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Artist: Dark Tranquillity
Album: Skydancer
Country: Sweden
Year: 1993
Genre: Melodic Death Metal

The first full-length by the one and only melodeath flagship Dark Tranquillity.
Anders Fridén would leave the band the same year and join In Flames in 1995,
around the same time Mikael Stanne became the main vocalist of Dark Tranquillity.

Vocals :: Anders Fridén (In Flames, ex- Ceremonial Oath)
Guitars, Vocals :: Mikael Stanne (The Halo Effect, Grand Cadaver, ex- HammerFall)
Guitars :: Niklas Sundin (Mitochondrial Sun, ex- HammerFall)
Bass, Guitars :: Martin Henriksson
Drums :: Anders Jivarp
Vocals (Guest) :: Anna-Kajsa Avehall (Tr. 3, 6)
Vocals (Guest) :: Stefan Lindgren (Tr. 4, 7)
Artwork :: Kenneth Johansson

Recorded @ Studio Soundscape, Gothenburg, Sweden
Produced & Engineered by Stefan Lindgren, Dragan Tanaskovic & Dark Tranquillity

Released August 30th, 1993 / Spinefarm Records
Re-Released October 2014 / Century Media Records

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01 | 00:00 | Nightfall By The Shore Of Time
02 | 04:45 | Crimson Winds
03 | 10:09 | A Bolt Of Blazing Gold
04 | 17:20 | In Tears Bereaved
05 | 21:08 | Skywards
06 | 26:13 | Through Ebony Archways
07 | 29:56 | Shadow Duet
08 | 37:00 | My Faeryland Forgotten
09 | 41:37 | Alone

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