The Gallery - Dark Tranquillity

Although despised by death metal purists, Swedish melodic death metal boasts an impressive range of talent that saw the genre develop through the 1990s before deteriorating into the shambles it is today. By far the most impressive and groundbreaking of all of these bands is Dark Tranquillity, one of the very few acts still performing great music today, though it's their second album 'The Gallery' that really defines their sound, and the potential of melodic death metal as a whole. This is as flawless as a melodeath album can get, combining Mikael Stanne's fierce vocals with the alternatively heavy and melodic guitars of Niklas Sundin and Frederik Johansson, ...