Matt Van Stone

I got my hands on a copy of Fiction, Dark Tranquillity’s new album to be released April 23rd in Europe. (Don’t know the North American release date, probably the same)

It is all standard Dark Tranquillity. Mikael’s singing is clearly wicked. You get exactly what you would expect from him. I have listened to the album a few times now and in general I am a little disappointed. I have yet to find any of their songs to be very original. To be honest it sort of sounds like Character… but it’s like these are all the songs that didn’t make the cut.

The first single, Focus Shift, is probably the best song on the album, but still I expected more from this. The album just doesn’t have that over the top dramatic feel of Character and Damage Done. I am going to continue to give it a chance, it wouldn’t be the first time I didn’t like an album right away, but I just wanted more out of the box I guess.

If you can’t “find” the album like I did, look after the jump for the music video for Focus Shift.