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Michigan, United States (2000 – present)

The Black Dahlia Murder are a band from Waterford, Michigan, formed in 2000. Their band name is derived from the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, often referred to as; Black Dahlia, Black Dahlia Murder or BDM.

Current Line-Up:
Trevor Strnad – lead vocals (2000–present)
Brian Eschbach – guitar, (2001–present)
Ryan Knight – guitar (2008–present) (ex-Arsis)
Ryan Williams – bass guitar (2005–present)
Shannon Lucas – drums, percussion (2007–present) (ex-All That Remains)

The Black Dahlia Murder gained their final band line-up in January 2001 and released their first demo entitled What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse, and a four-track EP, A Cold-Blooded Epitaph, the latter of which the group released on its own Lovelost Records. After appearing in concerts such as the Milwaukee Metal Fest, The Black Dahlia Murder signed to Metal Blade Records in 2003.

The band played in Ozzfest 2005 and also participated in the Sounds of the Underground tour in 2006, which encompasses both the United States and Canada. They also played at Wacken Open Air in 2007.

Current bassist Bart Williams left his former band, Detroit’s Today I Wait, to tour with the Black Dahlia Murder. After touring with the band on their co-headlining gig with Throwdown and their European dates with Liar, he joined the group full-time, replacing former bassist David Lock. Frontman Trevor Strnad said that Lock was fired for incompetency. Williams was one of two engineers (the other being Walls of Jericho’s Mike Hasty) on the band’s first full-length album, Unhallowed.
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  • l_Solution45_l

    words cannot describe how i feel about this band.......no wait they can. I hate this band

    Yesterday 4:50pm Reply

  • xVictimOfADownx

    @crizilla Kinda depends on the kind of metal for me, really raw and primitive sounding death metal and black metal can sound much better with no crystal clear production but with melodeath....it sounds like shit to me :P.

    Yesterday 12:09am Reply

  • BleedTheMartyr

    Just couldn't get into the first too albums, just didn't see to be as well put together imo.

    24 May 9:09am Reply

  • EvanClark

    New album is basically Ritual 2

    24 May 6:15am Reply

  • crizilla

    High production or "over producing" just doesn't work too well with metal, IMO. Leave that shit for pop and EDM. Unhallowed and Miasma's production is where it's at. Nocturnal got away with it because the songs were really well written. Now the band seems to be as flashy as possible with Knight dancing everywhere on the fret board.

    23 May 11:18am Reply

  • xVictimOfADownx

    Besides the production, the first 2 albums are just littered with very typical melodeath riffage, the only thing that separates those albums from most melodeath are the vocals for me personally.

    22 May 10:46pm Reply

  • Schander

    I actually hate that "wall of sound" production on Deflorate... and even Noctural. The latter of which is such a killer album, that it hardly bothers me at all... but I prefer the so much clearer production of Unhallowed, about a thousand times over.

    21 May 3:03pm Reply

  • xVictimOfADownx

    I honestly didn't care for TBDM until Nocturnal came out, and didn't actually really start to enjoy them until Ritual was released. This kind of metal, high production value is a key feature for me so I wasn't able to enjoy their first 2 albums much either.

    20 May 7:00pm Reply

  • Schander

    "Every album besides Unhallowed is good" Stopped reading right there.

    20 May 5:40pm Reply

  • VanitysFair

    These dudes are always consistent so I wasn't expecting a disappointment, thanks for the news :D Agreed about Deflorate, but I Will Return is an awesome closer. Nocturnal used to be my favorite, but Ritual is incredible. The Window's lyrics are so fucked up though.

    20 May 4:26pm Reply

  • Dyomaeth

    Deflorate is just slightly short on catchy riffs that'sll. It's still good TBDM metal. My favourite is Nocturnal, but Ritual is perfect and while I don't want to spoil Everblack I'll confirm that it's far from a dissapointment.

    20 May 8:27am Reply

  • VanitysFair

    Every album besides Unhallowed is good, and that was mostly because I thought the production was terrible. Miasma's production isn't too much better, but it's a step above. What do you mean worse than Deflorate? Deflorate rules, it's probably my second or third favorite. Ritual is the best so far.

    20 May 4:19am Reply

  • versionfiv

    selling the first three cds for $12, send me a pm. all NM

    18 May 6:40pm Reply

  • Toutatis_

    I'm afraid this album is gonna turn out to be even worse than Deflorate. [2]

    18 May 5:34pm Reply

  • Schander

    Yeah, I thought that was pretty obvious.

    18 May 4:55pm Reply

  • Dyomaeth

    "There's 230 listeners for Everblack. Who's got the leak?" Guys are you stupid or what? There's no leak, just 220 people that decided to scrobble "Into The Everblack" and 10 or so people like me who get to listen to it early because they have to review it in the upcoming days.

    18 May 4:08pm Reply

  • crizilla

    new songs sound pretty good. Though like a lot of bands, their earlier albums will probably turn out being my favorites. So far Into The Everblack sounds like a continuation of Ritual. I don't hear Nocturnal in it AT ALL....

    18 May 7:20am Reply

  • sp-igual-gta

    your sister...

    18 May 4:18am Reply

  • P0l4r1s

    There's 230 listeners for Everblack. Who's got the leak? [2]

    17 May 7:13pm Reply

  • Schander

    ...which would be (as far as I'm concerned) slightly better than Into The Everblack, but still about just as stale. I'm afraid this album is gonna turn out to be even worse than Deflorate.

    17 May 2:11am Reply
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