Track Of The Day - The Horde Edition

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

Grindcore, thrash metal & melodic death/black metal combined into a screaming metal maelstrom from New Jersey, USA.

The godfather of death metal hard at work on Death's 1998 tour for the "The Sound of Perseverance" album.

Explosive death metal chaos from a band that would later become one of the master bands of modern industrial metal:

The godfather of death metal hard at work on Death's 1998 tour for the "The Sound of Perseverance" album.

Lots of mind-blowing rhythms, along with bass pumping through the thrashy yet technical heaviness with a bit of similarity to early Sadus.

Getting back into more of the melodeath zone, here are a couple highlights from bands I've discovered, including one of the most melancholic melodeath bands from Finland besides Insomnium:

And a virtual band from the Adult Swim program Metalocalypse:

The band from the Metalocalypse realm has returned with their first single in over a decade! Dethklok fans, look out for the next Dethalbum and their upcoming Metalocalypse special Army of the Doomstar.

Cool intro, killer riffing, speedy soloing... All you can ask for in this doomy death metal track's live rendition:

A few awesome melodic death metal bands whose music I've encountered in the past, but was never fully interested in them until recently:

A more brutal brief standout of riffing/vocal madness to summarize this band's sound:

Massive groove-ish death 'n' roll:

A true atmospheric classic performed live in the final show from these Finnish melodeath legends. RIP Alexi Laiho and Children of Bodom.

A killer piece of 90s brutal death metal from NSW, Australia. The guitar talent really shines through. Nicely done, Daniel!

A cool highlight of Eastern melodeath:

Melodic/progressive/tech-death metal that's almost like a more brutal Persefone on steroids:

Danish melodeath with power metal influences:

A wonderful 8-minute epic with female vocals and keyboards almost foreshadowing what Mercenary would add from their second album onward:

Mercenary's second album is where their true sound starts with epic standouts like this one:

Without a doubt a glorious epic of pure metal power:

Some of the most fascinating work Mercenary has done that almost sounds like an unused track from The Hours That Remain sessions:

A twisted addictive way to head out of this brutal industrial death metal offering:

A few awesome melodic death metal bands whose music I've encountered in the past, but was never fully interested in them until recently. The idea of blending melodeath with more epic genres like symphonic, gothic, progressive, or power metal makes bands like these two stand out from the melodeath pack and practically constitute their own genre (not saying that we should invent any redundant subgenres), "eternal melodeath", if you will.

The perfect conclusion to Avatar's earlier melodeath era:

The most melodic song of Children of Bodom's second album and a memorable highlight that I still remember for so long: