We Are the Void
Encyclopedia
We Are The Void is the ninth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal
band Dark Tranquillity
.
It is their first album with new bassist Daniel Antonsson
.
The album was written almost a year prior to its recording, and is considered to be the second part to their previous album Fiction
as it continued many of the latter's elements including the Drop B tuning that was largely present and the clean vocals Mikael Stanne re-introduced on that album.
On 10 February 2010, a music video was released for "Shadow In Our Blood".
On 19 February 2010, the entire album was available for free streaming on the band's MySpace
page.
Regarding the musical direction of the band's new material, the band previously said,
Production
Other
Melodic death metal
Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...
band Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene, and are one of the most integral pioneers of the melodic death metal genre of music....
.
It is their first album with new bassist Daniel Antonsson
Daniel Antonsson
Daniel Antonsson is a musician and songwriter from Gothenburg, Sweden, currently playing guitar in Dimension Zero and playing bass in Dark Tranquillity. He was also briefly in Soilwork and recorded with them on their album Sworn to a Great Divide...
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The album was written almost a year prior to its recording, and is considered to be the second part to their previous album Fiction
Fiction (Dark Tranquillity album)
Fiction is the eighth studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal band, Dark Tranquillity.The earliest release date for the album was set for North America on April 17, 2007....
as it continued many of the latter's elements including the Drop B tuning that was largely present and the clean vocals Mikael Stanne re-introduced on that album.
On 10 February 2010, a music video was released for "Shadow In Our Blood".
On 19 February 2010, the entire album was available for free streaming on the band's MySpace
MySpace
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page.
Reception
Chosen as "Album of the month Feb 2010" by German online magazine Metal 1.Regarding the musical direction of the band's new material, the band previously said,
Track listing
Personnel
Dark Tranquillity- Mikael StanneMikael StanneBengt Mikael Stanne is the vocalist for the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity and the ex-vocalist for Swedish power metal band HammerFall.-Dark Tranquillity:...
– vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Martin HenrikssonMartin HenrikssonMartin Henriksson, born 30 October 1974 in Sweden, is one of two guitarists, one of the founding members and the main songwriter of the Swedish death metal band Dark Tranquillity.-Biography:...
– rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, sound recording - Niklas SundinNiklas SundinNiklas Sundin , is a musician best known as the guitarist of bands Dark Tranquillity and Laethora. He also wrote some of the lyrics for the first three and recent two Dark Tranquillity albums and In Flames' album The Jester Race, and...
– lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure... - Anders Jivarp – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Martin Brändström – keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Daniel Antonsson – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, lead guitar soloGuitar soloIn popular music, a guitar solo is a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, jazz, rock and metal styles such...
(on "Shadow in our blood" (1st part) and "At the Point of Ignition")
Production
- Tue MadsenTue MadsenTue Madsen is a Danish music producer and sound engineer, who is well known in metal genre for his work with bands like The Haunted, Mnemic, Hatesphere, Ektomorf, Cataract, Exmortem, and Born from Pain. His first work as a producer was the album Embraced by the Absolute by Autumn Leaves in 1997...
– MixingAudio mixing (recorded music)In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
& Audio masteringAudio masteringMastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
at Antfarm Studio in Århus
Other
- Anders BjörlerAnders BjörlerAnders Björler is a musician from Sweden. He is the current lead guitarist for heavy metal bands The Haunted and the well-known melodic death metal band At the Gates. He joined them in his former position on a reunion tour in 2007...
- filmed "Studio Report 2009"
Release history
- Sweden: 24 February 2010
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Italy & Australia: 26 February
- U.K., France, Greece, Denmark and Norway: 1 March
- Spain and Portugal: 2 March
- Finland and Hungary: 3 March
- North America: 9 March