Tag: deathmetal

2025 Best of Metal: #19 In Mourning-The Immortal

Release date: August 29, 2025
Origin: Vansbro, Sweden
Personnel: Tobias Netzell-vox/guitar, Bjorn Pettersson-guitar/vox, Tim Nedergard-guitar, Cornelius Althammer-drums

Pretty standard Swedish melodic death metal with this one. In Mourning is kind of one of those solid bands that just keeps plugging away and has amassed a very respectable discography over the years. With The Immortal, I feel like they may have released their finest album to date. Nice mixture of death and clean vocals. Also a nice mixture of heavy and melodic parts. Lots of emotion running throughout. A nice winter album.

4.5 flip flops out of 5

The list so far:
19. In Mourning-The Immortal
20. Allegaeon-The Ossuary Lens

Baest-Necro Sapiens

Fairly straight-ahead grindy gore driven death metal out of Denmark on this one. It feels like we should be getting a lot more metal out of Denmark than we do. I’m sure there are a shitload of bands that I am forgetting, but off the top of my head, I’m thinking Mercyful Fate/King Diamond and fucking Lars. So, hooray for Baest for upping the count on badass metal coming out from one of my favorite countries. Seriously, if it wasn’t so damn cold there, I would really be seriously looking into becoming a Dane.

That was a bit of a digression. Sorry. My brain goes places, you know. Anyway, lyrically these guys are in the Cannibal Corpse/Exhumed realm of all things gross and disgusting. The difference here is that Baest is fairly accessible musically. Not a lot of surprises, but the guitar work is not so grinding as to make thing messy or unlistenable. Hell, there is almost a NWOBHM vibe in places on here. All in all, this is just a nice slab of death metal that doesn’t get weighed down by a sense of super seriousness. This is a fun one.

3.5 flip flops out of 5