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Haven
The Wonders at Your Feet

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Bought a ticket for Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery / Character tour in September. Very early show on a Monday, but with four bands I guess they need to. I also can't wait to see Iotunn live.

#Metal #DarkTranquillity #Iotunn

Yer Metal is Olde: Dark Tranquillity – Character

By Grymm

Once heralded as a promising hotbed of melodic death metal goodness, Gothenburg, Sweden wasn’t quite the same back in 2005 as it was in the mid-to-late 1990s. In Flames was busy chasing the nü-metal dream, trading twin guitar melodies and acoustic folklore and beauty for jumpsuits, dreadlocks, and simplistic riffage. At The Gates, once the spearhead of the entire Gothenburg movement, was long gone at that point, and wouldn’t reunite for another couple of years. It was up to Dark Tranquillity to put the city back on the map, and despite their own dalliances in moody goth territory, it would take 2002’s Damage Done to marry their trademark melodic sensibilities with their newfound love for electronic influences and dark motifs. However, with their few prior albums being all over the map, nobody knew what they had in store for them when Character reared its head in January 2005.

Thankfully, Damage Done was a damn riffy, heavier beast. I remember picking up Character at my local Newbury Comics, right up the street from the Staples where I worked during a lunch break on a particularly bad day, and I was blown away by how “The New Build” didn’t mess around at all. With Anders Jivarp blasting away, and both Niklas Sundin and Martin Henriksson hurling riffs and melodies at you at lightning speed, “The New Build” would set the tone straight away that sure, this is like its predecessor, but it was far nastier and uglier. Well, at least from the first couple of songs, anyway.

From “The Endless Feed” on forward, the moodiness that perpetuated 1999’s dark horse Projector would make its reappearance, but rather than dwelling in sorrow and despair, it would instead converge with the band’s refound ferocity, channeling a completely different animal altogether that would later become a Dark Tranquillity trademark. From there, future live classics like “Lost to Apathy” and album closer (and the only “ballad” on here) “My Negation” would further cement Sundin and Henriksson as a guitar duo just as worthy of praise as the classic duos before them. There’s not a bad moment on Character, with each song making a strong case for a live appearance, and the knowledge that no matter what the band chooses for their live set, it’s a surefire bet that anything from Character would go down swimmingly.

And a giant part of that is due to how Character manages to tie up everything that Dark Tranquillity created up to that point into a tidy, neat bow. While it lacked Mikael Stanne’s moody crooning, the intensity of his growls was never in question, and his savage performance acts as a thread throughout the album. Otherwise, the blazing melodies that were captured during Skydancer, fellow YMIO inductee The Gallery, and The Mind’s I were honed to an impeccable sharpness while the moodier vibes from Projector and Haven blended better than before, especially with a much heavier backdrop. This was a culmination of what made Dark Tranquillity great.

And I could say that about any of DT’s mid-period. Damage Done was the about-face return from more gothic wanderings, and Character’s immediate follow-up Fiction would further tinker with the winning formula, with a welcome return of Stanne’s singing voice. But Character… well, Character hit just right, during the right time, and at the right intensity. It was the perfect storm of melodic precision, death metal heft, and electronic experimentation that was the ultimate soundtrack to long work nights, eager drives home, and repeated listens with friends. Character was, and still is, something special, and now it’s rightfully in the Halls of the Olde, where it belongs.

#2005 #AtTheGates #CenturyMediaRecords #Character #DarkTranquillity #InFlames #MelodicDeathMetal #SwedishMetal #YerMetalIsOlde

¡Debut oscuro y poderoso! Cemetery Skyline anuncia su primer concierto en Chile | vía #SonidosOcultos

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GRAND CADAVER (DARK TRANQUILLITY, Etc.) Breaks Out The Chainsaw Riffs On New Single "The Rot Beneath"

https://metalinjection.net/new-music/grand-cadaver-dark-tranquillity-etc-breaks-out-the-chainsaw-riffs-on-new-single-the-rot-beneath

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Today In Metal History 🤘 May 20th, 2025 🤘 FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, EXCITER, DARK TRANQUILLITY, PANTERA, KISS, SAVATAGE, ANVIL

https://bravewords.com/today-in-metal/today-in-metal-history-%f0%9f%a4%98-may-20th-2025-%f0%9f%a4%98-flotsam-and-jetsam-exciter-dark-tranquillity-pantera-kiss-savatage-anvil/

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Behind the scenes shot of yesterday... 📍#Patronaat
- #Hiraes
- #Moonspell
- #DarkTranquillity

Can you spot me?

🌑 Thank you Frederike Kamphuis for the action pic!

Ein Abend voller düsterer Intensität und energiegeladener Bühnenmomente: Dark Tranquillity, Moonspell und Hiraes lieferten in der Turbinenhalle Oberhausen ein beeindruckendes Live-Paket. Wir haben einige bildgewaltige Highlights aus Oberhausen mitgebracht. #darktranquillity #moonspell #hiraes

https://www.burnyourears.de/live/54526-dark-tranquillity,-moonspell-hiraes-bilder-von-der-endtime-signals-tour-in-oberhausen.html

Tonight's 📷📽️ office 📍 #Patronaat #Haarlem

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Upcoming concerts to 📷:

08/5/25 Pete Roth trio ft. Bill Bruford
09/5/25 #ORk+ Between the Jars
10/5/25 #Klone + #kingcrow
11/5/25 #DarktranQuillity + #Moonspell + #Hiraes