We Are the Void

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We Are the Void
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Studio album by
Released24 February 2010 (2010-02-24)
Recorded28 August 2009 – 14 October 2009 [1]
Genre
Length47:45
Label Century Media
Producer Dark Tranquillity [2]
Dark Tranquillity chronology
Fiction
(2007)
We Are the Void
(2010)
Construct
(2013)

We Are the Void is the ninth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity. It is their first and only album with bassist Daniel Antonsson, who joined in 2008 and left in 2013.

Contents

The band began writing for this album in late 2008 (except for the majority of "Iridium" which was written sometime between 1996-1998 but was left out until this album). Stylistically, it is similar to their previous album Fiction; the band utilised the same Drop B tuning as well as clean melodic vocals that were re-introduced on Fiction. [3]

The band also began to release songs from this album on their MySpace page [4] starting with "Dream Oblivion" on 21 December 2009, "At the Point of Ignition" on 14 January 2010 and finally the entire album was available for free streaming on 19 February 2010.

Music videos were released for "Shadow in Our Blood" on 10 February 2010 and "In My Absence" on 22 February 2012.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Kyle Ward of Sputnikmusic, described the album:

"If you take Fiction, cut out the awesome guitar riffs, increase the keyboard presence tenfold, and then make it more depressed-sounding, you will have exactly what We Are The Void delivers." [6]

Metal Underground said that the album is "Excellent melodic death metal, but it feels like Dark Tranquillity has released the same album three times in a row now." [7]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mikael Stanne, except where noted

Original release
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Shadow in Our Blood" Sundin3:46
2."Dream Oblivion" 
  • Antonsson
  • Henriksson
3:50
3."The Fatalist" 
  • Henriksson
  • Jivarp
4:33
4."In My Absence" 
  • Brändström
  • Henriksson
  • Sundin
4:47
5."The Grandest Accusation" 
  • Sundin
  • Henriksson
  • Brändström
  • Jivarp
4:55
6."At the Point of Ignition" 
  • Sundin
  • Henriksson
3:53
7."Her Silent Language" 
  • Sundin
  • Jivarp
  • Henriksson
3:33
8."Arkhangelsk"
  • Sundin
  • Stanne
Sundin3:56
9."I Am the Void" 
  • Sundin
  • Henriksson
  • Jivarp
3:59
10."Surface the Infinite" 
  • Henriksson
  • Jivarp
  • Brändström
3:50
11."Iridium"
  • Sundin
  • Stanne
  • Sundin
  • Brändström
6:43
Total length:47:45
Limited edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
12."Star of Nothingness" Instrumental Sundin2:12
13."To Where Fires Cannot Feed"StanneSundin3:52
Total length:47:45
Japanese edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
12."Star of Nothingness"InstrumentalSundin2:12
13."Out of Gravity"Stanne
  • Henriksson
  • Jivarp
  • Sundin
4:40
Total length:54:32
iTunes bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
12."The Bow and the Arrow"Stanne
  • Sundin
  • Jivarp
  • Henriksson
3:55
Tour edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
12."Zero Distance"Stanne
  • Jivarp
  • Henriksson
4:02
13."Out of Gravity"Stanne
  • Henriksson
  • Jivarp
  • Sundin
4:40
14."Star of Nothingness"InstrumentalSundin2:12
15."To Where Fires Cannot Feed"StanneSundin3:52
16."The Bow and the Arrow"Stanne
  • Sundin
  • Jivarp
  • Henriksson
3:55
Tour edition DVD
No.TitleLength
1."Shadow in Our Blood" (Videoclip) 
2."Dream Oblivion" (Live at With Full Force, 2010) 
3."The Fatalist" (Live in London, 2010) 
4."The Grandest Accusation" (Videoclip) 
5."Iridium" (Live at Summer Breeze Open Air, 2010) 
6."Iridium" (Videoclip) 
7."Zero Distance" (Videoclip) 

Inside The Void DVD

No.TitleLength
1."Studio Report 2009 - The Making Of The Void"38:27
2."Making Of Shadow In Our Blood Video"3:04
3."Where Death Is Most Alive DVD Trailer"2:18
4."ThereIn (Live In Milan)"6:31
5."Final Resistance (Live In Milan)"4:00

Personnel

Dark Tranquillity

Guests

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