Fiction [New Album Spoilers Highly Likely. Read At Own Risk]

[Jolty]

Ficition is a CD by Dark Tranquility, didn't you know?

 

[Iced Guardian]

ooo, that limietd edition DVD version sounds really good

 

[Magrathean]

So this is the tyop thread?

 

[stardrowned]

Can we pre-order Fiction now?

 

[Nt3N]

if wikipedia wasn't there I wouldn't know what would be next DT album! Thanks All That Remains for submitting the info

 

[GONE Ridin' Hood]

So this is the tyop thread?

Hehe certianyl .

Hmnm I wonder if the video will be unveiled before the cd is released? Or maybe we'll have to wait till some sort of EP/Single release that'd include the video?

And hey, what about that release? Mikael said: "I guess there'll be an EP/Single release,' so how come there's no new about that? :Smug:

 

[Alttu]

I feel like people are too enthusiastic to analyse just a track or two from the coming album. I listened Focus Shift couple times and then I consciously decided not to listen more. It was good, not upsetting. Let's see how it grows when I get the album and hear it in album entity. Just a few months to go before that.

 

[plintus]

New black? Or new dark?

 

[RampageSword]

Well, apart from Niklas bearing his yellow shirt from time to time, the guys have been wearing all black for quite a long time now.

And Mikael seems to have a limited budget regarding clothing, that shirt must've seen every DT show and photo shoot for a few years now. Then again, maybe he simply has a wardrobe full of black shirts that all look the same.

 

[Kovenant84]

I think that he has a wardrobe full of shirts that all look almost exactly the same. Just for kicks.

~kov. (damn new keyboard had me type that as '~koc.')

 

[Silent_Scream]

To be honest, i think Focus Shift is average. It just seems very straight forward although with a few listens it may become better, just like a fine wine

 

[GONE Ridin' Hood]

Hey great new pic, thanks Plynipoo!

Hmmm I'm not sure if I like Mikael's mustache, he looks better than in the pic I saw before (he looked like a Mexican porn actor or something ). but I guess I just have to get used to it.

The guys look great, Martin B. looks really weird/funny hehe .

 

[The Antihero]

I am all amped for this disc.

When Character came out I took the day off from work and listened to it on my headphones for like 6 hours consecutive. No lie. I'll probably do the same for this one.

 

[King Chaos]

To be honest, i think Focus Shift is average. It just seems very straight forward although with a few listens it may become better, just like a fine wine

Glad I'm not the only person who listens to wine. MOSH!

 

[6 Stringed Fingers]

Focus Shift definitely shifts its focus (wordplay! dundun tcshhh*drum sounds*)away from Character, by not too much, but quite a bit nonetheless. And it definitely goes to my "good DT songs" list. I was worried after hearing WDIMA that DT is going for the chugga music route as C.o.B did, but it seems the upcoming album is going to be more varied that I had thought Blind at Heart, WDIMA and Focus Shift sounds very different to me and so far I like 2/3 out of those, it's a good sign. The solos on those songs also innovates much from what DT used to do. The solo on Blind at Heart is perfection at infinite-minus-one-ness, if not perfection itself. I'm buying the album, even if it costs me 24.99$. And blah blah till the new album comes out and we hear the whole thing to be sure of our hypothesis.

As for the album illustration cover: has Sundin lost he's surreal inspirations? It's so boring it hurts. Skeleton + crow + mostly darkness + a bit of white + some red font + overlayed texture, sounds and looks generic to me. Sundin used to have an unique centerpiece, amazing details and wonderful wonderful colors for each of the DT covers (save the original skydancer), where is it on this one? I had expected more for a DT cover photomanipulation. But I could be wrong, maybe the cover would explain itself after I understand the album. Or was that the album cover at all?

'Till then, we can only ponder.

 

[plintus]

Ah, speculations.

 

[DisplayofCharacter]

Or was that the album cover at all?

Personally, I bet it was an artistic theme, at best maybe an interpretation for the back of the cd. There is no way that's the cover. When do bands tracklist the cover anyway? I bet it'll be kick ass. Sundin knows what he's doing. (IMO, in case anyone wants to argue my "it'll be kick ass" statement).

 

[6 Stringed Fingers]

DoC: well, if you fold it into halves it's about the size of an cd cover. Anyways, you could be right, that image is too simple to meet the DT cd cover standards.

 

[DisplayofCharacter]

DoC: well, if you fold it into halves it's about the size of an cd cover. Anyways, you could be right, that image is too simple to meet the DT cd cover standards.

That is true. The spacial-relations-part of my brain didn't compute that. I would be sorely disappointed if that were the cover. I think all their covers (even the original Skydancer didn't bother me) have strong artistic foundations, but that would be far too simplistic, even for a minimalist-meets-emo/loneliness idea. However, I think it would be cool as a theme to be expounded upon, just not the culmination of everything.

 

[The Antihero]

Maybe I'm just dumb, but where exactly are you guys seeing this album art?