DESTRUCTION OF THE HEALER - IMMORTAL BRIDE SINGLE REVIEW
- Kaylah Chilcott
- Jun 13, 2025
- 2 min read
Sydney/Wollongong act, Destruction of the Healer are back to drop their new single ‘Immortal Bride’ on friday the 13th of june. This follows the melodic death metal band’s 2024 EP, Dreaming Deep in Breathless Sleep, which pushes the genre’s borders further into a dark and atmospheric sound.
For those familiar with the genre, we know it originated out of Scandinavia and Europe, but Destruction of the Healer takes that a step further, citing that the Gothenburg scene in particular was a defining influence to their sound, with bands such as At The Gates, In Flames, and Dark Tranquility. They’ve stated their new single as being a "love letter to the bands that shaped them", even taking on a blackened death style of production which was prominent in the early Gothenburg scene.
The band’s lineup consists of Jackson Meldrum for vocals, Ethan Button on drums, Darby Ball on bass, and Gwyneth Jansen and Baxter Dick-Evans on guitar.
‘Immortal Bride’ opens in full strength, with a fast and driving snare drum and aggressive guitars layered on top in true melodic death fashion. The guitars are quite aggressive, through the verses and use sharper tones to cut through to the front of the mix before falling back in. They only even out during the postchorus, stepping briefly away from the fast rise and falls. The bass generously fills out the remainder of the low end, creating a heavy wall of sound.
Meldrum is able to match the pace of the band off the bat, nailing the low growls and higher shrieks. The lyrics are heavily inspired by The Black Dahlia Murder, and take on something similar to what you’d expect from classic death metal, speaking from a lover to a decaying bride taken too soon. It takes on a more subtle approach to obsession through the lens of romance, with lines like “an ethereal face frozen in time she holds my heart, I take hers in kind”, blurring the line between desire and the macabre. Without delving too deep, it speaks directly to the gothic romanticism themes the band often explores.
The song really commits to heavy, fast and loud, not dropping the pace for a moment. After the second chorus, we lead into galloping riffs that fall to the backdrop for a classic melodeath style guitar solo. Button executes some wicked fills here too, proving he is a bit of a machine on the drums. ‘Immortal Bride’ sticks to the mission and closes out as lively and driving as it started.
Destruction of the Healer has excelled at creating an ode to the bands that shaped them, easily a rising star in Australia’s small melodic death scene. You can catch them at their next show on Friday, the July 18th at The Burdekin Hotel in Darlinghurst.
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