Metalcore and symphonic metal must be two of the most sterile and over-produced genres in heavy music, but nobody told Age of Athena. The Canadian quartet fuse the two as…
Tag: melodic death metal
Peter Tägtgren has no time to sit still. Hypocrisy released their last album in 2013, but since then he produced records for Sabaton, Immortal, Carach Angren and Discharge and co-wrote…
French symphonic metal quartet, Aephanemer, created an underground buzz with 2019’s Prokopton and now have the backing of Napalm Records for their third album. Started as the solo project of…
You can find plenty of reasons to listen to Russian metalcore. The artists never read the memo about sugar-coating their choruses with piss-weak emo melodies; they don’t base their songs…
Finland has more melodic death metal bands per square mile than snow ploughs. If that’s not true, it should be. For reasons unknown, the citizens of this progressive social democracy…
Anyone who heard 2019’s Orphans LP will know that The Agonist produced a bona fide album of the year contender on their last effort. The remarkable vocal range of Vicky…
Husband and wife duos are not as rare as you think in metal, rock, and dark alternative music. Employed to Serve, Spiritbox and Lycia released three of the best records…
If you’re anything like this reviewer, you might overlook new albums from artists associated with the melodic death metal genre. All that extravagant guitar harmonising and formulaic growling washes over…
Few bands have the distinction of inventing two sub-genres of metal, but gore-grind and melodic death metal owe their origins to the pioneering sounds of Carcass. The legendary debut from…