I’m looking for black or death metal albums that have predominantly dual guitar harmony riffs. That is, when both guitars play lead parts at the same time. Please, please, must have these:
• a more trad metal feel, not lots of tremolo, or dissonance, or groovy riffs. This is non negotiable.
• a sharper guitar note, nothing too bassy or chunky.
• no rhythm guitar playing under the melodies. Both guitars have to be playing a lead part simultaneously. This is non negotiable, if it has chords under the melodies, I don’t want to hear it.
• minimal or no blast beats at all. I know this is a bit more beyond the guitar work, but it’s also really important.
Some examples of what I’m looking for:
• Dreichmere - Despair the Withered Shadows
• Autumn Requiem - As I Beheld the Blazing Glory of the Rising Dawn
• Ophthalamia - A Journey in Darkness, Via Dolorosa
• Orphaned Land - El Norra Alila
• Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon
• Autumnal Winds - Venerari Sacra Mysteria
• All 3 Obsequiae releases
• The first 4 Katatonia releases (Jhva Elohim Meth, Dance of December Souls, Brave Murder Day, For Funerals to Come)
• Anathema - The Crestfallen EP
• October Tide - Rain Without End
• Ablaze my Sorrows - If Emotions Still Burn
• Ceremonial Oath - Carpet
• Ancient Ceremony - Under Moonlight we Kiss
• The Morningside - The Wind, The Trees and The Shadows of The Past
• Sorrows Lament - … When I’m Gone
• Atropos - Créature Chthonienne
• Ethnocide - Tearful demo
• Empyrium – A Wintersunset…
• In Flames - Lunar Strain
• Fall of the Leafe – Storm of the Autumnfall
• Moonstruck - First Light
• Embracing - I Bear the Burden of Time
• Night in Gales - Towards the Twilight
• Slægt - Domus Mysterium, Beautiful and Damned