German melodic deathers Akrea stick to their native language on debut album Lebenslinie, but never fear – it’s a decent listen even if you don’t speak German.

Misery Speaks have made it to album number three with Disciples of Doom, but its nostalgia-tinted melodic death cliches are nothing to get excited about.

The Agonist’s sophomore effort, Lullabies for the Dormant Mind is an uneasy but promising mash-up of technical metal heaviness and Pop Idol vocal pretension.

Double-decade veterans of death and gore metal Cannibal Corpse slay four hundred sweaty metalheads with their downtuned grind and blast-beat assault.

Turns out that solid well-crafted metal hadn’t died off after all (who knew?); God Forbid have been giving it a brush-up on Earthsblood.

Tyrants of the Rising Sun captures ninety minutes of melodic death maestros Arch Enemy playing a live headline show in Tokyo, Japan.

Sweden’s Sonic Syndicate have perfected the Gothenburg melodic death metal template with Love And Other Disasters… now watch it become an overnight cliché.

UnSun intend to bring you to The End Of Life with their slightly-death-tinged take on female-fronted goth-metal-pop. But will they succeed?

Scar Symmetry’s third album Holographic Universe is the perfect compromise of heaviness and accessibility – melodic death metal never sounded so good.