Trigger is a song by Swedish heavy metal band In Flames from their 2002 album Reroute to Remain. A standalone version of the song was released as an EP on 10 June 2003, including bonus tracks. The title song was used on the soundtrack for the 2003 film Freddy vs. Jason.
The Jester Race is the second studio album by Swedish heavy metal band In Flames, released in February 1996. It is the first album to feature Anders Fridén as the band's vocalist, Björn Gelotte as the drummer, and Jester Head as the band's mascot.
Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt is a Swedish musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of progressive metal band Opeth. A former vocalist of death metal supergroup Bloodbath, he was also guitarist for the "one-off" band Steel, and part of the collaboration Storm Corrosion with Steven Wilson.
Melodic death metal is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal. The genre features the heaviness of death metal but with highly melodic or harmonized guitar riffs and solos, and often features high-pitched shrieked vocals alongside the low-pitched growls commonly featured in traditional death metal. Pioneered by the English heavy metal band Carcass with their 1993 album Heartwork, melodic death metal developed further in Sweden in the mid-1990s. The Swedish death metal scene did much to popularise the style, soon centering in the "Gothenburg metal" scene. At the Gates' Slaughter of the Soul, Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery, and In Flames' The Jester Race, all released in the mid-1990s, were highly influential albums in melodic death metal, with At the Gates and In Flames being the two most common influences on North American 2000s heavy metal bands. Many American heavy metal bands emulated At the Gates' sound, resulting in the usage of the phrase "At the Gates worship".
Mercenary is a Danish melodic death metal band that was formed in 1991. The band incorporates a lot of power and progressive elements in their songwriting.
Figure Number Five is the fifth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. The record was released on 22 April 2003 through Nuclear Blast label. On this release, the band introduces more elements of alternative metal into their melodic death metal style. This would be the last album with Henry Ranta on drums before he left the band after its release.
Fragments of D-generation is the second album by the Italian melodic death metal band Disarmonia Mundi released by Italian label Scarlet Records in 2004. After numerous line-up changes, this album features Soilwork's Björn "Speed" Strid on vocals. The song, "Red Clouds" was chosen as their first video and was directed by bass player Mirco Andreis.
The Hours That Remain is the fourth studio album by Danish metal band Mercenary. Released on 21 August 2006, it was the second by the band to be released through Century Media Records and the first to not include founding member Henrik "Kral" Andersen. The album primarily blends melodic death metal with power metal, with almost all the vocals being clean ones. This was due to the absence of a dedicated growling vocalist, which Mercenary has otherwise employed. Growled vocals would return with 2008's Architect of Lies.
Everblack is the second album by Danish melodic death metal band Mercenary, and the second through Hammerheart Records. It is the first album to include future lead singer Mikkel Sandager and his brother Morten Sandager on keyboards. This is also the only album to feature Signar Petersen on lead guitars and the last to feature Rasmus Jacobsen on drums. With this album, Mercenary continued along with their death metal roots, but also started to explore their sound with power metal elements, as well as clean vocals done by Mikkel Sandager.
First Breath is the first album by Danish metal band Mercenary. With this album, the band showed their death metal roots. First Breath was recorded at the Aabenraa Studio in Denmark.
Frost and Fire is the debut album by the American heavy metal band Cirith Ungol. Its music is generally faster and more simplistic than that of King of the Dead, which saw the band begin to adopt a doom metal style influenced heavily by power metal.
Land of Broken Hearts is the debut studio album released by the Danish progressive metal band Royal Hunt. The album was remastered and re-released in October of 2021, with the inclusion of five bonus tracks.
Clown in the Mirror is the second studio album released by Danish progressive metal band Royal Hunt. The album was re-released in 2020 on Vinyl featuring a separate lyrics sheet and a die cut album cover.
Theatrical Madness is the second full-length album by the Danish band Evil Masquerade.
Architect of Lies is the fifth studio album by Danish metal band Mercenary, and the third released through Century Media Records. This is the first album to include René "Renegade" Pedersen on bass guitar and death growls who replaced founding member Henrik "Kral" Andersen. This is also the last album to include vocalist Mikkel Sandager, keyboardist Morten Sandager, and drummer Mike Park. The album was released 24 March 2008.
Burn Me Wicked is the sixth album by Danish death metal band Illdisposed.
The Maxi - Single is an EP released in Japan to introduce the upcoming album Clown in the Mirror by the Danish progressive metal band Royal Hunt. The song "Bad Luck" appears only on this release.
Metamorphosis is the sixth studio album by the Danish melodic death metal band Mercenary. It features a radically diffent line-up than on previous releases. It is the first album since First Breath not to feature the Sandager brothers and the first without Mike Park on drums since 11 Dreams. It is Morten Løwe's debut on drums.
The Unseen Empire is the fifth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Scar Symmetry. It was released on 15 April 2011 in Europe, and on 17 May 2011 in North America. The album sold around 1,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release, and landed at position number 11 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart. This is the last album to feature contributions from guitarist Jonas Kjellgren, who left the band in 2013 due to other commitments.
Perspective is the second EP by British progressive metal band Tesseract, released on 21 May 2012. The EP is not a metal record, instead it consists of new renditions of four songs from One: a newly edited version of "Eden" called "Eden 2.0" and acoustic versions of the songs "Perfection", "April", and "Origin". It also includes a cover of Jeff Buckley's "Dream Brother". It is the band's first and only release with vocalist Elliot Coleman, who left the band in June 2012, mere weeks after the release of Perspective.
