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50 best melodic death metal bands
Looking for melodic death metal bands to listen? You’re in the right place, here are 50 good ones to check out!
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Doom metal
15 underrated death/doom metal bands you should know
The death/doom metal genre, a subgenre of doom metal, is filled with awesome underground bands. These are 10 of them, including my band Soliloquium. Classic death/doom metal bands include early Katatonia, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, October Tide and Swallow the Sun. Three bands you should know before reading this Read more…
Doom metal
Ashes of Life – Seasons Within (doom metal, 2020)
Ashes of Life is a Portuguese doom metal band with progressive, shoegaze and post rock influences. 7 February 2020 marks the release date of “Seasons Within”. It’s a treat for fans of bands like Katatonia and Alcest. Listen to the full album stream right here! If you want to support Read more…
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50 best progressive rock bands
Progressive rock is one of my favorite genres and there so many good bands. This is my list of the 50 best progressive rock bands in alphabetical order. Some of them are borderline metal and some of them are borderline other genres, like alternative rock and post rock. These sub-genres Read more…
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10 best death metal albums! – the ultimate list
Back in the day, this list used to be called “10 essential death metal albums”, but after making an proper essentials list, this is now called 10 best death metal albums. If you’re just starting out with death metal, you might better off at my fresh blog post on 25 Read more…
Doom metal
Ethereal Darkness – Smoke and Shadows review
Ethereal Darkness Origin: International Genre(s): Death/doom metal, melodic death metal For fans of: Swallow the Sun, Insomnium, Mors Principium Est, October Tide “Smoke and Shadows” Quality death/doom metal and melodic death metal projects seem to be popping up everywhere right now. According to me, it’s both positive and negative. On Read more…
Doom metal
Kaunis Kuolematon – Elämä Ei Tarvitse Minua review
Kaunis Kuolematon Origin: Finland Active since: 2012 Genre(s): Death/doom metal, melodic death metal For fans of: Swallow the Sun, October Tide, Rapture, Daylight Dies, Novembers Doom This review is also available at rateyourmusic.com “Elämä Ei Tarvitse Minua” review Kaunis Kuolematon is a band I’ve been ecstatic about for quite some Read more…
Doom metal
Decembre Noir – Autumn Kings review
Decembre Noir Origin: Germany Active since: 2008 Label: Lifeforce Records Genre(s): Death/doom metal For fans of: October Tide, Rapture, Daylight Dies, Novembers Doom This review is also available at rateyourmusic.com “Autumn Kings” Many soulcrushing work commutes in 2016 were spent listening to Decembre Noir’s “Forsaken Earth”. The band’s aggressive take Read more…
Doom metal
Loneshore – From Presence to Silence review by Stefan Nordström
Loneshore Origin: Brazil Active since: 2014 Label: BadMoodMan Music Genre(s): Death/doom metal, progressive metal For fans of: Opeth, Katatonia, Daylight Dies This review is also available at rateyourmusic.com “From Presence to Silence” What can a bunch of Brazilians that really like death/doom metal and Opeth achieve? A whole lot, apparently! Read more…
Doom metal
Somnent – Sojourn review
Somnent Origin: United States Active since: 2015 Label: GS Productions Genre(s): Death/doom metal For fans of: Katatonia, Daylight Dies, Swallow the Sun, Draconian, My Dying Bride “Sojourn” There are many criminally underrated bands in the death/doom metal genre, and Somnent is certainly one of them. This is the U.S. one Read more…
