Melodeath

[Slayed Necros]

Well, I don't like In Flames or Soilwork but I will contribute to this thread with my understanding of melodic "death" metal.

Cardinal Sin - Spiteful Intents
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Embracing - I Bear the Burden of Time
Decameron - My Shadow...
The Moaning - Blood From Stone
A Canorous Quintet - Silence of the World Beyond
Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy of the Beast
A Mind Confused - Anarchos

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Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
Merciless - Unbound
Crown of Thorns - Eternal Death
Taetre - The Art

 

[WCannibal]

ATG's first two albums aren't melodeath at all. They're old school tech death with a few melodic parts thrown in.

 

[waif]

Tech death? WTF?
Dude, Kill 'Em All is a pretty fucking brutal war metal album.

 

[WCannibal]

Tech death? WTF?

Tempo and time signature changes are all over the place.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

I just call the other "death metal with melody" and the more poppy stuff I call melodic death or melodeath.


Anyways, thought I'd bring this up since the album just leaked a few days ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K_2Mx-5N38

Not bad. You got anything a little less "ballad-ish"?

@ WCannibal: Eh, I think that song is still too straight forward to be called tech-death. It's more melodic death metal with a technical twist.

 

[FearTheReaper]

Anyone else think that looks like the cover of Wintersun - Time got jacked up?

YES!!

Let that band have it. Pink and Jari dont mesh.

 

[WCannibal]

Not bad. You got anything a little less "ballad-ish"?

@ WCannibal: Eh, I think that song is still too straight forward to be called tech-death. It's more melodic death metal with a technical twist.

First point:


Second, how do you come across calling that ATG song melodic? I've heard brutal death metal more melodic than that.

 

[damnromulans]

What the heck is Mercenary considered? If they're melodeath, then I love them.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Second, how do you come across calling that ATG song melodic? I've heard brutal death metal more melodic than that.

Listen again to the riff around the 3 minute mark. I see how this thread is confusing, so I'll attempt to clarify:

Melodic Death Metal =



Melodeath =



I can hear a difference, but maybe it's just me.

 

[waif]

@WCannibal:
What are you talking about? It's not melodic death metal, but it's not that far off. It's also definitely not technical death metal, unless you want to expand the definition of "tech death" to include anything that you can't play within six months of picking up guitar.

 

[scytheavatar]

In this topic: people whine about worthless definitions.

Can we please agree that there should only be 2 genres of metal: awesome metal and crap metal?

 

[Dak]

Dude, Kill 'Em All is a pretty fucking brutal war metal album.

Inorite.On that note, Iron Maiden is trve kvlt bestial black metal.

 

[VelociBrad]

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Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
Merciless - Unbound
Crown of Thorns - Eternal Death
Taetre - The Art

Hey don't throw Unanimated in with this garbage. They are not at all along the same lines.

 

[Avigrus]

Merciless - Unbound kicks fucking ass, but it's thrash more then melodeath / melodic death

 

[Slayed Necros]

Hey don't throw Unanimated in with this garbage. They are not at all along the same lines.

It's death metal with emphasis on melody. As are the other three albums I listed. As are the albums I quoted which were posted by ObscureInfinity.

 

[VelociBrad]

Unanimated has more in common with Necrophobic and the early melodic blackened death styles than melodeath.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I'm aware. ObscureInfinity posted a list of Swedish melodic black/death metal. I added to it. I don't give a fuck about melodeath.

 

[Episteme]

Well, I don't like In Flames or Soilwork but I will contribute to this thread with my understanding of melodic "death" metal.

Cardinal Sin - Spiteful Intents
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Embracing - I Bear the Burden of Time
Decameron - My Shadow...
The Moaning - Blood From Stone
A Canorous Quintet - Silence of the World Beyond
Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy of the Beast
A Mind Confused - Anarchos

I like this list, but I think it has nothing to do with "melodeath".

I think out of most of the melodeath bands mentioned here, the only one I can sorta tolerate is Dark Tranquility.

 

[challenge_everything]

Eucharist's A Velvet Creation can be considered melodeath, but otherwise I agree. Eucharist and Dark Tranquillity (The Gallery) are the only real 'melodeath' stuff I listen to regularly these days. Wintersun and Insomnium get occasional spins.

The Gallery is quite clearly the pinnacle of what this sub-genre has to offer.

 

[Episteme]

Wintersun makes me want to punch babies. It's too....happy.