Today, Friday October 24th, DARK TRANQUILLITY kick off the Where Death Is Most Alive Tour 2008, supported by label mates POISONBLACK and FEAR MY THOUGHTS. An official tour trailer has been posted, check it out below...

Furthermore, Dark Tranquillity vocalist Mikael Stanne promises some exciting surprises during the course of this tour: "We have been working extremely hard to make the upcoming tour a very special event, both for us and for the audience. To commemorate the fact that next year marks our 20th anniversary, we've revamped the setlist and will offer an extensive collection of songs representing all facets of our career. The music ranges from material written 1992 to Fiction tracks never before performed live, so all in all it'll be a dynamic mixture of old and new material.

As most of you know, the Milan show on October 31 will be recorded for an upcoming DVD, and this evening will feature a guest musician as well as some other surprises. We're also taking the opportunity to bring in a more extensive stage-show than usual for the whole tour, this time centered around custom animations/projections.

These shows also mark the end of the Fiction touring cycle. After this trip, we'll lock ourselves up in the dark confines of the rehearsal room to focus on the song-writing for the next album, so we recommend everyone to catch us on this tour, as it'll be the last chance for quite some time in most territories. However, a few select shows for 2009 are already being planned."

Tour dates include:

October

24 - Berlin, Germany - Kato
25 - Hamburg, Germany - Grünspan
26 - Doordrecht, Netherlands - Bibelot
27 - Vosselaar, Belgium - Biebob
28 - Paris, France - Locomotive
29 - Lyon, France - Ninkasi kao
31 - Milano, Italy - Rolling Stone

November

1 - Bologna, Italy - Estragon
2 - Rome, Italy - Alpheus
4 - Treviso, Italy - New Age
5 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - Gala Hala
6 - Vienna, Austria - Szene
7 - Graz, Austria - Orpheum
8 - Winterthur, Switzerland - Salzhaus
9 - Munich, Germany - Backstage
10 - Stuttgart, Germany - Röhre
11 - Cologne, Germany - Underground
12 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Pumpehuset