#melodeath

[clouds-of-wings]

#wintersun #jari mäenpää #melodeath #melodic death metal #symphonic metal #metal news #metal #music stuff #poll

[theartofmetal]

214. Black Winter Day - Amorphis (Melodic Death Metal, 1994 - EP)

Art by Wesley Benscoter

#metal #melodic death metal #melodeath #art #artwork #music #painting #drawing #illustration #heavy music #artist #cover art #heavy #amorphis #raven #bird #eagles #finland #sea #moon #fullmoon

[tippytheclown1]

Carnage Sweden Band photos and their sole LP "Dark Recollections" from 1990

Similar to other chainsaw bands like God Macabre and Dismember (as well as sharing member with Dismember and Entombed, as well as members going on to form Arch Enemy), Carnage is responsible for possibly the most pure OSDM sound of the HM-2 movement. With a thrashing riff-fest amplified by the buzzsaw, this album finds itself among the classics of Swedish death metal, and OSDM as a whole. Well deserved bonus points for the Dan Seagrave cover artwork.

#death metal #osdm #tippytheclown #brutal death metal #heavy metal #metal #carnage #dark recollections #swedish death metal #melodeath #melodic death metal #death thrash #thrash #thrash metal #death #music

[theawesomeawesome]

ITS HERE!! Primordial Remains single is out! Listen to Ad Imum- Infinite Nothingness on ALL streaming platforms now!!

Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/track/1fakmeIClBPGTY1XaBSu6F?si=5p2pN877SAmbaDY7y6FEgQ

Apple Music- https://music.apple.com/us/album/ad-imum-infinite-nothingess/1692963166?i=1692963167

#black metal #death metal #melodeath #my art #original music #metal head #primordial remains #my ocs #Spotify

[murderofcrow]

10 songs I've been enjoying lately 🎶

Thank you @sleebyvessel & @moonchild-in-blue for tagging. 🫶

I'm tagging @kyloreno-911 @autumns-veil @ardengrey & @takemetoasgard Feel free to ignore tho if you don't want to or you've done it already. ♡

#sleep token #make them suffer #too close to touch #bring me the horizon #in flames #bad omens #i prevail #scarlet house #music #metal music #metalcore #melodeath #alternative #music dump #Spotify

[metalsongoftheday]

Tuesday, February 20: Nervosa, "Nail the Coffin"

Nervosa wasn’t doing anything new on Jailbreak or any of their previous 4 albums, though “Nail the Coffin” had more than a few traces of Arch Enemy-style melodeath to go with the thrash that was their original M.O.  The solos were certainly straight out of the Arch Enemy/In Flames playbook, as were Prika Amaral’s clearly enunciated shouty rasp.  Nervosa had a full grasp of their craft and knew how to deliver a sturdy and aggressive banger, and “Nail the Coffin” was exactly that.

#heavy metal #metal #heavy metal rules #heavy metal music #listen to metal #metal song of the day #metal song #song of the day #song #nervosa #brazilian music #brazilian metal #thrash #thrash metal #melodeath #melodic death metal #napalm records #heavy music #heavy rock #metal rock #metal music #listen to music #long live rock #Youtube

[key-to-everything]

Amon Amarth - Find a Way or Make One The Great Heathen Army

No matter what the odds I will never kneel I trust in ancient Gods and my heart of steel So, send your best with wrath, you cannot block my path Though your arrows block the sun, I'll find a way or make one

#my post #spotify link #metal #melodeath #melodic death metal #amon amarth #death metal #Spotify

[thisworldisablackhole]

This week in listening 02/23/24

Okay, wow. Today was a massive day for new releases, so let's get a few of those out of the way first. Starting with...

Job For A Cowboy was like... not on my radar AT ALL this year. I listened to this band a bit around 2010, but they were always a little too extreme for me. I'll be honest, the album cover is what sold me on this. The art is giving me huge Born of Osiris vibes, which is another band I used to listen to in the 2010s and have actually been getting back into lately (The Discovery is a fucking incredible record). So, inspired by amazing psychedelic alien artwork, vague nostalgia, and a healthy dose of morbid curiosity, I decided to jump in to this as soon as I woke up. I am actually blown away by how good this is. I'm not a huge metalhead, so I struggle to describe the intricacies of this type of music, but I know for certain it's activating some disgusting primal neurons in my brain. It's heavy, technical, colourful, thoughtful. The guitars whip around with the sharpness of wire torture devices as the bass paints terrifying rhythms into the background of every song. The drums don't just keep up, they hold the leash to maintain control over the chaos and do so flawlessly. The vocals? They add a nice flavouring to the sound but I'm honestly so intrigued by what's going on underneath the surface of these songs that I keep forgetting to listen to him. It's not really a bad thing.

When I was just starting to get back into metalcore a few years ago, I spent a night swapping the aux and drinking beers with my best friend, and he threw on Darkest Hour's song DEMON(S). I was blown away by their ability to inject melody into their sound in a very subtle and nuanced way. They had a much heavier melodeath influence and didn't rely on huge soaring pop choruses like every other -core band of the 2000s. A lot of the melody in their songs comes from the riffs themselves and I love that about them. Even when clean vocals are present, they are mellow in pitch and are used almost more like a texture to enrich the riffing instead of being the main show. When Darkest Hour started dropping singles for this new album my ears perked up right away. Societal Bile showcased a more straight forward thrash influence and I was a little worried that this album would be lacking in melody, but I'm relieved to find that isn't the case. This song in particular is a perfect showcase of the band ability to be heavy and also execute insanely beautiful choruses without being corny about it. Another absolute standout track from this album is Mausoleum, which sounds almost like if Elliot Smith wrote a melodeath song. Trust me, check it out and you’ll know what I mean. I also want to take a second to appreciate that the artwork for this is clearly a nod to The Black Dahlia Murder (rest in peace Trevor Strnad).

Okay, massive diversion away from metal for a second. MGMT is a band that I have always reserved a spot in my heart for despite not being interested in... well... anything they've put out since their debut. Like many other people my age, Electric Feel is more than just a song, it's a core memory. I've listened to few tracks here and there from their other albums out of curiosity but nothing clicked. Not because they weren't good, but because I just wasn't at a place in my life where I was willing to let the magic of MGMT back into my heart. Loss Of Life may very well be the album to change that. When Bubblegum Dog dropped in 2023 I was immediately captivated by the strange, off kilter folkiness of it. Weird, and catchy? Wait a minute, that's the same reason I fell in love with Oracular Spectacular! I haven't listened to this full album yet so we'll see how much of it delivers on those qualities, but I have been jamming this single a lot over the past few days so I had to include it in the list.

I posted a full review for this album here, but I'll do a quick summary. I've racked up about 270 scrobbles out of this album over the past week since it was released, that's like listening to it about 24 times in full (or 3.4 times a day). I absolutely adore this album because it brings back to life everything I loved about music growing up. It's passionate, catchy, emotional, and heavy. Seriously, if you are a fan of My Chemical Romance, early Escape the Fate, AFI, The Used etc etc.. I can not beg you enough to give this album a chance. It's a very well written love letter to that era of 2000s post hardcore and emo bands and you will find it immediately familiar and comforting.

Okay, we are moving away from new releases now. I mentioned in a previous post how I was getting back into prog by listening to bands like TesseracT, Aviations and Artificial Language. The Contortionist is the newest addition to that roster and they bring something very unique to the table. Their instrumentals are heavy but methodical and hypnotic, much like the image on the album art. The thing that stuck out to about this band the most is their singer. I can't get over how much I love his mellow, folky approach to singing on a metal album. I've never heard anything like it. Seriously, take out the metal instrumentation and replace them with Nick Drake's Pink Moon and his voice wouldn't feel out of place at all. The result is a progressive metal album that feels extremely down to earth. If this album had a scent it would be of bark and dirt. Again, somehow the album art has done an immaculate job at representing the sound of the record. I'm obsessed. This is their last album (released in 2017) and is far from their most popular, but I'm curious to go backward and see how their sound progressed to this point.

Thursday is probably going to keep popping up on these roundups because they are my favourite fucking band right now and I never want to stop listening to them. I initially glossed over WATT as a “good but stagnant” entry to their discog, but after hearing lots of people say this is their favourite Thursday album, I knew there had to be something about it that I was missing. Don’t get me wrong, I always enjoyed it, but I felt it lacked the hooks and the gut wrenching punches of Full Collapse, and it also did nothing to push their sound forward like ACBTLD did. Well, I’ve spent the last two weeks listening to it non stop in honour of their WATT tour, and I have to say it’s grown on me so much to the point where it’s become my go to choice when I need a kick in the teeth. I think this album has some of Thursday's heaviest material both sonically and thematically, and it's also a bit more nuanced in the way it shows it's colours. It has a tough shell that takes multiple listens to crack, but it's so worth the time. “Signals Over the Air” was always my fav song from this, but recently “Steps Ascending” and the closer “Tomorrow I’ll Be You” have started to stand out as serious highlights to me. The ending of this song when Geoff yells “I’M CALLING FROM YOUR HOUSE, IN YOUR ROOM, IN YOUR NAME. LAYING IN YOUR BED, FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS” sends chills up my spine.

Last but not least, I’ve been jamming this album again for pure nostalgia purposes. This album came out when I was 11 and was one of the first/most life changing CD's I ever owned. I was actually inspired to spin this again because of The Requiem’s song “Less Than Zero” has riffs that remind me soo much of some of the songs here. This album just never gets old though, despite it turning 20 next years (I want to cry thinking about that). In fact, I think the older I get, the better these songs sound. I was listening to this while on a long walk the other day and kept finding myself being wildly impressed by the songwriting and guitar riffing. There are so many subtle switch ups happening underneath the surface, and the way the two guitars play around each other is just incredible. The closer you listen the more depth there seems to be. "Under The Knife" and "Injection" are straight up two of the best melodic punk songs ever written. Pure genius.

#Spotify #rise against #thursday #the contortionist #the requiem #mgmt #darkest hour #job for a cowboy #progressive metal #death metal #post hardcore #hardcore punk #alternative music #melodeath #music

[poorschilpad]

#metal #wintersun #time ii #power metal #melodeath #folk metal #jari mäenpää #polls #music polls

[metalvalkryrie]

Melodeath Supergroup BERZERKER LEGION Review 2023

The Swedish Melodeath Supergroup presents to be a new force to be reckoned with in 2023 with new hard hitting record “Chaos Will Reign”. This may be the heaviest album I’ve reviewed so far this year and vastly impressed me. I hadn’t listened to these guys but a couple times so I came in to this review pretty much blind. The lead songwriter sent comments and an introduction to the album that…

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#amon amarth #at the gates #death metal #hypocrisy #in flames #melodeath #melodic death metal #metal #music #new music #supergroup #swedish death metal

[xvermingirlx]

I've been working on a midi melodic death metal demo thing to see what I am capable of for sequencing n stuff.

Hope ya like!

#midi #tracker #sequencer #reaper only #reaper daw #melodic death metal #melodeath #meloblack #black metal #8bit #fakebit

[clouds-of-wings]

[All answers stolen from the FB comment section]

#wintersun #metal #metal news #music stuff #jari mäenpää #melodeath

[theartofmetal]

262. And Then There Were None - Livløs (Melodic Death Metal, 2021)

Art by Mariusz Lewandowski †

#this hits hard #metal #melodeath #melodic death metal #death metal #art #artwork #music #painting #illustration #drawing #heavy music #artist #cover art #heavy #mariusz lewandowski #denmark #aarhus

[metalhead-brainrot]

Album of the day: Lord of War - Celestial Pestilence

2011 / San Diego (Oceanside), CA

Genres: deathcore; melodic, technical, progressive

Themes: cosmic metal (e.g. space, aliens, ancient Egypt)

Thoughts: I'm coming around to deathcore and a big fan of tech death; this album scratches both itches. I may be a new fan but I see myself listening to a lot of Lord of War in the future.

Since this is a new blog, I'll clarify that I care too much about the Drake Equation to be an ancient aliens nutter (no hate to any nutters, love the energy). I am, however, a total sucker for aliens in metal music. Perhaps it's because of my hobby interest in sci-fi lit, but I've become quite the Voivod bro.

#album of the day #music #metal music #metal #technical death metal #tech death #deathcore #metalcore #cosmic metal #unique leader records #progressive metal #full album #album #melodeath #melodic death metal #Bandcamp

[ohhowveryblue]

I'll be your guardian from loneliness

Feel my love surround you

Share your burden

I will carry it

A refuge all around you

#I've had this stuck in my head since Thursday #I'm not complaining I just need to share it with everyone #Because it's beautiful #Aether Realm #Guardian #Redneck Vikings from Hell #melodeath #melodic death metal #Heavy metal #NWONMB #New Wave of Nice Metal Buds #Spotify

[zacrathedemon5]

And the award for “strangest AMV combination I’ve used yet” goes to…

(Sometimes you just really need some melodeath in your romcom anime, yaknow?)

#kaguya sama: love is war #kaguya sama wa kokurasetai #insomnium #amv #melodeath #mine #Youtube