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Dark Tranquillity is one of many good metal bands to come out
of Sweden during the 90s and this album is also really great (who's
surprised?) It is filled with catchy melodies - both fast n' heavy ones
based on well organized drums and guitars but also slow emotional piano that
can be heard on the first track which is also the best one on the whole album
(strange...). This album is a little different since the music changes between
being very heavy and rather soft and so does the vocals - sometimes Mikael
Stanne growls death metal tones and sometimes he uses clean vocals (rather
good ones too). Some of the songs sound close to ballads and that is something
Dark Tranquillity should try to stay away from in my opinion since they don't
do it all too well. They should do what they're best at - heavy, fast and
melodic metal and luckily that is what most of this album sounds like. On
"Auctioned" you can also hear very nice female vocals done by Johanna
Andersson. The album was recorded in Sweden at Studio Fredman, produced by the
band, engineered by Fredrik Nordström and mastered by Göran Finnberg. The band
also has a real artist in the band - the guitar player Niklas Sundin, who did
all the artwork for Projector. This is a rather good mix of power and death
metal and if you like melodic metal a little heavier than all of those new
power metal bands this is an album worth spending your money
on!
| Tracklist |
1. FreeCard 2. ThereIn 3. |
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Undo Control 4. Auctioned 5. To A Bitter Halt 6. The Sun |
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Fired Blanks 7. Nether Novas 8. Day To End 9. |
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Dobermann 10. On Your Time |
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