Melodic Death Metal

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A competent black metal album about crime in the Benelux that, sadly, fails to leave a mark.
Cattle Decapitation continue to evolve as a band on their latest release, which is their most melodic and atmospheric yet
It has been just over 10 years since one of melodic death metal’s most...
Confession time: I haven’t listened to Dark Tranquility since Damage Done. This wasn’t out...
Balancing technical ability and good songwriting isn’t always the easiest part of making a...
It's been a couple of years since I last came across an album-length metal...
I first tuned into Soilwork with The Panic Broadcast. Taken by their seamless combination...
Striking the balance between heavy and melodic isn’t the easiest thing to pull off...
Every genre and sub-genre of music eventually becomes over-saturated;  melodic death metal is no...
For their tenth anniversary, Dark The Suns put together this retrospective compilation, pulling from all...
Scandinavian countries have produced so many great bands over the years that it's difficult...
I'm a sucker for strings, so the menacing pizzicato intro of “Receipt” had me by the short and...
The Norwegians of Hypermass have an approach to melodic death metal that, while quite pleasant, isn't...
What a legendary institution this band has become. Love 'em or hate 'em, Children...
Forming in 2007, Archaea have been on an eight year long journey involving a...
When you think about a well-respected, oft-cited yet under-selling acts in modern metal, Amorphis are usually...
Several years ago I went to a Swallow The Sun gig, where I met...
MWP are an interesting beast. They play an interesting brand of melodic death metal...
If you’ve kept up with my often childish gibbers on this site, you’ll probably...
When At The Gates called it a day back in 1996, there was much...
Let me just say, I love the name ThunderWorks, it brings to mind the...
It has become pretty popular amongst new bands in the metal underground to look...
Maybe it was because of how low expectations were, caused by reading the band described...
One debate I hear pretty often is one that has been going on since...