Label: Napalm Records Release Date: October 31st, 2025 Symphonic Power Death/Black Metal, whatever the fuck you wanna call this. Utopie the 4th album (produced by Dan fuckin Swanö), released on Halloween, by French band Aephanemer, was my first experience with the band. I loved every damn second of it. All 6120 of them. Utopie is packed with orchestral grandeur, the sharp bite of melodic death metal, lush polyphonic musical texture, blood curdling screams you’d find on a blac

Symphonic metal; a terms that invokes very mixed responses whenever I hear it. On one hand I love the idea of over the top orchestral...