German progressive metal band Disillusion slowly grew from thrashy roots to a sound that was an avant-garde take on melodic death metal, maturing slowly as they experimented on sporadically released albums. Disillusion embraces a wide variety of unlikely combinations of sound and style, bringing together ambient folk, euphoric electronics, pummeling metal intensity, and more on albums like 2022's Ayam.
Formed in Leipzig, Germany, in 1994, Disillusion started out playing standard death/thrash metal and issuing several demos before the decade ran out. The band went their separ...