Biography: Often compared to At the Gates and In Flames, Age of Ruin has frequently been described as a "melodic death metal band." In other words, they have embraced certain aspects of death metal -- dark, disturbing lyrics and choked, larynx-shredding, evil-sounding growls -- but they are far from the sort of ...Read full biography
Every once in a while, a death metal/black metal album will come along that is vocally extreme more than it is musically extreme; Black Sands of the Hourglass is such an album. In terms of vocal style, ...Read full review