Symphonic Metal

Symphonic Metal · 02/12/2022

243 days till W:O:A 2023. With Dutch band Delain I am writing my first article in the category of symphonic metal. Coming from Deicide and Defleshed to Delain was quite a turn and it took me a couple of days to open up to this very different kind of metal. I picked Delain's latest studio album Apocalypse & Chill from 2020 and when I played the album for the first time my first thought was "Sounds like Within Temptation". Yeah, guess what - Delain was founded in 2002 by Martijn Westerhold,...