They are the perfect mesh of death metal and black metal, part melodic and symphonic, with a devastating burst of extreme drums, fast riffs, a deep and heartbreaking guttural voice.

Skildum siphons his love of 90's melodic black and death metal and uses it as the medium for his expression. Skildum returns this year and now he has some help.

This melodic/folk black metal gem is nearly 10 minutes long, yet it uses every moment exceptionally well. It begins with steadfast drumming and irresistibly tragic electric guitarwork that’s soon ...

The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal Out of all of the 2000s American bands that meshed death metal with 3rd harmonies, The Black Dahlia Murder in my opinion did it best.

10. Gallowbraid Jake Rogers of Salt Lake City accomplishes two unthinkable tasks with his band Gallowbraid. He plays genuinely melodic black metal and lives openly in Utah despite his music being ...

In the ‘90s, Gothenburg’s melodic death metal scene took a simple idea — death metal should sound more like Iron Maiden — and ran with it. At one point, it was Europe’s leading metal sound.

They fuse shoegaze, noise, punk, metal, post-rock, and more into a sound that's tough to pin down but scratches the same heavy/hazy itch as most of the other bands on this list.

Recently, I’ve discovered some genuinely baffling genre tags: melodic grindcore, psychedelic nu-metal, pro-Keynesian-economics black metal and something called… Elder Scrolls metal?