(also known as blackened melodic death metal or melodic blackened death metal)
Even in the darkest night, a distant star will shine capable of warming even the coldest heart.
How it sounds
As if Frédéric Chopin made a black metal with a pseudonym taken from a Solomonic demon.
Basic catchy riffs, the right combination of melody with brutal vocals.
Black metal meets the European romance of the 19th century. in a new approach to the extreme and even darker sound.
Why listen to it
It is the gift of black metal to the rest of humanity.
Why not
Because the fantastic devils continue to scare you and you always sleep with a light on from the age of 5.
Where we meet it
Sweden, Norway, Poland, and even Greece.
When did it start
In the mid-’90s
Who are the pioneers
Dissection actually started the genre with their album, “The Somberlain”.
But both At the Gates and In Flames laid the foundations of the genre, without belonging to it.
Sacramentum also established it with their first two albums.
Also Emperor, Naglfar, and Dark Tranquility.
You have to listen
God Dethroned, Satariel, Obscurity, Unanimated, Epoch of Unlight, Skeletonwitch, Ancestral, Dread’s Asylum, Lunacy, Spectral Realms, Shaded Enmity.
Days of glory
In fact, since the ’00s it has had a steady rise and development.
Red card
It wants training in the ears, he will hardly approach the first new listener.
What is it confused with
With Melodic Black-death, War Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Blackened Death-doom
How do you describe it to an irrelevant
What to say! Not for him!