The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed
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lalchimiste
January 23rd 2019


1131 Comments


Jamming their whole discog chronologically RN. Might just first real stint with these guys aside 1 Nightbringers playthrough! This one riffs hard so far

DungeonBoy
January 23rd 2019


9693 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Dude, this album is great! Pretty impressive for a debut IMO. They were just a bunch of kids aping some At the Gates, but not in the way the other core bands at the time did without even knowing who At the Gates were.

hexfix93
January 23rd 2019


2352 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Well they did cite At the Gates as an influence, so pretty sure they knew who they were.



Unless I misunderstood your comment. But either way, this is still the good kind of At the Gates influence. I wouldn't even call this core at all tbh, not like it matters but to me this just sounds like some sick mdm.

DungeonBoy
January 23rd 2019


9693 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm saying that TBDM were a bunch of metal head kids, but there were/are so many "metal" bands that play those Swedish melodic death metal riffs cause they heard a band like Killswitch play it, and don't know their roots.

hexfix93
January 23rd 2019


2352 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh ok haha that makes more sense. Can't really disagree there.

lalchimiste
January 23rd 2019


1131 Comments


Yeah man, I'm at Miasma at the moment and def hearing the Gothenburg in these guys with def an American flair to it. I've also heard they get labelled with metalcore à la All That Remains/Shadows Fall etc. I don't know who started this garbage but man it is a dead wrong statement.

hexfix93
January 23rd 2019


2352 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah that's what I've been saying too haha. These guys are so sick but I avoided them for a long time because I associated them with bands I didn't like. Big mistake since I've missed a few opportunities to see them / skipped their sets. Oh well lol



I still think it's mostly just At the Gates hating elitists who label the band that way. Someone said they toured with a lot of those bands too but idk, I see a lot of people who hate ATG and every band they ever influenced and just lump it all as "metalcore" regardless of what the music actually sounds like.

Confessed2005
May 10th 2019


5561 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I've never known a genre as heavily debated as metalcore.



Most people don't actually know what metalcore is but I can safely say this band is essentially a melodic death metal band.

Hawks
May 10th 2019


86780 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This band got lumped in with the scene kids which I never understood but yeah they’ve always been a melodeath band.

Nazzadan
May 10th 2019


2363 Comments


They got lumped in because they very smartly designed their merch around the scene kid all over front print shirt aesthetic with vibrant neon colors. I know I own at least 5 TBDM shirts I got at Hot Topic back in the late 2000s.

Hawks
May 10th 2019


86780 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Very true lol. I got one from Hot Topic too like 10 years ago. Still have it.

Confessed2005
May 10th 2019


5561 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I've got a Nocturnal shirt that I got when I saw them live a while back.



That was around ten years ago too!

dctarga
May 10th 2019


1798 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I've got a Nocturnal shirt from the anniversary tour but it's re-colored with, you guessed it, super bright neon stuff. Lol

Morningrise767
June 24th 2019


3253 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Elder Misanthropy goes off m/

Thranth
January 4th 2021


1365 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Band rocks so hard, merch rules, Trevor is a chad. One of the greats

Hawks
June 3rd 2021


86780 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Damn man almost 20 years since this came out.

zaruyache
January 6th 2022


27340 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

i liked this one on relisten but I wish the vox stayed this way :|

normaloctagon
Contributing Reviewer
March 16th 2022


3954 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

i think miasma has more personality than this record. still great tho and that opener is iconic

wutang4ever
May 14th 2022


1443 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

who was doing this in 2003? link the bands for me if you can't!

tigersbrokefree
May 16th 2022


375 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

So begins the quest to fill in the gaps in my TBDM discography.



RIP Trevor. Damn... it's a bad one.



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