Finally, the "Best Dark Tranquillity album" thread

[Defiance]

So, since there are quite a few new members and I believe we've never had this survey in the forum, here it is!

Vote for the best Dark Tranquillity album!

PS: I haven't decided myself yet, I'm between Damage Done and Fiction.

[La Rocque]

I would guess there are similar threads like this in the graveyard of DT threads???
Why doesn't Exposures get any love?

BTW ... its all good -

[Defiance]

^ Exposures is not an album. We all love them all, but choose your favourite one.

[heavy metal]

talk about an impossible ask. how do you pick only one. can't do it.

[La Rocque]

Originally Posted by Defiance

^ Exposures is not an album. We all love them all, but choose your favourite one.

from Wiki ...
"An album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their web sites.

The tracks on an album may be related by subject, mood or sound, and may even be designed to express a unified message or tell a story (as in the case of a concept album), or the tracks may simply represent a convenient grouping of recordings made at one time or place, or recordings whose commercial rights are controlled by a single record label. A group of audio tracks is considered to be an album if it has a generally consistent track list (often with minor differences or bonus tracks in different territories, or if the album is "reissued" at different times). An album may be released in a single format, such as on compact disc, or in multiple media formats, ranging from physical ones such as CDs, DVD audio, cassettes and vinyl records, to digital ones such as MP 3 and AAC files or streaming audio."

Exposures ... disc(album) 1 rare, live and unreleased tracks
disc(album) 2 live in Poland
If Exposures is not an album or 2 WTF is it?

btw, Dhanie, we don't have to choose as we have free will
what are you on some sort of power trip trying to order/tell us what to do?

[Zach.Zhang]

[Defiance]

^ I have to agree with Zach.Zhang here, .

And Exposures is not an album, just check metal-archives.com . I trust that web-page more than Wikipedia .

@heavy metal: To be honest I haven't decided myself yet .

[Matse]

Voted for Projector.

[Siren]

I can't choose, every album is unique to me because it's connected with different events and different feelings, and thus i feel it would be unfair to favour one over the others. Fiction stands out a bit as a voting option, but that's only because it's more fresh. So i'll wait a bit before casting my vote.

[rahvin]

Skydancer is the best DT album and the first person who wants to say otherwise claiming it's a matter of opinion and they have free will or a life-size statue of a walrus is gonna be sorry. It's called iron-y for a reason, you know.

[TheKorruptor]

Regarding Exposures.. well it's a compilation.. which IS an album of sorts.. but since it's basically just a collection of leftover tracks (good as they may be) it seems only fair that it be left out of the poll, don't you think?

Personally, I don't know.. I guess I'll have to go through all of the albums and make up my mind..

[plintus]

Originally Posted by TheKorruptor

Regarding Exposures.. well it's a compilation.. which IS an album of sorts.. but since it's basically just a collection of leftover tracks (good as they may be) it seems only fair that it be left out of the poll, don't you think?

It can stay as long as it's "best dt release" poll. For the albums - that won't be accurate.

Always and forever: The Gallery is the best metal album ever recorded.

[FiendJesterChaos]

I've listened to Dark Tranquillity for over a year now, and I still can't figure out which is their best.

[RampageSword]

Projector.

Where I find the music to be a its creative best, with just the right amounts of everything. Great recording, awesome drums, bass, guitars...just everything seems to have fallen right into place to create a DT masterpiece. This is one if not the most mature offering of melodic death metal there is.

Also and this is a matter of pure subjectivity: the sound of the guitars on this album is one of the best I've ever heard.


re the Exposures dilemma: Well it's a compilation and not a full-length release of songs written and recorded within a specific period of time. It isn't and shouldn't be a part of the poll.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by rahvin

The Mind's I is the best DT album and the first person who wants to say otherwise claiming it's a matter of opinion and they have free will or a life-size statue of a walrus is gonna be sorry. It's called iron-y for a reason, you know.

Since your irony is no match for my ironyng board, I have taken the liberty of fixing your post. I know you will resent me at first, but one day, my dear fellow, you shall thank me and be glad.

[Thanatos]

I'm glad, and surprised, to see The Gallery winning

[Naglfar]

Gallery is their best album. Everyone has their favorite, but the Gallery is their masterpiece. They're a great band but I think that they've had a hard time living up to that album (and the band has released at least two or three great albums since).

Edit: Haven will probably get 0 votes but I think it's one of those great albums.

[DisplayofCharacter]

I voted for Character. Its still my favorite, but I do love them all.

[Defiance]

Originally Posted by rahvin

Skydancer is the best DT album and the first person who wants to say otherwise claiming it's a matter of opinion and they have free will or a life-size statue of a walrus is gonna be sorry. It's called iron-y for a reason, you know.

I'm surprised that someone will choose Skydancer over The Gallery, very interesting choice.

Originally Posted by RampageSword

Projector.

Where I find the music to be a its creative best, with just the right amounts of everything. Great recording, awesome drums, bass, guitars...just everything seems to have fallen right into place to create a DT masterpiece. This is one if not the most mature offering of melodic death metal there is.

Also and this is a matter of pure subjectivity: the sound of the guitars on this album is one of the best I've ever heard.


re the Exposures dilemma: Well it's a compilation and not a full-length release of songs written and recorded within a specific period of time. It isn't and shouldn't be a part of the poll.

I like Projector a lot too, but I don't think I'd choose as the best album.

I'm glad most people understand that Exposures is not an album .

I'm not surprised that TG is winning, most people think it's their best. I'm surprised though, that Damage Done has only 1 vote. And it's kind of sad that Haven has none .

[Siren]

I'll vote for The Gallery for two reasons:
a) it contains my all-time favourite song, Lethe.
b) if The Gallery wins, the band will be pissed off that people still think it's their best album, even though they probably thought that with Fiction they finally topped it, so they'll be forced to try even harder and thus make the next album a killer one.

[Defiance]

Originally Posted by Siren

I'll vote for The Gallery for two reasons:
a) it contains my all-time favourite song, Lethe.
b) if The Gallery wins, the band will be pissed off that people still think it's their best album, even though they probably thought that with Fiction they finally topped it, so they'll be forced to try even harder and thus make the next album a killer one.

har har har.

I'll vote for Damage Done, I think they topped The Gallery with that one. Heck for all I know they topped TG with Projector, but DD is the best one IMO.

Damage Done!!!

I love every album though, each moves me in a different way .

[:.::zamijackyl]

Casting a vote in this matter will require a thorough delve into the brilliance that is known as the discography of DT (a dreadful task I know but one must sacrifice them for the greater good). I suspect that the final battle will be held with The Mind’s I and Projector but who knows; maybe this rigid mind of mine will surprise me.

[Villain]

Originally Posted by Naglfar

Edit: Haven will probably get 0 votes but I think it's one of those great albums.

Actually, I'm surprised it has so few votes at the moment. Even though I find Haven the only DT-album that lost its "spark" after a couple of years (I hope the remastered version will rekindle it), it always seemed to have a great many supporters, both on this forum and other sites - far more than Projector, for example.

Of course, Projector is such a polarizing album that people often end up either hating it, or loving it - only a few people seem to be somewhere between. Personally, I may belong to either of those camps depending on my mood: often I feel like it's their weakest effort, but certain times I consider it the greatest piece of music ever made. It's the only album I feel that strongly about.

What surprises me the most in these results, however, is that Character is ahead of Fiction and Damage Done. Even though I loved Character when it came out (and still do), I was under the impression not too many people thought it was better than DD. Then, when Fiction was released, I thought most people felt like me: Fiction took all the best parts of Character and added a bunch of new, equally great elements to create the best DT album ever. It appears I was alone feeling that way.

-Villain

[opacity]

it's either haven or character for me.

[Defiance]

Originally Posted by Villain

Actually, I'm surprised it has so few votes at the moment. Even though I find Haven the only DT-album that lost its "spark" after a couple of years (I hope the remastered version will rekindle it), it always seemed to have a great many supporters, both on this forum and other sites - far more than Projector, for example.

Of course, Projector is such a polarizing album that people often end up either hating it, or loving it - only a few people seem to be somewhere between. Personally, I may belong to either of those camps depending on my mood: often I feel like it's their weakest effort, but certain times I consider it the greatest piece of music ever made. It's the only album I feel that strongly about.

What surprises me the most in these results, however, is that Character is ahead of Fiction and Damage Done. Even though I loved Character when it came out (and still do), I was under the impression not too many people thought it was better than DD. Then, when Fiction was released, I thought most people felt like me: Fiction took all the best parts of Character and added a bunch of new, equally great elements to create the best DT album ever. It appears I was alone feeling that way.

-Villain

I've always and will always love Projector . Right DD and Character have 3 votes and Haven finally has one ( ), but I'm very surprised that Fiction has only one.