Metal Reviews

I bought it because of ThereIn, and loved it since. Quite proggy as well, so it even stands up to repeated listens. Go f'rit!

Yes.

And eh; the production might be not so great, but the sense of melody on that album is phenomenal. Shadow Duet is the best thing Tranquillity ever did.

Skydancer and Of Chaos And Eternal Light are excellent! How is the reissue? Remastered? I have the originals only.

Oh ya, Of Chaos And Eternal Night is a great EP. I too have the non-remastered version; anyone have it? My copy is getting scratched, so if the remaster has a lot better production, I'd be willing to pick it up

Yeah, if anyone could answer this question several people would appreciate it.

Well, I don't have the original version of either, but I think the remastered combo sounds really good. Not the best production, but adequate. I would say it's about on par with The Gallery remaster.

Sounds good enough to me, thanks.

badass! thanks for the post. I personally like the pop chorus death metal structures. I think Damage Done kicks ass and this song is a good fit for that era DT. And of course the guitar work bleeds melody especially the tiny lead runs near the ending. An excellent way to structure a 3 to 4 minute song! A lot of bands need to get to the buildups and point quicker IMO

Wonderful. Another splendid album coming this way.

The Gallery/The Mind's I meets Projector! Outstanding fucking album!

Great,with so many bands i like not doing well, this guys keep it good, at least they don't have a bad album yet.

first 5 songs = zzz for the most part
next 5 = good for the most part

You do realize that no one listens to your opinions on music, right? You're ridiculously out of your mind.

That about sums it up. Truly beautiful music, and I very rarely use the term "beautiful" in connection to metal albums. A perfect combination of the most nedeed ingredients for a great album: huge talent and determination to make music from the heart.

Man, I remember when getting a promo of the album made you part of this "exclusive club." Hahaha. I got the promo in the mail yesterday, and today it's all over the net. Pffft! Fags.

With that said, I think the album is outstanding. My tastes are very broad, as many of you know—I could listen to a death metal/Ani Difranco mix and totally dig it—so Dark Tranquillity hasn't released a bad album yet, in my eyes.

There are some songs with modern elements on Fiction, "Icipher" and "Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive)," for the most part. Latter day In Flames—another band yet to let me down—is a good example to use when giving you an idea of some riffs in these songs. The haters will latch onto these instances and call the album a nu-metal album (the typical insult of mindless turds with little musical knowledge). However, the vocals are what sets these two bands apart. While Anders makes some of the newer In Flames material sound less heavy than it really is by singing in a less aggressive, oft whiney vocal style, Mikael stays brutal throughout these two songs.

I like the fact that they've changed things up again. They needed to stray from the Damage Done/Character style, else it would have gotten a bit monotonous. I am stoked for the clean vocals (male and female) being back, though only on two songs, "Misery's Crown" and "The Mundane And The Magic." I missed them. Stanne has an odd clean tone, but it's fucking captivating! Projector is one of the most underrated metal albums out there. This album is like The Gallery/The Mind's era meets the Projector/Haven era (musically) meets the Damage Done/Character era (sonically). It's brutal and fast, yet melodic and atmospheric, with a good dose of keyboards (piano style, not synth).

Let the inevitable haters hate; don't listen to them one bit, their words are worthless. Fiction is a killer album!

Speak for yourself, poopface.

HAHAHAHA!!! Misha's best insult ever.

This sounds exactly like I expected it to sound. But for some reason, it's very disappointing after a few listens.
Maybe I'll cut it some slack after a deeper analysis. Meh.

I'm with Ken on this one, this album is awsome!

.:crast:.

I'm quite happy with their attempt at a change, but I'd really like to see more clean vocals and them fire their useless keyboardist! This album sounds to me like a mix of character with some projector/mind's eye elements. It's certainly better than anything since Projector, but it doesn't really approach the greatness of their first 4 albums.