Melodic Death Metal

[wolfking]

Be'lakor on Facebook:

Our new album is finished! Mixed, mastered and ready to go. We're really excited to share it with you all. Stay tuned!

Yay!

Giddy up!  Wonderful news!

[gazinwales]

Yeah great news played 'Vessels' today, such an amazing album.
Great songs, death and some prog and killer mix, master and production.
One of the best sound albums in the last few years.

[wolfking]

Yeah great news played 'Vessels' today, such an amazing album.
Great songs, death and some prog and killer mix, master and production.
One of the best sound albums in the last few years.

Some of the melodies throughout this album are absolutely sublime.

[ariich]

I'll need to give Vessels another listen as I remember liking it a lot less than the two before it.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

This is one of my favorite genres, though my particular favored variants of it have dissipated quite a bit in popularity in the past couple decades.  I'm more into the old Swedish variants (earlier In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates, as well as more modern-ish stuff like Soilwork, Scar Symmetry, Solution .45).  I'm more selective about the Finnish doomier or neoclassical variants (Insomnium or Children of Bodom, for example, who are good, but not quite favorites), though I especially enjoy Amorphis, and Noumena, who are something of a hybrid.  A lot of my absolute top ones are rather under the radar now though, like Mercenary, Nightrage, Daylight Dies, Eventide, Satariel (especially their album Phobos & Deimos with Messiah Marcolin of Candlemass guesting), and Deadlock. 

[nick_z]

Dark Tranquillity part ways with their drummer and bass player...

Losing Anders Jivarp is pretty significant. He was one of the founders, wrote a bunch of songs and certainly was an important part of their sound. Reading the band's statement, it all seems amicable.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

He was a really underrated drummer.  I'm hoping that his songwriting void may force/allow Chris and Johan to contribute more, it could reinvigorate their sound. 

[Luoto]

The fifth Be'lakor album Coherence releases on October 29th.

Hidden Window: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZQVgL84rA

Stylistically this is probably closer to Stone's Reach than anything that's come after it. Pretty cracking song.

[wolfking]

Will check this song later.  Looking forward to this album. 

[TAC]

Nice tune.

[wolfking]

Brilliant.

[wolfking]

https://youtu.be/-ZkpM4BTPQs

New Omnium Gatherum.  Meh, didn't think much of that.

[ariich]

https://youtu.be/-ZkpM4BTPQs

New Omnium Gatherum.  Meh, didn't think much of that.

I'm liking it plenty, but it's pretty standard OG fare really, nothing special.

[wolfking]

Probably why I didn't think much of it, literally the same as anything off the last couple of albums.

[wolfking]

New Insomnium vid;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVqjpcvKfHY 

Great song, great ass.


New Carcass;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkE-o-5RqwM

Holy hell, this rips.  I'll have to get this album for sure.

[Grappler]

I really like the new Carcass.  They've put out two fantastic albums since the reunion.

[wolfking]

https://youtu.be/gowDWEr5SDY

Another OG song.  This is more like it.  This is brilliant.

[gazinwales]

Another killer new tune from Australia's finest, Be'Lakor
https://youtu.be/08jzDDxTO_4

[wolfking]

That one was a little different, I like it.

[TAC]

New Insomnium vid;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVqjpcvKfHY 

Great song, great ass.

The tune is really cool, but that chick looks like she smells.

[wolfking]

WTF! 

[TAC]

Listened to this album today..




I thought it was amazing.

[wolfking]

I'll take note of that one.

[gazinwales]

Had a listen they sound more doom than death, but not too bad at all.

[nick_z]

Listened to this album today..




I thought it was amazing.

As I said in the other thread, I've been spinning this too, and I agree it's a very good slab of melodic death/doom. I'm especially enjoying the opener (The Awakening), the mid-point (The very sorrowful The Loss) and the title-track closer(15 minutes and it works!)

Not to go off-topic in this thread, but since you seem to enjoy metal that has a good amount of "gothic/dark" in it, what do you think of Paradise Lost, which are among the forefathers of the whole genre? I don't recall seeing you comment on them in my short time here.

[TAC]

I've never really listened to them. They were sent to me in a roulette a few years ago, and I don't think I was crazy about it. I can go back to it after my roulette.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

What's the cliff's notes on those roulettes?  I see them being posted in all the time, but I don't read them, and when I glance in it looks too confusing to spend more time trying to decipher. 

[TAC]

What's the cliff's notes on those roulettes?  I see them being posted in all the time, but I don't read them, and when I glance in it looks too confusing to spend more time trying to decipher.

The host announces the roulette, and lays out the rounds.

People join and send a song or songs for the round.

The host scores them.

After a certain number of rounds, there is a winner with the most points.

[nick_z]

I've never really listened to them. They were sent to me in a roulette a few years ago, and I don't think I was crazy about it. I can go back to it after my roulette.

I'd love to hear your thoughts if you do. There's plenty of different phases in Paradise Lost's discography, so it's definitely worth exploring - and I'd be happy to "help". I guess there is a thread about them on DTF (not very long, I'm afraid) - might be worth reconvening there when it's time 

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=8569.105

[gazinwales]

The Halo Effect - debut single
https://youtu.be/WByGv-qdZ4w

[Vordus]

Haiduk - Diabolica [2021]

melodic death / black

Wraithavoc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFGVlm-yk2s

[wolfking]

Just spinning the new Omnium Gatherum after it got delivered this week and I must say, its bloody fantastic!

[ariich]

Just spinning the new Omnium Gatherum after it got delivered this week and I must say, its bloody fantastic!

It is indeed rather excellent. I'd say their best since Beyond.

[wolfking]

Just spinning the new Omnium Gatherum after it got delivered this week and I must say, its bloody fantastic!

It is indeed rather excellent. I'd say their best since Beyond.

Agree.  Beyond actually came to mind a few times while listening to this.

[nick_z]

Just spinning the new Omnium Gatherum after it got delivered this week and I must say, its bloody fantastic!

It is indeed rather excellent. I'd say their best since Beyond.

Agree.  Beyond actually came to mind a few times while listening to this.

I haven't gotten around to hearing it yet. Your comments are promising. I can't say I have a deep knowledge of OG's discography, but my favorite of what I know is probably New World Shadows, lots of cool songs and melodies in there. Very good band. I did enjoy The Burning Cold quite a bit, I'll try and give the latest a listen soon...