lista zespołów Melodic Death Mandragora (LTU) Carnal Cage

It's pity that this great band from Lithuania doesn't have more of an audience. They play really great melodic death metal better than Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, In Flames and many other famous melodic death metal bands. To explain how great they are, I will say this - they can't beat only two bands in this style: Amon Amarth and Incarnia.

In many other bands, great works are made by keyboards, but here we have no keyboards; this band doesn't need them. What ca keyboards do here? Nothing. And if they can do something, it won't fit in the music and will destroy everything that makes the listener feel immortal! Here you can meet normal melodic death metal riffs as well, but they are very rare. Normally riffs are played on the first and second strings and on the last string another guitarist plays the same melody. Here the melody starts on second string and continues on the fifth string. It is done so that everything is in one riff. Bass is here and is more brutal than ever.

The drums are way brutal, played on the snare quickly, then influenced by drum fills, but this doesn't mean that you won't hear drum fills other places, they just aren't where they could be. the vocals are influenced by Amon Amarth. Here are growls and only growls and no black metal rasps. Some people will think that more diversity could be here. I will agree, but only partly. Yeah, double vocals makes some diversity, but when you hear only growls, you feel that this is really death metal and not something else.

In conclusion, this is really a killer album. If a lot of people hear it, it will become very popular and have its place in history, so don't pass it up and check it out. You will see that I'm right. If you are fan of Amon Amarth, Kalmah, or Incarnia, you will love it!