Sounds of a Playground Fading is the tenth studio album by Swedish heavy metal band In Flames, released on 15 June 2011.

[10] According to Anders, this album features increasingly wide vocal registers and reduced growls.

The band revealed the cover art, track listing and first single, "Deliver Us", on their official Facebook page in April and May 2011.

The track "Deliver Us" was featured in the soundtrack to the 2013 video game Saints Row IV.

Review aggregate website Metacritic gave the album a 68 out of 100 based on six professional critics.