Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

Throughout history, musicians have brooded over the deaths of the musicians who came before them. The Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov explored Mozart's mysterious death in his opera "Mozart and Salieri."

If you enjoy melodic death-tinged power metal – and really, who doesn’t? – then it’s hard to imagine that you won’t enjoy Luna Mortis’ Century debut, The Absence. This shit is heavy, infectious, and epic as all get-out.A big part of the reason why the album works is vocalist Mary Zimmer. A classically trained singer who once had aspirations of doing opera, Zimmer put to shame all the over-processed, auto-tuned vocalists that will inevitably let their fans down in a live setting. Her voice isn’t