DARK TRANQUILLITY „The Gallery”

This album seems (or it's just plain reality?) to have more melodies than simple metallic riffs. It's just an amazing and astonishing album! For the newcomers, Dark Tranquillity it's one of the pioneers of the “gothenburg” sound (or it is “goteborg”?) that born in Sweden at the beggining of the 1990's. They play a fusion of death, thrash, black and heavy metal and with many melodies through all the songs. But this album has, besides the great melodies and the killer riffs, more complex and surprising arrangements, clean vocals, some keyboards, a good dose of acoustic guitars and female vocals in two songs (very 'a la rush' vocals in one of them (…Of melancholy burning),it fits so fucking good!); all of this, amazingly well executed. To finalize, i want to tell a history: When the “projector” album was released, i read an ad with this legend (textually): DO YOU THINK GALLERY IT'S THE BEST DARK TRANQUILLITY ALBUM? YOU SUCK!

and then, The projector cover appears on scene. LOL!!! I imagined the same ad, but announcing this: DO YOU THINK MASTER OF PUPPETS (or Ride the lightning) IT'S THE BEST METALLICA ALBUM? YOU SUCK! and the image of the black album appears on scene. (Metallica it's no more metal since the release of load in my opinion, that's why the black album is there) Compare Projector or Haven with Dark Tranquillity's gallery it's just a waste of time. THE GALLERY OWNS!