''Exposures – In Retrospect and Denial'' is a compilation album by the 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 heavine ...

band Dark Tranquillity, that was released in 2004. Disc 1 Tracks 1 and 2 were recorded during the ''

Damage Done ''Damage Done'' is the sixth full-length studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity. Here, the band returns to a more classic style while holding the changes made in their albums '' Haven'' and ''Projector'', espec ...

'' sessions in 2002. Track 1 had been unreleased, and track 2 had been only available on the Japanese version of the album. Disc 1 Tracks 3-5 were recorded during the '' Haven'' sessions in 2000. Tracks 3 and 4 had been unreleased, and track 5 had been only available on the Japanese version of the album. Disc 1 Tracks 6 and 7 were recorded during the ''

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'' sessions in 1998. Track 6 had been available on the limited

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edition of the album, and track 7 was on a Limited Edition of this album. Disc 1 Tracks 8 and 9 were taken from the ''A Moonclad Reflection'' EP (1992). Disc 1 Tracks 10-12 were taken from the ''Trail of Life Decayed'' demo (1991). Some early versions of the release for Disc 1, have the tracks 3 & 4 and 6 & 7 flipped or misprinted.

Track listing

Disc 1

Disc 2

Credits

;Dark Tranquillity *

Mikael Stanne Bengt Mikael Stanne (born 20 May 1974) is a Swedish musician, best known as the vocalist and one of the lyricists (as well as a former rhythm guitarist) for the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity. Since the departure of origin ...

- vocals (disc 1, 1-7), (disc 2, 1-18),

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

(disc 1, 8-12) *

Martin Henriksson Hans Martin Knut Henriksson (born 30 October 1974) is a former Swedish musician best known for his work with death metal band Dark Tranquillity and was one of the original members, and the main songwriter for the band until he left them in 2016. ...

- guitar (disc 1, 1-5), (disc 2), bass (disc 1, 6-12) *Michael Nicklasson - bass (disc 1, 1-5), (disc 2) *Martin Brändström - keyboards and electronics (disc 1, 1-5), (disc 2) *

Niklas Sundin Niklas Sundin (born 13 August 1974 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a musician of the band Mitochondrial Sun, but was best known as the founding lead guitarist of band Dark Tranquillity (1989–2020). He was also one of the guitarists in the band Laethor ...

- guitar *Anders Jivarp -

drum kit A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

;Additional personnel * Fredrik Johansson −

(disc 1, 5 & 6) *

Anders Fridén Pär Anders Fridén (born 25 March 1973) is a Swedish vocalist, best known as the lead singer of heavy metal band In Flames. He was also the vocalist of Dark Tranquillity and Passenger, a side project. Career Early career Fridén was original ...

- vocals (disc 1, 8-12) ;Other personnel *Göran Finnberg - mastering (disc 2) *

Cabin Fever Media Cabin Fever Media is a design studio founded in 1999 by original Dark Tranquillity guitarist, Niklas Sundin. Cabin Fever Media specializes in graphic design of album artwork, however, Cabin Fever Media also does various other commissioned wor ...

- art direction and design

References

External links

Album info at official site

Century Media Records

Dark Tranquillity albums 2004 compilation albums Century Media Records compilation albums 2004 live albums Century Media Records live albums Albums produced by Fredrik Nordström {{2000s-death-metal-album-stub