melodic – DIRENOTES

September 15, 2025

Born Divided – Chronicles of a Shipwreck [ALBUM REVIEW]

Born Divided’s album, Chronicles of a Shipwreck, showcases a blend of harsh and clean vocals, impressive guitar work, and solid rhythmic foundation. The band’s self-production shines, creating an engaging listening experience. Standout tracks like Illusion Factories highlight their technical proficiency. Despite minor synth critiques, the album impresses overall with its cohesion and emotion. Continue reading

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Canadian metal, death metal, deathmetal, melodic, melodic death metal, metal, self released

January 20, 2018

QUICK REVIEW: Apathy Noir – Black Soil

Apathy Noir\’s doom-like progression is more reminiscent of something like recent My Dying Bride, rather then drawing from too many death or black metal influences – though the vocals of either are here, along with a bevy of tremolo picking, initially. The \’death\’ bit is more along the lines of melodic death, rather then more… Continue reading

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apathy, apathy noir, black, black soil, blackened, blackmetal, death, deathmetal, doom, doom metal, melodic, metal, noir, quick, viktor Jonas

May 3, 2015

REVIEW: Into The Divine – Harbinger of Entropy

Into The DivineHarbinger of EntropySelf-Released Death Metal is a precarious genre. Its intensity and specific sound is usually a very difficult thing to change drastically, responding best to inclusions or additions in technicality then anything else. Into the Divine, with their EP \’Harbinger of Entropy\’, might label themselves as \’melodic\’ but in actuality the band… Continue reading

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cannibal, corpse, death, dewar, divine, entropy, ep, extreme, harbinger, independant, into, melodic, metal, pr, raw, underground

January 24, 2015

REVIEW: A Prophecy Misread – Demo

In what I\’d consider a unique occurrence, I managed to simultaneously receive this Demo and see a live performance by the band in the same night – awesome. Also, there isn\’t much to say about this bands history as they\’ve actually yet to really release anything – making their Demo somewhat of a rarity for… Continue reading

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Albuquerque, death, demo, flames, hard, hardcore, in, local, melodic, metal, metalcore, mexico, misread, new, prophecy

November 25, 2014

REVIEW: PUTRID EVOCATION – Echoes of Death

Oh, its Death Metal time folks. And, I\’m not talking like Melodic Death Metal like IN FLAMES or TRACEDAWN – nope, I\’m talking classic mid-era Death Metal. The sort of stuff that actually had something to do with topics such as… well, death! Apparently, PUTRID EVOCATION takes their metal very seriously – being a extreme… Continue reading

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cerekloth, classic, death, death metal, echoes, evocation, in flames, melodic, metal, putrid, putrid evocation, review, tracedawn

November 21, 2014

REVIEW: VYRJU – Black EP

My e-mail inbox, since the advent of bands such as DEAFHEAVEN (though the band isn’t bad by any means), has been pelted with way too many meloncholy progressive black metal bands. I mean, when your aim is soley to be a carbon copy of a band – I don’t honestly even see the point in… Continue reading

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band, black, blackened, death, distortion, ep, jan, Lindsø, melodic, metal, void, vyruju

August 30, 2014

REVIEW: Winter Gate – disIllumination

As I run amok in all manner of indie and underground band, never delving deep enough to touch the horrid likes of \’noise\’, I generally tend to miss out on what they like to call \’melodic\’ bands. Its not that I avoid them or anything, I think its just that after such a powerful era… Continue reading

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death, disillumination, ep, flames, gate, in, india, insomnium, melodic, metal, progressive, review, soilwork, winter, winter gate