It was ever since my introduction to death metal that I’ve always felt partial to the melodic territory of the genre as I find that still to be the most easily accessible style in all of death metal, and with … Continue reading From Ashes Reborn – Existence Exiled
Any sort of fantasy world has always left me no less than enamored by the larger-than-life events that are just the sort of thing that are true products of imagination. Folk metal has always been a great embodiment of that, … Continue reading Knighthood – To the Road
Melodic death metal has always been a fun style for me given the obvious points of how there’s the intensity that death metal brings to the table whilst having a solid form to it that enables things like anthems to … Continue reading Earthgrave – First Snow of the Final Winter
The wide world of melodic death metal is one that I used to be much more into. With the likes of Amon Amarth, Despite, King of Asgard, and Countless Skies peppering my playlists, I knew it was only a matter … Continue reading Coldbound – The Gale
As I’ve gone throughout the last few years doing these reviews, it’s become apparent that there are simply some musicians that just refuse to stay quiet for any amount of time as they’re always working on new material of some … Continue reading Down Among the Dead Men – …And You Will Obey Me
The world of death and doom metal has always been one that’s a weird gray area for me simply because far too many bands don’t know how to properly balance it all out. Then throwing in a strong element of … Continue reading Hinayana – Order Divine
A band that has been around for decades are the kind that many people cling to given how those bands understandably almost always have a taste of classic material within their sound given that’s when they started things off as a … Continue reading The Crown – Cobra Speed Venom
A band that has the capacity and will to do seemingly nothing except create one smashing album after another whilst almost always on tour earns a bit of reprieve after a while, correct? I feel that’s a given if a … Continue reading The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers
In recent times, I haven’t really found any melodic death metal that’s really caught my fancy except a few exceptions that really stand out amongst the rest. It just seems to me that many melo-death bands are becoming too uniform … Continue reading Dawn of Disease – Ascension Gate
In Madrid, Spain there’s this label known as Xtreem Music. The label, if you can’t tell by its name alone, deals with some of the most underground bands that actually have talent from all over the world, and I love … Continue reading In Thousand Lakes – Age of Decay
