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…
Tag: melodic death metal
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…
Swiss quartet, Ophelia’s Eye, are one of those bands that could fall into the melodic death metal or metalcore categories. Both are sub-genres that lost their zest and purpose in…
Few bands can match At the Gates when it comes to influence. Carcass might have laid the blueprint for melodic death metal, but At the Gates were the artist that…
It’s not clear why Lower Saxony death metal quintet, Dawn of Disease, split up after releasing Procession of Ghosts via Napalm Records in 2019. You could say that Hiraes is…