1. Overview

2. Critical reception

3. Track listing

4. Charts

5. Personnel
    Tristania 

6. References

Darkest White is the seventh full-length album by the Norwegian gothic metal band Tristania. It is the second Tristania album to feature Mariangela Demurtas and Kjetil Nordhus on vocals.

Overview

The demo that gave birth to the final version of the songs in Darkest White were produced between June and September 2012.^[5] Soon after, the band readjusted the songs by themselves, in an improvised studio at Ole Vistnes' apartment, between September and December 2012.^[6] On January 2013, the band entered the studio to make the definitive recordings of the album, finishing in less than a month, the band's shortest recording period so far.^[7]

Early April, the band announced Darkest White official track list.^[8]

Critical reception

The album was critically well received, and often considered the "real come back" for the band after former vocalist Vibeke Stene departure, in 2007. Sputnikmusic stated that with Darkest White "they have actually outdone themselves", while "being the same band who released Rubicon".^[9] The album was praised for its "exploration of dark, desolate beauty" mood while called an "emotional thread".^[10] Another aspect that was well received was the "flawlessly accomplished" three-vocalist style driven throughout the album with the harsh vocals from Anders H. Hidle, the clean vocals from the returning Kjetil Nordhus and Mariangela Demurtas' female vocals. The combination of this three vocalists was considered "intelligent" and "diligent".^[11][9]

Track listing

Charts

Personnel

Tristania

• Mariangela Demurtas – vocals
• Kjetil Nordhus – vocals
• Anders Høyvik Hidle – guitars & harsh vocals
• Ole Vistnes – bass & vocals
• Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard – guitars
• Einar Moen – synths & programming
• Tarald Lie Jr. – drums

Additional personnel

• Einar Moen is listed as the band's synth player in the booklet, however Bernt Moen is credited with having performed the synth on this album.

References

• Greek battleship Limnos
• Greek battleship Psara
• Greek battleship Spetsai
• Greek battleship Vasilefs Konstantinos
• Greek battleship Vasilissa Olga
• Greek blacks
• Greek borrowings
• Greek braille
• Greek Braille
• Greek brig Aris
• Greek-Bulgarian struggle in Macedonia
• Greek burial
• Greek Byzantine Choir
• Greek cabinet
• Greek calabrian dialect
• Greek Capital Market Commission
• Greek Cappadocians
• Greek carbon letter
• Greek carbon lettering
• Greek carbon naming
• Greek carbon naming system
• Greek carbon nomenclature
• Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia
• Greek Catholic Cathedral of Hajdudorog
• Greek Catholic Cathedral of Hajdúdorog