Death Metal

[Phylactery]

I don’t think In Flames ever really made the type of winding melodic death he’s talking about. Lunar Strain is the closest, but even then, songs are mostly short and concise. And it's not as good as Skydancer or the first two At the Gates.

Having said that, this still has pretty short and concise songs, but I remember it being quite good. Not listened to in it a long time.

Dawn of Dreams - Darklight Awakening



Let me know what you think.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I don’t think In Flames ever really made the type of winding melodic death he’s talking about.

I think what he meant was that In Flames/At the Gates/Dark Tranquillity *killed* the style of melodeath I like by popularizing the style that is dominant today.

I'll check out the album you posted but I wouldn't call 2000 "modern" exactly (that's the same year Oracle Moon was released.)

 

[Phylactery]

Well yeah, it's not modern. I don't really know much modern in this style, because the modern production kills it for me a lot of the time so I tend to avoid it. It's just something to add to my other list They are also German, which is non-standard for the style.

There's this rather obscure band from the US called Council of the Fallen, definitely more death metally, but you might like. This song is from their 2002 album:



Pay particular attention to 2:50 - 3:30 and then 3:30 - end.

From their 2004 album:

 

[CiG]

Dawn of Dreams - Darklight Awakening



Let me know what you think.

Enjoying this, has that whirlwind riffage thing going on and the drums slay.

What does everybody think of Wintersun?

This album isn't really anything like the melodeath bands mentioned, it's melodic death/thrash I guess. But this was a contender for my top 10 albums of last year at some point. Pretty good shit, never really heard anything else like it:

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Wintersun are pretty terrible.

Just dug up this old gem.

 

[CiG]

I feel like if this was less Ensiferum-y I might like it, all the symphonic bits cheeze it up so much.

 

[CiG]

@morguelord

Reading through your epic list, noticed this wasn't in there (probably because it's quite new) but this is some pretty fucking good pummeling death metal (with guest Electrocution vocalist on this track apparently):

 

[mrandmrspoot]

Anything with camo pants and killer shades

 

[CiG]

 

[morguelord]

There's a lot from this year I haven't heard yet, so cut me some slack. And I think that Cathexia was just posted like a week ago anyway lol. And I've never listened to Wintersun, ever. Actually, most of those bands you listed I've never heard. The closest I come to melodic death metal is like Intestine Baalism and Lykathea Aflame. Not my type of DM at all.

 

[CiG]

so cut me some slack.

NEVER.

 

[no country for old wainds]

There's a lot from this year I haven't heard yet, so cut me some slack. And I think that Cathexia was just posted like a week ago anyway lol. And I've never listened to Wintersun, ever. Actually, most of those bands you listed I've never heard. The closest I come to melodic death metal is like Intestine Baalism and Lykathea Aflame. Not my type of DM at all.

youtube of the aforementioned ripped to shreds, their album's among the best DM i've heard this year:

 

[morguelord]

Here's some links to 2018 albums I haven't seen posted much, if at all, in this thread, including some of the bigger names, mainly for convenience. Let's begin. New Zealotry coming soon. The band describes themselves as "FFO : early Atrocity, The Chasm, Brutality, Gorguts (EROSION OF SANITY), Disincarnate, early Monstrosity, Timeghoul", so if that doesn't interest you, I don't think anything really will.



New Bloodbath.



Beyond Creation.



Construct of Lethe



Funeratus, scorching Brazilian death!



Ghastly, almost psychedelic Finnish death metal that harkens to the spirit of olde Finndeath bands, Depravity, Funebre, etc.



Horrendous



Infuriate is a lot different than the other bands I've posted here. Golden Age-styled brutal death in the vein of bands like Deeds of Flesh, Severed Savior, or Suffocation.



Lago



Monstrosity



Runemagick



Serocs, FFO : Severed Savior, Disavowed, Odious Mortem, Cabinet-Era Spawn of Possession.



Putrisect

 

[EchoForever]

good shit
still havent listened to the new horrendous

 

[morguelord]

This Ripped to Shreds song y'all told me to check out is doing absolutely nothing for me. Vocals are weak and overly-reverbed, and I really hate punk beats in death metal, and that's primarily what this is. The few blasts they do have feel like they're played at half speed. It's alright Swedeath styled stuff, but nothing about it stands out to me among the 600 others out there right now. That's frankly never been my favorite style anyway, and with the huge trend of bands playing the hell out of it, I have basically zero desire to hear anything in this style. Some cool riffs, and it's fairly dynamic, which is more than most bands that ape that style can say, but mostly a swing and a miss for me, fellas. I'm listening to the full album on YouTube and I'm really struggling to let it keep playing, there's nothing here that makes me want to hear any more of it.

 

[CiG]

That was no country, I didn't rec it bruh. I rec'd Cathexia.

Anyway, that new Runemagick is godly shit.

 

[morguelord]

I didn't look to see who it was, I'm just getting stoned in my garage after work, I don't care THAT much hahaha. I'm about to go through and listen to the ones I posted that I haven't heard yet, including that Runemagick! I heard a snippet before the whole thing was released and it sounded killer.

 

[CiG]

Also enjoying this Ghastly! I feel like I checked this one out at some point, but anyways good stuff.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Really enjoying the new House of Atreus. The Arghoslent/GBK comparison is unavoidable but who cares when the riffs are this good.

 

[CiG]