that new DARK TRANQUILLITY album

[einride]

Found the new one hard work. Just did nothing for me.

I enjoy everything up to and including Fiction.

yeah man, i agree

i find that "fiction" is the best executed version of all these 6 latest albums that sound identical. it's all the same stuff, it just happens to have better songwriting. i don't think there's a "blind at heart", an "inside the particle storm" or a "terminus" on the new one

 

[NAD]

Really enjoying the latest album. It's the easy/breezy/beautiful thing I was hoping for after Atoma.

I still have not heard Character, Fiction, We Are the Void, nor Construct. Some day, may be, soon.

 

[J.]

i actually listened to it twice in the past week. it does nothing for me really. they sound tired.

i havent been able to really appreciate anything beyond Haven

 

[NAD]

Much like Atoma, I don't expect it to be played outside of driving/work situations. It is unremarkable and perfect for the background.

I have very low standards for Nowadays Brand New Music. If I want something Deep and/or Meaningful I return to the '60s and '90s.

 

[NAD]

Listening to it several times now, I realize that this album is 100% teen-girl-pop but with meedlies and growlies. Ariana Grande could've written these tunes (does she write her own songs?). This is like the Depeche Mode feels version of Avenged Sevenfold.

DM + A7X = DT

Somehow I still enjoy it. And also recognize that it sucks.

 

[Reign in Acai]

This new DT now encompasses everything from the past 11 yrs.

Listening to Atoma, and Im not seeing why I would listen to this over ANY other olden DT album. Why? If I wanted this vein of DT why not just throw on Haven or Damage Done? The clean vocals are interesting, but everything else is just a wilted rose blooming in a pile of shit. Shady Acres retirement home metal. Granted atleast its metal, which is better than most of their melo-drab ilk. I'll give it one Kikel and Heebert thumb up.


Edit-Threw on DD and this is kicking my ass. Yes there's a bit of nostalgia to it. I remember hopping on a bus to go buy this album at Tower Records. I can remember that day like its fooqin yesterday, despite it being a lifetime ago. All hail fn DT. (Except the new shit that makes me sad.)

DD, The Gallery, Skydancer>You

 

[Doom]

Yeah Damage Done is still a rockin' album. I remember when they released Monochromatic Stains as a single and it really grabbed my attention. In fact looking at their chronology this was probably the first DT album I properly enjoyed. Either this or The Gallery was my first.

 

[einride]

it's actually kind of remarkable how niklas sundin AND martin henriksson can both leave and it still sounds the same

welp

https://blabbermouth.net/news/dark-tranquillity-parts-ways-with-drummer-and-bassist/

anders jivarp (founding member, prolific songwriter) and anders iwers (eh) left the band too

no jivarp, no sundin, no henriksson. only stanne left and he writes no music

hang it up, man. there's no band anymore

 

[J.]

agreed. then just wait 10 years, reunite, release a mediocre album and the tour offers will be through the roof

 

[einride]

how about some of this instead

 

[Ellestin]

I can't get over Max's anecdote about Mikael Stanne's feral odor

 

[MFJ]

I can't get over Max's anecdote about Mikael Stanne's feral odor

it was truly something to behold. I haven’t cared about DT for several years, but they’re one of my favorite bands and I’m very grateful to have seen them at their (modern) peak. Awesome show.

 

[SonOfNun]

I think I only had Damage Done back in the day and I didn't get the hype. Sounds like y'all like the early stuff better. Should I just start with Skydancer?

This was false. I had Skydancer as well. I clearly remember the birdy cover and "Shadow Duet." That song rules.