IN FLAMES Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Case Up For Grabs

After years of touring the globe as pioneers of a whole genre and selling millions of albums in the process, Jesper Strmblad and Bjrn Gelotte of IN FLAMES know exactly which instruments they need: Gibson guitars.

Gibson.com and IN FLAMES offer you the opportunity of your lifetime. Win a pair of tickets to the band's show in Los Angeles as well as meet with the band after the show and win a piece of IN FLAMES history: IN FLAMES is giving away an original Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Case. This case, owned by Bjrn Gelotte, has seen the world many times. It comes with a collection of IN FLAMES guitar picks.

All you have to do is answer this simple question: Which Gibson guitar models are Bjrn and Jesper playing?

Head over to this location for details.

This promotion runs from April 18, 2008 through May 18, 2008. Accommodations and travel not provided.

"A Sense of Purpose", the new album from IN FLAMES, has registered the following first-week chart positions:

Sweden: #1
European Top 100 Albums (Biillboard): #7
USA: #28
Canada: # 7
Germany: #6
UK: #54
Finland: #3
Austria: #6
Japan: #14
Switzerland: #29
Denmark: #39
Netherlands: #70
Norway: #17
Ireland: #85
Denmark: #39
Spain: #90
The Netherlands: #70
Belgium: #65

"A Sense of Purpose" (Koch) shifted 20,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release. This is slightly less than the opening tally of "Come Clarity" (Ferret),which sold just under 24,000 copies in February 2006 to debut at position No. 58.

Nuclear Blast Records has released a spherical labyrinth box set edition of "A Sense of Purpose". Strictly limited to 1,500 copies, the set contains a wooden spherical labyrinth (size 280 x 232 x 78 mm, outer wall 15 mm higher) including a metal ball with the IN FLAMES logo and the album plus a bonus DVD. It also comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity.

The spherical labyrinth box set edition of "A Sense of Purpose" is available from the Nuclear Blast Mail Order.

IN FLAMES recently set a new MySpace Sweden record for the number of plays of an entire album within a one-week period. "A Sense of Purpose" was streamed 1,094,749 times for the week endng April 2, crushing the previous record on MySpace Sweden, which was held by MESHUGGAH's "ObZen" (255,000 plays).

IN FLAMES will perform at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods 2008 awards ceremony on Monday, June 16 at the IndigO2 (O2 Arena) in London, UK.

IN FLAMES is nominated in two categories at the event, which is organized by the monthly UK magazine Metal Hammer:

* Best International Band
* Shredder (Jesper Strmblad)

For a complete list of this year's nominees, click here.