This is my first time posting here but i have been a reader for a few years, Dark Tranquillity is my all time favorite band so i thought i should post for once.
I have hundreds of melodeath bands so i am not making a big giant list because it would take forever so i will just name my favorite 20 or so. It is by far my favorite genre so any band on it are all in top 10 all bands contention.
My favorite melodeath bands are: (some order, DT is first for sure)
Dark Tranquillity
Be'lakor
Insomnium
In Thy Dreams
In Flames
Gates of Ishtar
A Canorous Quintet
At The Gates
In Mourning
The Haunted (im a huge fanboy lol)
I dont know if Edge of sanity counts as melodeath but if they do they are wayyy high on my list, with Crimson being my alltime favorite album. Dan Swano is GOD!
Fatal Embrace
callenish circle
soilwork
beyond the embrace
the absence
ablaze my sorrow