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Band
Dark Tranquillity
Title
Atoma
Type
LP/EP
Company
Century Media
YOR
2016
Style
Death
12/16/2016 - Review by: Eric Compton
Stale offering from the Swedish melo-death specialists
I don't know guys. Take it or leave it. It's another album in a discography that now has eleven offerings of Dark Tranquillity melodic-death metal. I grew tired of this about a decade ago but the band and it's fans haven't. I can't knock this around for being anything other than sincere and to the point. The group continue to skirt the fringes of aggressive metal, bordering somewhere between avant-garde rock to the firm heaviness of the Gothenburg sound. I can hear everything from 'Projector' onward, the strings lightly distorted and backed by an assortment of machines and vocals still as dark as ever. A toss-up album if there ever was one.
Recommended for fans of: Insomnium, Opeth, Katatonia
PERSONAL BREAKDOWN:

ENJOYMENT
3
MUSIC
3
VOCALS
3.5
PRODUCTION
3
ARTWORK
2.5
LYRICS
3


  • 1 :REVIEW COUNT
    3 :AVE RATING

ALL REVIEWS FOR: DARK TRANQUILLITY
TITLE
DOR
COMPANY
REVIEWER DATE MADE RATING
Atoma
2016
Century Media
Eric Compton12/16/2016
3
Character
2005
Century Media
Eric Compton1/25/2005
-
Fiction
2007
Century Media
Etiam2/22/2008
3.5
We Are The Void
2010
Century Media
Raising Iron5/1/2010
3
We Are The Void
2010
Century Media
Eric Compton3/5/2010
5

ALL INTERVIEWS FOR: DARK TRANQUILLITY
INTERVIEW INTERVIEWER DATE TAGLINE
Niklas SundinGreg Watson, Eric Compton8/22/2014


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