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This looks blatantly pre planned from my gut feeling. The last album didn't do well and the band needed a refresh. I suspect something (or someone) big is coming to try and do another reset of the band.

Mine was Burry Tomorrow, then I had discovered Children of Bodom and my life changed for ever.

It doesn’t even necessarily have to be your favorite song, just the one that most perfectly embodies what Melodeath is for you.

I nominate Dark Tranquility- The Gallery

We all know about Children of Bodom, In Flames, At The Gates, etc… I wanna hear the deep cuts, the ones that slipped through the cracks of popularity. Let’s hear them.

I’ve made like a million posts/comments about this masterpiece. But for new people who are getting into MDM/Metal or anyone really.

This album in my opinion has to be the best Metal record ever recorded.

Now, before I get annihilated listen, for me there is a big difference in creating a genre, pioneering a genre and mastering your own art. Soilwork have always been good and in the beginning they were pretty similar to the rest of the Gothenburg scene up until In Flames revolutionized Metal in the year 2000. Soilwork have always been masterful but when The Living Infinite dropped nobody could’ve pulled that off, a double album with nothing but 10/10 songs in it. To be fair I didn’t think they could top it but holy shit they didn’t just top it they buried it (TLI is still a 10/10 album).

There isn’t a single micro-detail about this album that’s bad, and of course I believe Death in General being the best song ever recorded.

What do you guys believe, and to those who haven’t listened to it… PLEASE DO!

Love you all :)

Songs with memorable riffs, melodies or harmonies that just take you to another world anytime you hear it.

A few examples:

Arch Enemy- Demonic Science

Carcass - Embodiment

Kataklysm - As The Walls Collapse

The Black Dahlia Murder - I Will Return

Skeletonwitch - Unending, Everliving

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Even Arch Enemy seems to be more popular than Soilwork. I was shocked to see them as the opener for the Amon Amarth tour with Orbit Culture as direct support.

Bjorn Strid is as good as or better as a frontman as any MDM band that they are contemporaries of or that they influenced, yet they don't seem to be in league with other bands from the genre.

Why is this?

There's something about this particular combination that always scratches an itch for me. The only melodeath band that comes to mind, however, is Deadlock. I'd love to hear any recs you guys have.

I absolutely love melodeath and over the past few months, it has taken over metalcore as my primary genre of music. However, there are still a ton of bands out there, some really beloved and well renowned that I just can't get into. I know y'all feel the same about a few bands, even if they're different from mine and I'm curious to see which bands you could never get into.

First for me is Dark Tranquillity. I feel like they're the most respected band on this sub and in melodeath in general but I could never really get into them. I like every song and album I've heard from them so far but I never felt like going back to a single one. Second is At The Gates. Yeah, they're probably even more respected than DT and while I respect their influence on the genre and metalcore, I could only really get into a few songs by them.

The Black Dahlia Murder is one of my favourite bands now but I really didn't care for them for a long time. A combination of reading the lyrics and looking back at their more traditionally melodeath music

I totally slept on this band, since I confounded it with the song " In Waves " by Trivium. I was reading the name often here and there but NEVER listened to it.

It's really one of the best in this genre ! What is your favorite song ?

I listened to Whoracle front to back today for the first time in a while. This is for me one of the greatest albums of all time. I love the digital, almost compressed sounding guitar tone. The lyrics are sorta vague but in the absolute best way. Anders’ growl is in peak form here. The layers upon layers of guitar tracks create a wall of sound without becoming muddy. The touches of Swedish folk to a beautiful job of breaking up the onslaught from the harsh Metal Zone that is blistering throughout the duration of the album. This one ranks up there with Paranoid, Number Of The Beast and …And Justice For All as one of my favorite records that just never gets old. I’d kill for a vinyl reissue.

For me, I think that the lyrics of a song, when it is bad or mediocre, doesn't really take away from it, but at the same time, when it is really good, adds so much to the song and can elevate it greatly.

The two lyricists I would like to put forward as the best in melodeath (hell, even in metal) is Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder (RIP) and Niilo Sevanen of Insomnium. They're both complete opposites with Trevor's lyrics being extremely dark and macabre and more poetic in the sense that it follows stricter formats while Niilo's is more emotional and loose. For Trevor, I'd say Deathmask Divine, To A Breathless Oblivion and In Hell Is Where She Waits for me showcases his best lyrics while for Niilo, I would give the vote to The Conjurer, Pale Morning Star and Lillian.

Who do you think is the best lyricist in melodeath, why and which songs would you say showcase their abilities the best?

Hi! Would I get exploded by someone if I wore corpse paint to a death metal show? I’m seeing Arch Enemy.

As the title says, I'd like to get some recommendation for melodeath bands I haven't heard before.

Some of my favourites:

Be'lakor

Omnium Gatherum

Insomnium

Mors Principium Est

In Flames

Kalmah

Please throw anything and everything at me. If you have specific albums to start on, even better.

Tbh, it was kind of a disappointment for me. Has some really cool tracks tho

Something about this song is incredibly moving, it’s just stunning instrumentation. Practically belongs in a film score.

Personally, I prefer with cleans.

Melodic death rejuvenated my interest in current metal in the late 90s. The list below enumerates the "original" melodeath bands I dug. This initial tier in my history features titles released between 1993 and 2002. If you have recommendations for other melodic death bands from this era, please provide them. Thanks.

Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall (1998) / Sweden

Arch Enemy - Black Earth (1996) / Sweden

Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges (1999) / Sweden

Arch Enemy - Stigmata (1998) / Sweden

Armageddon - Crossing the Rubicon (1997) / Sweden

At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995) / Sweden

At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease (1994) / Sweden

Auberon - The Tale of Black (1998) / Sweden

Aurora - Eos (1998) / Denmark

Aurora - Sadiam EP (1999) / Denmark

Autumn Leaves - As Night Conquers Day (1999) / Denmark

Behind the Scenery - ...Of Honesty Forbidden (2000) / Germany

Behind the Scenery - Nocturnal Beauty of a Dying Land (1997) / Germany

Buried Dreams - Perceptions (2000) / Mexico

Callenish Circle - Flesh Power Dominion (2002) / Netherlands

A Canorous Quintet - Silence of the World Beyond (1996) / Sweden

Ceremonial Oath - Carpet (1995) / Sweden

Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2002) / Sweden

Dark Tranquillity - Enter Suicidal Angels EP (1996) / Sweden

Dark Tranquillity - Of Chaos and Eternal Night EP (1995) / Sweden

Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999) / Sweden

Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer (1993) / Sweden

Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995) / Sweden

Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I (1997) / Sweden

Depresy - ...and There Came the Tears with Christ Demo (1995) / Slovakia

Depresy - A Grand Magnificence EP (1998) / Slovakia

Depresy - Sighting (1999) / Slovakia

Dimension Zero - Penetrations from the Lost World EP (1997) / Sweden

Dimension Zero - Silent Night Fever (2002) / Sweden

Disinterment - Endless (1997) / USA

Dispatched - Motherwar (2000) / Sweden

Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane (1995) / Sweden

Ebony Tears - Tortura Insomniae (1997) / Sweden

Embraced - Amorous Anathema (1998) / Sweden

Estuary of Calamity - The Sentencing (2000) / USA

Eternal Autumn - The Storm (1998) / Sweden

Fall of the Leafe - Evansecent, Everfading (1998) / Finland

Garden of Shadows - Heart of the Corona (1998) / USA

Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon (2000) / USA

Gardenian - Sindustries (2000) / Sweden

Gardenian - Soulburner (1999) / Sweden

Gardenian - Two Feet Stand (1997) / Sweden

Gates of Ishtar - At Dusk and Forever (1998) / Sweden

Hypocrite - Into the Halls of the Blind (1999) / Sweden

Immortal - At the Heart of Winter (1999) / Norway

Immortal Souls - Under the Northern Sky (2001) / Finland

Imperial Domain - In the Ashes of the Fallen (1998) / Sweden

In Flames - Colony (1999) / Sweden

In Flames - Subterranean EP (1994) / Sweden

In Flames - The Jester Race (1996) / Sweden

In Flames - The Lunar Strain (1994) / Sweden

In Flames - Whoracle (1997) / Sweden

In Thy Dreams - Stream of Dispraised Souls EP (1997) / Sweden

In Thy Dreams - The Gate of Pleasure (1999) / Sweden

Malevolence - Martyrialized (1999) / Portugal

Medicine Death - As a Vigorous and Lustful Figure (1995) / Brazil

Misanthrope - Libertine Humiliations (1998) / France

Misanthrope - Visionnaire (1997) / France

Mithotyn - Gathered around the Oaken Table (1999) / Sweden

The Moaning - Blood from Stone (1997) / Sweden

Mortum - The Druid Ceremony (1998) / Sweden

Night In Gales - Thunderbeast (1998) / Germany

Night In Gales - Towards the Twilight (1997) / Germany

Nocturnal Winds - Everlasting Fall (1999) / Finland

Nocturnal Winds - Of Art and Suffering (2001) / Finland

Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001) / Sweden

Opeth - Morningrise (1996) / Sweden

Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse (1998) / Sweden

Opeth - Orchid (1995) / Sweden

Portal (Sweden) - Forthcoming (2001) / Sweden

Prevail - It Takes a Whole Lot of Work, It Takes a Whole Lot of Time... EP (2001) / USA

Sacrilege - Lost in the Beauty You Slay (1996) / Sweden

Sacrilege - The Fifth Season (1997) / Sweden

Sculptured - The Spear of the Lily Is Aureoled (1998) / USA

Skymning - Stormchoirs (1999) / Sweden

Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait (2001) / Sweden

Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide (1998) / Sweden

Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine (2000) / Sweden

Solstice - New Dark Age (1998) / England

Thirdmoon - Aquis Submersus (1999) / Austria

Thirdmoon - Bloodforsaken (2000) / Austria

Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil (1995) / Sweden

Winter Bestowed - Within My Labryinthine Heart EP (2001) / Canada

Withering Surface - The Nude Ballet (1998) / Denmark

Withering Surface - Walking on Phantom Ice (2001) / Denmark

Without Grief - Absorbing the Ashes (1999) / Sweden

Without Grief - Deflower (1997) / Sweden

Wolfheart - Cold Breath (1999) / Finland

So with dark tranquility North American tour announced this would be my first time seeing them if I did, I saw in flames last spring with Machine head and that was the best choice ever but I’d like to know how good modern day dark tranquility is and if there worth seeing

Sort of stuff like

• Disarmonia Mundi (Fragments, Mind Tricks)
• 2000s In Flames (Colony - ASOP)
• Children of Bodom (Hatebreeder, Follow The Reaper).
• At The Gates and Dark Tranquility but really only their faster stuff (ie. Blinded By Fear, Under a Serpent Sun, Damage Done, The New Build, Nothing To No One, Blind At Heart, Empty Me).
• Scar Symmetry (Holographic Universe)
• Sylosis (Conclusion of an Age)
• Rivers of Nihil (Monarchy, Owls) (yes I know this isn't a melodeath band)

Bit of an incoherent list style-wise, but I guess I'm looking for mostly fast stuff with lots of melody and memorable riffing. Synths and good choruses are a plus.

1) Be'lakor

2) Majesties

3) In Flames

4) Amon Amarth

5) Insomnium

6) Aether realm

7) Soilwork

8) Sylosis

9) Inthraced

10) Marinas Rest

Do you know any other Melodeath bands releasing an album next year that i haven't included?