18:37 - EMols86 Carrion Misery, I was just about to say the same thing about lyrical themes defining a genre, because they do not. Maybe some themes are very common in certain styles, but it doesn't define the style...
18:34 - EMols86 Look at doom bands like Candlemass, Solstice, Isole, Krux, Solitude Aeternus, 40 Watt Sun and Cathedral. Not exactly the same styles, but all clean vocals without growls. I rest my case. :-)
18:33 - Apothecary Honestly I dunno why you got swarmed for that. Piece Of Time is probably the most thrash-y Atheist album, the whole proggy/technical side of the band started with Unquestionable Presence, really
18:33 - Carrion Misery Well, the music would still matter greatly in that case whether or not it's "blackened". I disagree that any lyrical content is genre specific though, but I see what you're saying.
18:30 - EMols86 Yes, more than just the vocals define a genre, of course. But I only said it's easy to recognize a genre by simply listening to the vocals. Obviously it doesn't work in all cases, as I just showed with Atheist which seemed thrash.
18:29 - Apothecary Sometimes vocals can be THE definer of a genre. If a band has black metal lyrical themes, but the vocals are clean, deep and powerful, they likely wouldn't be classified as black metal.
18:27 - Carrion Misery Yeah, I was just using power metal to make a point on vocals defining a genre. All elements of a band define their genre--no matter how much one favors a certain factor less than others.
01. Punish My Heaven 02. Silence, And The Firmament Withdrew 03. Edenspring 04. The Dividing Line 05. The Gallery 06. The One Brooding Warning 07. Midway Through Infinity 08. Lethe 09. The Emptiness From Which I Fed 10. Mine Is the Grandeur... 11. ... Of Melancholy Burning 12. Bringer Of Torture [Kreator cover][Special Deluxe Edition bonus] 13. Sacred Reich [Sacred Reich cover][Special Deluxe Edition bonus] 14. 22 Acacia Avenue [Iron Maiden cover][Special Deluxe Edition bonus] 15. Lady In Black [Mercyful Fate cover][Special Deluxe Edition bonus] 16. My Friend Of Misery [Metallica cover][Special Deluxe Edition bonus]
Additional info Special "Deluxe" edition released in 2005 by Century Media Records (US) & Osmose productions (Europe). This version features different booklet layout as well bonus tracks.
This is obviously my favourite album of my favourite band. So you can easily imagine that I only have nice things to say about it. So, why does this album reach perfection? Why is it, in my opinion, the best melodic death metal album ever released? Simply because it is the manifest of a band that perfectly masters its music, and above all that loves what it is doing. You can feel such love for the metal in general all along the eleven tracks of this work. It is actually the first real album of the band after the departure of the previous singer Anders Friden, gone to found their Swedish mates of In Flames. So this is also the first album with Mikael Stanne, former guitarist, on the vocals, after the EP Of Chaos and Eternal Night.
Caution! Cult album ahead. "The Gallery" is to Melodic Death Metal what "Images And Words" is to Progressive Metal, if not more. The essence of Sweden delivered by Dark Tranquillity is simply grandiose. The duo of singers Mikael Stanne-Anders Friden blows everything in its path while emblematic songs keep playing in your shitty CD player. I'll have to visit Gothenburg one day, as a pilgrim of Holy Metalness, I'm serious!
I found this album a few years ago while I first started getting into melodic death metal. This is still far and away the best album the genre has to offer.
This is in my opinion one of the most overrated album EVER. Nothing amazing about it with only 3 great songs (Punish My Heaven, The Gallery and ...Of Melancholy Burning). The other songs are not really memorable and some of them are way too short. Hell, I even like Character, Fiction and Damage Done a lot more than this.
This is in my opinion one of the most overrated album EVER. Nothing amazing about it with only 3 great songs (Punish My Heaven, The Gallery and ...Of Melancholy Burning). The other songs are not really memorable and some of them are way too short. Hell, I even like Character, Fiction and Damage Done a lot more than this.
You still gave it a 7 though. Pretty respectable score
You still gave it a 7 though. Pretty respectable score
Well, I just think it's extremely overrated and only really enjoy those three songs a lot, while the others aren't bad, just not great either. But I gave that score a while ago and it might drop a point, but I need to listen to it again to know this of course.
And obviously melodic death metal isn't exactly my favourite genre, I still think the three albums I mentioned are better than this.
Well, I just think it's extremely overrated and only really enjoy those three songs a lot, while the others aren't bad, just not great either. But I gave that score a while ago and it might drop a point, but I need to listen to it again to know this of course.
And obviously melodic death metal isn't exactly my favourite genre, I still think the three albums I mentioned are better than this.
I personally wouldn't call this overrated purely on the fact there's really no other album that sounds like this. It's totally different to every other melodeath album, even within their own discog. Of course that doesn't necessarily mean that the music is good. Though I happen to rather think it is Character is as good as this, but I personally regard Damage Done as the most overrated in their catalogue.
Actually this reminds me of a review for this album. Probably the worst review I've ever seen, not least because it called Dark Tranquillity a Carcass / Brutal Truth clone.
I personally wouldn't call this overrated purely on the fact there's really no other album that sounds like this. It's totally different to every other melodeath album, even within their own discog. Of course that doesn't necessarily mean that the music is good. Though I happen to rather think it is Character is as good as this, but I personally regard Damage Done as the most overrated in their catalogue.
Actually this reminds me of a review for this album. Probably the worst review I've ever seen, not least because it called Dark Tranquillity a Carcass / Brutal Truth clone.
Yep, you're right about this album sounding pretty original. The simple truth is, I just don't enjoy it a lot... the songs are too short and even if they were longer I still probably wouldn't like them a lot. The style just doesn't appeal to me I guess.
About that review, it's pretty horrible. I don't agree with that at all, since he calls them unoriginal and ripped off from something else, which is (I think) not true at all. But that last sentence cracked me up though.
Yep, you're right about this album sounding pretty original. The simple truth is, I just don't enjoy it a lot... the songs are too short and even if they were longer I still probably wouldn't like them a lot. The style just doesn't appeal to me I guess.
About that review, it's pretty horrible. I don't agree with that at all, since he calls them unoriginal and ripped off from something else, which is (I think) not true at all. But that last sentence cracked me up though.
Yes the last line is especially amusing considering how completely wrong he was about it, that it went on to become the most heralded metal albums of all time
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Nothing amazing about it with only 3 great songs (Punish My Heaven, The Gallery and ...Of Melancholy Burning). The other songs are not really memorable and some of them are way too short. Hell, I even like Character, Fiction and Damage Done a lot more than this.
