Though the times are still rather trying in the entertainment industry, the tours are still getting announced which is wonderful. Now the latest scoop comes from Gothenburg Metal stalwarts Dark Tranquillity. Read on down below to their full tour announcement.
The Press Release:
Swedish melodic death metal pioneers DARK TRANQUILLITY announces their North American Moments 2022 Tour. The band will be joined by special guests Kataklysm and Nailed To Obscurity. Tickets go on sale starting Friday, November 12th at 10AM local time.
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Artist: Arch Enemy
Venue: Nokia Theatre Times Square (New York, NY)
Opener: Exodus, Arsis, Mutiny Within
Date: 1/22/2010
Label: Century Media Records
It was great to find Arch Enemy doing a headlining tour again because the last time that we found them visiting us in NYC they were doing a “co-headlining” run called “The Black Tyranny Tour”. This excellent event paired them with Roadrunner Records’ own Machinehead and while they lined it out as co-headlining gigs, Arch had always seemed to be the direct support for Machinehead and I am not sure there were too many swapped shows. Of course, I don’t think many of the Metal legions actually minded about this back when those shows had happened because Machinehead was on the rise again and dishing out the tunes for those who enjoyed the incredible sounds on their album of the time “The Blackening”. Tonight’s gig would be an interesting one as it found Exodus hitting the stage as the bands direct support and give us the long awaited return of Arsis while also treating us to some relative newcomers to the scene with Mutiny Within.
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Artist: Arch Enemy
Title: “The Doomsday Machine”
Label: Century Media Records
Release Date: 7/26/2005
Genre: Heavy Metal
Rating: 4/5
The highly anticipated album by Sweden’s Arch Enemy has arrived and “The Doomsday Machine” will roll over you like a freight train if you are not careful. The band has become one of the more interesting providers of the form, with a very musical and technical level of Death Metal meets Thrash, along with the growling demon vocals. Led by the twin-guitar wizardry of the Amott Brothers (Christopher and Michael), the band demonstrates that you can be brutally heavy and fast, but still rip up the guitar strings like the most progressive of players. It is this Maiden meets Priest kind of ability on top of the brutality that I think separates Arch Enemy from other bands in the Metal genre. With “The Doomsday Machine”, there are many peaks and valleys as you are often brought to the top of the mountain only to be thrown over the edge by their intensity. The release might come across to some as too accessible and not as destructive as “Anthems Of Rebellion” or “Wages Of Sin”, but there is nothing on the recording that shows the band following a commercial edge in my opinion. The band needs no such tricks to guarantee their success and have proven a growth in their popularity here in the States by being selected to be part of Ozzfest as well as sold-out headlining shows at many popular venues along the way. The album begins with a mood setting “enter The Machine”, which is an instrumental and serves as the perfect opener for “Taking Back My Soul”. This track itself displays many of the skills you will enjoy from the players around the whole record. “Nemesis” is the song that gained most of the attention on the album and rightfully so since we find Angela Gossow delivering the goods like never before. She is clearly not your typical female front person and shows that not all female leads need to be demure and soft. Angela seems to be the type to kill beers with and who you want on your side when the going gets tough – a true beauty, but also a wild woman on the stage and recording. Those who have ever caught the band live already know how imposing she is as a performer. Her presence in a band like this also gives inspiration to other female singers who are less like Tarja (Nightwish) and instead hold a darker level of vocal talent. It’s a welcome change to a role that risked becoming stagnant otherwise.
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