Best melodeath album?

[ConvergeNerd]

Edge of Sanity-Crimson
Kataklysm-Sorcery
Disillusion-Back to Time of Splendor
Withering Surface-The Nude Ballet
A Canorous Quintet-Silence of the World Beyond
Garden of Shadows-Heart of Corona
Omnium Gatherum-Spirits and August Light
Unleashed-Where No Life Dwell (pretty much created it)
Scythe-Each Other
Compos Mentis-Fragments of a Withered Dream
Dark Tranquility-The Mind's I

 

[Triton]

Wintersun-Wintersun
I can't stop listening to that album...must listen to it at least 2 times a day...

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Intestine Baalism - Both Albums

 

[Ben_t]

Eucharist-A Velvet Creation

+1

This album is great.

 

[Valerie]

Arsis - A Diamond for Disease, even though it's not a full-length, it's 3 songs still blow away a lot of stuff.

 

[panzerfaust666]

Dark Traquility-Fiction.
soooo fucking good

 

[DarkBliss]

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.

As great as it is I still have issues with the production on the album. I've just listened to it with headphones and it gets really grating on higher volumes, moreso than most albums in compraison.

 

[A1a23]

Other for me. I'd say any of Hypocrisy's melodeath albums or Skyfire - mind revolution.

 

[Under The Oak]

I am kinda surprised Crimson hasn't gotten more votes. Out of what's listed, it's one of the only decent albums. I really don't get the fascination with Dark Tranquility either. They were not the first melo-death band and their music just seems uninspired and mediocre at best.

 

[CF87]

As great as it is I still have issues with the production on the album. I've just listened to it with headphones and it gets really grating on higher volumes, moreso than most albums in compraison.

I have the remastered version and think the production is fine. I can't stand the production on with fear I kiss the burning darkness. As much as I enjoy sunlight studio production jobs At The Gates albums are still not some of the better and pale in comparison to everything recorded there in the early 90's. I can't believe Tomas produced WFIKTBD because the production is so terrible.

 

[Never78]

I think it's beautiful, but then, I am a raging psycho.

 

[DarkBliss]

I have the remastered version and think the production is fine. I can't stand the production on with fear I kiss the burning darkness. As much as I enjoy sunlight studio production jobs At The Gates albums are still not some of the better and pale in comparison to everything recorded there in the early 90's. I can't believe Tomas produced WFIKTBD because the production is so terrible.

It's fine, but could've been easier on the ears. And yea the sound on With Fear is awful. There is some good material to be found there, though so I thought the album was pretty solid.

 

[CF87]

I never listen to it. I probably listen to gardens of grief the most.

 

[DarkBliss]

Speaking of EPs I was kind of disappointed that my copy of North from Here didn't have the Trooper EP included, I thought it'd come as part of the remaster. I really loved that Desert by Night song on the EP.

 

[byrne]

At the Gates The Red in the Sky is Ours

Because it is the greatest thing to ever be written and played, even though its melodic death and not melodeath.

 

[Xorv]

wtf? melodic death? melo death? how are the two different?

 

[DarkBliss]

wtf? melodic death? melo death? how are the two different?

They aren't different. The latter is a derogatory term(mellow death?) for uninspired melodic DM.

 

[Perpetual Catatonia]

Above the Weeping World. I like many of the others on that list, but I've listened to this one a lot lately.

 

[byrne]

They aren't different. The latter is a derogatory term(mellow death?) for uninspired melodic DM.

i dont have time to go into it, but they are distinctly different. easiest comparison is melodeath to melodic death is like metalcore to heavy metal. whilst you are correct in saying it is typically derogatory, it's just an assoication with the types of bands who play the style, namely because most come off sounding very derivative.

 

[Jesse Pohjalainen]

Insomnium-Above the Weeping World

It was either this or Since the Day it All Came Down.