DARK TRANQUILITY: Skydancer (1993). LP. Death Metal.
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Description
They had more or less the same members they have now, but they have changed greatly since 1993, to the point where they have almost no resemblance to their former sound. Here we have some fast, emotional, and powerful melodic death metal.
This album is a classic. An amazing classic, even if it is often underrated. The first thing you will notice is the drumming which is powerful and never lacks of originality and technique. The guitars play a heavy and very melodic kind of death metal and sometimes leave place to an acoustic guitar intro or intermezzo (like in "A Bolt of Blazing Gold" and "Through Ebony Archways"). The acoustic guitar never sounds cheesy or out of place, it gives a note of sadness and melancholy, instead, and melts very well within the songs. I can say the same thing for the beautiful female vocals, which also appear in the songs above and sound quite tragic rather than meek.
I suppose the hard point of this album is its complexity. Yes, because even if melodies could sound easy to catch by their own, in fact they get interlaced into each other in a tight frame. In fact the best adjective to define this album is baroque. You will hardly find something alike elsewhere.
Even lyrics are elaborated and really hard to follow sometimes. As an example, take the lyrics on "Shadow Duet". In this song Mikael Stanne and Anders Friden play two consciences, residing in each man's mind. They undertake a (vocal) struggle for supremacy giving place at a kind of theatrical piece.
The last song, "Alone", is quite different from the average of the album. Slow death metal melodies and powerful depressive lyrics... a kind of doomdeath song (the strongest track in this album in my opinion).
dimension: 9 track album
label: Spinefarm Records
extras, comments: with lyrics, this is not the re-release from 2000 but the ORIGINAL RELEASE from 1993! Perfect Condition, with lyrics.
style: Original Death Metal. Swedish style. It is actually hard to classify.
Side A:
- Nightfall by the Shore of Time
- Crimson Winds
- A Bolt of Blazing Gold
- In Tears Bereaved
Side B:
- Skywards
- Through Ebony Archways
- Shadow Duet
- My Faerytale Forgotten
- Alone
I am selling over 200 death metal LPs and CDs, keep track if you are interested.
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