dark tranquility we are the void tour edition

These chestnuts will hit home with any fans of the style, though they aren’t the heaviest songs they’ve ever penned. These chaps were always able to make their material memorable and hooky and though Mikael Stanne has a true death rasp, he’s always been excellent at enunciation and making his vocals seem somewhat melodic. It’s very listenable and there’s good stuff here and while it keeps the band’s core sound, I don’t see this being hailed as a glorious new beginning for these respectable vets.įirst up are the songs that sound like vintage Dark Tranquillity, like “For Broken Words,” “Science of Noise” and “The Silence In Between.” These employ the tried-and-true formula of Gothenburg death with fluid guitar work, melody and deathy roars. Is this their Sounds of a Playground Fading? I’m sure some will see it that way, but it’s not anywhere near as bad. It’s easily the most restrained, melodic album since Projector and the dramatic clean vocals are back in force once again. It’s also their most diverse release, with thrashy tracks alongside new age-y stuff and a few poppy choruses. It’s instantly familiar, but alien all at once. For long time fans, the best way to describe this is Projector mixed with We Are the Void. What we get is a type of career retrospective where they try to reconcile and merge the diverse sounds they’ve toyed with over the years. I really wanted them to continue in that direction on Construct, but they thought otherwise. That group of songs encapsulated what modern-day DT does best: create melodic, but cold, sterile, modern death metal. While 2010s We Are the Voidwas respectable with a few killer cuts, I ended up really liking the extended extras that were included on the limited edition release (which eventually became the Zero DistanceEP). As a big Dark Tranquillity fan, I’ve weathered their style shifts and experiments with more commercial and more “modern” sounds.

I’ve been waiting for this one for some time.

Dark tranquility we are the void tour edition