Preorder "We are the void" and get a signed photo - January 15, 2009
Our new album is now up for presale through our loyal partner BENGANS (Sweden's oldest online record store). Order your copy and get it delivered in your mailbox on February 24, together with a signed photo.
The limited edition version features a bonus DVD plus the two exclusive songs "Star of nothingness" and "To where fires cannot feed".
NOTE: Valid for Swedish residents only, sorry. Preorders for other territories will be announced shortly.
Studio report #4 now available - January 15, 2009
The D-Day is getting closer. In the meantime, enjoy the latest installment of our studio diary below:
"We are the void" tracklisting revealed - January 11, 2009
These are the songs that will be featured on the regular version of "We are the void". Stay tuned for more info.
01. Shadow In Our Blood
02. Dream Oblivion
03. The Fatalist
04. In My Absence
05. The Grandest Accusation
06. At The Point Of Ignition
07. Her Silent Language
08. Arkhangelsk
09. I Am The Void
10. Surface The Infinite
11. Iridium
New song available - DREAM OBLIVION! - December 22, 2009
As some of you probably have noticed through other sites, our MySpace page has been updated with the new song "Dream oblivion" as well as the cover artwork for the upcoming "We are the void" album (created by Stefan Wibbeke of Medialogistics). Have a look/listen by clicking below:
First US tour for 2010 announced - December 14, 2009
We can now confirm the first full scale tour for 2010. Together with Killswitch engage and The Devil Wears Prada we'll embark on a trek throughout the US in February/March 2010. More details will follow shortly, but the currently confirmed dates can be found below.
This also means that we have to cancel our previously announced Swedish performances in February, at the Close-up båten and Club 700, Örebro. We understand that this will leave some of you disappointed, and we'd like to extend our apologies to all affected fans and promotors.
Feb. 04 - House of Blues, Boston, MA
Feb. 05 - House of Blues, Atlantic City, NJ
Feb. 06 - NorVa Norfolk, VA
Feb. 08 - House of Blues, Lake Buena Vista, FL
Feb. 10 - Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
Feb. 11 - Amos' Southend, Charlotte, NC
Feb. 12 - Sonar, Baltimore, MD
Feb. 13 - House Of Blues, Cleveland, OH
Feb. 15 - House of Blues, Chicago, IL
Feb. 18 - First Avenue Loop Station, MN
Feb. 19 - Eagles Ballroom Milwaukee, WI
Feb. 20 - Royal Oak Music Theatre Royal Oak, MI
Feb. 21 - The Egyptian Room at the Murat Center, Indianapolis, IN
Feb. 23 - Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, OK
Feb. 24 - Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater, Austin, TX
Feb. 25 - Warehouse, Live Houston, TX
Feb. 26 - Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX
Feb. 27 - Concrete Street Amphitheatre Corpus Christi, TX
Mar. 01 - Sunshine Theatre, Albuquerque, NM
Mar. 03 - House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
Mar. 05 - Marquee Theatre, Tempe, AZ
Mar. 06 - The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 07 - The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
Mar. 09 - Roseland Theater, Portland, OR
Mar. 10 - Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
Mar. 12 - The Great Salt Air, Magna, UT
Mar. 13 - Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO
Mar. 14 - The Midland by AMC, Kansas City, MO
Mar. 15 - The Pageant, St. Louis, MO
Mar. 16 - Rocket Town, Nashville, TN
Mar. 18 - Irving Plaza, New York, NY
Mar. 19 - Irving Plaza, New York, NY
Mar. 21 - The Dome, Wallingford, CT
Thank you, Tunisia! - December 14, 2009
Last weekend's show in Tunisia was truly a memorable event for us. As the first Swedish band ever (from what we heard) to play in the country, we were greeted by more than 4000 devoted fans at the La Coupole d'el Menzah stadium in central Tunis, and the whole gig was a great experience.
So - thanks to everyone who participated and made it possible. Looking forward to seeing you again!
D.T. to play at BANDIT ROCK AWARDS - December 11, 2009
That's right - on Jan 29, we'll play at the BANDIT ROCK AWARDS in Stockholm. This will be the live premiere for one of our new songs from the "We are the void" album, so don't miss this event.
We finally got around to updating the tattoo page, and there are now no less than 67 awesome tattoos featured. We know that here are a lot more out there, so feel free to take photos of your D.T. ink and send to darkhq@gmail.com.
A tip to our Scandinavian followers: The new issue of Close-up magazine includes a D.T. cover feature which might be the most extensive and candid interview with us so far. Available now in a store near you.
TURKEY TOUR CANCELLED! - December 1, 2009
Right now, a mere 15 hours before planning to leave for the airport, we got informed by the promotor Unirock that the entire Turkish tour has been cancelled.
This is incredibly frustrating for us. Turkey is the home of some of the most passionate and devoted D.T. fans on the planet, and we very much looked forward to the adventure of playing not only Istanbul but other cities as well.
We've spent lots of time and energy preparing for these shows; rehearsing, hiring crew, fixing merchandise and working out an enormous amount of practical and logistical details, and to see it all getting cancelled in the very last minute is extremely disappointing.
We understand that the people that planned to go to the shows will be very upset and disappointed by this news, and we want it to be crystal clear that we - the band - had no part in the cancellation.
We hope to able to return to Turkey as soon as possible.
WE ARE THE VOID! - November 30, 2009
The title of our upcoming album can now be revealed as "We are the void". The whole recording process was filmed by none other than Anders Björler (The Haunted/At the gates), who has assembles a series of webisodes documenting the studio work. The first installment can be viewed below.
Here are the release dates. Further details about tracklisting, cover artwork and so forth will be announced in the near future.
SWEDEN: February 24, 2010
GERMANY / AUSTRIA / SWITZERLAND /
BENELUX / ITALY / AUSTRALIA: February 26, 2010
UK / FRANCE / GREECE / DENMARK / NORWAY / REST OF EUROPE: March 1, 2010
SPAIN / PORTUGAL: March 2, 2010
FINLAND / HUNGARY: March 3, 2010
NORTH AMERICA: March 9, 2010
You should follow us on Twitter - November 22, 2009
The web landscape is changing, and to our great surprise we've found that Twitter isn't the complete waste of time we once considered it to be. It's actually a quick and easy way of sharing certain stuff (interview/review links, short tour/studio updates etc) that isn't necessarly big enough news to warrant being posted on our main website.
Russian tour extended - Minsk show added - November 19, 2009
The Russian tour has now been extended; a show at CLUB REACTOR in MINSK on the 20th of December is added. This means that the trek consists of the following shows:
December 18 - Club Tochka, Moscow
December 19 - Glavclub, St. Petersburg
December 20 - Club Reactor, Minsk (Belarus)
D.T. to play in Tunisia - November 19, 2009
We're happy to announce that D.T. will play in Tunisia for the first time ever in less than a month. We always enjoy traveling and bringing our music to new places, so we're very much looking forward to this event.
Date: December 12
Venue: La Coupole d'el Menzah, Tunis
Local support will come from Carthagods. See you there!
Örebro show w/ THE HAUNTED confirmed- November 10, 2009
We're happy to announce that we'll team up with our friends in The Haunted for a co-headline show at Club 700 in Örebro, Sweden. Support comes from death metal trio Torture division.
Date: February 27, 2010.
To purchase your tickets (the event is bound to be sold out), go here.
D.T. hits #1 on the Swedish DVD chart! - November 6, 2009
That's right, folks! "Where death is most alive" has entered the first position of the official Swedish DVD chart, kicking the asses of such luminaries as ABBA, Michael Jackson and Madonna.
The rumours were true! We're very pleased to be able to officially confirm the following two shows in Russia:
December 18 - Club Tochka, Moscow
December 19 - Glavclub, St. Petersburg
Summer breeze confirmed + "ThereIn" DVD clip- October 21, 2009
The first in a long series of D.T.-featuring summer festivals can now be announced:
On August 19, 2010, we'll once again grace the grounds of the Summer Breeze festival in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. See you there!
The release date for the "Where death is most alive" DVD is drawing closer. Metal Hammer has published an exclusive video preview of the track "ThereIn", so click here to view.
D.T. profile on Crank it up - October 20, 2009
Some social media related news: We are now featured on Sweden's new rock/metal community Crank it up.
Visit our page here.
D.T. confirmed for Close-Up Båten cruise - October 18, 2009
On a more positive gig related note, we have the pleasure of announcing that we'll return to the seven seas and play at the Close-up båten cruise once again. The show we played on the same ship back in 2007 was one of the highlights of that year, so it'll be a blast to return. The event will take place on Februry 25-26. More info can be found via the link below:
At the 2007 cruise, we played "Focus shift" live for the first time (see below), and there's a fair chance that some songs from the upcoming album will make it to the setlist in February.
Hellflame performance cancelled - October 14, 2009
We hereby inform you that our show at the Hellflame festival is cancelled. Here is the official statement from the band and The Agency Group, our booking agent.
Unfortunately, the promoter of Hellflame festival has gone dark. He is not responding to any attempts of communication and has not lived up to his end of the agreement in terms of making the necessary travel arrangements and so forth, which leaves us to believe that he is not intending to go through with the show. It is very frustrating for us that people will show up at the door expecting a DT performance without being informed of the situation and we want to do what we can to avoid this. We apologize to our German fans for any inconvenience and hope that we get the chance to meet you this December instead at the "Darkness over X-mas" tour.
Laptop/iPod skins now available - October 12, 2009
Feel free to be creative and with a little chance win one of 3 signed T-Shirts.!
Email us a picture with your personalized device before the end of November and maybe you're one of the lucky winners! Send your pictures to: competition@merch-land.com
DVD world premiere + 20 year party in Gothenburg - October 6, 2009
Tickets for the DVD premiere screening at the old Bio Roy theatre in Gothenburg can now be purchased online. The price is 60 SEK, and this includes an exclusive limited edition CD as well as free entrance to an aftershow party at Henriksberg (where mr. Stanne will be in charge of the DJ booth). In addition, Slaughter of the bluegrass will be performing.
"The day is drawing near. The day when we celebrate our 20th anniversary by releasing this DVD that we..ve been working our asses off on. The result is something that we feel is pretty spectacular and we felt like sharing it with some our friends and fans. So we figured what better way to do so than to have a special screening right here in Gothenburg. Right in the heart of the city in one of our most classic movie theaters.
So on the 30th of October at Bio Roy the "Where Death Is Most Alive" DVD will screen for the first and only time. And not only will we have the most awesome opening act ever in the form of Slaughter of the Bluegrass doing their first ever gig, all attendees will also receive the "The Dying Fragments" special CD with ultra-rare livematerial featuring never recorded songs. This will only be given out on this day and is limited to 333 copies."
THE DYING FRAGMENTS (ltd. to 333 hand numbered copies)
1. Only Time Can Tell (Rehearsal, Billdal 1991)
2. The Dying Fragment Of An Elderly Dream (Valvet, Gothenburg 1991)
3. Soulbreed (Ljungskile 1991)
4. Yesterworld (Musikens Hus, Gothenburg 1992)
5. Alone (Fågeln, Gothenburg 1992)
6. My Faeryland Forgotten (Fågeln, Gothenburg 1992)
7. Nightfall By The Shore Of Time (Fågeln, Gothenburg 1992)
8. Skywards (Gamlestaden, Gothenburg 1992)
9. Shadow Duet (Karlstad 1994)
10. Crimson Winds (Karlstad 1994)
11. Razorfever (Rotterdam, Holland 1997)
12. Constant (Rotterdam, Holland 1997)
13. Tongues (Rotterdam, Holland 1997)
Brändström's Rogue Music studio now open - October 5, 2009
Dark tranquillity keyboardist Martin Brändström has renovated his studio facilities to coincide with the recording of the band's ninth full length album, and the premises are now available for bands requiring a professional recording setup at the heart of Gothenburg.
After a lengthy renovating and expansion process I am happy to announce that Rogue Music is opening its door to the public. Conveniently located in the very heart of the Gothenburg city core and with all accomodations you will find yourself needing to endure a long running haul. Feel free to get in touch if you are interested in booking or pricing.
More commerce - the official D.T. webstore is now updated with the 2009 festival shirt and a button set. If interested, click here to visit.
Förhandsboka signerad DVD - September 17, 2009
Swedish-residing D.T. fans can now pre-order signed copies of the DVD:
Om du är bosatt i Sverige så kan du nu förhandsboka "Where death is most alive"-DVD'n via Bengans och få den signerad och levererad direkt till brevlådan på releasedagen 28:e oktober.
Pre-order info for other territories will follow shortly.
Misery's crown video now online - September 17, 2009
Tour in Turkey announced - September 10, 2009
We're pleased to confirm our first proper tour through Turkey. The response to our 2001 and 2008 shows in Istanbul was nothing short of amazing, so we're very much looking forward to experiencing some other cities as well.
The dates are as follows. For ticket information, please click here.
December 2: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park - Istanbul
December 3: Ooze Venue - Izmir
December 4: 222 Park - Eskisehir
December 5: Ankara Saklikent - Ankara
DVD trailer, Brutal Legend soundtrack - September 9, 2009
Most of you have probably seen this already, but...
We can also announce that we're suitably enough featured with the song "Cathode ray sunshine" on the soundtrack for the "Brutal Legend" video game, out for Xbox360 and Playstation in October. For more info on the game, which features Jack Black, click here.
Album recordings to start tomorrow - August 27, 2009
That's right folks - starting tomorrow, we'll lock ourselves up in various dark caverns and dungeons to immortalize our next full length album. As usual, we'll focus on the actual studio work, so there won't be any super extensive day-to-day reports on the progress, but expect some updates on our Facebook and Twitter pages (addresses below).
"Where death is most alive" DVD - release info - August 21, 2009
After a lot of work, we're proud to announce that the "Where Death Is Most Alive" DVD will see the light of day on October 26th, 2009 in Europe and November 17th, 2009 in North America via Century Media Records. This little baby took quite some time to deliver, but when you'll see the scope and quality of the material, you'll understand why it wasn't done over a fortnight.
Our first official DVD, "Live damage" (2002), was OK for its time, but hardly spectacular, so this time we wanted to make sure that we could offer people something more substantial that would live up to the high expectations. For the main feature, we had our headline show in Milano last October professionally documented by Finnish production company Vasara Films. As expected, they did a stellar job with both the filming and editing and really managed to capture the vibe of the evening. Italy is home to some of the most devoted and enthusiastic D.T. fans on earth, something which is very obvious from the footage. The show is the longest one in D.T. history (and one of the very last concerts held at the legendary Rolling Stone club), and features a guest performance by Nell Sigland on "The Mundane and the Magic" and "Insanity's crescendo". For the mixing, we once again let Tue Madsen work his magic at his Antfarm Studios in Denmark, and the result is simply amazing.
In addition to that, Village Road films have put together "Out Of Nothing", a true stroll-down-memory-lane documentary about the band. All current members as well as Michael Nicklasson (ex-bass) and Fredrik Johansson (ex-guitar) are interviewed, and a host of people from the early Gothenburg scene share their anecdotes and memories. Among others, Tomas Lindberg (At The Gates, Grotesque etc), Anders Iwers (Tiamat, Ceremonial Oath) and Fredrik Nordström (Studio Fredman) appear in the film, which spans for approx. 47 minutes.
The DVD will also mark the premiere of the "Misery's Crown" promo video, shot earlier this year by Roger Johansson and Vasara Films. All our other promo clips from recent years are featured as well.
Furthermore, we undertook some extensive detective research, raiding our old homes to dig up long forgotten VHS tapes from the archives. A surprisingly large amount of footage was found, most of which never even got spread through the tape trading network at the time. In total, the "Live Archive" portion of the DVD features 21 tracks with a strong emphasis on old ("Skydancer" and earlier) material including some real rarities. Most of these songs were only performed live a handful of times, as shows weren't that frequent back then. Two of them ("Soulbreed" and "The Dying Fragment Of An Elderly Dream") are actually the only D.T. songs that were 100% completed but never recorded properly in studio. Both were written in the autumn of 1991.
To conclude - we're damn proud of this release, and more than sure that it will satisfy the high expectations of both old and new fans alike. Here's to the next 20 years!
More news including full track listing to be posted shortly.
/D.T.
X-mas tour announced - August 20, 2009
We're pleased to announce that instead of spending the yuletide holidays in the usual lazy ways, we'll join up with a gang of other bastards for a short tour called "Darkness over X-mas". This will probably be the first time that we'll showcase material from the soon-to-be-recorded new album live.
HEAVEN SHALL BURN
DARK TRANQUILLITY
SWASHBUCKLE
DEADLOCK
+ Very special guest
Swedish network TV4 will send a 30-minute feature from the Metallsvenskan soccer tournament, which featured members of D.T. teaming up with The Haunted. Don't miss this!
Saturday 15/8, 20:25
Sunday 16/8, 21:20
Jivarp now endorsed by Drumcraft - July 19, 2009
Anders Jivarp has landed an endorsement deal with the German drum manufacturer Drumcraft.
"I'm very excited to play Drumcraft drums. They have exactly the sound and durability I'm looking for. Can't wait to record our new album with them."
More info will follow shortly on his artist page, and his customized kit can be seen below.
New album out early next year - July 3, 2009
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. The final result is likely to surprise ourselves as well as you people.
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.
Well, more news will follow in due time...
"Punish..." cover, website problems - June 14, 2009
S.O.T.B. just uploaded their bluegrass cover version of "Punish my heaven", and it's simply awesome. Go listen now, and check out their interpretation of the At the gates classic "Blinded by fear" as well: www.sotb.se
Some people have experienced problems with this site being flagged as a security risk in some browsers. Our webhost is looking into the matter, and it should be fixed a.s.a.p.
Video clip from Graz, feature in Metal Hammer - May 28, 2009
While waiting for more info on the upcoming live DVD, we present to you a clip of "Edenspring", shot in Graz, Austria in November last year. Enjoy!
The re-issues of "Projector", "Haven" and "Damage done" are now released, and because of this, the German edition of Metal Hammer published a special feature with comments from Niklas about all the albums. Click HERE to read.
Pre-order "Yesterworlds" + re-releases NOW! - May 19, 2009
As you've seen on the index page, you can now pre-order "Yesterworlds" and the "Haven", "Projector" and "Damage done" re-releases directly through this site.
D.T. & Sonata Arctica form poker team - May 12, 2009
As many of you know, Martin H and Martin B are great poker affictionados (the latter with a monthly column in Sweden's Poker Magazine). Together with Henrik and Marko of Sonata Arctica, they've formed an online poker team that will host regular tournaments at rockstarsofpoker.info.
The site is a collaboration with betfriends.com, and there is money as well as special band related goodies to be won. Next tournament will be held on May 17 @ 21:00 CET.
Somehow we got lured into a soccer tournament this past weekend. For me this was the first time on a soccer field since my athletic peak in 1982 but because we put together a great team we managed to get to the semi-finals, ending up with the bronze medal. Jonas, Anders, Martin, Daniel, Anders B and Per really delivered every step of the way and we had an awesome time exhausting ourselves in front of the cheerful 3000+ audience.
We are already in training for next year's showdown. Cheers and thanks to all who supported us.
Mikael
Team Dark Tranquillity/The Haunted
Metallsvenskan reminder - May 8, 2009
For those of you residing in Sweden, don't forget to check out tomorrow's Metallsvenskan soccer tournament in Örebro, where members of D.T. and The Haunted team up to mercilessly crush the competition and leave the lesser teams crying in defeat and humilation.
The (to be) winning team consists of:
Anders Björler (The Haunted)
Jonas Björler (The Haunted)
Per Möller Jensen (The Haunted)
Anders Jivarp (Dark Tranquillity)
Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity)
Daniel Antonsson (Dark Tranquillity)
Martin Henriksson (Dark Tranquillity)
Nine new band tattoos are now added to the appropiate section. We know that some of you have been waiting a long time to get your ink published, so apologies for that.
If you sent a tattoo photo to us and still don't find it in on the site, please re-submit: darkhq@gmail.com
