𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐘𝐏𝐓𝐒 - 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 & 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐘 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐋…
August 10, 1999 — Dark Tranquillity released their fourth studio album, Projector (projector, or on the reissue p.r.o.j.e.c.t.o.r.) via Century Media Records. (Apple Music or Spotify)
Lineup Changes:
In January 1999, with the album recorded months prior, and its release months ahead, Fredrik Johansson and Dark Tranquillity mutually split. It was due to Johansson wanting to focus more on being a father, meaning he couldn't tour with the band. Johansson didn’t want to leave his family anymore and he wanted to keep a day job as opposed to the difficulties of being in the music industry.
There were mutually no hard feelings between both parties, but with all of Johansson's reasons, the band still saw it as a lack of commitment to Dark Tranquillity as well.
The album marks the last release with Johansson.
With difficulties always finding a new guitar player, a switch then occurred in the band when Johansson's empty guitarist position was then taken the band's bassist Martin Henriksson, who was reluctant at the time to do the switch, due to his belief of being an average guitar player, but still went on to do so.
To take Henriksson's bassist position, the band hired Michael Nicklasson.
Lastly, since the album included a lot of piano, keyboards and electronics and the band wanting it to become an integral part of the band's later sound, the band also hired an additional full-time member, Martin Brändström as their first keyboardist ever to complete the new lineup to tour for the album.
With the lineup, they played live bonus tracks of the reissue of this album and filmed a music video for ThereIn. (Watch video)
Projector’s Style:
Projector marked a noteworthy progression in the band's style, featuring piano and clean guitar work akin to that of Gothic Metal.
Vocalist Mikael Stanne's prevalent use of clean vocals differentiated this release from their previous work.
Because of its deviation from the band's previous efforts, Projector was met with a mixed reception by longtime fans, but it also attracted a fair number of new listeners.
Releases:
The limited edition digipak includes the bonus track Exposure. However, there were problems with the pressings because not all the digipaks include Exposure and there are some traditional releases that include the track.
The Japanese version of the album has different cover art and includes a booklet with more photos and biographical information. The 2009 reissue has digitally remastered audio.
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