DARK TRANQUILLITY Singer On New CD: 'We Wanted To Focus On Each Individual Emotion And Feeling'
March 16, 2007DARK TRANQUILLITY singer Mikael Stanne recently spoke to MTV.com about the group's upcoming album, "Fiction", which comes out April 24.
"We wanted to take a step back and not focus on making things as involved or complicated as they could be," Stanne said. "We thought, 'Let's experiment more with each song instead of trying to make each song chock-full of things.' "
"We really didn't want to do the same thing over and over again," Stanne said. "Rather, we wanted to focus on what felt important in each song and to focus on each individual emotion and feeling. So, when we started making a really heavy song, we put all our effort into making it as heavy as possible instead of mixing it up with all the fast stuff and technical stuff. It was fun and it was actually very liberating to work that way."
In addition to embracing a different music-writing technique, Stanne approached his lyrics differently as well. Instead of addressing the frustrations in his own life, as he had in the past, he wrote about imaginary scenarios — hence the album title.
"I came up with fictional characters and put all my feelings and problems on these individuals," he explained. "And I was actually able to be more personal and honest than ever before because I could get everything out without getting too close."
Read more at MTV.com.
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