Review by Ben for In Mourning - Shrouded Divine (2008)

I'm always a bit sceptical about listening to another Swedish melodic death metal band but In Mourning has completely blown me away. It has been a long time since a debut album has impressed me this much.

If you take the progressive death metal of Opeth, mix in the sublime melancholy of Rapture and top it off with some Scar Symmetry like aggression, you'd have something like In Mourning.

The first and last tracks are just incredible, with awesome riffs, interesting drumming and fantastic vocals of varying styles. If I have anything to complain about here it would be some of the clean vocals are not great, but musically all is brilliant. They'll get better too!