Posts Tagged ‘Melodic Death Metal’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
Remember in the late 90s when In Flames and Dark Tranquility were exploding? When Children of Bodom were fresh and awesome and young energetic, but short lived melodic death metal bands like Lothlorien, Auberon, Ebony Tears, Embracing, and Eucharist were releasing killer albums? Well, if you long for those days of bouncy, busy, solo filled, […]
Tags: 2012, E.Thomas, Klonosphere, Melodic Death Metal, Pictured, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, June 18th, 2012
The sophomore release, Formshifter, from Allegaeon refines and polishes what they had established with their debut on Fragments of Form and Function – tight, technical, groove and hook-laden riffs with catchy choruses and blazing shredding all along the fretboard and deep, commanding death growls. Unlike a lot of other technical death metal bands, that like […]
Tags: 2012, Allegaeon, Melodic Death Metal, Metal Blade Records, Review, Travis Bolek
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, January 23rd, 2012
So back in 2010 I reviewed the self-released debut from Portugal’s Karnak Seti, and it was a surprisingly good melodic death metal effort that imbued the the genre’s once hailed stylings and even reminded me a little of Disillusion‘s landmark debut. Well, the band were kind enough to send me the follow-up, In Harmonic Entropy, […]
Tags: 2012, E.Thomas, Karnak Seti, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, December 5th, 2011
A common idiom states: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” something December Flower (taken from the In Flames song of the same name) has taken to heart with In Flames, Eucharist and Dark Tranquillity; at least their earlier forms from the mid-90s. This German quintet, made up of former members of Chronicles of Tyrants, […]
Tags: 2011, Cyclone Empire, December Flower, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Travis Bolek
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Still a musical anomaly residing on Facedown Records , Finland’s Immortal Souls are four albums in to their career and have yet to truly impress me. Their form of melodic “wintery” death metal has always been solid, but I’m never craving this band. So I’m not sure what’s more impressive, the fact they are still […]
Tags: 2011, E.Thomas, Facedown Records, Immortal Souls, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
There’s a fine line between plagiarism and homage. And in metal, that line is even thinner as many acts have simply said, ‘you know what? We like this band we are going to sound just like them, not to rip them off maliciously but they just rock’. For every Suffocation, Entombed, Morbid Angel and Slayer […]
Tags: 2011, Abyss Records, E.Thomas, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Thousand Year War
Posted in Reviews on Monday, November 21st, 2011
In their four album transition from typical Finnish doom death outfit to a melancholic melodic (melocholic?) death metal, Insomnium have done no wrong. Each album being better than the last. And album number 5 is no different as the band manages to take slivers of recognizable influences like Rapture, Amorphis, In Flames, Paradise Lost, My […]
Tags: 2011, Century Media Records, Doom Metal, E.Thomas, Insomnium, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, October 27th, 2011
This band literally came out from nowhere to knock me on my ass. Sorry, I just had to – I’m a cheeseball like that. From Spain, From Nowhere are another of those smelting pot type bands, incorporating influences from many sources. They are at once thrashy, deathly, melodic, grooving, and technical. I struggle to find […]
Tags: 2011, From Nowhere, Larry "Staylow" Owens, Mechanix Records, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
It’s been a while since I heard a quality, old school, pure modern melodic death metal album — and no, In Flames does not count. Here is Poland’s Made of Hate attempting to solve just that with their sophomore effort and they meet with a measure of success. Though glossed with a little thrash and a little, dare […]
Tags: 2011, AFM Records, E.Thomas, Melodic Death Metal, Pathogen, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, August 29th, 2011
I’ve followed the UK’s The Belonging for a while now, from their slightly forgetful 2005 debut, Setting the Scene, to 2009’s Ashes of a Fallen Throne, where the band took an improved step into impressive blackened war metal. And now, in 2011, with their third follow up, we’ve got yet another quality self-released album. Continuing their […]
Tags: 2011, E.Thomas, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, The Belonging
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Another “super group” of sorts, World Under Blood is the product of CKY guitarist Deron Miller and skins beating journeyman Tim Yeung (Divine Heresy, Morbid Angel, ex- Decrepit Birth, ex- Agiel, etc), . Along for the ride is ex-Decrepit Birth four stringer Risha Eryavec and guitarist Luke Jaeger, who has done time in All Shall […]
Tags: 2011, Larry "Staylow" Owens, Melodic Death Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, World Under Blood
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
I’ve never really considered myself anything but a relatively casual fan of The Black Dahlia Murder, despite their rather large status in the realms of modern metal. With a sound that’s been cloned more times than Jenna Jameson has had cocks in her, their appeal loses even more luster as I blame them for the […]
Tags: 2011, E.Thomas, Melodic Death Metal, Metal Blade Records, Review, The Black Dahlia Murder
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, June 27th, 2011
Upon hearing In Flames’ Sounds of a Playground Fading, one of our other esteemed writers here at Teeth of the Divine dubbed it Sounds of a Career Failing. I’m sure many fans will feel the same, but being the contrarian that I am, I’ve got a slightly different take. I’ll say off the top that […]
Tags: 2011, Century Media Records, Fred Phillips, In Flames, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, November 21st, 2003
The far-reaching influence of At The Gates‘ Slaughter of the Soul has resonated throughout the death metal genre and as recent releases by Dew-Scented and Corporation 187 have shown, the influence remains as powerful as ever. Even the Middle East now has felt the ‘Gates influence seep ever further afield. While Israel has produced a handful of […]
Tags: 2023, Erik T, Listenable Records, Melodic Death Metal, Nail Within, Review