“My Sweet Shadow” by In Flames

"My Sweet Shadow" comes off Soundtrack to Your Escape, the 2004 record on which In Flames, the Swedish metal outfit, kept pulling away from the sound their oldest fans had signed up for. Anders Fridén wrote it with Björn Gelotte and Jesper Strömblad, the band arranged it together, and on the recording Fridén sings, Gelotte and Strömblad handle the guitars, Peter Iwers plays bass and Daniel Svensson drums.

Daniel Bergstrand produced it and recorded it with Örjan Örnkloo, and the two of them mixed it with Fridén. It belongs to the seventh album, the one where the band tuned everything down to drop A# and left C standard behind for the whole record, a turn some longtime followers resented and plenty of others heard as the logical next step after Reroute to Remain.

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