Villain: Niklas’s mistake on “Monochromatic” isn’t that bad, granted (but it’s still kind of disturbing to me), but Mikael sounds horrible in “Hours”. I’d have to listen to the album carefully to find any other mistakes, but listening to it kind of quickly those two are the only noticeable ones. Okay, maybe i exaggerated just a bit when i said “several bad mistakes”. I should have said “a minor mistake and a terrible mistake.. plus some details that aren’t mistakes but which i hated in that cd”. I know that the fact that there were things i hated doesn’t make the album a bad one, but in my opinion they could have done way better (it’s the only time Tranquillity have really disappointed me, actually). What details that aren’t mistakes but are annoying to me am i talking about? Well, first of all i hated that out of nothing they stopped playing in the middle of “Zodijackyl” and then continued to play just as suddenly (the crowd in Krakow probably loved it, but i as a listener of the release hated it). Second, they skipped the initial part of “Insanity’s crescendo”, which is probably my favorite DT song, so you can see why i was annoyed at that. Third, the crowd has been shut out throughout every song (except when they stop playing in the middle of “Zodijackyl”
and only appears between songs. I don’t know about you, but to me half the excitement of going to a concert (or maybe even more than half) is the crowd (if all i want is to listen to DT, i can listen to them at home, and if all i want is to watch them play then all i have to do is play their videos on my computer). Finally, it’s not a good starter album. 8 out of 19 songs are from “Damage” and 4 are from “Haven”. “Projector” and “The gallery” each get two, and “The mind’s i” gets three (or two as well if you count “Zodijackyl” as being from “Enter”
. There aren’t any songs from “Skydancer” and “Of chaos”. I understand that in a live show you’re going to play your newest stuff and not stuff that’s nine or ten years old, but if you’re going to release it then at least you could include a song or two from “Skydancer” and maybe three or four from “The gallery”, “Projector” and “The mind’s i” instead of 8 from “Damage”. IMO, anyway. Perhaps, as i said before, the amazing performance in “Lethe” and “The wonders” partially make up for all of that, but i still don’t consider it that great an album.
Dark Silence: Not to sound boastful, rather to make a point: when my internet connection is pretty fast, my web browser is just a click away and i have dark-tranquillity.nl with the
correct lyrics bookmarked (as Diana van Tankeren says, "most, if not all, booklets have errors"), it's not that bad to have to browse the internet to find the lyrics.
