The extreme vocals range from death metal's Cookie Monster growl to black metal's sinister rasp, and the clean vocals usually favor a high-pitched, glass-shattering wail along the lines of Rob Halford and King Diamond. It is also an impressively well-crafted album that successfully balances the melodic and the extreme elements of death metal, progressive metal, power metal, thrash metal, and black metal come together with exciting results on a disc that is quite technical but not to the point of becoming math metal. So not surprisingly, this is a very dark album both musically and lyrically. According to a bio that was sent out to the media with this 38-minute CD, the creation of The Incurable Tragedy was surrounded by a lot of sadness that occurred in a relatively short period of time in addition to his mother's death, guitarist/singer Tim Roth lost two close friends and his father to cancer. But Into Eternity are a Canadian melodic/extreme outfit with very European instincts, and those instincts continue to yield engaging results on 2008's The Incurable Tragedy.

have all had their share of melodic/extreme bands. The vast majority of bands playing a melodic version of extreme metal (be it melodic death metal or symphonic black metal) have come from Europe - the Scandinavian countries especially, although Germany, Poland, Holland, and the U.K.

Love Into Eternity by Marcel Lynn