Track Of The Day - The Horde Edition

This popular modern melodeath highlight should've been in the standard edition as a regular track:

Everyone in the band's talent shines the best in this heavy/melodic blend that makes one of the best tracks in the album:

The keyboards are more subtle, allowing the guitars and drums to shine in the album's best song in the melodeath side:

Another steaming hot plate of industrial melodeath that would taste good for generations:

Yet another powerful highlight of industrial melodeath:

Cool production and massive instrumentation is this melodeath/metalcore highlight:

An excellent melodeath cover of an old Christian hymn, sounding as if it's their own song:

Another paid-off attempt at making a long 3-part epic, with epic technicality and Jason's vocals of wrath:

The climatic end of this conceptual journey, with all of the previous tracks' characters involved:

Another climatic story-ending melodeath epic:

One of only a couple songs in The Unspoken King that are deathly and enjoyable:

I enjoy the vocals that give this song its Dark Tranquillity/In Vain vibe:

Some more bands I've discovered in my journey of death metal redemption include the Swedish death metal of Grave, with some experimentation with groove/industrial tones in songs like this one:

And two doomy melodeath side-projects by Before the Dawn founder Tuomas Saukkonen:

Metallic riffing and galactic keys shine brighter than the sun in perhaps one of the most memorable anthemic tracks they've ever done:

A true highlight that greatly pushes the music and vocals forward, with both vocalists having their time to shine:

A savage battle between metal and orchestra with impressive shredding:

Another fantastic dish of heaviness and symphonics that stays speedy until its slower ending section:

Great heavy start, though keep that in mind before the remaining full songs of the album follow the same formula:

The band unleash their complex skills in a prime example of their symphonic deathcore/melodeath sound:

The guitar melodies and breakdown brutality are so delightful in this standout:

It's not often you hear flute after extreme fury, but it works out well in this deathly standout:

PAIN isn't the only band Peter Tägtgren is known for. He is also known as the founding member of melodeath band Hypocrisy. Check out this band for some atmospheric alien-themed melodeath!

A grand blend of the symphonic melodeath of Skyfire and early Starkill with the deathly metalcore of Bleeding Through: