the song is called The New World. The 2009 re-release Colony: Reloaded did nothing to clear up this issue, with the insert and the booklet containing the same inconsistency as the original 1999 release. The song's lyrics themselves, meanwhile, suggest that The New Word is indeed the correct title.
"Pallar Anders Visa" means "The Ballad of Anders the Thief". It is also an Instrumental, just like the Bonus Track, "Man Made God".
The song Embody the Invisible appears in the soundtrack of the video game Tony Hawk's Underground.
The tracks Behind Space '99 and Clad in Shadows '99 (which are only available on different issues of this album) are both remakes of the tracks first heard on Lunar Strain, although Behind Space '99 excludes the acoustic guitar outro present on the original version.
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