Metal musician, freelance VGM composer, video game fan, fluent in sarcasm and brutal honesty. Templum Rhajat founder. Member of metal bands Grimleal and Goddess Fall.
Metal musician, freelance VGM composer, video game fan, fluent in sarcasm and brutal honesty. Templum Rhajat founder. Member of metal bands Grimleal and Goddess Fall.
The final chapter of TDA's epic sci-fi saga, and perhaps even the band's swansong as well. Transhuman Ascendant perfects the signature TDA sound, and even somewhat calls back to their earlier material with some light cyber-industrial elements, giving the album a slightly cyberpunk edge.
Peak Design Abstract is to be found here, with their most killer riffs, and most soaring, epic symphonies to date.
Continuing where Technotheism left off, Metemtechnosis resumes the sci-fi saga that TDA aims to tell with its second installment of the trilogy.
Building upon the formula that was introduced in the previous album, Metemtechnosis continues to refine the symphonic melodeath sound that only The Design Abstract are capable of!
The first chapter of TDA's Technotheism trilogy, this album transports the listener to a distant, transhumanist future in the middle of a classic "man vs. machine" conflict with a surprisingly subversive anti-humanist twist.
Epic, cinematic, and sweeping symphonic melodeath soundscapes await!
EV make a triumphant return with more heavy, groovy riffage, and even add some slight symphonic elements this time around! Calamitous and brutal melodeath not unlike Intestine Baalism that's sure to keep you headbanging from start to finish!
Unironically the best Technophage release to date. The riffs are hard, the synths are even harder (just like my di-), and the lyrics? As cheeky and self-aware as they have ever been, while still making a valid point through satire.
--Signed, one of Projekt Technophage's strongest soldiers
Bionicle inspired melodic/symphonic black metal from Finland? Hell yes.
I never knew I needed this until now, and I'm so glad that I came across it by complete accident. The fact that they're named after the Matoran equivalent to Hell is even more badass.
So, when are we gonna be getting more stuff like this?
A very underrated gem of melodic death metal that is equal parts brutal and melodic. There's also some groovier riffs as well as some Native American influenced drum rhythms, which make for a rather interesting and unique sound. Open Season truly lives up to its name as a declaration of war against colonialism.
Hands down the best cover I have heard of this song, period! The koto and shakuhachi utilized in it is just the icing on the cake and is quite chill inducing. It's just that good.
Although the title is referring to a rather well known Roman historical event, it is also a perfect summary of the EP itself: FIRE.
Aquila continue to show all these new age metalcore bands how it's really done, throwing back to the good ol' days of Gothenburg melodeath influenced metalcore, while still managing to keep it fresh. With these four blazing tracks, they put the METAL back into metalcore, as it was always meant to be.
The EP is pretty much what happens when you put Wintersun and Ensiferum together, and that's what makes it awesome! Epic, folky, and melodic, you would think that this had come straight out of Finland! Even if it didn't, it's still an amazing release, as Dean Arnold's skills in songcraft prove themselves to be quite superb indeed.
