FrigidSymphony wrote:
Afro Lint wrote:
Nyarlathotep wrote:
I like Dark Tranquility´s same old same old. Every time they release a new record I say bah, it´s just the same old. But I still end up playing it a lot and after a while it get´s more and more solid. Sometimes subtle change is enough if the band is great.
Nonsense. Dark Tranquillity have rarely gone two albums without changing things up. I suggest a colonic on your ears.
Dark Tranquillity often have similar ways of constructing songs (Keyboard melody, guitars playing stopped notes on the first and the fifth, for example), but they always manage to do it different enough to be interesting. I'm not familiar with their entire catalogue, but from what I know (mostly later stuff), that's how I see it.
Skydancer and the Of Chaos And Eternal Night EP have more of a slow death metal sound. While the next two, The Gallery and The Mind's I, are faster, more thrashy, and loaded with leads. Projector is the experimental album; lots of atmosphere, lots of clean singing and keyboards, a very different kind of album.
Haven takes some of Projector as influence, but it's also heavier and more groovy. That album bridges Character and Damage Done, two albums that were similar in style: brutal and grooyy melodeath. And Fiction is an album that pretty much channels every album that came before it. There's fast, thrashy songs; there's clean singing with keyboard work; there's those crushing tracks that groove. It literally has a bit of everything they've done.
They've always sounded like the same band, but they've never done more than two albums in the same sort of style. They've changed it up enough to avoid being labeled a band that does the "same old same old." If someone thinks that, they're not listening. There are times when opinion is flat out wrong, no matter what is said (i.e. the ocean is not wet).
