If Emotions Still Burn - Ablaze My Sorrow

Defunct melodic death metal band Ablaze My Sorrow (let’s call them Ablaze from now on, not to be confused with the last band I wrote about, whose name also began with Ablaze) took three years to release their debut album on No Fashion Records, following two successful underground demos, and it’s a shame the band wasn’t snapped up sooner, allowing them to be recognised as another key factor in the melodic death explosion, rather than the quite-good Dark Tranquillity clone that metal fans ended up with. I haven’t heard the earlier demos, but if they sound anything like this – melodic, lead-guitar driven death metal – then they deserve a lot more praise than they have been ...  Read the complete review