DARK TRANQUILLITY To Release Exclusive Reissues And Compilation Of Demos In May
April 27, 2009, 15 years ago
Melodic death metal masters DARK TRANQUILLITY will re-release their classic albums Projector, Haven and Damage Done in a luxurious slipcase packaging with bonus material, as well as the rarities compilation, Yesterworlds, on May 25th in Europe via Century Media Records.
All releases are available at a fan-friendly price and also feature extensive liner notes, as well as new layouts and designs by guitarist Niklas Sundin.
The three album re-issues also contain one song each from the band's upcoming DVD Where Death Is Most Alive due later this year. The band comments as follows:
"We're happy to announce that Projector, Haven and Damage Done will be reissued with additional bonus content. As with the Fiction reissue of last year, these new editions feature all the material that was recorded during the respective studio sessions, giving the listener the full experience of what was put on tape at the time.”
These new versions feature brand new layouts and extensive liner notes from the band members.
The exact tracklisting: Projector: ‘FreeCard’, ‘ThereIn’, ‘UnDo Control’, ‘Auctioned’, ‘To A Bitter Halt’, ‘The Sun Fired Blanks’, ‘Nether Novas’, ‘Day To End’, ‘Dobermann’, ‘On Your Time’. Bonus Tracks: ‘Asleep In The Bandaged Light’*, ‘No One’**, ‘Exposure’** and ‘ThereIn’***.
* previously unreleased
** taken from the Exposures - In Retrospect And Denial album
*** previously unreleased live track, taken from the upcoming Where Death Is Most Alive DVD
Haven: ‘The Wonders At Your Feet’, ‘Not Built To Last’, ‘Indifferent Suns’, ‘Feast Of Burden’, ‘Haven’, ‘The Same’, ‘Fabric’, ‘Ego Drama’, ‘Rundown’, ‘Emptier Still’ and ‘At Loss For Words’. Bonus Tracks: ‘In Sight’*, ‘Misery In Me’*, ‘Cornered’* and ‘The Wonders At Your Feet’**.
* taken from the Exposures - In Retrospect And Denial album
** previously unreleased live track, taken from the upcoming Where Death Is Most Alive DVD
Damage Done: ‘Final Resistance’, ‘Hours Passed in Exile’, ‘Monochromatic Stains’, ‘Single Part of Two’, ‘The Treason Wall’, ‘Format C: For Cortex’, ‘Damage Done’, ‘Cathode Ray Sunshine’, ‘The Enemy’, ‘White Noise / Black Silence’ and ‘Ex Nihilo’. Bonus Tracks: ‘I, Deception’*, ‘Static’**. ‘The Poison Well’** and ‘The Treason Wall’***
* taken from the limited Digipak version of Damage Done
** taken from the Exposures - In Retrospect And Denial album
*** previously unreleased live track, taken from the upcoming Where Death Is Most Alive DVD
A limited edition album entitled Yesterworlds will be released featuring the ‘Trail Of Life Decayed’ demo (1991) and the ‘A Moonclad Reflection’ 7" EP (1992).
The master tape of an old promo recording that was made in March 1994 and only sent out to a handful of tape trading contacts and record labels was found. This is the first Dark Tranquillity studio recording with Mikael Stanne on vocals and Fredrik Johansson on guitar, and it features ‘Punish My Heaven’, ‘The Gallery’ and ‘Away, Delight, Away’.
Yesterworlds will features a version of ‘Punish My Heaven’ taken from the semi-legendary W.A.R. Compilation Vol. 1 album, originally released on Wrong Again Records in 1994.
Yesterworlds: ‘Midwinter (Intro)’*, ‘Beyond Enlightenment’*, ‘Vernal Awakening’*, ‘Void of Tranquillity’*, ‘Unfurled By Dawn’**, ‘Yesterworld’**. ‘Punish My Heaven’ (demo version)***, ‘Away, Delight, Away’ (demo version)***, ‘The Gallery’ (demo version) ***, ‘Punish My Heaven’ (alternative version)****
* taken from the Trail Of Life Decayed demo
** taken from the A Moonclad Reflection 7inch EP
*** previously unreleased tracks
**** taken from the W.A.R. compilation
Upcoming Dark Tranquillity our dates include:
April
25 - Haugesund, Norway - Karmøygeddon FestivalJune
27 - Zaragosa, Spain - Metalway FestivalJuly
4 - Münster, Germany - Vainstream Rockfest11 - Ballenstedt, Germany - Rock Harz Festival
17 - Spital am Semmering, Austria - Kaltenbach Open Air
August
8 - Aveiro, Portugal - Vagos Open AirSeptember
5 - Osnabrück, Germany - Hellflame Festival26 - Zagreb, Croatia - Zagreb Metal Fest
October
24 - Lichtenfels, Germany - Hellflame Festival (The South Side Of Hell)