Tag Archives: melodeath
In Flames – Foregone – Album Review
Artist: In Flames Album Title: Foregone Label: Nuclear Blast Date of Release: 10 February 2023 In Flames. Is there another band on this planet that divides opinion so much? Yes, there probably are others, but this is the only band for which I have previously offered a review, only to be accused of taking a Continue Reading »
Soilwork – Övergivenheten – Album Review
Artist: Soilwork Album Title: Övergivenheten Label: Nuclear Blast Records Date of Release: 19 August 2022 I find it absolutely fascinating how the pandemic has affected different people, and bands, so differently. Some found it a positive and ultimately helpful experience, whilst others really struggled. Based on the tone and honesty of the press release that Continue Reading »
Arch Enemy – Deceivers – Album Review
Artist: Arch Enemy Album Title: Deceivers Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 12 August 2022 I have made absolutely no secret of my feelings towards Arch Enemy over the years. When I discovered the Swedish melodic death metal unit around the time of their sophomore album, ‘Stigmata’, I was blown away. The power, the Continue Reading »
The Halo Effect – Days Of The Lost – Album Review
Artist: The Halo Effect Album Title: Days Of The Lost Label: Nuclear Blast Records Date of Release: 12 August 2022 I will be honest from the very beginning of this review and declare that I have been looking forward to this release for several months, from the point at which The Halo Effect was first Continue Reading »
Moonshade – As We Set The Skies Ablaze – Album Review
Artist: Moonshade Album Title: As We Set The Skies Ablaze Label: Independent Release Date of Release: 22 July 2022 In so many ways, this has been a very tricky review to put together, but I think I have finally sorted through all my thoughts to bring it to you much later than I had hoped. Continue Reading »
Nightrage – Abyss Rising – Album Review
Artist: Nightrage Album Title: Abyss Rising Label: Despotz Records Date of Release: 18 February 2022 My attention was first drawn to Nightrage back in 2003 when they released their debut album, ‘Sweet Vengeance’. Always on the look-out for a great slab of melodic death metal, I was drawn by the fact that the band was Continue Reading »
Burned In Effigy – Rex Mortem – Album Review
Artist: Burned In Effigy Album Title: Rex Mortem Label: Independent Release Date of Release: 28 January 2022 When it comes to melodic death metal, everyone knows that I’m a big fan. I like a wide range of bands and styles that come under the increasingly vast umbrella of ‘melodeath’. However, I’ve always been a bigger Continue Reading »
Album Of The Year 2021 – Number 21
Welcome to Day 10 in my ‘Album of the Year 2021 Top 30 Countdown’. Exactly a third of the way through. How on Earth did that happen so quickly? And how come I have barely heard a flicker of dissention to any of my choices thus far? You’re all far too polite it seems! If Continue Reading »
Nightland – The Great Nothing – Album Review
Artist: Nightland Album Title: The Great Nothing Label: Scarlet Records Date of Release: 19 November 2021 Once in a while, an album will come along about which you had no idea, and will knock you sideways. It’s a special feeling and is one of those fundamental experiences that keeps me coming back day after day, Continue Reading »
Omnium Gatherum – Origin – Album Review
Artist: Omnium Gatherum Album Title: Origin Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 5 November 2021 It’s fitting, in many ways the latest album from Finland’s Omnium Gatherum, ‘Origin’ should be released on 5th November, because you should expect fireworks. I wrote a review for the new Insomnium EP very recently and remarked that the Continue Reading »
