Label: Osmose Productions
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988061887692
ASIN: B000006Y12
Release Date: 1998-12-16
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Dark Tranquillity
Label: Osmose Productions Category: Music
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Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 4988061887692 ASIN: B000006Y12 Release Date: 1998-12-16 |
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what's the big deal.......2004-12-23
One of the biggest link of the Swedish Metal history chain........2004-09-01
Behold the grandeur of Dark Tranquillity!.......2004-07-30
10/10 - One of the greatest metal albums ever. Period........2003-05-25
Unless you've been living under a rock, or somehow thought metal was the latest LINKIN PARK album, The Gallery is most likely already in your collection and this review will serve little more purpose than confirming what you already knew. If for some reason you don't have this album, for shame. Read on.
The Gallery was DARK TRANQUILLITY'S sophomore release, following the equally legendary Skydancer debut and preceding the equally revered The Mind's I. It's rare enough for a band to put out 3 straight consistently high quality songs, let alone 3 full albums. At any rate - stop me if you've heard this before - DARK TRANQUILLITY managed to capture all that is good about aggressive thrash, death metal & harmonious lead guitar work and created 11 songs of pure metal bliss. Even today, nearly 8 years later, this album stands tall above many of the bands that DARK TRANQUILLITY themselves can take some credit for spawning. There have been exactly 3 or 4 monumental moments in the history of heavy metal, beginning with the advent of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the late 1970s (a movement that DARK TRANQUILLITY is no stranger too, as they've cleared paid homage to the masters like IRON MAIDEN here). Bands like IRON MAIDEN, SAXON and JUDAS PRIEST created a style that has influenced thousands upon thousands of bands and continues to do so today. In the early 1980s, METALLICA and MEGADETH created what came to be known as thrash metal, which in its simplest terms was a rougher, more aggressive and more technical traditional metal. In the late 1980s, DEATH and MORBID ANGEL took that and turned the anger up a notch; death metal was born. In the early 1990s, bands like DARK TRANQUILLITY and their peers IN FLAMES, AT THE GATES, EUCHARIST (and a few others) melded the best parts of all those styles and voila, melodic death metal was born. Like it, love it, hate it, be sick of it, DARK TRANQUILLITY will always be a part of a scene that spawned an entire genre of music. Not many bands can say that. And no, I didn't forget about all you corpse-painted black metal kids; that scene just has no bearing on the point I'm making here (and for the record, the early-1990s Norwegian movement led by DARKTHRONE & MAYHEM is the other major metal moment I earlier referred to).
And that's about it; I didn't feel like going through songs, or describing how wonderfully harmonious the guitars are, or how incredibly passionate lead growler Mikael Stanne's vokills are. Whoops, I just did. The bottom line is that this is arguably 1 of the most important metal albums ever, at the very least of the past 15 years. No metalhead should be without it. The rating above is a no-brainer. Get it.
10/10 - One of the greatest metal albums ever. Period........2003-05-25
Seriously, what can be said about this album that hasn't already been said? It's already achieved legendary status amongst metalheads worldwide, not only for its standing as one of the famed mid-90s Gothenburg, Sweden bands that created the melodic death metal genre, but equally for its stellar consistency from the first to the last track. Yes, it's that good.
Unless you've been living under a rock, or somehow thought metal was the latest LINKIN PARK album, The Gallery is most likely already in your collection and this review will serve little more purpose than confirming what you already knew. If for some reason you don't have this album, for shame. Read on.
The Gallery was DARK TRANQUILLITY'S sophomore release, following the equally legendary Skydancer debut and preceding the equally revered The Mind's I. It's rare enough for a band to put out 3 straight consistently high quality songs, let alone 3 full albums. At any rate - stop me if you've heard this before - DARK TRANQUILLITY managed to capture all that is good about aggressive thrash, death metal & harmonious lead guitar work and created 11 songs of pure metal bliss. Even today, nearly 8 years later, this album stands tall above many of the bands that DARK TRANQUILLITY themselves can take some credit for spawning. There have been exactly 3 or 4 monumental moments in the history of heavy metal, beginning with the advent of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the late 1970s (a movement that DARK TRANQUILLITY is no stranger too, as they've cleared paid homage to the masters like IRON MAIDEN here). Bands like IRON MAIDEN, SAXON and JUDAS PRIEST created a style that has influenced thousands upon thousands of bands and continues to do so today. In the early 1980s, METALLICA and MEGADETH created what came to be known as thrash metal, which in its simplest terms was a rougher, more aggressive and more technical traditional metal. In the late 1980s, DEATH and MORBID ANGEL took that and turned the anger up a notch; death metal was born. In the early 1990s, bands like DARK TRANQUILLITY and their peers IN FLAMES, AT THE GATES, EUCHARIST (and a few others) melded the best parts of all those styles and voila, melodic death metal was born. Like it, love it, hate it, be sick of it, DARK TRANQUILLITY will always be a part of a scene that spawned an entire genre of music. Not many bands can say that. And no, I didn't forget about all you corpse-painted black metal kids; that scene just has no bearing on the point I'm making here (and for the record, the early-1990s Norwegian movement led by DARKTHRONE & MAYHEM is the other major metal moment I earlier referred to).
And that's about it; I didn't feel like going through songs, or describing how wonderfully harmonious the guitars are, or how incredibly passionate lead growler Mikael Stanne's vokills are. Whoops, I just did. The bottom line is that this is arguably 1 of the most important metal albums ever, at the very least of the past 15 years. No metalhead should be without it. The rating above is a no-brainer. Get it.
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