melodic death metal

Back from beyond, Swedish melodic death metal icons Gates of Ishtar are no mere apparitions on new track “Ghosts.”

Florida industrial goth metal outfit Embers of Dawn are burning for you on debut Infernal Culture.

Death metallers Sacreligious share a track from their new album, Brutality Incarnated before it’s out September 25. Check out the single “Occassion for War” ahead of the drop.

Chilean melodic death metal masters Projector have frosty Swedish vibes on new single, “Living Resources.”

We catch up with Fleshcrawl for a track-by track breakdown of their new album in the old-school death metal crew’s own words.

We let Spanish melodic DM vets, Bloodhunter, take us track-by-track through their fourth full-length, Sons of the Abandoned.

New Swedish melodic DM crew Abandon Agony start their ascent with full-length debut Endbringer.

Tucson crushers Wyrmhaven whip up a melodic death metal monsoon on new track “Unrelenting Storms.”

Vancouver, BC symphonic DM stalwarts Atavistia inject a folk metal forest vibe into new single “I Skogens Djup.”

Check out the new video from Southern California melodic death metal newcomers Ravenmocker “Infallible,” honoring indigenous heritage and melodic sensibilities. 

Perth’s Vanta don’t treat melodic death metal like a nostalgia exercise. On their debut full-length Perpetual Selection, the band lean into precision, atmosphere, and sheer velocity—but they’re just as concerned with meaning as they are with impact.

Hear North Carolina melodic death metal outfit Blackwater Drowning reveal “The Sixth Omen,” the new single from their upcoming Obscure Sorrows full-length.

Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.

Hear Chicago’s Burned in Effigy return with a full-length inferno that marries neoclassical precision to melodic death metal mayhem.

Stream the electrifying new album from Mors Principium Est, Finland’s long-running melodic death metal institution.

Swedish melodeath mashers After Earth dabble in cannibalism in new video for “Skinwalker.”

Hear Swedish death thrashers Vittra do their own meaty version of death ’n’ roll on new single “Reign Supreme.”

When melodic death metal, metalcore, and groove collide, you get the sharpened steel of Recurrence—and their new single, “Remember Who The Enemy Is,” drives that point straight into your chest.

Seattle’s Lacabra don’t pull any punches with new track and video for “Nothing”—a dizzying descent into addiction, disillusionment, and identity collapse, rendered with savage clarity.

For nearly 15 years, Belgium’s Reject the Sickness have toed the line between razor-sharp aggression and melodic introspection, but with their new single “Signs of the End,” they tear through it entirely.

South Jersey melodic death fire-breathers Chronepsis go to battle on debut mini-album Weight of Eternity.

Boston-based melodic death metal outfit Aversed fill us in on the their rebirth via Erasure of Color set for release on March 21 via M-Theory Audio.

Watch Toronto melodic DM hooligans, The Curse Within, get their Kill Screen thrills on in their new video for “Through Inferno.”

Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, Grand Cadaver) on “the instinct and the 30 years of experience” that goes into the new LP from The Hallo Effect.

Quebec symphonic, melodic heroes Trollwar drop their next EP, Tales from the Frozen Wastes, on November 15. Ahead of the release, you can stream the full record right here. 

Nightborn are back with a video for “Aphelion Dusk,” a song from their upcoming Hammer of the Heretic EP, out this September.

Death metal artists Daughter Chaos, featuring ex-members of Armageddon and The Obsessed, launch crushing new single, “Noble Rot,” off their forthcoming album, Noble Rot, via Abrams Records.

Necropanther embrace the saxophone on new EP Oblivion Jones.

Watch the video for Hand of Kalliach‘s perfectly delivered folk-infused melodic death metal.

Drink in the Madeira madness of melodic thrash/death outfit Karnak Seti’s new track “I Breathe the End.”