Posts Tagged ‘Melodic Death Metal’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
I will always have love in my heart for Melodic Death Metal. Hand on heart, I’d have to say that Melodeath is the one metal subgenre, more than any other, that most aggressively grabbed my attention and made me fall in love on first listen. Soilwork’s A Predator’s Portrait, In Flames’ Clayman, Dark Tranquillity’s Damage […]
Tags: 2021, Finnish Melodeath, Inverse Records, Melodeath, Melodic Death Metal, Steve K, Ways of the Pack, Wolftopia
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
Brian Eckermann is a prolific solo artist from San Antonio, Texas who has also served in other local obscure Texas bands like Scars of the Flesh, Winters Plague, and Wings of Abaddon. Plague Bringers is his eighth solo album and a direct follow-up to 2018s Winters Plague (The Final Eclipse), telling the story of an […]
Tags: 2021, Brian Eckermann, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
It warms my heart to see a band I have covered for two self-released albums now (2016s Memento Mori and 2019s Prokopton– which made my 2019 year-end list) have all the hard work pay off and get signed to a ‘big ‘ label, in this case, Napalm Records, and now deservedly rubbing shoulders with the […]
Tags: 2021, Aephanemer, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, December 6th, 2021
Listen, there’s no denying the place of Peter Tägtgren and Hypocrisy in the pantheons of metal over the last almost 30 years. I personally hold Penetralia, Osculum Obscenum, and The Fourth Dimension in super high regard with the latter arguably being the peak of their career as they shifted into more melodic death metal realms […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Hypocrisy, Melodic Death Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, October 15th, 2021
I’ve been covering Inferi since 2009s End of an Era, and since then they have become The Artisan Era’s flagship band and one of the mainstays of the melodic/shredding technical death metal genre in the US scene. They have not been super prolific, with 2 more albums, an EP and a redo of End of […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Inferi, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, September 20th, 2021
Very late last year, I was introduced to Boston’s Seven Spires, with their second album, Emerald Seas, and immediately fell in love with them, largely due to vocalist Adrienne Cowan (who surprisingly used to be the keyboard player for deathcore act, Winds of Plague). Her range and power on songs like “Bury You” , “Succumb” […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Frontiers Records, Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal, Review, Seven Spires, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, September 10th, 2021
Well I’ll be damned, as far as this Texas boy is concerned, Brooklyn, New York’s melodic death metal troupe, Winter Nights, just released about as perfect of an EP as you can get, I tell you what. Sky Burial is four tracks, eighteen minutes and fifty-one seconds, and some of the best melodic death metal […]
Tags: 2021, Kristofor Allred, Melodic Death Metal, Self-Released, Winter Nights
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, July 30th, 2021
Sweden’s Havamal ( ‘the words of Odin’), is a relatively new Norse/Viking-themed melodic death metal band with one album under their belt from 2019, Tales from Yggdrasil, which I have not heard. I was in the mood for something Viking -y to tide me over until the new Thyrfing, and this has fit the bill […]
Tags: 2021, Art Gates Records, Erik T, Havamal, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, July 16th, 2021
I’m just gonna go ahead and start a personal series called “Dumbass Steve Discovers a Band That’s Been Around a Long Time but He’s Just Now Finding Out About.” I’ve officially made it a habit. In my defense, Pennsylvania/New Jersey’s Duskmourn (active since 2012) don’t appear to have any kind of super active social media […]
Tags: 2021, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, Duskmourn, Folk Metal, Melodeath, Melodic Death Metal, Steve K
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, July 12th, 2021
GO! Now that I have that totally necessary exclamation out of the way, let’s talk about At The Gates’ new album, The Nightmare of Being. A title I totally feel right now, guys… but this isn’t about me, although I’ll probably inadvertently do my damnedest to make it. On full length #7, and the third […]
Tags: 2021, At The Gates, Century Media Records, J Mays, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, July 8th, 2021
Wow! This is unique. Picture a band from Copenhagen that at times can sound like they are from Gothenburg and then other times where they sound like tech era Death. For fans of Quo Vadis, and Arsis. I get that. Steve Di Giorgio plays bass on this. Okay, I am intrigued. I guess it was […]
Tags: 2021, Black Lion Records, Melodic Death Metal, Mother Of All, Nick K
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, June 14th, 2021
Sometimes, if you get the opportunity, there’s nothing sweeter than doing something just because you friggin’ want to. For example (and I understand this is sorta an extreme one) – no one buys a vintage sports car because it’s practical, safe, or smart. No, you do it because you want a friggin’ vintage sports car! […]
Tags: 2021, M-Theory Audio, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Steve K, The Absence
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, May 17th, 2021
I’m not gonna lie. I grabbed this debut album promo as it said it was current and former members of Allegaeon, Unflesh (who recently released one of my favorite albums of the year so far) and Seven Spires, and I was really hoping it was vocalist Adrienne Cowan. However, it was not, but still it […]
Tags: 2021, Aversed, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
I was a bit surprised to find that Spain’s Mistweaver were releasing a new album this year, mainly due to the fact that the band called it quits back in 2017. Unfortunately for us, Swansong, the band’s sixth and ultimately final album is exactly that, a swansong for the group, that founder/guitarist/vocalist Raúl Weaver saw […]
Tags: 2021, Kristofor Allred, Melodic Death Metal, Mistweaver, Necromance Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Well, here is something fun in 2021 I was not expecting. Hailing from Stavanger Norway Deception play a hybrid stay of technical, melodic death thrash. As crazy as this sounds. Picture Yyrkoon mixed Darkane. Originally called The Art of Deception, The Mire is Deception’s third full length. Clocking in at over 47 minutes these guys […]
Tags: 2021, Deception, Melodic Death Metal, Nick K, Review, Rob Mules Records, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Thursday, April 1st, 2021
If you’re into metal, you probably don’t expect to hear anything groundbreaking very often. Sometimes, bands try new things and fall flat. Sometimes it sounds like they just input strange instruments or passages just because they want, not because it serves the song. This happens often in the attempt to be “different.” On the other […]
Tags: 2021, J Mays, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal, Unflesh
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, March 26th, 2021
I was late to the Stormtide party as I didn’t hear this Aussie Fantasy metal act’s 2016 debut, Wrath of an Empire until 2020. But When I finally did stumble across it, I very much enjoyed the band’s Asian/Far East inspired take on melodic, symphonic death metal, imbuing an mix of Amon Amarth, Stormlord and […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Metal Hell Records, Review, Stormtide, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
These are the kinds of reviews that are only as hard as you want to make them. Here you’ve got a band celebrating its 25th year of making music with brand new material, and over that time they’ve never really missed a step – becoming true legends and pioneers of epic, bombastic Viking metal. Sure, […]
Tags: 2021, Black Metal, Einherjer, Melodic Death Metal, Napalm Records, Steve K, Viking Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, March 8th, 2021
It’s 2021, there’s a new The Crown album out on Metal Blade Records, and they’ve decided to throw everyone for a loop by going to all clean choruses. Just. Fucking. Kidding. You already know what this sounds like, at least mostly, if you’re familiar at all with the band. If you’re not, I’m not sure […]
Tags: 2021, J Mays, Melodic Death Metal, Metal Blade Records, The Crown, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, February 12th, 2021
It’s always fun reading through the greetings that bands, promoters and labels write when sending out promotional materials. There’s a lot of “ETERNAL HAILS!” and “GREETINGS!” and “Dear media partners,” followed by some description like “born from the feral wastelands of Poland…” or superlative tropes like “the metal underground’s best kept secret…” yadda yadda yadda. […]
Tags: Black Metal, Eternal Autumn, Heavy Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Metal, NWOTHM, Steve K, Traditional Heavy Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, December 7th, 2020
It’s been a weird year for everyone, but a good one for Soilwork fans. If you’ve been following the band on social media, you’ve enjoyed a steady drip of new tracks/videos throughout 2020: “Desperado,” “Feverish,” “Death Dealer,” and “The Nothingness and the Devil.” (There was also a new Night Flight Orchestra album back in February, […]
Tags: 2020, Jordan Itkowitz, Melodic Death Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Soilwork
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Galloping guitars galore! If you’re a fan of Mors Principium Est (and alliteration), get those sweet buns in here and check out their new album. It’s exactly what you expect, but in some cases, like with pizza, that’s not a bad thing. If you didn’t know, Mors Principium Est deal in death. Melodic death, to […]
Tags: 2020, AFM Records, J Mays, Melodic Death Metal, Mors Principium Est, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, October 29th, 2020
Virginia’s Foretoken is the new technical, symphonic black/melodic death metal bans from Steve Redmond (guitars/orchestration) and Dan Cooley (vocals), who both serve in technical death metal band Cyaegha (whose debut Steps to Descent, I reviewed here way back in 2009). They are aided by drummer Hannes Grossman (Obscura, Necrophagist), as well as a couple of […]
Tags: 2020, Erik T, Foretoken, Melodic Death Metal, Prosthetic Records, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, October 15th, 2020
“Hey, Farva! What’s the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?” “You mean ‘Shenanigans?!’ You guys are talking about ‘Shenanigans,’ right?” “Shenanigans?” “Tomfoolery?” “Fuckery?” All of these could apply in some circumstances to Dethlehem’s latest slab of fantasy, D&D inspired metal, which is called […]
Tags: 2020, Dethlehem, J Mays, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Holy Smokes! I was fortunate to review Cult of Lilith’s debut EP Arkanum back in around 2015. Back then Cult of Lilith was still trying to find their sound and were a bit more tech-death oriented. Fast forward to 2020 and we have their first debut full-length album Mara. Hailing from Rejavik Iceland there are […]
Tags: 2020, Cult of Lilith, Melodic Death Metal, Metal Blade Records, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal