Haven

Haven is the fifth full-length studio album released by the band Dark Tranquillity in 2000. It continued to advance the musical changes started on their previous album. A mix of melody, electronic pads, and heavy metal gave new fans to the band, but also became criticized by old melodic death fans that disliked the genre. The first digipak release of the album included the video for "ThereIn". The Japanese version included a bonus track, "Cornered" and the video for "ThereIn". Niklas Sundin has stated that this is his least favourite Dark Tranquillity album (this is also the only Dark Tranquillity album where he does not receive any songwriting credit), but has also mentioned that "Emptier Still" is his favourite song from the album. The 2009 reissue includes bonus tracks and digitally remastered audio. This is the first Dark Tranquillity release with Martin Henriksson becoming a full-time rhythm guitar player plus Michael Nicklasson & Martin Brändström recording with the band. Metalguru.net, listed this album as #5 in the "Retro 2000 Top 5 Albums".