The Jester Race
by In Flames
- Type: Album
- Released: 20 February 1996
- Label: Nuclear Blast
- Country: Sweden
- Length: 54:45
- Community rating: 3.69/5 from 7 ratings
Artists on this release: Fredrik Johansson, Johan Larsson, Jesper Strömblad, Kaspar Dahlqvist, Björn Gelotte
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'The Jester Race' is an essential blueprint for the Gothenburg sound and a legendary pillar of melodic death metal. In Flames perfectly contrasts incredibly aggressive, heavy instrumentation with soaring, highly passionate, and poetic dual-guitar harmonies.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, fantasy, swedish, shredding, gallop
Tracklist
- Moonshield (5:01)
- The Jester's Dance (2:09)
- Artifacts of the Black Rain (3:15)
- Graveland (2:46)
- Lord Hypnos (4:01)
- Dead Eternity (5:01)
- The Jester Race (4:51)
- December Flower (4:10)
- Wayfaerer (4:40)
- Dead God in Me (4:16)
- Goliaths Disarm Their Davids (4:56)
- Gyroscope (3:23)
- Acoustic Medley (2:33)
- Behind Space (3:36)
Credits
- In Flames - primary artist, producer
- Andreas Marschall - artwork
- Glenn Ljungström - artwork [logo], lead guitar, music by, design/illustration
- Johan Larsson - bass guitar, backing vocals, music by
- Björn Gelotte - drums, lead guitar, music by
- Fredrik Nordström - engineer, keyboards, producer
- Patrik Hellgren - engineer
- M&A Music Art - layout
- Jesper Strömblad - lead guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, music by
- Anders Fridén - lyrics by [lyrical concepts and song titles], vocals
- Niklas Sundin - lyrics by [lyrical concepts and song titles]
- Staffan Olofsson - mastered by, mastering
- Kenneth Johansson - photography by [bandphoto, using hasselblad equipment]
- William Wordsworth - lyrics by [quotation from " odel intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood"]
- Joakim Göthberg - lyrics by
- Oscar Dronjak - vocals [appearance]
- Fredrik Johansson - lead guitar
- Kaspar Dahlqvist - keyboards