Century Media Records have renewed their deal for the third time with Swedish melodic death metal legends, DARK TRANQUILLITY. The influential band from Gothenburg released their first album on Century Media Records in 1999 and since then have released six albums plus two DVDs and a handful of special releases.

Jens Prueter, Head Of A&R; at Century Media Europe: “I start to believe in Numerology. 13 years ago Dark Tranquillity signed their first contract with Century Media Records. Friday the 13th of April I met Mikael Stanne and Niklas Sundin for the Roadburn festival at the lovely 013 venue in Tilburg to receive the signed copies of their 3rd Century Media contract for 3 more albums. The 3 of us had about 13 beers to celebrate it. It’s amazing how Dark Tranquillity are able to express their legacy as one of the original godfathers of the Melodic Death Metal / Gothenburg sound without sounding outdated today. They always managed to stick to their roots and develop to new heights at the same time. Looking forward to the next album in 2013. Cheers!”

The band comments: "After such a long history together, we're more confident than ever that Century media is the perfect working partner for Dark Tranquillity. In a climate where a lot of record labels are weighed down by cynicism or have just plain given up in the face of the rapidly changing industry climate, Century Media are still enthusiastic and forward thinking and take huge pride in releasing great music that matters. Here's to another 13 years!"

Dark Tranquillity have released the Zero Distance digital EP via iTunes.

A message from the band states: "For those of you who don't want to buy the tour edition of Where Death Is Most Alive, just to get the bonus songs, we've decided to release them digitally.

This is the tracklist of the Zero Distance EP:

'Zero Distance'

'Out Of Gravity'

'Star Of Nothingness'

'To Where Fires Cannot Feed'

'The Bow And The Arrow'

Click here to purchase the EP. If the link doesn't work due to regional restrictions, just search for Zero Distance on iTunes."