atlernative metal

You have to give it up to a band like Madder Mortem for even existing almost two decades later. Moving away from their doomy roots to a pretty trippy but also quite heavy, but not lead heavy prog that psychs the funk out, they’re really friggin hard to put into a category, or even fully appreciate.
 
Opener, “Blood on the Sand” is very typical of their style as it has come to be these days and comes complete with piercing agonized and overdriven wails from their frontwoman Agnete M. Kirkevaag (whoever manages to read her name twenty times out fast and loud, wins absolutely nothing at all, but it must quite the task) during the chorus. Blissful… not!
 

Among other things, The Haunted “remembered” their old-good-self and after the appropriate “gay-drama” on the web and the incredible musical downhill they have taken in the last decade… they’re merely back to their roots.