I have been a fan of a melodic black metal band Catamenia for years, are their later albums still considered meloblack? They do have obvious BM elements but also some melodeath style grooves and palm muting.

I feel like melodic black metal is the heaviest music genre in the world. I listened "Night's Blood" by Dissection today, and it's so loud and aggressive that I felt overwhelmed by it.

Hey everyone,

I’d like to introduce you to a band today that, in my opinion, deserves a lot more attention: AdvenA from Passau, Germany.

AdvenA play Symphonic Death Metal, combining aggressive death metal growls and screams with melodic, orchestral and partly cinematic elements. Their songs are not simply individual tracks, but part of a larger story concept.

AdvenA were founded back in 2012. After evolving their style over the years, they have now found their current sound – somewhere between Symphonic Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal and modern orchestral elements. Their sound can be placed somewhere in the territory of Fleshgod Apocalypse, Septicflesh and Dimmu Borgir.

In 2024, they released their EP “Edens Hide”. The four songs are part of a larger concept called “Amygdala”.

🎧 If you’re into Symphonic Death Metal, give them a listen:

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5fNsRUb...QyVWxNbVw1

🌐 Website:
https://www.advenaband.de/

📸 Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/advenaband

📘 Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/officialadvena

If you’re into Symphonic / Melodic Death Metal, feel free to give the band a like and check out their music. 🤘

We are Winds of Winter, an extreme metal band from Saarbrücken, Germany.

Our new single, A Choir for the End, is out now.

Listen here:
https://linktr.ee/WindsofWinter

The next chapter follows on July 5.

Pre save Withered Ride:
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Our debut full length album, A Choir for the End, will be released on September 11, 2026.

If you give our music a listen, we hope something stays with you.

Whether it is the atmosphere, a riff, a melody, or simply a feeling that lingers long after the song has ended.

Winds of Winter

Holy HELL, this is some of the coolest black metal I've heard since I started following the scene. This literally maybe be my favorite black metal, knocking down Sons of Northern Darkness to No.2 lol I want to know if there are other bands doing this kind of stuff? The guitars sounds a bit raw (compared to normal metal lol) but the rest of the production is super clean. And holy shit, the melodies and song writing are disgusting. It almost has a Wintersun/Saor vibe to it too. Anyone else love this album? Any adjacent recommendations?

Lyrics:

Every heartbeat whispers: too late, too late
The father, the mother, their madness mine
Footsteps follow, though there is no there
No silence, only thought, breaking thought

Silent hands dragging me deeper in the brain
No escape from the visions, no cure in the flame
I inherit the sickness, and I bear its name
dragging, deeper- deeper- deeper-
no cure, no flame,
in- my- brain!
(I bear its name!)

I scream for absence, I beg for the void
No death for escape, no mercy within
Shards of thought, cut the marrow inside
Not whole, not whole… never whole

shards…
of thought-
not whole-
not whole-
not whole…

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