The Unseen Empire

The old axiom seems fool-proof: When a genre seems to have hit a wall of mediocrity, along comes a young band to invigorate it. Hailing from Sweden - a mecca for melodic death metal - Scar Symmetry's music successfully merges harmony, melody, brutality, exceptional songwriting, and complex instrumentation. The Unseen Empire, the band's fifth release, maps the continual expansion of their hybrid brand of intoxicating, modern melodic death metal. The band's name - thought into existence by drummer Ohlsson - denotes a peculiar balance. A combination of a "hard" word (scar), and a "soft" word (symmetry), it symbolizes the emotional scars everyone harvests from living a human life and the symmetry we share with each other as a result. Scar Symmetry have proven to be an exceptional assemblage of talents able to produce an eccentric mixture of metal that can only be described as an intoxicating, modern hybrid of melodic death metal. With the two vocalists now well in sync, Scar Symmetry remain the new go-to guys for quality Swedish death metal. Having made quite a name for themselves in North America through tours with Hypocrisy, The Haunted, Dark Tranquillity, Into Eternity and Katatonia, Scar Symmetry hit the mark again with The Unseen Empire!