Track Of The Day - The Horde Edition

Classy Dutch progressive death metal from 1993.

Classy Dutch progressive death metal from 1993.

What a prog-death trip this is, boldly expanding beyond death metal's boundaries where the genre had never gone before!

My favourite song from Marduk's death metal-oriented 1992 debut album is really more of a doom/death track.

Brutal/technical death metal from New York, USA.

Blackened melodeath from Mexico.

Singaporian grindcore.

Swiss death metal.

Swedish melodeath.

A Swedish grindcore blastfest.

My highlight from Mexican death metallers The Chasm's seventh album takes more of a progressive black metal approach.

Super-extreme German mathgrind.

A doomier number from this early 90's English deathgrind outfit.

Sludgy Californian death metal.

Only one contender for me today. The new Autopsy track Skin By Skin is completely badass.

An epic sludge metal marathon from these Californian grindcore kings.

Early 2000's brutal death metal from Austria.

I'm generally not the kind of person to enjoy deathgrind, but here's a rare exception:

I can hear some Cannibal Corpse influence in the guitar and vocals, enough to interest someone like me who's not normally a brutal listener:

I'm no fan of Morbid Angel, or at least never dared to explore more than just this album, but this has pleased me as much as it can please longtime fans of the band:

The new video game Metal Hellsinger has a soundtrack of original metal songs featuring several well-known metal vocalists, and those songs play an important role in the game where you can shoot and reload to the beat for extra points. These two tracks, featuring Mikael Stanne and Alissa White-Gluz, respectively, has some epic heavy melodeath that sounds almost like a much heavier take on their respective bands:

A genuine early example of cybergrind:

Ever since the first time I started listening to melodeath, I've been trying to get interested in this band Insomnium, but not one of my attempts paid off...until recently, when they released their new album Anno 1696. That album finally hit my interest level and got me up to more melodeath, and I also enjoy songs from other albums like this one:

As part of reviving my melodeath interest, Dark Tranquillity's Damage Done still lives in my mind even after a few years away from it, with strong highlights like the title track:

The best throwback to the Jesper Strömblad era of In Flames' melodeath fury with a memorable chorus: