Ontborg's "Following the Steps of Damnation" The album classic elements of melodic death metal with a touch of melancholy and a distinct atmosphere. The guitar work is a highlight, with plenty of catchy and ominous riffs that stick in your head. The album is well-produced and features impressive artwork by Juanjo Castellano, adding to the overall atmosphere. While most of the album maintains a mid-paced tempo, it flows well and avoids feeling stagnant. The album draws heavily from the Swedish melodic death metal sound of the 90s, particularly bands like Dismember and Benediction. Despite its influences, Ontborg manages to create a sound that is distinctly their own. Some might find the consistent mid-tempo pacing to be predictable or lacking in variety.
The CD."Following the Steps of Damnation" is a highly recommended album for fans of melodic death metal, particularly those who appreciate the Swedish sound of the 90s. It's a well-crafted album with memorable moments, a strong atmosphere, and a distinct identity. The album's professional presentation and artwork further enhance the listening experience.
The album "Once Entombed..." Is presented with considerable weight and firmly. of the original band from Athens, Greece, a band that will break down this sick album below. ABYSSUS incredible band formed in 2011 that pays tribute and tribute to that sound of the late 80s and early 90s. This band usually includes in its discs and splits covers of legendary bands and adapting the sound of those bands to their own truth that they are executioners, they know how to do it and it makes it too bestial. 19 songs 5 of them covers make up this huge album that from start to finish takes you through an old school sound so brutal that it never disappoints. I am very excited that these old school sounds are preserved and greatly renewed in bands like that. You must listen to this album to understand its description. Powerful vocals always without fainting and without halftones, incredible brutal riff bass and guitars that do not faint and of course a battery that is a true demolition machine. I recommend this incredible album if you are an external follower.
Again we have here the Greeks severe and incredible in sound. Crushing, powerful and mega bestial is the sound of this band with such a trajectory. The next ep "Unleash the Storm" is a real truck passing over all the force of death metal annihilating your bones, perhaps that is the feeling that this brutality of music transmits. I would like to review with you the set list of the ep that included two separate covers including one of the glorious Bathory: - Operation Ranch Hand -Unleash the Storm -The Rite of Darkness (Bathory cover) -Open the Gates (Manilla Road cover) -Warhead (Venom cover) Athens gave birth to this beastly band and it truly represents in an excellent way the sound of the old school extreme something very rich and virtuous that never loses its primitive and direct touch kicking your face again and again. Dedicate minutes of life to this ep you will not regret.
The legendary Greeks faithful to old school metal and delivering a dose of brutal death. You can check out his 2019 Split "Sign of the Covenant of Death" for an excellent incredible sound just like it came out of your old tape deck. Diabolic and very virtuous guitars, a lot of brutal riff and a lot of solos that dictate teaching. A battery that has an extreme brutality that blends with the sickest and most powerful voice that you can simply have an exquisite split for all those lovers of old school death metal. Let us remember for those who do not know the creators of this bestiality, I will refresh you here: Kostas Analytis Vocals, Lyrics Panos Gkourmpaliotis Guitars, Songwriting Coasts Ragiadakos Bass Christos Liakos Guitars Jan Westermann Drums If you like Obituary, Bolt Thrower and you are a follower of the old death school you will really enjoy this split.
The Germans in Birth of the Wicked present the EP. "Offenbarung". A very dense and direct sound very old school and with many influences from 90's bands but without losing a touch of originality and a lot of evil in each song a voice that plays with the highs and gutturals very well some guitars that are a kind of hymennosis musical and a super heavy battery that makes the sound even denser than what is already presented in its entirety. Anthology solos and a musical quality far superior to bands of similar styles. You can quietly listen to this EP. without realizing how fast it goes despite being a not quite super extreme style in terms of speed. Do not stop listening and perceiving something very different from what you can expect.
Proglas from Slovakia excellent black metal band necessary for the followers of this genre. Faithful followers have great material on their album "Herrethik". Brutal riffs and very demonic sick rhythms necessary for the day to day of this blacker in general. You can walk the path of many rhythms and feelings along this huge disk in quality and essence. Active since 2001, the natives of Trenčín, Trenčín provide us with a record that I recommend from beginning to end.
The demo that I tell you below is interesting and quite worth appreciating. Demonic Dreams these German nobles formed in 2017 come loaded with their best melodic death arsenal and seek to break into the extreme melodic world scene. Withdraw notable influences from Swedish death metal from the early 90's we can enjoy very melodic songs and with all the force they say about death metal. Great song like Hellbound, Ancestral Sin, Daemonspell, etc. Brutal Demo, well executed and with the necessary energy to present your sound to the world. Being a band that I would like you not to forget and that you recognize within so much nascent metal in these times, here I leave you the names of their cintegrates and so you can investigate more about the authors of this great Demo: Dennis Pake, Stefan Rosenow, Nils Kreul, Simon Stellmacher. Let's hope very soon that the natives of Hamm are presenting us a long duration as exquisite as this material.
Eroded Ashes a band that surprises you from the beginning with the intro "fligth of the raven" that at the end connects with "Set Ablaze" a brutal melodic and extreme piece where clever high voices and choruses are conjugated deathcore recipe applied to much music more extreme. The album I am telling you about is no more than "Out For A Hunt", ten true metal songs with power energy and a lot of vigor injected into every second of their songs. I invite you to listen to the entire album since it has no waste whatsoever. Rudolstadt is the German city that houses and houses this great new generation metal project, saving and saving the extreme, never leaving it aside. Amazing guitars where you can hear solo melodies and very amazing chords, a real waste of talent, as well as a fatal and infallible percussion. Mixed and mastered by "Dave Eschrich". Album arts by "Frank Ziski" And all the music performed by the band makes the future of metal safe when we listen to these .proposals and how the Bavarian country has contributed to this worldwide movement, we recommend you do not stop hearing them.
Battlesword excellent band that today offers us a majestic album called "An death cometh upon us". We can get a good mix of quite homogeneous sounds in this production, from death and thrash, as well as a melody that becomes decisive in every way, for many it may remind you of the legendary Amon Amart, with such an epic tone typical of hymns that take you to the beyond. "Into Battle" and "Once" seemed to me two tracks of real power and reminded me of the best bands on the Swedish scene in this style. Breaking down the album is a totally impeccable, crisp and high-quality recording, execution of each element all pass with 100 strings with incredible virtuosity and a notorious talent, a voice that never disappoints or faints excellent gutturals and a battery that never stops accelerating and it is the engine for the compendium of sounds so brutal that this great band gives us. Always recommended if your taste for melodic and extreme metal is high.
Under Destruction The first thing that comes to mind is melodic death with a high level and great execution, a waste of virtuosity and quite a talent for these Austrians. "Deliverance" is the album that we are presented today with a fairly clean and worked sound, a real machinery of melodies and extreme metal, making use of two combined weapons to provide.
Re-Armed It is a Finnish band dedicated to melodic death with many influences from well-known bands of the genre, especially from the great exponents, but which in turn gives us its quite original tone, never falling for copies. Let's remember that this band started at the beginning of the millennium and has had an extensive career within the world of extreme underground music. "Ignis Aeternum" is an album that was made in June 2020 and that was very well received by the public, ten quite powerful songs that are each supreme, strings that go to the extreme, percussion that impresses and never it is monotonous, and of course voices that leave everything on stage. "Liro" is a high point for the band since the drums are a fundamental point in this melodic and brutal sound, just as "Allan", "Oskari" and "Juhana" on the strings manage to devastate everything in their path, and a point end with "Jouni" that destroys the atmosphere with its brutal songs. If you like to experience underground bands but with great influences that are noticeable in their final sound, this band is for you.
Feradur Luxembourg/Cologne/Hamburg is the origin of Feradur excellent
melodic death very well achieved and with great ruthless sounds. We notice in
his album "Legion" that they go from the most melodious to the most
extreme guitars very well worked, a correct bass and a voice that is deadly and
fierce its battery as crushing as the genre asks. This album makes you travel
through the ups and downs of emotions that make you think about life and in all
that decadent of our world remember that this band in its lyrics presents
something deep psychology and decay that goes hand in hand with the music so
complex that make. From this album I recommend its totality but if you want
specific themes you can pay attention to "Kolossus, Holi Fire, Fake
Creator, Maelstrom" I was surprised by this great band and it makes me
clear that we have relief in regards to the melodic division of extreme metal,
great Feradur.
Determination – "Symbiosis" (2018) death melodic direct metal and very efficient in terms of
execution, band of those that surely you will be able to enjoy from start to
finish on their albums, but surely live are a rather extreme experience, often
splurging virtuosity with solos and excellent melodies , themes that are quite
complete for that reason throughout their compositions but really need several
minutes to be able to capture in their songs their great music proposal, it is
surprising that in Germany where we get determination many bands are leaning
towards the extreme melodic sound, it's something that years ago was not so
likely. Symbosis
really recommended.
Bitterness
- Memories Of A Dying Past (Compilation) So here we have compilation of Thrash
Metal band Bitterness. I should mention I’m not a fan of “melodic thrash metal”
at all and think that such words as “melodic” and “thrash” better be apart. What’s about material?
Though it’s compilation I didn’t mentioned any differences in tracks it could
be the full-length as well. The sound is very clear and sharp with definite
high-frequency drum kicking, all instruments are listenable, recording and
mixing are quality and polished. Music is very typical mixing of Thrash Metal
and Swedish Melodic Death Metal kind of AT THE GATES. In general all sound
reminds me modern KREATOR even vocal is slightly similar to Mille Petroza. In
conclusion if you fan of such kind of direction you definitely like it.
