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00:00:27:28 I don't think people know exactly
00:00:29:03 what they are going to get
00:00:30:12 and they know that there is a new In Flames album coming up.
00:00:33:09 That's why there are so many discussions on the internet
00:00:35:24 about whether it's good or bad or whatever.
00:00:39:15 I think it creates interest and I think that's good.
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00:00:54:21 In my eyes, we have done albums that standout,
00:00:57:28 that stand are not fixed in a certain time
00:01:01:14 or in a certain music or genre.
00:01:05:23 I mean, we are a melodic metal band to begin with
00:01:09:03 but we try to expand our horizons and always pushing.
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00:01:33:18 Sweden is a really good country...
00:01:35:21 they really support musicians.
00:01:40:04 It's easy to get a hold of rehearsing spaces and they
00:01:42:29 support you with gear and stuff like that or at least they did
00:01:46:20 back when we started out, so that's a very important thing.
00:01:50:25 But musical influence I don't know,
00:01:53:16 doesn't really matter where you grew up I think.
00:01:56:07 We are not band like that are influenced by our nature,
00:02:01:03 by our history as such,
00:02:03:09 we don't talk about that in our lyrics.
00:02:05:20 So I can't say Sweden as a country that influenced us more
00:02:11:10 than like that it certainly helped us in the beginning.
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00:02:30:20 What attracted me in the beginning;
00:02:32:02 you could do whatever you want.
00:02:33:28 To me it was very open,
00:02:36:18 and then later
00:02:39:05 when I got in contact with the scene becoming within a band,
00:02:42:18 starting doing interviews and meeting people,
00:02:45:00 all of a sudden you realized there were lot of rules,
00:02:48:29 to me that is so against what got me into this to begin with.
00:02:55:09 And what we tried is not have any rules;
00:02:58:18 obviously we have certain things that we think are
00:03:02:07 like the core elements of In Flames.
00:03:04:10 We always try to pick new things as In Flames from all over.
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00:03:28:03 This is how music evolves otherwise it's stagnant.
00:03:31:03 You need to have all different kinds of music
00:03:34:13 and you take pieces here and there,
00:03:36:16 when you form a band you have a favorite band,
00:03:40:16 and then you pick something out of these bands that you like
00:03:43:20 and then you create your own thing and then all these
00:03:47:07 branches grow out, I mean you can't look back then.
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00:04:10:05 I guess you are influenced by changes or by the music scene,
00:04:13:11 no matter what if you are interested in metal
00:04:15:19 and you listen to music
00:04:17:19 and even if it's good or if it's bad,
00:04:19:23 it might influence you somehow
00:04:21:21 the date you write a song or write the album,
00:04:26:13 but as a band I think it's important that you don't
00:04:30:03 aim to become one of those bands that are popular today.
00:04:36:02 That just release one or two albums
00:04:37:20 because then you will always be late,
00:04:39:19 you will be always be after and you will always be...
00:04:41:29 I mean you will be forgotten.
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00:05:06:14 It's harder to sell albums these days,
00:05:08:14 all record companies complain that
00:05:10:18 you sell less and less albums.
00:05:14:13 Well actually here in Canada,
00:05:15:27 we sold more albums that we have ever done before
00:05:17:28 and things are definitely going in the right direction.
00:05:20:11 So yeah, I am happy if people like what we are doing
00:05:24:18 then we can continue to tour and do these things
00:05:29:10 and see us people appreciating.
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