Every time I've tried to purchase this, I couldn't find it for less than too much $$$. Yep, just checked, $50 or higher. Would love to own a copy, but not for that much money.
Heartwork was my introduction to melodic death, still find it unbelievably good. It is pretty yet fucking brutal, a combination not often found. Necroticism is the opposite of melody.
The Jester Race still sounds fresh as fuck all these years later. So clean. So good. This is my kind of cheesy metal, because it has just a slight hair of it.
The Gallery gets better with each listen, and I fucking love The Dividing Line in particular, that time change at 2:30 is PERFECTION. I never got into much other Dark Tranquillity.
Edge of Sanity are probably the only melodic death I obsess over as a band. Even their meh stuff blows me away. Except Crimson II which always gives me this face:
Slaughter of the Soul was overrated back then, and it's overrated right now. Terminal Spirit Disease and The Red in the Sky is Ours are
and
, respectively, for entirely different reasons. Not unlike Heartwork and Necroticism as a pair really.
I was a devout Hypocrisy fanboy for years, that's how I first discovered UM. Abducted is probably in my Top 25 list.
The Somberlain is definitely a better album, but I still prefer listening to Storm of the Light's Bane. It's just so... cold.
I still really dig the first Ominium Gatherum album, even if it doesn't have an original bone in its body.