Let’s set the scene: you’re out and you hear At the Gates playing. You turn to your mum and say, “can we have melodeath?” She responds, “we have a melodeath at home…” What awaits you at home is a Dark Tranquillity record. Disappointment ensues. This pretty much sets the tone for the last three decades of this Swedish melodic death metal troupe’s existence. They were once, alongside In Flames and At The Gates, considered to be one third of the holy trinity of this stuff. However, as At The Gates soared in popularity and In Flames went on to sound awful, Dark Tranquillity have just kind of hovered in musical purgatory, trudging the endless middle of the road. With their 30-year anniversary approaching, 12th album Moment is the ideal opportunity for them to turn this on its head, b...
