Metal Reviews

Yep. I think there's potential in mixing more melodic influences with death metal, but 99,99% of the stuff out there bores me to tears.

Carcass' Necroticism is brilliant, though.

Voted 'blah'. None of what I've listened to has been that good, even DT, who are prob. the best I've found. Real death kicks mellow-death any day of the week! :twisted:

used to like it alot. now its hmm..........just 'ok'

The people who play melodeath are some of the most talented musisicans out there. I don't see how you think it could be a waste of talent to play the stuff they do.

Amon Amarth, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity all have brilliant albums. Then there's obviously a rake load of shite bands like other genres. Don't see the point in dismissing the whole melodeath genre though.

Holy fucking timewarp, Batman!

I saw this thread and thought that lizardtail was finally back, but alas...

Most of it is utter garbage.

I'd give my left nut to have DT's 'Skydancer' properly rerecorded though.

It's mostly crap, but there are some decent bands that fall within the genre. When you consider that Dissection technically falls into melodic black/death metal, then you can clearly see that good melodic death metal can exist Sacramentum also fall within that melodic black/death metal spectrum (leaning more to melodic death on the debut) and they're quite good as well. I enjoy early to mid Amon Amarth (up to Vs. the World, though With Oden On Our Side was alright, too) and some Godgory, too. But other than that the genre pretty much sucks donkey balls.

Once again another genre with gems hidden in it, stuff like: Dimension Zero, Neuraxis, The Crown, Night in gales, Eucharist, The Funeral Pyre, and of course the mighty Dissection. It just depends where you look; even with the Gothenburg bands having run their course.

Neuraxis??? They're definately Technical Death Metal, even if they have some melodic aspects.

The red in the sky is ours > all other melodeath.

Skyfire FTW.

That is all.

Technically there's plenty of reason to put Dissection in this category, but they're hardly representative to melodic death because there's just so much more about them. That black flavour of their music and the aesthetics manages to create an atmosphere that, atleast to me, is very different from the likes of In Flames and other 90's melodic death. And as we all know, music is all about atmosphere.

But if we count melodic death/black into the category of melodic death refered to in this thread, then there's plenty of good stuff.

Aside from the already mentioned almighty Dissection, and Sacramentum, whose record Far Away From The Sun I'd kill to own, I'd like to give some credit to Dawn. Their record Slaughtersun is absolutely brilliant stuff.

Other bands that are worthy include Unanimated, Vinterland, Decameron and Gates of Isthar.

I take pride in that all of those bands are Swedish, the melodic black/death metal genre is probably the sole reason why Sweden is my favorite metal country..

As for more standard melodic death metal, it's pretty blah to me. There's Amon Amarth and At the Gates which are brilliant of course.
Then there's In Flames and Dark Tranquillity which are good but kind of tiresome in the long run. Skyfire's first record was good. Children Of Bodom's first three album were good. Eternal Tears of Sorrow are alright.

But there's just so much generic melodic death metal, loads of CoB and In Flames clones, which kind of ruins it for me. For every good band there's 10 that are a real chore to listen to.

So, if melodic black/death was included in this thread, which I don't think was intented, then my vote would be great. Otherwise, put me on blah

This thread is more necro than my SMR,C topic... and it has nothing to do with thematics.

Because it's supposed to have been dead and buried years ago?

I have to break it to you, Cenotaph;I own Sacramentum's 'Far Away from the Sun'. So would you kill me to own it?

I think the Op should just listen to stuff like Catamenia. They do something special with their MDM

I'm guessing the OP would have difficulty hearing anything right now.

Pics plz? Of you, not the cd. I want to know what I'm up against.


Seriously though, I'll probably wait until either I can find it on e-bay for a price I can afford or hope for a re-issue. It's a shame really that I've only got it on cd-r.