Dark Tranquillity - Fiction (2007)^{Release ID: 2408}

Bad Death Metal featuring the snare sound from St. Anger! Seriously the snare sounds like it is trying to bore a hole in my skull. It's painful, and he's gonna smack it as hard and often as possible. If the point is to inflict pain upon the listener it was certainly achieved, so there's that.

"but Zero, it's supposed to be challenging".

I have a challenge for you, describe this album cover without sounding like the business card scene from American Psycho.
"Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark..."

Yet, upon research a lot of people actually do like this, and consider it an important part of the Gothenburg sound. I don't like melodic death metal. I like my death metal brutal in lyrical and sonic quality and usually of the Floridian variety, so maybe this just isn't for me. I didn't find anything enjoyable within, and I maintain that the album cover is hella boring-not the most important thing, but also not hard to get right either.