All posts by Jake Patton

When The Halo Effect announced their arrival on the scene, there was elation amongst the melodic death metal community. Here was an act boasting not only long-time friends, but luminaries of two titan bands from the genre who had joined forces to become a [...]

Belphegor is a band that needs a little introduction. The Austrian Blackened Death metal titans have long pushed the boundaries of their unique sound and cemented themselves as a powerhouse within their genre. In this current age of rapid consumption, the [...]

When we think about music careers we tend to think about the longevity of bands and acts, often attributing success to those bands that have had a consistent outpouring of material every few years. Quite often we tend to overlook those acts that quietly [...]

It’s very easy to label the last decade as the best of Amorphis’ career. While the band has had some arguably brilliant periods during their three-decade-long tenure, the past 10 years have seen the powerhouse deliver some of the strongest [...]

Omnium Gatherum has taken one remarkable road to get to where they are. Over the course of the past two decades, the band has transitioned in sound from a band rooted in the deep and dark aspects of melodic death metal to a more ambient and [...]

As a band, Be’lakor is a bit of an enigma. Over the past decade, the Melbourne quintet has seemingly followed an interesting pattern of ascending from the shadows, releasing new material, briefly touring in support of that material, and then [...]

At this stage in the game, it’s very easy to see Insomnium going down in the annals of melodic death metal history. As a consistent contributor over the past two decades, the Finnish quartet have transformed into a powerhouse of Finnish melancholy [...]

Compared to most bands, Times of Grace have an interesting history. Born as the side-project of Killswitch Engage’s enigmatic guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, and then-former Killswitch Engage singer Jesse Leach, their debut album—the well-received [...]