In Flames - December Flower (Live in Köln, Song #7)

[@bommie]

Whenever I see them live I get as close to the stage as possible and constantly scream "DECEMBER FLOWER!" at Anders as loud as I can in between songs. He ignores me all the time though =[

[@santiagoreyes8796]

He has heard you, december flower is back after 27 years!

[@mzh1218]

Thanks for uploading. This is a really great recording of this once amazing band.

[@demodeiowa]

Fredrik Johansson from Dimension Zero played the original solo for this song.. wish he was in this live show

[@Lawlson21]

Truly in their prime. Hard to believe they could change so much. Vocals sound fantastic, if you ask me. I'd pay twice the price for an original copy of this.

[@mirielcl48]

in fact...love this in flames era!!! In (old) Flames we trust!!

[@stickmaster546]

Definitely one of the In Flames classics.

[@Nefh]

This clip is amazing, I wish they still played these songs live.

[@dlwalsh]

I listen to this song for the solo. This is a shame.

[@LordVekten]

Same as me D:

[@gabm999]

LordVekten jesper didn't write that solo. It was a session guitarist named: Fredrik Johansson.

[@LordVekten]

gabm999 Aha nice! Thanx for the info (Y)

[@jeralo3114]

@@gabm999 My childhood ruined :(

[@kanjikingdom]

@@gabm999 he's not a session guitarist , he used to play for dark tranquillity

[@Thrillhunter666]

WE ARE IN FLAMES!!!

[@007dmeter]

the best song ever

[@erkkizu]

at their best! I can't agree with you more! Just so good

[@F666Raptor]

woah... anders has changed a lot... and his voice was shit back than... but i dont really understand why everyone is complaining about his voice today... he has a characteristic sound and i really like it... Jesper looks like he does today :D

[@fredmaddog2814]

Probably the most brutal in flames song. I find it cool they still blasted a bit on jester race, its more of a heavy metal album but at least unlike a lot of melodic "death metal" today it has some balls in the drumming

[@arkhanyc247]

Still ? This is their first "true" album, if you don't count Lunar Strain. You should also listen to Behind Space for a bit of "brutality". Btw, it's really not "heavy metal", it has always been labeled "swedish death metal" like Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates, A Canorous Quintet, Edge of Sanity, etc.

[@fredmaddog2814]

@@arkhanyc247 Lunar Strain is like 10 songs and half an hour, recorded in a studio. In what universe is that not an album? Lunar Strain has some more brutal moments, however it's a very light and ethereal feeling album. I'm not saying In Flames is totally just heavy metal (though if you watch the full version of this live DVD the band themselves describe the jester race as "more of a HM album") but it is obviously death metal influenced by HM on those old albums (rarely fucking death metal at all post whoracle) so I would describe it as a death metal/traditional heavy metal hybrid a-la deceased or something.

[@jjmagster]

very nice vid! great to see glenn and johan with the band in their glory days!

[@Drizzt078]

beautiful song,one of their best in my opinion

[@TheTECNJonsson]

Even thou they have changed music stiles they are still doing great music and that is what people love them for, that they are dropping out new stuff

[@cryingnihilist]

oh my god im so happy they changed the vocals till now!!! :O

[@xDMrGarrison]

I seriously don't get people who think this song is all about the solo. Saying the solo is like the cherry on top would already be overstating its importance imo. This song is about the awesome rhythm persisting from beginning to end and the beautiful melodies that ride on it. The solo just provides a break from it and return to it. But I do get that music is a very personal thing and this is just my own take on it.

[@xDMrGarrison]

Holy shit I left such a snobby comment. Booh me.

[@MasiukA]

The reason there is no solo is because Jesper Strömblad, the regular guitarist didn't play the solo for this song, I don't think he could, so they had guest lead guitarist Fredrik Johansson from Dark Tranquility come in to play it for the studio recording for the Jester Race album.

[@Lioc]

I miss old In Flames

[@HateInFlames666]

Epic Song

[@Affihnel]

0:28 - "That Playayay" Made me lol!

[@pwngrinder]

I was actually a little disappointed that they left out the solo, since it's one of their best :D Incredible performance tho! this song is easily in their top 5..ever. Anders voice was fuckin amazing back then :D

[@elens1467]

Fucking right. This song is nothing without the solo

[@ItBlobs]

Anders sounds nothing like on album, but I still love it!

[@xBullet2]

Let me clear up a few things: The solo is cut becuase the guitarist who wrote the solo isn't playing. The guitarists in the video are new to the ones recording the album and have no idea/hate playing complicated guitar solos. Anders did record the album version, it just sounds different because they're playing live and it's the 7th song he's had to scream and he is tired. He's basically standing still, watch for yourself.

[@Robertspurling]

@sulz47 The solo was played by a guest guitarist (Fredrik Johansson) on the album version. I guess they didn't bother learning it.

[@dewocan35]

i miss old old flames...

[@sugessad]

@KJD6821 Stanne was a vocalist on the first In Flames album ; )

[@ljudojedacxD]

@Krofius It's because Jesper didn't write that solo. It's an other guitarist, I can't remember his name.

[@miguelangelsosa3045]

aguante el cantante!!! great!!!

[@pennstateyo]

yea the solo was not recorded by in flames. i forget who. if you own the jester race album, it says it on the pamphlet inside the cd case.

[@zesar3]

OMFG just realised that anders' like 35yrs old now=D=D so old...

[@gabm999]

favorite song by in FLAMES . they should do this live/ with jesper

[@DarkBlackDrigger]

this between growl and scream.. his voice fucking Hypnotist.

[@sugessad]

@Khalis33 Yes he used to play drums back then.

[@Mordaine75]

I've been getting into In Flames again after a long break and I can't listen to A Sense Of Purpose all the way through. Come Clarity was pretty good though but my fave album will always been A Jester Race.

[@thychaos]

yeah, well, bands have a list of songs that theyre going to play, they dont usually take requests.

[@Xatalion]

Björn is on the drums

[@scardera]

WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT SICK SOLO OF DECEMBER FLOWER??? i guess its cuz jesper didnt played that solo on the record at that time :(

[@NokturnalMTG]

I don't think "the voice of December losing it's breath" is the only one Anders 😅

[@thewinner4me816]

WNxNokturnal i think i heard "texture" at one point lmao

[@sungtensongs4381]

i might have heard "is haunted" a couple of times lol

[@scardera]

ME TOO!!!!

[@Konyaku81]

Where's the solo? It's the best part of the entire song....

[@sulz47]

@Robertspurling Thanks for the clarification and total respect to Fredrik Johansson for writing such solo.

[@Khalis33]

most death metal vocal tutorial videos shows the guy utilising low death growls, so can someone please make a vocal tutorial video on how to make higher pitched death growls? theres none on youtube and I have no idea how melodeath vocalists can make a higher death growls

[@DarkBlackDrigger]

this is the original melodic death metal!!!!!

[@skaplis]

this is 1996.... and he started in Ceremonial Oath which is..... i don't know something like 1990?

[@nahol123]

killer video, i fuckin love this anders is destroying:D

[@TakiCyke]

I like the riffing session they had just as much as the solo. So I'm cool. Plus this is one of the rare vids in which they actually played this live. It's too vocals-intensive for Anders, I'd say.

[@arkhanyc247]

Well... It's just the "harmonized" solo riff actually. They didn't add anything.

[@Krofius]

@ljudojedacxD Yes I know Jesper didn't write the solo. It was a guy named Fredrik Johansson. I just said the reason they didn't play it was because it was to hard to play for Jesper.

[@TechApe]

@ShimmySystem you haven't heard new in flames have you? :S

[@Krofius]

@alexanderabbey1980 Apparently you don't know In Flames well enough to know that Fredrik Nordström didn't play this solo. Fredrik Johansson played this solo. Fredrik Nordström was the guy that produced their early albums. And they didn't play the solo because they couldn't. Jesper is and has never been a guy who shreds and stuff, he's just godlike on creating melodies and a great rhythm guitar player.

[@StygianWatcher]

OMG, where is the solo?

[@AentikDranikan]

well the guitarist who recorded was a guest on the álbum so shamefully he didnt play with former in flames live at least so...

[@cj397]

jesper is actually one of the guitarist, and is not New to recording the albums, nor are they too complicated, because jesper is one of the most amazing, talented, and intelligent guitarists in the fucking world.

[@Khalis33]

@97jesterhead you need to check the songs which he sang for Dark Tranquillity, he sounds better in DT than he was in IF

[@jamproject2012]

There's no excuse for not playing the solo here. If you're not good enough to play it then don't play the song. period. laziness at its finest.

[@lappelduvideofficial7053]

It's not because they're lazy. Bjorn probably played the solo on the record, and he was drumming on this performance.

[@robbiefitzgerald9943]

+Pepe Returns no. it was Glenn Lungstrom who is on guitar with Jesper.

[@blppt]

No, it was a guest guitarist...none of the people on stage here played it.

[@The.Dongler]

The solo was Fredrik Johansson, but not the one from dark tranquility.

[@The.Dongler]

@Vinter im unsure about the dimension zero part, but i do know he is the guitarist in the band all ends (which i believe both bjorn and jesper compose for as well). edit:according to wiki, it is the same guy from dimension zero, so yeah you're right dude.

[@SWELABS]

fucking great!!!

[@jacksonthrasher]

sounds like varg vickerness singing, what happened to the awsome vocals he did on the album?

[@YoLpIsBest]

It took about 10 years him to develop the fry chord technique he uses nowdays so I think he knows what he is doing.

[@saltyxx99]

the vocals are great!

[@sugessad]

What the hell is wrong with Anders?

[@krasusboy]

Im an old fan and I like the new stuff better?

[@Khalis33]

are you talking about that part 2:07? XD

[@Goshanedastdobrotakgnati]

belissimo ребята

[@InFlames20bests]

you are right ^^ but every band will beginn so ;)

[@leckal]

i dont see where the vocals are terrible. in fact, they are pretty amazing and fit the song very well here. i too miss songs like this ._.

[@0anikin]

Fredrik Johansson − lead guitar on December Flower

[@toctoszok66]

No solo? I'm sad :'(

[@pla6ti]

bjorn gelotte on bas?? pl. answere

[@swootwapa]

Plz all check the other videos In flames köln live. The vocals sound better.

[@Holtolw]

@jesus21228 Let's hope for their new one :) "Sounds of a playground fading"

[@Arminius321]

asop is like a kick in the face of every fan of in flames... come clarity was cool

[@eddie.primus]

What happened to the solo????

[@bjoernswe]

what the!! what happened to that solo? it's like...their best every :(

[@kjetilhartveit]

fucking good song ^^

[@GraemeSinclair]

What I wouldn't give to see them try this song nowadays. They're all much better musicians now, and Anders is a far more consistent live screamer, he wouldn't sound like his throat was bleeding, but scream the song like it's sposed to sound.I know he can still do The Jester Race growl.... And if Bjorn was to handle the solo, it would kick amazing amounts of ass...

[@abdul1881]

isnt that the gui from soilwork?

[@carlosr.9715]

sounds like a castrated goat. BUT THIS IS WAAAAAY BETTER THAN NOW

[@maxwellhoffman7436]

carlos r. He's pretty good live, loads of energy

[@thedarkenzo]

LOL 😂😂😂

[@atnighthawk]

@97jesterhead He seems a little out of breath on this one, but damn i'd listen to this over anything they have released since about 2003. The latest album is alright, almost like someone said "wait were missing the signature sound, we'd better add it back in..."

[@xBullet2]

lol, i'm not ripping on jesper my friend, i was just sharing my understanding of why the solo was cut also, the person who wrote the solo was not playing guitar, afaik, he was a session guitarist in flames are my fav band

[@jooke86]

@jacksonthrasher I actually agree. To bad :S He has made such awesome performances on other occasions.

[@fazgaz889]

hes vocals are different compared to the recorded version...yes i know that its a "live" version for a reason but you can tell hes moving a bit into the screaming here i think..unless the dude from dark tranquility did vocals for the recording which is possible

[@Xaeravoq]

what happened to the solo?

[@TehMusic4]

@ShimmySystem Yep, crisp, clean melodic death metal.

[@Krofius]

yeah abdul1881 is right, It's definitely not Glenn. It's fredrik i think

[@wayfaerer320]

Is that a Randy Rhoads V? If so, fucking badass.

[@ljudojedacxD]

@Krofius Aw, okay than. And thanks for information :D

[@ShimmySystem]

Yes there are some bands that can be viewed better than In Flames. I've gotten sick of In Flames before, but they're pretty good in my opinion. I don't just listen to them though.

[@Khalis33]

at 02:05, did he just lost his breath?

[@Qbyk95]

Where is the solo???

[@Archetype3]

Hahahahahahahahaha, awesome quote.

[@ryangaston88]

2:06 anders forgets the lyrics hehe

[@ShimmySystem]

This is real melodic death metal here, no trace of that metalcore shit most bands merge in their music today.

[@xalvaradox]

@ShimmySystem this is old school melodic death metal..

[@DDevil891]

He was pretty damn young when they did this.

[@EverxOpeningxFlower]

@IcantDiedeadenough Yeah, literally was.

[@Riemannian]

One can think that camaraderie of Fredrik Johansson in the album wouldn't be able to help solos in the concerts unfortunately hahahahaha

[@jbubal]

i came here only to see the solo being performed live. i'm very pissed right now

[@MoonOfMyNights7]

Where's the solo?

[@sandeepgovindan5015]

Isn't that Bjorn playing drums?

[@KreshDraven6]

Yes

[@TheGoldblaze]

This version fucking sucks... everything about it. Vocals, missing solo, tremolo riff ruined.

[@alagoetz]

yeah that's true. but they didn't play the solo because fredrik johansson recorded it

[@TheGoldblaze]

Alex Goetz Still that doesn't mean that Jesper should suck and not know how to play the guitar. Besides, it's not like these solos are something special from the viewpoint of technical skill.

[@alagoetz]

TheGoldblaze then good luck playing it live ;) . maybe its not his style..i don't know but it's really a pitty

[@skyvvards4434]

TheGoldblaze Im looking this song only for solo but is missing...

[@watertouchesthesun]

TheGoldblaze Hmm i'm not too sure it does. I agree it's far from polished, but actually I quite like how raw it is. And the tone of Jesper's guitar is great. As for the solo... I can understand them not playing it, and you could argue he should has learned. He's more than capable (listen to 'Haunted' by Annihilator, he's the guest soloist on that song and it's great) A little bit like Suburban Me, would have been great to see that live but the solo is Christopher Amott and I guess they would've done the same as here.