We Are the Void

We Are The Void
Studio album by Dark Tranquillity
Released	24 February 2010 (SE) Original Release February 26, 2010 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Italy & Australia) Original Release February 27, 2010 (Russia) Original Release March 1, 2010 (U.K., France, Greece, Denmark and Norway) Original Release March 2, 2010 (Spain and Portugal) Limited Edition March 3, 2010 (Finland and Hungary) Limited Edition March 9, 2010 (North America) Reissue March 10, 2010 (Japan) Tour Edition October 24, 2011 (Europe)
Recorded	28 August 2009 – 14 October 2009[1] Drums and Bass (Gothenburg Rock Studios) Guitars, Vocals and Keyboards (Rogue Music)
Genre	Melodic death metal
Length	47:45
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 full-length studio album by Swedish, melodeath band, Dark Tranquillity. It is their first and only album with bassist, Daniel Antonsson who joined in 2008 and left in 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), all the way up to its recording and is considered to be the second part to their previous album, Fiction, as it continued many of the latter's elements, including the Drop B tuning that was largely present and the clean vocals Mikael Stanne re-introduced on that album.^[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
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[5]
Fury Rocks	(7.9/10)[6]
Lords of Metal	(90/100)[7]
Loud Online	(6/10)[8]
Metal Assault	[9]
Metal Temple	[10]

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." ^[11]

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." ^[12]

Track listing

Original Release
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Shadow in Our Blood"	Sundin	3:46
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	3:56
9.	"I Am the Void"	Sundin/Henriksson/Jivarp	3:59
10.	"Surface the Infinite"	Henriksson/Jivarp/Brändström	3:50
11.	"Iridium"	Sundin/Brändström	6:43
Total length:			47:45

Limited edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
12.	"Star of Nothingness"	Instrumental	Sundin	2:12
13.	"To Where Fires Cannot Feed"	Stanne	Sundin	3:52
Total length:				47:45

Japanese edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
12.	"Star of Nothingness"	Instrumental	Sundin	2:12
13.	"Out of Gravity"	Stanne	Henriksson/Jivarp/Sundin	4:40

iTunes bonus tracks
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
12.	"The Bow and the Arrow"	Stanne	Sundin/Jivarp/Henriksson	3:55

Tour edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
12.	"Zero Distance"	Stanne	Jivarp/Henriksson	4:02
13.	"Out of Gravity"	Stanne	Henriksson/Jivarp/Sundin	4:40
14.	"Star of Nothingness"	Instrumental	Sundin	2:12
15.	"To Where Fires Cannot Feed"	Stanne	Sundin	3:52
16.	"The Bow and the Arrow"	Stanne	Sundin/Jivarp/Henriksson	3:55

Tour edition DVD
No.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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

• Mikael Stanne – vocals, lyrics
• Martin Henriksson – rhythm guitar, sound recording
• Niklas Sundin – lead guitar, co-lyrics (8, 11), album artwork
• Anders Jivarp – drums
• Martin Brändström – keyboards, engineering
• Daniel Antonsson – bass guitar, lead guitar solo (on "Shadow in our blood" (1st part) and "At the Point of Ignition"),^[13] engineering

Guests

• Tue Madsen – mixing (October–November 2009) & mastering (Antfarm Studio in Århus)
• Anders Björler - filmed "Studio Report 2009"
• Hasse Kosonen - engineering
• Daniel Antonsson - engineering
• Stefan Wibbeke - artwork
• Katja Kuhl - band photo

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. 30 november 2009 (2009-11-30). "DARK TRANQUILLITY - The Making Of "We Are the Void" (Part 1)". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
4. "Dark Tranquillity on MySpace Music". Dark Tranquillity. 2010-02-19.
5. Allmusic review
7. "Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void | Review | Lords Of Metal metal E-zine - issue 101". Lordsofmetal.nl. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
8. "Dark Tranquillity - We are the Void". Loudmag.com.au. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
9. Aniruddh Andrew Bansal (2 March 2010). "Dark Tranquillity: We Are The Void - Album review by Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal for Metal Assault". Metal Assault. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
10. Dimitris Kontogeorgakos (4 March 2010). "Album: Dark Tranquillity, We Are the Void, (Century Media Records)". Metal Temple. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
11. http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/35103/Dark-Tranquillity-We-Are-The-Void/
12. http://www.metalunderground.com/reviews/details.cfm?releaseid=3009
13. "The official DARK TRANQUILLITY homepage". Darktranquillity.com. Retrieved 2012-03-14.