Lunar Strain [Japan]

About Lunar Strain [Japan]

Lunar Strain is the debut album by Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames. It is the only album not to feature Anders Fridén on vocals and Bjorn Gelotte on either drums or lead guitar. On this album only, guitarist Jesper Stromblad plays the drums, while the vocals were sung by Dark Tranquility vocalist Mikael Stanne, a session musician for In Flames at the time. He had sung with this band previously on "Demo '93". Coincidentally Fridén was the original vocalist for Dark Tranquillity and he effectively traded places with Stanne in 1995. The album is known for its "folky elements" with the inclusion of violins and acoustic guitars. The songs "Behind Space" & "Clad in Shadows" were rerecorded with the future lineup of this bands' future release Colony - the songs were released on the album, although both songs were renamed with '99 at the end of the titles and both songs ended up on different versions of the album with "Behind Space '99" on the standard and "Clad in Shadows '99" on the reissue. "Clad in Shadows '99" was also released on another reissue of this band's future album, Whoracle more »