We Are the Void

We Are the Void is the ninth full-length studio album by the 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.

We Are The Void
Studio album by
Dark Tranquillity
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2010 (2010-02-24)
Recorded28 August 2009 – 14 October 2009[1]
GenreMelodic death metal
Length47:45
LabelCentury Media
ProducerDark Tranquillity[2]
Dark Tranquillity chronology
Fiction
(2007)		 We Are The Void
(2010)		 Construct
(2013)

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 vocal 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
Allmusic[5]

Kyle Ward, of Sputnik Music, described the album like this:

"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]

The metalunderground website 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"InstrumentalSundin2:12
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
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

References
  1. "DARK TRANQUILLITY: 'We Are The Void' Fifth Studio Webisode Available". Roadrunnerrecords.com. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  2. "BLABBERMOUTH.NET - DARK TRANQUILLITY Interviewed By France's LOUD TV (Video)". Roadrunnerrecords.com. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
  3. "DARK TRANQUILLITY - The Making Of "We Are the Void" (Part 1)". YouTube. 2009-11-30. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  4. "Dark Tranquillity on MySpace Music". Dark Tranquillity. 2010-02-19.
  5. Allmusic review
  6. https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/35103/Dark-Tranquillity-We-Are-The-Void/
  7. http://www.metalunderground.com/reviews/details.cfm?releaseid=3009
  8. "The official DARK TRANQUILLITY homepage". Darktranquillity.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
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