Character - Dark Tranquillity

Continuing to assert their loyalty to the Gothenburg genre by playing the same style over and over again, Dark Tranquillity reach a lull of mediocrity with 'Character' that many melodic death metal fans seem bizarrely oblivious to, citing this release and its successor 'Fiction' as some of the finest metal releases of the decade despite their owing everything to the band's older, higher quality material. The only change from 'Damage Done' to 'Character' is an increase in speed that starts out very exciting in 'The New Build,' but runs out of steam completely by the time of the slower 'Out of Nothing' and the extremely dull 'The Endless Feed.' This ...