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Sense of Fall – Fallen Statues

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 Melodic death metal has always had a special place in my heart with bands like Amon Amarth completely getting my attention with the melody and brutally that’s incorporated into the genre. And sometimes a change is welcome to shake the mix up just a little bit to make it more fresh and not the same recycled sound that’s been used a million times. In the case of Sense of Fall’s new album, “Fallen Statues”, that change is a set of female vocals. Yes, yes I know! “Arch Enemy is female fronted too, dumbass.” Well just fucking bare with me here! A … Continue reading Sense of Fall – Fallen Statues

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Mindshift – Horizon

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 Melodic death metal has two variations for me: really, really good (Amon Amarth, Despite) or needs more work (none come to mind right off the top of my head), and thankfully enough Mindshift’s debut full length “Horizon” is really, really good to say in the least. Now I could argue that this is also deathcore with there being singing and screaming all throughout the album, but I’ll just keep it simple and leave it at melodic death metal. This whole album gets both my thumbs up though with the heaviness being constant within the intense riffs that Mindshift pulls off … Continue reading Mindshift – Horizon

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The Passion of Our Souls – Soulmates

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 The thought of melodic death metal and pop metal being fused into on has honestly never come across my mind until I saw this album. The Passion of Our Souls has created an album with a female vocalist that has a very raw set of vocals in between choruses, but during the chorus is where the pop metal comes in with the guitars still staying relatively the same but the vocals start singing instead of the sound that I can only call “the death metal voice”. We should all have a rough idea of what that sounds like. While I … Continue reading The Passion of Our Souls – Soulmates

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Countless Skies (self-titled)

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 I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, and I’ll say it again: I fucking love melodic death metal. It is by far my favorite kind of metal followed closely by groove and regular death. And if you’d ask me what my favorite melodic death metal bands out there today are before I heard Countless Skies I’d say Amon Amarth and Despite. But after hearing this beautiful album Countless Skies is definitely up there among my top 3 now. Their debut self-titled EP is just . . . it’s fucking amazing. I honestly cannot find the proper words to explain … Continue reading Countless Skies (self-titled)

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Cyhyraeth – Servant to the Fire

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 Before I get anywhere, let me just say that I love that cover. It looks badass. Now, Cyhyraeth is the best melodic death metal band to have come across my radar since Despite did a few months ago. But what Cyhyraeth brings to the table that shakes things up a little bit is that they have a female vocalist. And what other melodic death metal band has a female vocalist? Arch Enemy. So that raised a flag for me simply because of that possibility that Cyhyraeth could be as good. Well personally they’re not as good as Arch Enemy but they are definitely up there … Continue reading Cyhyraeth – Servant to the Fire

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Stormcast – Frame of Mind

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 Tell you what, when a band can get together, “throw” up a debut album, and make it sound badass, I’m one fucking happy metal-head. Stormcast has just released their debut “Frame of Mind” and it is one of those that makes me happy that my top albums of the year list isn’t set in stone yet because now I have to go back and contemplate if this is worthy enough to knock a few off. But that’s later and you’re not even supposed to know about that so shh. “Frame of Mind” is as if someone took melodic death metal … Continue reading Stormcast – Frame of Mind

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Attic – Seasons

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 Technical and melodic death metal? . . . take my money. Just take my goddamn money. I really really like it when death metal bands put a little bit more of that “something” into their music because it makes it much more interesting. Like Despite. I love Despite because their melodic death metal is really nice and it has that fluid brutality and rhythm that Attic also share in “Seasons” and that made this album extremely enjoyable for me. Each song started off differently and lead to something different every time and that gave the album a sort of longevity … Continue reading Attic – Seasons