Igors Metal Blog

It's time for a presentation of myself. My name is Igor and I live in Norway. I'm half Norwegian, half Russian, and speak both languages fluently. So English is my 3rd language (and therefore I'm going to make mistakes both speaking and writing it, please bear with me) I play guitars and sing in the metal band Dreamslain (check us out) We play an eclectic mix of heavy metal, extreme metal and progressive rock. In addition, our keyboard players brings in a lot of classical influences, particularly on her piano and church organ work, while I often compose lead melodies that have a certain folk influence. In addition to playing metal and writing this blog, I am on the moderator team of:  The Metal Lab  and  Heaps of Metal  I've also started a prog rock club in my hometown: Foreningen Progg i Nord  and organise a few selected shows in the metal/prog genres My day job is in a public psychiatric clinic where I work as a clinical psychologist (this distinction...

Requested submission. Band: Eluvian Album:  The Doom of Edendalk (ep) Release date: December 15, 2019 Record label: self released Genre: Melodic Death Metal From: Sula, Norway Eluvian is a 4 piece that consists of Mads Smebakk – Guitar and keys, Markus Olsen – Vocals and lyrics, Espen Mork – Bass, Ludvig Pedersen – Drums. The Doom of Edendalk is the bands second offering, having released the full length album Prophetic Flame in 2018. This 4 song ep is the start of a concept work in the fantasy genre that will be continued on the bands next album. The band has great vocals, going from a raspy heavy metal and old school thrash vocal to full out growling that still holds a clear melody, demonstrating that this is singing, not shouting. I’m also impressed by the emotional growling on the start of the last song of the ep. There are also a few ambitious vocal arrangements where there are several vocal parts at the same time in a kind of call and response ...

As I've mentioned in the description of this blog, I review melodic bands. That is, I'll take on most melodic metal, classic heavy metal, progressive rock, progressive metal,  melodic death metal. The important part is that it has to have great melodies beyond the vocal melodies. So I might make an exception and review a particularly melodic black metal band or something like that. Also, I've reviewed bands that don't fall into these boundaries for Heaps of Metal or The Metal Lab , but that's to support that community, which is a really great community. Now, not every band fit's those subgenres. That doesn't make it worse metal. It's just that I listen to little of that subgenre and will focus on elements that aren't as important for bands in that subgenre or miss elements that are really important in that subgenre. Both make for a poor review. Therefore I'm making a list of other blogs and reviewers for you to contact if your music either ...