Dark Tranquility has announced that their new album will be called "Character" and will be out on January 24 in Europe and January 25 in North America via Century Media. A teaser EP entitled "Lost To Apathy" will be released on November 15 as well.

Dark Tranquility will be touring Europe alongside German thrash legends Kreator next year:

02/02 - Rockhouse, Salzburg (AUS)
02/03 - Tvornica, Zagreb (CRO)
02/04 - Petöfi Hall, Budapest (HUN)
02/05 - Planet Music, Wien (AUS)
02/06 - Orpheum, Graz (AUS)
02/07 - VtK, Llubljana (SLO)
02/08 - New Age, Treviso (ITA)
02/09 - Rolling Stone, Mailand (ITA)
02/10 - Rockstore, Montpellier (FRA)
02/11 - Jam, Bergara (SPA)
02/12 - Arena, Madrid (SPA)
02/13 - Razzmatazz 1, Barcelona (SPA)
02/14 - Transbordeur, Lyon (FRA)
02/15 - Elysee Montmatre, Paris (FRA)
02/16 - Electric Ballroom, London (UK)
02/17 - Hof ter Lo, Antwerpen (BEL)
02/18 - O13, Tilburg (NL)
02/19 - Dütehalle/Georgsmarinenhütte, Osnabrück (GER)
02/20 - T-Club Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen (GER)
02/21 - Stadthalle, Langen (GER)
02/23 - Longhorn, Stuttgart (GER)
02/24 - Hirsch, Nürnberg (GER)
02/25 - Z7, Pratteln (CH)
02/26 - Zeppelinhalle, Kaufbeuren (GER)
02/27 - Alte Spinnerei, Glauchau (GER)
02/28 - Columbiaclub, Berlin (GER)
03/01 - Faust, Hannover (GER)
03/02 - Markthalle, Hamburg (GER)
03/03 - Musikens Hus, Göteborg (SWE)
03/04 - Betong, Oslo (NOR)
03/05 - Klubben, Stockholm (SWE)

Dark Tranquility will be releasing a new EP called "Lost to Apathy" on November 15 through Century Media Records. Tracklist:

01. Lost to Apathy
02. Derivation TNB
03. The Endless Feed (Chaos Seed Remix)
04. Undo Control (live)
05. Lost to Apathy (video clip directed by Roger Johansson)
06. D.T. Screensaver

The band's 7th proper full-length album is due out early next year.

Blackend Records will be reissuing a couple classic Swedish metal releases in the near future. First up is the debut EP from At the Gates "Gardens of Grief" which has now been remastered and will be out on July 5. Next up is the "Metal Militia" Metallica tribute featuring all sorts of all-stars from the early/mid 90s Göteborg metal scene such as In Flames, Luciferion, Ceremonial Oath, Dark Tranquility and Snotrocket (who sound awfully similar to ATG). I haven't listened to my copy of this thing in years, but it's cool to see that it'll be available once again. That comes out July 26. They are also reissuing the Black Sun Records tribute to Sepultura. It's got your usual suspects such as Impious, Gardenian, Dimension Zero as well as Deathwitch, Swordmaster, Lord Belial, Children of Bodom and more. It comes out September 27. And that's not all, the next albums in line for reissue are the classics "The Burning" and "Eternal Death" from The Crown, from what I think were still their Crown of Thorns days. The former comes out July 5, the latter on September 9. Last, but not least, look for the reissue of "Spiritually Uncontrolled Art" from Liers in Wait. This amazing band featured Kristian Wåhlin and Hans Nilsson from Diabolique/The Great Deceiver following the breakup of pre-At the Gates band Grotesque. There were some other dudes who came and went as well and Christopher Johnsson from Therion did guest vocals on this sole recording. Good stuff. That comes out August 9. As for the future, the label says they'll be doing even more reissues this winter featuring artists like Sacrilege (SWE) and Diabolique, who have always been one of my favorites. More details when I get them.

Dark Tranquility has made a new version of their singalong karaoke program available for download: http://www.darktranquillity.com/media/download/dtsingalong.zip

Dark Tranquility is now confirmed for some new dates in Japan:

05/01 - Club Quattro, Nagoya
05/02 - Big Cat, Osaka
05/03 - Shibuya Ax, Tokyo

Some pics of Dark Tranquility recording their new record at Studio Fredman: http://www.darktranquillity.com/media/studio.html

Dark Tranquility will be releasing a special 2xCD collection of rare recordings from the band's vaults. "For many years, we've received lots of questions regarding the possibility of our pre-album material ever being released on CD," they posted on their website, "and we're very happy to provide old and new fans that are interested in the first chapter of our history with a viable alternative to forking out a small fortune on eBay for a worn-out original copy of the demo or 7" EP." The band recently recovered the original DAT tapes contain their "Trail Of Life Decayed" demo (1991) and "A Moonclad Reflection" EP (1992) and have had them remastered. They are also throwing in a couple rare and never-released tracks from the group's recording sessions for the past three albums. And that's not all - they second CD will contain the entire audio portion of the recently issues "Live Damage" DVD. Full tracklist:

Disc 1 (Rare Material):
01. Static
02. The Poison Well
03. Misery In Me
04. Cornered
05. In Sight
06. No-One
07. Exposure
08. Yesterworld
09. Unfurled By Dawn
10. Midwinter/Beyond Enlightenment
11. Vernal Awakening
12. Void Of Tranquillity

Disc 2 (Live Material):
01. The Wonders At Your Feet
02. The Treason Wall
03. Hedon
04. White Noise/Black Silence
05. Haven
06. Punish My Heaven
07. Monochromatic Stains
08. Indifferent Suns
09. Format C: For Cortex
10. Insanity's Crescendo
11. Hours Passed In Exile
12. The Sun Fired Blanks
13. Damage Done
14. Lethe
15. Not Built To Last
16. ThereIn
17. Zodijackyl Light
18. Final Resistance
19. Ex Nihilo

As for the packaging, there will be a 20-page booklet with pictures spanning the band's career as well as liner notes from Chris Dick of digitalmetal.com. Look for it May 31 from Century Media.

Dark Tranquility enters Studio Fredman next week to begin work on their seventh album. No title yet, but some of the songs are "One thought" (previewed on the recent Italian tour), "Lost to apathy" and "Mind matters".

Download the sing-along with Dark Tranquility karaoke application: http://www.darktranquillity.com/media/download/dtsingalong.zip

Dark Tranquility has announced that Osmose Productions will be remastering and releasing their classic albums "The Gallery" (1995) and "The Mind's I" (1997) with new booklets and additional bonus tracks. Apparently copies of these CDs have been hard to find and the overwhelmingly positive response to the "Skydancer" rerelease made this move inevitable. I guess I better get my copies on eBay before they're not worth anything, huh? (serious offers will be entertained)

Dark Tranquility report that the songwriting for a new album "is commencing with full force" and they plan to enter the studio soon to begin work on their seventh album.

Attn metal guitar nerds: the top 25 Dark Tranquility riffs, including sheet music, tab and sound samples.

Dark Tranquility are doing some shows in Italy in November:

11/26 - Circolo Degli Artisti, Rome
11/27 - New Age, Treviso
11/28 - Motion, Bergamo
11/29 – Emilia, Reggio
11/30 - Tenax, Florence

Dark Tranquility has posted a clip from their upcoming "Live Damage" DVD of the song "The Treason Wall": high / low. The disc comes out September 29 through Century Media and features an entire 195-minute live performance from Krzemionki Studio TVP in Kraków, Poland on 10/07/02 along with various other bonus goodies.