Best melodeath album?

[Crapples]

The Gallery > The Minds I > all.

 

[black blood]

I'm not very well versed in this sub-genre, but I'm pretty sure Opeth belongs on there. My vote is for Morningrise.

 

[Seditious]

No. Their first album is excellent, true Melodic Death Metal. You know, the style that existed before the huge surge of popularity that led to the disaster known as the Gothenburg style (which absolutely ruined Melodic Death Metal). A Velvet Creation can be likened to The Red in the Sky is Ours.

ok cool. I was never a big fan of At the Gates, but so long as it's not asscore I may as well check it out

 

[DarkBliss]

You should be able to find them both on ebay relatively cheap. I know Mirrorworlds is still very easy to find. I've been told by tasteful people that it fares pretty poorly in comparison to the debut, can anyone share an opinion on the album?

On its own terms,Mirrorworlds is not a bad album, very solid, certainly not the sell-out album it's made to be by some.It's just that the debut is so good that it easily overshadows Mirrorworlds. In other words, there's the ceiling effect at work here(sort of like for instance Walpurgisnacht fares in comparison to His Majesty At the Swamp. The latter is just so great on every level that everything that comes afterwards simply can't withstand the comparison and becomes somewhat redundant). Then again I'm usually quite tolerant of stuff that's considered far from top-notch so take my words with a grain of salt.

 

[challenge_everything]

I don't consider Opeth melodic death though obviously they are very similar.

 

[Zephyrus]

The Gallery and Heartwork.

 

[CF87]

Other albums I would go with.

Sentenced-north from here
Edge of Sanity-the spectral sorrows

 

[~ED~]

of the ones listed crimson is my favorite, although im not sure if u can call it a melodic death metal album.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Unanimated would get my vote, as well as Crypt of Kerberos and Eucharist if they were there.

I voted for:
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Sentenced - North From Here

 

[Never78]

Other. At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness

 

[Xorv]

I'm not very well versed in this sub-genre, but I'm pretty sure Opeth belongs on there. My vote is for Morningrise.

I think of Opeth as more progressive death. Especially in the morningrise era. Not so much melo death, but a album either way.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

there are so many....of all time? who knows. best on that list? i personally say either Whoracle or The Jester Race....

but my current favorite melodeath album is Nightrage's Sweet Vengence. Absolutely fantastic.

 

[Seditious]

carcass-heartwork
not the best ever but the best on your list

and you're not even going to tell us what the best is? you bastard!!

 

[Death Aflame]

The Red in the Sky is Ours is the best album on there, but I don't really think it is a Gothenburg style album. It's actually death metal I'd say.

 

[SheisMySin]

I like Colony best out of the In Flames.
I like Projector best out of Dark Tranquility.

Is Children of Bodom not considered Melodeath? I would say their first 2 are my favorite melodeath.

 

[matgvox1342]

hmmm, I was wondering why I haven't heard of Eucharist before (Since I was a huge MeloDeath fan a few years ago), gave them a LastFM 'similar' search, and found that most of the 'similar' stuff is on the fruity metalcore side of things (e.g., Nightrage, Darkane, The Duskfall, Arch Enemy, Mercenary, Scar Symmetry, Soilwork)

are they of the "Soundtrack to Your Escape" In Flames, and "Catch 22" Hypocrisy era style (two other bands on their similar list)?

i take offense to you calling nightrage, the duskfall, scar symmetry, and all those others as "fruity metalcore"

 

[Death Animal]

Amorphis - Elegy goes for that list.
Kalmah-Black walz comes next and Wintersun.

 

[Vacant_Planets]

Wintersun.

 

[Seditious]

i take offense to you calling nightrage, the duskfall, scar symmetry, and all those others as "fruity metalcore"

it's ok to be gay, you don't need to be offended. accept who you are.

 

[Cythraul]

it's ok to be gay, you don't need to be offended. accept who you are.

Seriously, all of those bands fucking blow. Btw, your sig made me laugh. wp, my man.