Featured on the Ulver tribute album, in my opinion Unfurl is a great brand and has a future.

Origin: Murmansk, Russia
Musical genres: dark rock/modern metal
Influenced by: Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Dark Tranquility
Year formed: 2007
Current line-up:

Z-Skin - guitars, electronics, vocals
War-M - lead & rhytm guitars
Fears - bass
Damien T. G. - drums
Numeral - electronics

Discography: none yet
Links: none




I wonder what "modern metal" means. In some reviews I saw this expression concerning nu-metal bands. Hope Unfurl is not going to be something like that. But seeing the influences, it's never going to happen.

oh the term modern metal, is used to identify those metal bands, with a modern sound, more similar to new-metal and metalcore and also to some new melodic death metal bands

In Germany there seems to be many of these "modern metal" bands!

I like to call it "gay-sound"

Also Soilwork are considered modern metal

How nauseating!

I use this term sometimes for example for the bands of "Listenable rec. kind" (Gojira, Textures, Hacride, Kruger... plus Dagoba, Klone and others who are not on Listenable, but sound modern and original too .

You cannot call them nu-metal or metalcore, it has too much progressivity (the "real prog thing" inside), originality, forward thinking for such a simple labelling... On the other hand it has with no doubt modern intense sound, it uses all the studio tools and so. Simply modern metal.

(If it has only the good modern sound and production, but nothing more, I do not call it modern metal, cause modernity cannot be associated with some followers and copies of anything else, it is not a modern thinking...)

P.S.: It is interesting, that many (maybe majority) of these "modern" bands come from the francophone countries, be it France, Switzerland or Canada-Quebec...

Thanks man for you description, now is all clear!!

Could you name some modern metal bands please, not because i'm interested in those kind of bands, it's just for knowledge

I'm agree with you

But that was just my own view on the thing and term. Everyone else can see it completely different.

For me the typical and worthy examples are those bands written in the second line of my previous quote. I would need to think more to find some others who really deserve to be mentioned. Otherwise it is easy to dig and fall into copycats and average stuff, everybody wants to be modern nowadays.

Ok, let change the question to another: how these bands will be called 5 years later?