''Endtime Signals'' is the thirteenth studio album by Swedish

melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavines ...

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Dark Tranquillity Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. They are considered one of the pioneering acts of the Swedish death metal, Gothenburg metal scene, which also includes bands such as In Flames and At the Gates - regarded a ...

, released on 16 August 2024 by

Century Media Records Century Media Records is a German heavy metal record label with offices in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. In August 2015, Century Media was acquired by Sony Music for US$17 million. Background Century Media was founded by R ...

. The album is the band's first to feature bassist Christian Jansson and drummer Joakim Strandberg Nilsson, who replaced longtime members

Anders Iwers Anders Iwers (born 6 October 1972) is a Swedish Heavy metal music, heavy metal musician and bassist of the bands Tiamat (band), Tiamat and Avatarium. He is the older brother of former In Flames bassist Peter Iwers, a band which he was lead guita ...

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Anders Jivarp Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. They are considered one of the pioneering acts of the Gothenburg metal scene, which also includes bands such as In Flames and At the Gates - regarded as the Gothenburg fat ...

after the latter two left the band in August 2021. The album features two songs co-written by two former band-members, one by the late Fredrik Johansson and the other by

Niklas Sundin Niklas Sundin (born 13 August 1974) is a Swedish musician, best known as a founding member and former lead guitarist of the melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity from 1989–2020. In 2019, he founded his own band called Mitochondrial Sun, w ...

. The album also marks the band's return to recording as a five-piece after the previous album, '' Moment'', was recorded as a six-piece.

Track listing

Personnel

Dark Tranquillity

Mikael Stanne Bengt Mikael Stanne (born 20 May 1974) is a Swedish musician, best known as the vocalist, primary lyricist and a former guitarist for the melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity. Since the departure of original drummer Anders Jivarp in 2021, ...

– vocals *

Johan Reinholdz Johan Reinholdz (born 30 June 1980) is a Swedish guitarist known for his work with the progressive metal band Andromeda (Swedish band), Andromeda, and melodic death metal bands Dark Tranquillity, NonExist and Skyfire (band), Skyfire. He compose ...

– guitar *Christian Jansson – bass *Martin Brändström – electronics, production *Joakim Strandberg Nilsson – drums

Guest musicians

*Johannes Bergion – cello (track 6) *Sofia Högstadius – violin, viola (track 6)

Additional personnel

*Alexander Backlund – recording (drums) *Anders Lagerfors – production (assistant) *Jonatan Thomasson – production (assistant) *Johan Martin – mixing (assistant) *

Jens Bogren Jens Peter Daniel Bogren (born 13 November 1979) is a Swedish record producer, mixer and recording engineer specializing in heavy metal music. He has worked on albums by Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Sepultura, Arch Enemy, At the Gates, Katatonia, Bab ...

– mixing, mastering *Tony Lindgren – mastering (vinyl) *

– artwork, layout * Krichan Wihlborg – photography

Charts

References

{{Dark Tranquillity 2024 albums Dark Tranquillity albums Century Media Records albums