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| 3.4 great | Trey STAFF | November 17th 16 |
In case you didn’t know, Dark Tranquillity lost one of their main songwriters during the writing of this album. If you didn’t know, it becomes fairly obvious after listening to Atoma. Atoma is basically Construct without any of the cool melodic layering, hooks or diversity. Basically, it’s a stripped down version of Construct. Don’t get me wrong, there are still cool melodies, growls and clean singing… but something is just a little off. Losing Martin Henriksson definitely left a huge hole in Dark Tranquillity’s sound, but despite its shortcomings, Atoma is still pretty great.
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| 0.0 | thegreywind | October 29th 16 |
DT with spacey vibes.. I really liked forward momentum and atoma, quite melodic. I might end up loving it.
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| 2.0 poor | Mr. BALLS | October 19th 21 |
more almost standout moments on this album than their previous or successive, but nothing worth rating above a 2 as a whole
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| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | February 1st 18 |
A beautiful album that mixes elements of peace, will, disturbance and complexity on human aspects. With a vocal that stands out even in moments that are at the bottom of the songs "Atoma" can be considered without exaggeration the best album of Melodic Death Metal in 2016.
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| 3.5 great | marf1300 | December 23rd 16 |
Excellent songs but they start to run together after a while.
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| 3.5 great | Xenorazr | November 11th 16 |
A bit deceiving. While Atoma continues from where Construct left off, it seems to take more liberty with the electronic influence, which does make the album feel more repetitive. Compounding this is the fact Atoma is a fairly uncharacteristic Dark Tranquillity album; there's even less of the excitement and vigor from albums like Character and Damage Done. All of this may be the result of a band feeling age wear down on them (not to mention losing one of the long-time members after Construct), so the fact Atoma feels safe may not be so surprisingly. The good news, however, is that it gets marginally better over time as the atmosphere becomes a bit more apparent, which won't be everyone's cup of tea, but after many years of excellent, more metallic-sounding albums, I suppose Mikael Stanne and company have earned the right to indulge in something unadventurous, but still competent.
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| 4.0 excellent | Nettorax | November 9th 16 |
Their best album since Fiction, similar to Character but with darker atmosphere.
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| 3.0 good | ItsOnlySkinDeep | November 3rd 16 |
It has worn off on me already. Stop with the damn keyboards and add more substance.
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| 4.0 excellent | ICDD | July 24th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Halez | March 22nd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Brabiz | February 27th 23 |
| 3.0 good | haxxiy | February 11th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Shwany | February 11th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Phasma | December 14th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Frnwe1 | September 5th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zarticc | August 11th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Davey | July 22nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Akifexx | June 30th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 15th 22 |
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| 4.0 excellent | JoneHK | December 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | walluuup | November 28th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Harlz | February 27th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | ariich | February 23rd 21 |
| 3.5 great | Juuso | February 7th 21 |
| 2.0 poor | ErichB | January 24th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | MonkMan | December 27th 20 |
| 2.0 poor | Hehe | December 14th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Shabz | November 21st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | thawey | November 21st 20 |
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| 2.5 average | Crysler | November 17th 16 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Sabaton | November 15th 16 |
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| 3.5 great | Drawk | November 12th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ebola | November 11th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Leymon | November 9th 16 |
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| 2.5 average | gilly | November 7th 16 |
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| 4.5 superb | wulolu | October 29th 16 |
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