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Style: pagan black metal, epic doom metal, melodic death metal (mostly harsh vocals) Recommended for fans of: Insomnium, Moonsorrow, Atlantean Kodex, Bathory, Panopticon, Shylmagoghnar Country: United Kingdom Release date: 14 June 2024 For millennia, music has captured the collective consciousness of humankind, a receptacle for tradition, worship of various deities, and, most importantly for our review here today, storytelling. One man black metal band Fellwarden (made up of The Watcher, guitarist of Fen) embark on a musical quest, chronicling the story of David Gemmell’s Legend, which while ..read more

Style: Melodic Death Metal (Mixed vocals) Recommended for fans of: Scar Symmetry, Allegaeon, Ensiferum, faster-paced Khemmis Review by: Dave Country: Colorado, United States Release date: 19 April 2024 Since my recent falling-back-in-love with folk metal artisans Agalloch, I not only welcome any opportunity to be pigeonholed as “the folk guy”, I actively seek out my chances in hopes of finding something else that is pagan, foresty, atmospheric, and not called Agalloch or Alunah. So when a band called Oak, Ash & Thorn drops their album Our Grief is Thus into our backlog, I immediately anti ..read more

Style: Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Black Metal (Mixed vocals) Recommended for fans of: Opeth, Insomnium, In Mourning, Disillusion, Countless Skies Country: Norway Release date: 12 April 2024 My knowledge of progressive melodeath bands is by no means comprehensive, but I thought I knew all the best ones until my colleague Zach screamed at me in his typically hyperenthusiastic way, “DUDE, YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ÆNIGMA?!”. So, I went and sought out this mysterious In Vain he spoke of and found them to be the sort of band who are very impressive, but hadn’t quite made their masterpiece yet ..read more

Genres: melodic death metal, technical death metal, prog death metal (mixed vocals) Recommended for fans of: The Artisan Era, Obscura, Fallujah, Opeth Country: Canada Release date: 22 March 2024 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: what on earth is in Canada’s water to produce the quality musicians that they have? We’ve got Avril Lavigne, Drake, The Biebs for crying out loud—Canada, calm down. On a more applicable note, they’ve got basically all the tech death bands you know and love, and Omnivide are yet another to add to the list. Born out of an Opeth tribute band, Omnivide have some ..read more

Genres: Progressive death metal, melodic death metal (mixed vocals) Recommended for fans of: Wintersun, Aether Realm Country: Germany Release date: 12 February 2024 There should be a word in English for that feeling of deflation when met with intense disappointment. A dream I remember vividly was going to the premiere of Dune Part One only to find it was children’s drawings and Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack was replaced by a kazoo. What I remember more than the false memory was the feeling associated with it, going from immense hype to pure disbelief in what was before my eyes in a manner of secon ..read more

Genres: progressive metal, melodic death metal (mixed vocals) Recommended for fans of: Katatonia, Opeth, In the Woods, Green Carnation, Evergrey Country: Italy Release date: 15 March 2024 I love unambitious prog metal, let me explain. Typically, this genre is known for its maximalism: a desire to flaunt technical and compositional chops in order to realize a musical ideal. Some bands go all in on the technicality, other bands throw the kitchen sink at the songwriting board, and others will try to push compositional boundaries as they forgo traditional songwriting as much as possible. For me ..read more

Genres: Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Doom Metal (Mixed vocals) Recommended for fans of: Insomnium, Swallow the Sun, Omnium Gatherum, Draconian Country: New York, USA Release date: 8 March 2024 History ended in the nineties, at least according to Francis Fukuyama; living proof, if it were still needed, that world-leading experts are very often extraordinarily stupid. The progressive metal scene knew better. Here, the nineties were a time of true beginning: Porcupine Tree, Pain of Salvation, and Opeth made their first tentative steps, established bands like Death, Fates Warning and S ..read more

Genres: Melodic death metal, progressive death metal (mixed vocals) Recommended for fans of: Opeth. Persefone, Be’lakor, Insomnium, Shylmagoghnar, Dark Tranqulity Country: Spain Release date: 16 February, 2024 The overlong album has plagued music since the inception of the CD. Gone are the days of cramming everything into a tight thirty-five to forty minute LP, but that certainly doesn’t mean every album should even approach over an hour in length. That being said, there are rare times where a huge album just works. For the sake of comparison, let’s use First Fragment’s Glorie Eternelle and T ..read more

Style: melodic death metal, power metal, grindcore (harsh vocals) Recommended for fans of: Imperial Circus Dead Decadence, The Black Dahlia Murder, Galneryus, Versailles Country: Japan Release date: 13 December 2023 3… 2… 1… BLAST OFF. That’s exactly how long you get before Bloody Cumshot floors it, and they don’t let off the gas once for the next thirty-six minutes. Hope you brought a seatbelt. Deflorantism is, in a word, absurd. From the ludicrous band name to the neoclassical melodies to the methamphetamines surely involved, Deflorantism is a wild, incredibly fun and dangerous ride.  ..read more