Dead Earth is the work of the incredibly prolific Mathias Kamijo. The Swede is most known for long-running black metallers Algaion, but the man also was a live member for Hypocrisy during the latter half of the ’90s and played on Nephenzy Chaos Order’s cult-classic Pure Black Disease among many other endeavors. While Algaion have mostly situated their style as a Swedish approximation of the classic Greek black metal sound, with Dead Earth does Kamijo drive deeper into the dark waters of classic melodic black metal, moving at many speeds but always with a burning-cold melodicism draped equally in devotion and atmosphere.