Death Metal

Sacramentum are more black metal than death metal but you're quite simply deaf if you don't hear the melodic death metal influence in their music.
 
Far Away from the Sun is their best, but their other albums do NOT suck. They are still worth listening to. Kind of like with Necrophobic; The Nocturnal Silence is their best and overshadows all the other albums, but the others are still worth listening to.
 
Hardly, a lot of it is very nu-metal like. By comparison, you should view Soilwork as super metal if In Flames is still full-fledged metal...