Sweden's IN FLAMES have inked a U.S. record deal with Ferret Records. The band's already completed new album, "Come Clarity", is scheduled for a February 7, 2006 North American release. The CD will be issued in Europe on February 6, 2006 via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Soundtrack to Your Escape", "Come Clarity" was mixed at Tonteknik studio in Umeå, Sweden and is "the best one we've ever done," according to IN FLAMES guitarist Jesper Strömblad. "It's kind of a mixture between the new stuff and the old stuff," Strömblad told Greece's Metal Temple webzine in a recent interview. "Like the previous two albums were a little bit experimental for us, we changed producers and we changed studios. So we took all the good stuff from the old stuff and the new and we did this album and it's brilliant. It's awesome. . . Musically it's more up tempo, more melodic to show that we have so much more to give and we're really hungry. The best album is yet to come." "Come Clarity" final track listing: 01. Take This Life 02. Leeches 03. Reflect the Storm 04. Dead End 05. Scream 06. Come Clarity 07. Vacuum 08. Pacing Death's Trail 09. Crawl through Knives 10. End of Things 11. Our Infinite Struggle 12. Vanishing Light 13. Your Bedtime Story Is Scaring Everyone IN FLAMES recently completed a U.S. tour as one of the main-stage acts at this year's Ozzfest. The band will tour the U.S. for over half of 2006, starting with a headlining tour in January. A video for the album's opening track, "Take This Life", is currently in the works.

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