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Dark Tranquillity - Fiction



8.6 | 1170 votes |
Release date: 20 April 2007
Style: Gothenburg metal

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Disc I
01. Nothing To No One
02. The Lesser Faith
03. Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive)
04. Blind At Heart
05. Icipher
06. Inside The Particle Storm
07. Empty Me
08. Misery's Crown
09. Focus Shift
10. The Mundane And The Magic [feat. Nell Sigland]
11. A Closer End [Japanese bonus]
12. Winter Triangle [Australian bonus]
13. Below The Radiance [expanded edition bonus]
14. Silence In The House Of Tongues [instrumental version] [expanded edition bonus]
15. Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive) [Live at Summer Breeze 2007] [expanded edition bonus]
16. The Lesser Faith [Live at Summer Breeze 2007] [expanded edition bonus]

Limited Edition Special Features:
+ The New Build [video]
+ Focus Shift [video]
+ Focus Shift [Live in rehearsal room]
+ Wallpapers, AIM buddy icons

Disc II [Expanded Edition bonus DVD]
01. Focus Shift [video]
02. Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive) (brick-movie) [video]
03. Focus Shift [Live in rehearsal room]
04. Blind At Heart [Live at Bang Your Head Festival 2007]
05. Final Resistance [Live at Bang Your Head Festival 2007]
06. Misery's Crown [Live at Bang Your Head Festival 2007]
07. Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive) [Live at Summer Breeze 2007]
08. The Lesser Faith [Live at Summer Breeze 2007]
09. The New Build [Live at Summer Breeze 2007]
10. The Endless Feed [Live at Summer Breeze 2007]

The Best Melodeath/Gothenburg Album Of 2007
Top 20 albums of 2007: 12
Featured in "Getting Into: Dark Tranquillity"

Additional info
Label: Century Media Records; Catalog #: 8315-2

Recorded and mixed October - December 2006.
Guitars and vocals recorded at Rogue Music and Nacksving.
Bass and electronics recorded at Rogue Music .
Drums recorded at IF Studios.
Mixed by Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studios.
Technical assistance provided by Martin Brändström, Tue Madsen, Isak Edh, Magnus Lander and Lars Häglund.
Design by Niklas Sundin for Cabin Fever Media.
Portrait photography by Marcus Bergman. Live photography by Ola Johansson.

Limited Edition comes with an extended booklet, alternate cover art and a free Dark Tranquillity patch.

Staff review by
Dream Taster
Rating:
8.7
Ever since 2002's "Damage Done", the pioneers of the Gothenburg sound have mastered their newer sound with "Character" and now "Fiction" . In a way, their newest release can be considered as the twin album of "Character". The same formula was once again brought into daylight, resulting to a great album but with as many surprises as a Manowar album.

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published 15.07.2007 | Comments (35)

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Comments: 11   Visited by: 1051 users
27.10.2011 - 22:39
Rating: 10
serega25

Ten great, excellent songs!!! \m/
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03.12.2011 - 07:03
Rating: 8
Melkor

DONT BRING YOUR MISERY DOWN ON MEEEEE!!!awesome album!
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17.06.2012 - 22:32
Rating: 10
lord artan

This is my best album of this band.i love it
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24.08.2012 - 14:18
Rating: 10
Starchild

After first spin i thought it's pretty good album, between 8 and 9, but now after more than 10 spins... damn, what an grower. It was better and better with every next spin. Now, can't give it less than 10/10. A DT's best.
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20.03.2015 - 17:06
Rating: 7
me<3mertl

Kind of boring,but not bad.
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23.04.2015 - 08:58
Stunning Cactus

Misery's Crown for days.
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16.09.2019 - 19:08
Rating: 7
SebaRaven36

Good melodic death
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16.09.2019 - 22:20
Rating: 6
Redel

Average melodic death
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06.01.2023 - 13:32
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
The Mundane And The Magic and Misery's Crown are great songs, test is wtf they are doing, keyboards are disco, but still good melo dm riffing, so, album would be better if he se more clean vocals I think.
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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24.01.2024 - 16:10
Rating: 9
nonZero

I enjoyed this one a lot, one of the more consistent post-Gallery Dark Tranquillity albums even if it is fairly basic.

9.2/10 for me - 'Terminus (Where Death is Most Alive)' and 'Misery's Crown' are the standout tracks. 'Nothing to No One', 'The Lesser Faith' and 'Icipher' are all also fantastic.
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24.01.2024 - 20:06
Rating: 9
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Definitely a great one this, DT could do no wrong from back then imo. There's not many tracks I find skippable here tbh, "Terminus", "Misery's Crown", "Icipher" and "The Mundane And The Magic" are all fantastic, but one of my favorite tracks here, which rarely gets a mention, is "Empty Me", the keyboard melody and main riff are great in particular.
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