Dark Tranquillity - Review of upcoming album Construct and why you should check it out!

I first heard about the band Dark Tranquillity from the book “Choosing Death”. In the book author, Albert Mudrain writes how the original singer Anders Friden went on to sing for the Swedish Death Metal Band In Flames and how guitarist Mikael Stanne took over vocal duties. The band is said to have a Gothenburg sound or in other words a more melodic death metal sound which was popular in Sweden at the time. Again the band popped up in the July Issue of Decibel Magazine issue 105 discussing their new album Construct due out May 28^th, 2013. So curiosity got the best of me and being a big fan of In Flames, I went out and bought their 2005 album Character. The album was exactly what I was looking for, it was very melodic, great growling vocals, with some clean ones at times and really the band seemed to grasp what a melodic metal band should be. The key boards did not overpower the songs, but gave each song a cool rhythm for the guitars to chug along to.

On to their new album Construct, which after hearing some of their older stuff and listening to some of the new album, I am very excited to get. The song "Uniformity" has a video that promotes it, and it was a great choice for a single or at least a video. The song starts with the keyboards kicking in full blast giving the song melody that resonates throughout the whole track. The album has a great mix of clean and growling vocals and Stanne shows he can growl with the best of them on songs like "The Science Of Noise" and "For Broken Words". What I love about his vocals is you can understand what he is saying without taking away the gruffness of his sound. I suggest if you do not know anything by them, check out the video for "Uniformity" and I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Go out and get your copy of Construct May 28^th!!