''Soundtrack to Your Escape'' is the seventh studio album by Swedish heavy metal band

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, released on 29 March 2004. The album was criticized by longtime fans because of a major change in musical style. However, the album was seen by many as a natural progression from ''

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'' and was critically praised by critics such as

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and

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. It reached number 3 in Sweden, number 45 on the American

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chart (the band's first album to reach the Billboard 200), number 2 on the

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chart, and number 7 on the

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chart. This would mark the first album where the band would exclusively use drop A# tuning and abandoning the C standard tuning of previous albums.

Releases

The album is available in both a regular jewel case version featuring 12 tracks and a limited edition

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with a bonus track, "Discover Me Like Emptiness". The Japanese version has an additional live track called "Clayman". A special edition, which includes a bonus DVD with live footage and videos of the singles "The Quiet Place" and "Touch of Red", was also released. Music videos were produced for the songs "My Sweet Shadow", "Like You Better Dead", "Borders and Shading" and "F(r)iend".

Track listing

Personnel

In Flames *

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– vocals * Björn Gelotte – guitar * Jesper Strömblad – guitar *

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– bass * Daniel Svensson – drums Additional personnel *

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– album cover * Daniel Bergstrand – audio engineer, audio production, engineer, mixing, producer * Björn Engelmann – mastering * Örjan Örnkloo – keyboards, programming, engineering, mixing, sampling

Charts

References

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