Tag Dark Tranquillity
It’s a true statement that the San Francisco Bay Area is a base for strong, technical metal bands and here’s another in Nite. This is the band’s second album release. Blackened metal is how it’s described but the first thing… Continue Reading →
Dark Tranquillity released their twelfth album Moment in 2020, but at the time were only able to stream a gig from an empty theatre. Finally they are back on tour in America which is hopefully a sign that things are… Continue Reading →
Niklas Sundin returns once more with his vast array of musical ideas which finally see the light of day. Having previously covered both Mitochondrial Sun releases; the self titled debut and the intense ‘Sju pulsarer’, EP release, “Bodies And Gold”… Continue Reading →
It was a pleasure first of all to come across something on Scarlet Records, a long- standing label which brought pleasure to me in the past through such bands as Stormlord, Hatesphere and Disarmonia Mundi. This latest offering is From… Continue Reading →
Back in February, Niklas Sundlin felt that the time was right to let some of his creative ideas which didn’t quite fit for Dark Tranquillity gain a life and identity of their own. ‘Mitochondrial Sun’, the self-titled debut album of… Continue Reading →
I wait with bated breath every time Dark Tranquillity announce a new album in fear that it will be crap or even worse, boring. As an unabashed fangirl, I know I will love whatever they write, but I desperately want… Continue Reading →
Ephemeral is a three-piece Melodic Death Metal project based out of Thessaloniki in the northern reaches of Greece. With its main core composing of E2 (vocals/guitar/bass/orchestration), Angel (keyboards/orchestration) and Kostas Matis (drums), the trio have created a tight melodic death… Continue Reading →
Classic Swedish melodic black metal here from a band who should really need no introduction. Naglfar burst into being with debut album Vittra in 1995. Around this time, I and no doubt many others were discovering the likes of fellow… Continue Reading →
Polish Melodic Death Metal quartet Across The Shade come at us with a simple named offering for their debut full-length release. “Hope” is an 8 track, sub-40 minute Melodic Death Metal attack which you could easily mistake for being something… Continue Reading →
Niklas Sundin is one of the most prominent names in the Swedish Melodic Death Metal scene. A forefather and pioneer of the genre, most noted for being a member of the widely recognised and highly acclaimed Dark Tranquillity, he has… Continue Reading →
I first stumbled across In Mourning back in 2010 when they released their second full length album ‘Monolith’. The intensity within the melodic death metal sections when combined with the subtle gothic undercurrents from their initial sounds and the slightly… Continue Reading →
One doesn’t often hear tales of the Luxembourg metal scene, so pull up a sandbag and I’ll spin you a yarn. Formed in 2010, Feradur released debut album “Epimetheus” in 2015 before ditching their vocalist and recruiting their producer on… Continue Reading →