IN FLAMES

LUNAR STRAIN

of 1994, the idea of injecting more melody into death metal wasn’t that new. The previous year heralded albums such as from Britain’s Carcass, from Floridians Death, and from Sweden’s Edge Of Sanity – all of which gave death metal a harmonic edge. The genre’s intensity remained, but it was now coexisting with energised choruses and duelling, shredding guitars. This was death metal meets NWOBHM.