I don't want to sound like a parrot repeating what many others before me have said, believing The Black Dahlia Murder would have disbanded after the passing of Trevor Strnad but I definitely believed it. Coming into the first album without him, I was apprehensive, worried they would lose what made them them. Thankfully, I was wrong. Brian Eschbach has stepped into massive shoes and kept their sound alive with their latest release. TBDM is back and bringing more of what fans would have loved from 'Nightbringers' especially but making it darker, heavier and more aggressive. There will always be a melancholic cloud over the band sure, but their new line up and works helps keep their name amongst the juggernauts of Melodic Death Metal.