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Dark Tranquillity is able to find beauty -- as odd as that may sound -- in the extreme elements of death metal. Much more than mere noise artists, this Swedish sextet understands the importance of melody (usually minor key) and texture (occasionally ambient), and their hurtling aggression is imbued with a dark, neo-classical sense of composition, rather than the atonal chromaticism favored by similar (particularly American) acts. Damage Done should please metal fans who appreciate both death metal's extreme qualities and progressive metal's musicality, but it may not appeal to purists from either camp. [A Japanese version added a bonus track.] ~ Andy Hinds, All Music Guide
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- Character
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- Fiction: Expanded Edition
- Released 2007
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- Haven
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- Projector
- Released 1999
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deadthreadghost
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- By deadthreadghost
- 7/23/2009 19:04:00
- I love everything about this band, this album in particular. While the rest of the group was busy redefining the borders between extreme agression and soul-stirring rending melody, Mikael Stanne was more (or equally) concerned with designing a new prototype for the lyric as we know it, melding quantum based concepts with heart-felt emotional response. Fuck. Wow.
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