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In Flames - Win Swedish Grammy Award


Just like two years ago, In Flames have won a Swedish "Grammi Award" in the Best Hard Rock category, this time for their latest effort "A Sense Of Purpose". This is already the fourth time in five years the band is honoured with such an award (Mustasch won the Award last year). A total of five bands were nominated for their most recent releases, all of which came out during 2008. The nominees were as follows:



The Swedish "Grammis" gala was held on Wednesday night (January 7) at Hovet in Stockholm. In Flames were also nominated for the "Best Live" act. The band also performed the song "Alias" during the ceremony, which was broadcast live on Swedish national channel TV4. Video footage of the acceptance speech (in Swedish) and the performance can be viewed on blabbermouth.

Source: inflames.com
Band profile: In Flames
Posted: 09.01.2009 by Thryce


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09.01.2009 - 19:19
Elio
Red Nightmare
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IntoPlighT said: "Slipknot is 15 years old how the fuck is that Nu metal?"

BEST. QUOTE. EVER.
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09.01.2009 - 19:20
BloodTears
ANA-thema
Why do they still mistake metal for hard rock?

Anyway, it's obviously not about the music.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29

Like you could kiss my ass.


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09.01.2009 - 19:25
Thryce
Retired Staff
Cry Opeth fanboys, cry!
Seriously though, Meshuggah should have won this thing hands down.


PS @ In Flames: enjoy this one! Cuz I've got a sneaky feeling you won't be up for a Metal Storm Award...
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09.01.2009 - 19:53
Sy-Furr

Good Jobs Guys!

Can't wait to see what they got next!
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09.01.2009 - 20:00
=maD.Doc:.
Melodeath Master
Written by BloodTears on 09.01.2009 at 19:20

Why do they still mistake metal for hard rock?

Anyway, it's obviously not about the music.

Because in Sweden Metal is called Hårdrock among the people (except Metalheads) which means Hard Rock if you translate it to english. And still Metal is something born out of Hard Rock.
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09.01.2009 - 20:14
Dark Forever
Ruído Sonoro
Written by =maD.Doc:. on 09.01.2009 at 20:00

Written by BloodTears on 09.01.2009 at 19:20

Why do they still mistake metal for hard rock?

Anyway, it's obviously not about the music.

Because in Sweden Metal is called Hårdrock among the people (except Metalheads) which means Hard Rock if you translate it to english. And still Metal is something born out of Hard Rock.


But Hard Rock was born out of Rock which was born out of Rock 'N' Roll/Blues which was born of something and so on... Hard Rock is a Rock subgenre which NOW is different from Metal, even if Metal born out of Hard Rock that doesn't mean anything.

Anyway, my first choice would be Watershed and second obZen. In Flames would be my third choice.
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09.01.2009 - 20:31
ylside

Oh, not again...
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09.01.2009 - 20:36
Hex_Omega
Gem Seeker
Written by Thryce on 09.01.2009 at 19:25

PS @ In Flames: enjoy this one! Cuz I've got a sneaky feeling you won't be up for a Metal Storm Award...

Don't worry, In Flames will won in Metal Storm Awards. In category "The Biggest Letdown" of course.
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09.01.2009 - 20:47
pazuzuovbabel
Pazuzu
Its just a piece of bullshit ... i guess these awards are given for the worst Hard Rock category ..not the best
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09.01.2009 - 21:09
KopparBoll

Haha! This proves that the garmmy awards are a complete joke!
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09.01.2009 - 21:14
Abattoir

C-c-c-c...no comment about this one

Millencollin in hard-rock category ?
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09.01.2009 - 21:29
-DC-002-
Mastercommander
They had good choices considering it was the grammy's. who did you expect them to nominate?
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09.01.2009 - 22:02
Urizen367

Opeth shoulda won.
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09.01.2009 - 23:35
IllNiñoSweden

Cheers
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10.01.2009 - 00:12
Symmachus

So what if someone is handed over a piece of molded gold. That doesn't prove anything except that a lot of people like that stuff. Award shows like this are a matter of opinion, and not fact, and no matter what, people are going to be upset about the choice of Grammy winners. At least those bands are better choices than anything the American Grammys can think up. Those are even worse.
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10.01.2009 - 00:20
Hrothdane

The Meshuggah, Opeth, and Sabaton albums were all much better choices...
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10.01.2009 - 00:32
LeChron James
Helvetesfossen
Written by Urizen367 on 09.01.2009 at 22:02

Opeth shoulda won.

im surprised they didnt, tbh
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10.01.2009 - 01:37
JackSyn

.. they went against opeth's watershed and meshuggah's obzen and they won.. um?;/ a sense of purpose.. really?:s
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10.01.2009 - 01:38
Valaskjalf
Account deleted
How the hell did In Flames win over Opeth or Meshuggah? Seriously....the judges must be on on crack. What is the world coming to?
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10.01.2009 - 01:47
-DC-002-
Mastercommander
Written by Guest on 10.01.2009 at 01:38

How the hell did In Flames win over Opeth or Meshuggah? Seriously....the judges must be on on crack. What is the world coming to?


no judges. The decision was made by the people
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10.01.2009 - 02:30
iaberis
Advice Troll
Great news but hard-rock???
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Bitch! Please
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10.01.2009 - 04:07
Insineratehymn
Account deleted
The Grammies no longer have any meaning, so why even care?
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10.01.2009 - 05:24
Piro

Not that I care much about In Flames anymore, but it's nice to see some real metal at least in the nominated section
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10.01.2009 - 07:06
kw256

IN FLAMES WE TRUST ! m/
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10.01.2009 - 09:08
xdissectionx

In Flames has a wider audience b/c of their sellout style changes and marketing, so its not that surprising they won. Let ignorance love ignorance.
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10.01.2009 - 14:20
Spyroid
Rosetta Stoned
Damn, Opeth should've won -_- it was really nice to see Mikael Åkerfeldt in television though
But what the hell was Millencollin doing in the Metal awards?
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10.01.2009 - 15:45
corrupt
With a lowercase c
Reminds me of the Danish Metal awards
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10.01.2009 - 17:50
=maD.Doc:.
Melodeath Master
Written by -DC-002- on 10.01.2009 at 01:47

Written by Guest on 10.01.2009 at 01:38

How the hell did In Flames win over Opeth or Meshuggah? Seriously....the judges must be on on crack. What is the world coming to?


no judges. The decision was made by the people

Not only, it was both judges and votes by the people. The only category the judges didn't have anything to say about was "the song of the year".
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10.01.2009 - 19:52
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by -DC-002- on 10.01.2009 at 01:47

Written by Guest on 10.01.2009 at 01:38

How the hell did In Flames win over Opeth or Meshuggah? Seriously....the judges must be on on crack. What is the world coming to?


no judges. The decision was made by the people


That explain a lot... since the fan base of Inflames is fucking huge... and waaaaaay to popular among non-metal people and emo fags. At least from the people I use to see here.

Opeth's album wasn't that good but... but... C'MON!!!! you can't even compare it to their last album!
Same goes to Meshuggah

Grammies are bullshit.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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10.01.2009 - 21:25
Daggon
Underpaid M.D.
In Flames? For "A Sense Of Purpose"? The most boring album by In Flames? (IMO)... well, grammies duh.
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