Pending the imminent release of the new album by melodic death gods Dark Tranquillity, Fiction (still eight long, dusty days separate us from April 20), which will show us whether the Swedish band has continued to position itself on the coordinates of the disk copy Damage Done-Character , or if you are open to innovations liked, I prepared a brief overview, divided into two parts, their previous work (I sit on the album, leaving out the various EP data fed to the general public).
Skydancer (1993 - Spinefarm)
rapidly in cascades of harmonic melodies and riffs, played with a skill worthy of the most complex progressive combo, and then again backbeat, rhythm changes, structures crazy, convoluted, complex and lengthy .
The onset of Dark Tranquillity is the lesson of his uncompromising speed of the Swedish death (the shards of At The Gates in the front row), a genre that the band will help to shape through their music (along with the same At The Gates, In Flames and, later, near a steering business to some extreme metal scene, even to Soilwork), blended with a progressive vision and brain of the music that they port to create songs tortuous and complicated.
Despite a good breath and freshness generated (by the shore of Nightfal timel, A bolt of blazing gold, Shadow duet ), but it denotes a desire to overdo it at times makes the songs so intricate that leave the sign even after several plays.
It just takes maturity and instrumental cohesion, qualities that will arrive shortly thereafter.
Trivia: the strangled vocals appears Anders Friden today rasta-frontman of In Flames cousins, while Mikael Stanne time was just the lead singer of Swedish relatives.
The Gallery (1995 - Osmose)
Album symbol of an entire music scene, as well as an example and starting point for armies of angry deathsters Scandinavia and beyond. The atmosphere is similar to that of his predecessor Skydancer, but now the songs are more reasoned and have their own thread, although it has not been sacrificed nothing in terms of structural complexity.
Punish and my heaven The dividing line are models of killer songs, they do live within them, with rare skill, imaginative melodies, smooth guitar riffs and drumming sprawling. The Gallery and Lethe show, however, the most romantic and melancholy side of the Swedes, are as rich as long arpeggiated share sad and nostalgic flavor. Exemplary
the quality of the instrumental group, which gives a very large space to the sound of the bass, usually placed in the rear, but here enhanced by creative melodies and intricate changes that follow the guitar well.
Stanne, the vocals, is capable of varying abilities with his snarl Mephistopheles, making it alive and rich different shades of sentimental. Dark Tranquillity
I leave a mark. A milestone in the history of music, and a class of composition which, unfortunately, will never be able to achieve.
The Mind's Eye (1997 - Osmose)
aside some ways the melodies of the previous album, in favor of greater strength and hardness of the sound, the Dark Tranquillity comeback with a hard fast, pounding, more linear and straightforward, the son of a musical idea that is now closest to thrash to prog.
beautiful songs come alive ( Dreamlore Degenerate; Hedow, Scythe, Rage and Roses ), Making the speed of execution and a tight riffing of their strength, while bearing in mind the melodic atmosphere, which is part of the DNA of the group. These good examples, however, are accompanied by other pieces of lesser quality, sunk by rhythmic sometimes too complex and tangled, and no longer made so elegantly as in the past, they do lose a lot in terms of authenticity.
This is definitely a good album, which demonstrates the continuing desire of evolution of the band, but we are close to a real change that will only start with the next Projector .
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