On their sixth album, Novembers Doom is moving away from the genre in their name and more toward melodic death metal. There are still doom metal influences on The Novella Reservoir, but the band also explores their progressive side on this album.
The songs have a good balance of darkness and intensity along with melody and prog elements. Novembers Doom also speeds up the tempos on several tracks. The band shows their diversity by using acoustic passages in some of the songs.
The vocals are also very diverse. They range from gurgling but understandable death metal growls to baritone melodic vocals. One of the biggest cliches artists use in interviews is that their latest work is "heavier, but also more melodic." In this case it's absolutely true. Novembers Doom is able to pull off slow and mellow ballads or fast and aggressive death metal with equal skill.
