A Yuletide Apocalypse

Top 25 Dark Tranquillity Riffs

Found this in my ooooollld bookmarks when importing them into “Spurl”:http://www.spurl.net/ (an online bookmarking service like del.icio.us or furl) (which is really cool since it integrates with both Firefox, and “Del.icio.us!!”:http://del.icio.us) ANnnnyways, this is a great site (the one I’m posting about) where Richard Broadhead III analyzses what he sees as the 25 best “Dark Tranquillity”:http://www.darktranquillity.com/ riffs (Dark Tranquillity are a classic Swedish melodic death metal band).

It’s got some great technical writing about metal, as well as guitar tablature (that’s what the site is famous for), and mp3 samples of each passage. Worth a look for anyone interested in the stuff BEHIND the music.

To determine a list of favorites, or to honor musicians for the art they have created, one must ask a simple question; “do you find yourself inspired?” Not just to write in their credit or honor, but inspired musically. Like one would be inspired to paint by looking at the Mona Lisa, or to write after reading Shakespeare. Dark Tranquillity has influenced thousands of bands and people to not only play music, but to try and create something wonderful. They grow with each album, never releasing the same material, yet constantly keeping the fans impressed and in love with their music. Very few musicians and groups have ever managed to release different genres of music so successfully on each album and not only keep their fan base, but also inspire new fans and musical inventions. Every one of their songs can represent a different mood, an assortment of ideas, or an array of stories. To create this list of the best Dark Tranquillity riffs, I set out for help in this task among the many fans across the world, asking them to tell me which sections of music they hunger for the most. I received many votes from guitar fans, typical metal fans, and all out Dark Tranquillity fans, figuring this diversity of listeners would help determine an impartiality list. After sorting through nearly a thousand entries that covered every second of every song the band ever wrote(proving they have written nothing but solid music), I have narrowed it down to these top 25 favorite riffs.

Woops! Forgot “the link”:http://dsrmusic.com/metaltab/text/guitarLessons/dt_article/dt_top25_a.html!
“Here”:http://www.dsrmusic.com/metaltab/indexIE.php?page=gl&value=1&browser=ie is a link to some cool guitar lessons on the displacer tab site