Dark Age - Minus Exitus

There needs to be a law enacted that forbids new bands from using the word 'Dark' in their name. I swear I have like 10 different Dark something bands in my cd collection. In addition, certain song titles need to be banned, such as: Burning Bridges, Downfall, Beginning of the End, and Darkness Falls (or any combination of darkness and falling...) What's next? Dark Light? Oh wait, thanks H.I.M. Please go die now. How about Dark Misery or Dark Darkness for your next album title?

So now that I got that off my chest, Dark Age is actually a decent melodic death metal band. Or maybe its just I like melodic death metal a lot, so I like pretty much all this stuff. Can we say biased? Believe it or not, these guys aren't even Swedish, they're German! There's not really much to say about this, melodic death metal states clearly what a band will sound like these days. Specifically though, these guys remind me a bit of some other lesser known melodic death bands such as The Duskfall, with some clean singing similar to Before The Dawn, and some other band that I can't think of right now.

7/10 I really need to ween myself off this genre and realize that 100 bands are doing the exact same thing...