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  Type Album
  Artist In Flames
  Cover InFlamesTheJesterRacejpg
  Background Orange
  Released 1996
  Recorded November 1995
  Genre Melodic Death Metal
  Length 40:14
  Label Nuclear Blast
  Producer Fredrik Nordström and <br/> In Flames
  Reviews '''The Metal Observer''' '''95/10'''
  Last Album '' Subterranean ''<br />(1995)
  This Album ''The Jester Race''<br />(1995)
  Next Album '' Black-Ash Inheritance ''<br />(1997)


''The Jester Race'' is an Album by the Melodic Death Metal band In Flames . It was released in 1996 . The Jester Race is still considered to be one of the most influential melodic death metal albums.
It is also the first concept album by In Flames , and the first to feature Anders Fridén as singer.
The general theme that runs through the album is that of human weakness, failure and arrogance.
Humans are referred to as jesters who corrupt and destroy the "all-mother" (mother earth).


TRACK LISTING

# ''"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"'' - 4:41
# ''"Dead God In Me"'' - 4:15
  • ''"Goliaths Disarm Their Davids"'' - 4:55

  • ''"Gyroscope"'' - 3:23

  • ''"Acoustic Medley"'' - 2:32

  • ''"Behind Space"'' (Live) - 3:36




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