We Are The Void

XxSNAPxX · July 3rd, 2009, 09:59 PM

ew album out early next year!
Time to let you in on the plans for our upcoming ninth (or tenth, depending on how you count) full-length album. The as-yet-untitled beast will be recorded in September and October and released in early 2010 through Century media records.

We'll keep the recording setup completely in-house this time. Drums will be tracked in Daniel Antonsson's studio, while the remaining instruments will be immortalized in Martin Brändström's newly renovated Rogue music facilities. The mixing duties will once again be handled by Tue Madsen in his Antfarm studio in Denmark.

As for the music itself, it's a bit too early to delve into details, but the material feels diverse and fresh and covers all the facets of the D.T. sound. Those who are familiar with our songwriting process know that we always keep re-arranging and experimenting with the material until the recording starts, and while we currently have the basic foundations for around 10 songs, many things are still open.

Some tentative song titles are "I am the void", "Zero distance", "the burden of love alive", "Archangelsk" and "Memories in reverse", though these are subject to change as usual.

from thier myspace....

Zach.Zhang · July 4th, 2009, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by XxSNAPxX

...the material feels diverse and fresh and covers all the facets of the D.T. sound...

Viva !!

Defiance · July 4th, 2009, 03:13 AM

Excellent news, I can't wait!!!

I really like the names of the tracks too, cheers and support from Costa Rica!

@ Zach:So are you studying Spanish? You missed the first exclamation signs (¡¡!!).

@ Matse: And you were complaining that we didn't have any new topics…, well here you are!

Zach.Zhang · July 4th, 2009, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Defiance

Excellent news, I can't wait!!!

I really like the names of the tracks too, cheers and support from Costa Rica!

@ Zach:So are you studying Spanish? You missed the first exclamation signs (¡¡!!).

Nope. I thought "Viva" means "Great ! DT, we love you !" ...... Right ?

I dont know how to use other languges' punctuations.

And I typed two "!", just like you typed three "!"

Andvarie · July 4th, 2009, 06:49 AM

I am also really looking forward to that, since the some titles seem to sound very special to me, and cover a very interresting side of thinking as usual .

Matse · July 4th, 2009, 10:40 AM

News sound great.
"I am the Void" reminds me of "If there were two omniscients, he would be both of them" (I am not telling the source, if you don't know him, you are not worthy). The title sounds good though as do the others, although "The burden of love alive" does sound a bit gay. Gay would fit the forum here though so maybe they wrote it for us.

@ Defiance: There can never be enough topics. The number will go up though anyways the closer we get to the new album.

RampageSword · July 4th, 2009, 12:26 PM

Hourra.
All good things come to those who wait.

La Rocque · July 4th, 2009, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by RampageSword

All good things come to those who wait.

Love the quote

As for any Century Media release date, I've found it to be
a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma -

Sinner Poetry · July 4th, 2009, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Matse

News sound great.
"I am the Void" reminds me of "If there were two omniscients, he would be both of them" (I am not telling the source, if you don't know him, you are not worthy).

Ziltoid the omniscient

great news! Can't wait to listen to the new album

Defiance · July 4th, 2009, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Zach.Zhang

Nope. I thought "Viva" means "Great ! DT, we love you !" ...... Right ?

I dont know how to use other languges' punctuations.

And I typed two "!", just like you typed three "!"

Yes it means "great", but it's Spanish so you should have ¡ and then ! . I I typed three but that's English so it's OK. Anyhow

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Originally Posted by Matse

News sound great.
"I am the Void" reminds me of "If there were two omniscients, he would be both of them" (I am not telling the source, if you don't know him, you are not worthy). The title sounds good though as do the others, although "The burden of love alive" does sound a bit gay. Gay would fit the forum here though so maybe they wrote it for us.

@ Defiance: There can never be enough topics. The number will go up though anyways the closer we get to the new album.

"Greetings humans, I am Ziltoid the Omniscient. You shall fetch me your universe's ultimate cup of coffee… black! You have f i v e E a r t h m i n u t e s… make it perfect"!

The new one is simply excellent.

Actually, I don't think "The Burden of Love Alive" sounds gay.

True, true we'll have more topics soon enough.

rahvin · July 6th, 2009, 07:24 AM

"The Burden of Love Alive" sounds emo, but I think we should probably stop to consider that any use of the word "love" in a song title will always reflect the current trend of popular songs using and abusing the word. It shouldn't be banished for that reason.

Matse · July 6th, 2009, 08:40 AM

I said gay, not emo. Pfft, racists.

DisplayofCharacter · July 6th, 2009, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Defiance

The new one is simply excellent.

Not to get too far off topic, but Devin Townsend is fucking great. His solo stuff is really, really good and much much much much better than Strapping Young Lad. I would die if I ever had a chance to see him play Ocean Machine live - one of my favorite albums of all time, easy.

Also, working titles are just that. Building on that though, it wouldn't have been so bad to see Insignificunt on the back cover of Fiction.

rahvin · July 6th, 2009, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Matse

I said gay, not emo. Pfft, racists.

One day you're gonna tell me how emo is more racist than gay, but I'll make sure we're not alone in a locked room, in case one of us suddenly turns... emo.

Defiance · July 6th, 2009, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by DisplayofCharacter

Not to get too far off topic, but Devin Townsend is fucking great. His solo stuff is really, really good and much much much much better than Strapping Young Lad. I would die if I ever had a chance to see him play Ocean Machine live - one of my favorite albums of all time, easy.

Also, working titles are just that. Building on that though, it wouldn't have been so bad to see Insignificunt on the back cover of Fiction.

Yes, Devin is great, I would kill to see him live, it doesn't matter what he's playing. But he doesn't do concerts anymore because he has a son, and I see a lot of that in the new album. And he is indeed much better with DT or DTB than with SYL.

I sometimes think Mikael says "insignificUnt" instead of "insignificAnt" around 2:10 in The Lesser Faith

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Originally Posted by rahvin

One day you're gonna tell me how emo is more racist than gay, but I'll make sure we're not alone in a locked room, in case one of us suddenly turns... emo.

Ah hahahaha

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DisplayofCharacter · July 6th, 2009, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Defiance

Yes, Devin is great, I would kill to see him live, it doesn't matter what he's playing. But he doesn't do concerts anymore because he has a son, and I see a lot of that in the new album. And he is indeed much better with DT or DTB than with SYL.

I sometimes think Mikael says "insignificUnt" instead of "insignificAnt" around 2:10 in The Lesser Faith

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Yeah Devy has grown up a lot, and I love that as a fan of his solo stuff (sounds like you're the same) but I'm sure that alienates SYL fans only. That being said, I gotta respect the man a ton - he cleaned up, is a good dad apparently, and is still making kickass music sober. I wish I could have seen him when he toured too, regardless of band (even SYL has some good songs, just not nearly as many).

Also, kinda sounded like -cunt especially when I heard the song live a couple years ago. Positive its intentional, just dunno if he would ever admit to it.

Defiance · July 7th, 2009, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by DisplayofCharacter

Yeah Devy has grown up a lot, and I love that as a fan of his solo stuff (sounds like you're the same) but I'm sure that alienates SYL fans only. That being said, I gotta respect the man a ton - he cleaned up, is a good dad apparently, and is still making kickass music sober. I wish I could have seen him when he toured too, regardless of band (even SYL has some good songs, just not nearly as many).

Also, kinda sounded like -cunt especially when I heard the song live a couple years ago. Positive its intentional, just dunno if he would ever admit to it.

SYL is quite good, but not as good as Devin solo, definitely

.

Haha if I interview him I'll ask him that and get an answer

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La Rocque · July 7th, 2009, 12:27 PM

@ Defiance / DisplayofCharacter what does Devin Townsend have to do with the new Dark Tranquillity album???
I know its difficult to understand about staying on topic, please try, thank you
Here's a thread on this very forum for this sort of shit ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^

Check out this band! ---Want to spread the word? POST IT!

nhara-ekke · July 7th, 2009, 11:48 PM

DT plus Tue equals - hell

Archangelsk is a city in Northern Europe part of Russia

Defiance · July 8th, 2009, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by La Rocque

@ Defiance / DisplayofCharacter what does Devin Townsend have to do with the new Dark Tranquillity album???
I know its difficult to understand about staying on topic, please try, thank you
Here's a thread on this very forum for this sort of shit ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^

Check out this band! ---Want to spread the word? POST IT!

What, you don't know?!?!?!? Mikael is one-quarter Canadian, and he's actually part of Devin's family. They often visit each other for Christmas, and last time Mikael got the new Rush live CD.

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Originally Posted by nhara-ekke

DT plus Tue equals - hell

Archangelsk is a city in Northern Europe part of Russia

That's very interesting, I didn't know that! Now the title is even more mysterious. I wonder if they'll write it in Cyrillic (Архангельск) or in Roman Alphabet (Archangelsk). I think that having the former would be wonderful

. Please write it in Cyrillic!

nhara-ekke · July 9th, 2009, 04:30 AM

(doublepost)

nhara-ekke · July 9th, 2009, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Defiance

That's very interesting, I didn't know that! Now the title is even more mysterious. I wonder if they'll write it in Cyrillic (Архангельск) or in Roman Alphabet (Archangelsk). I think that having the former would be wonderful

. Please write it in Cyrillic!

Oh, please don't. Sounds too straightforward

Defiance · July 9th, 2009, 02:03 PM

^ I don't know what you mean exactly by "straightforward", but I guess it has something to do with you living in Москва.

plintus · July 9th, 2009, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Defiance

What, you don't know?!?!?!? Mikael is one-quarter Canadian, and he's actually part of Devin's family. They often visit each other for Christmas, and last time Mikael got the new Rush live CD.

That's very interesting, I didn't know that! Now the title is even more mysterious. I wonder if they'll write it in Cyrillic (Архангельск) or in Roman Alphabet (Archangelsk). I think that having the former would be wonderful

. Please write it in Cyrillic!

Wait... what?

About Archangelsk: wordplay for "arch angels", but I could be mistaken.

Lacrimosa had Krasnodar song or something like that.

nhara-ekke · July 10th, 2009, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Defiance

^ I don't know what you mean exactly by "straightforward", but I guess it has something to do with you living in Москва.

I couldn't have found a better explaination

If it is written in Cyrillic it leaves no choice but to think that the song is about the city

And it cannot be so!)
I have a hunch that it was not a worldplay, but somehow they heard the city name and it sounded beautiful to Roman-German speaking ears (or smth)

July 3rd, 2009, 09:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
XxSNAPxX [HYDRAKUS] Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 492	We Are The Void ew album out early next year! Time to let you in on the plans for our upcoming ninth (or tenth, depending on how you count) full-length album. The as-yet-untitled beast will be recorded in September and October and released in early 2010 through Century media records. We'll keep the recording setup completely in-house this time. Drums will be tracked in Daniel Antonsson's studio, while the remaining instruments will be immortalized in Martin Brändström's newly renovated Rogue music facilities. The mixing duties will once again be handled by Tue Madsen in his Antfarm studio in Denmark. As for the music itself, it's a bit too early to delve into details, but the material feels diverse and fresh and covers all the facets of the D.T. sound. Those who are familiar with our songwriting process know that we always keep re-arranging and experimenting with the material until the recording starts, and while we currently have the basic foundations for around 10 songs, many things are still open. Some tentative song titles are "I am the void", "Zero distance", "the burden of love alive", "Archangelsk" and "Memories in reverse", though these are subject to change as usual. from thier myspace.... __________________ ...For the times doth blind them.

July 4th, 2009, 03:13 AM	#3 (permalink)
Defiance PEHDTSCKJMBA! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: In a 'Supermassive Black Hole', or San José, Costa Rica Posts: 1,980	Excellent news, I can't wait!!! I really like the names of the tracks too, cheers and support from Costa Rica! @ Zach:So are you studying Spanish? You missed the first exclamation signs (¡¡!!). @ Matse: And you were complaining that we didn't have any new topics…, well here you are! __________________ Walk, don't drive. My music collection! Added: Borknagar Epic (LP), Samael Passage (CD), Eternal LP. My pictures! For sale: Dornenreich Nachtreisen (ltd. digibook), In Luft Geritz (digipack, 3CD) + signed card. Send me a P.M. if you're interested. Learn a new language and get a new soul. - Czech Proverb “The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history”. - Chomsky Last edited by Defiance : July 4th, 2009 at 03:22 AM.

July 4th, 2009, 10:40 AM	#6 (permalink)
Matse Custom User Title Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: where Awesomeness is most alive Posts: 874	News sound great. "I am the Void" reminds me of "If there were two omniscients, he would be both of them" (I am not telling the source, if you don't know him, you are not worthy). The title sounds good though as do the others, although "The burden of love alive" does sound a bit gay. Gay would fit the forum here though so maybe they wrote it for us. @ Defiance: There can never be enough topics. The number will go up though anyways the closer we get to the new album. __________________ J'adore hardcore.

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RampageSword AWARE! BEWARE! WAR! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,952	Hourra. All good things come to those who wait. __________________ Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

July 6th, 2009, 07:24 AM	#11 (permalink)
rahvin keeper of the flame Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: safe but not far from the city Posts: 17,513	"The Burden of Love Alive" sounds emo, but I think we should probably stop to consider that any use of the word "love" in a song title will always reflect the current trend of popular songs using and abusing the word. It shouldn't be banished for that reason. __________________ ~You wake up in the morning, your paint's peeling, your curtains are gone, and the water's boiling. Which problem you deal with first? None of them. The building's on fire.~ ~Your biggest problem is I don't know what your biggest problem is.~ House

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Andvarie Junior Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 14	I am also really looking forward to that, since the some titles seem to sound very special to me, and cover a very interresting side of thinking as usual .

July 6th, 2009, 08:40 AM	#12 (permalink)
Matse Custom User Title Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: where Awesomeness is most alive Posts: 874	I said gay, not emo. Pfft, racists. __________________ J'adore hardcore.

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La Rocque I am that I am Join Date: May 2004 Location: doing time in the universal mind Posts: 4,507	@ Defiance / DisplayofCharacter what does Devin Townsend have to do with the new Dark Tranquillity album??? I know its difficult to understand about staying on topic, please try, thank you Here's a thread on this very forum for this sort of shit ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ Check out this band! ---Want to spread the word? POST IT! __________________ so she tells me ... it was like I was so smart that I was stupid I think she meant that even though I would say something that to me made perfect sense, a lot of times, people had no idea what I was talking about the line between the most brilliant genius on earth and the biggest fucking moron is who can tell them apart?

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nhara-ekke Junior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Москва Posts: 20	DT plus Tue equals - hell Archangelsk is a city in Northern Europe part of Russia

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Defiance PEHDTSCKJMBA! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: In a 'Supermassive Black Hole', or San José, Costa Rica Posts: 1,980	^ I don't know what you mean exactly by "straightforward", but I guess it has something to do with you living in Москва. __________________ Walk, don't drive. My music collection! Added: Borknagar Epic (LP), Samael Passage (CD), Eternal LP. My pictures! For sale: Dornenreich Nachtreisen (ltd. digibook), In Luft Geritz (digipack, 3CD) + signed card. Send me a P.M. if you're interested. Learn a new language and get a new soul. - Czech Proverb “The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history”. - Chomsky