Recommend me some melodic death metal

[IWP]

I just started exploring this genre after listening to In Flames's Lunar Strain, Subbterranean, Jester Race, and Whoracle albums. I also listened to Dark Tranquillity and Arch Enemy, and I think they're pretty good. What other bands would you recommend for me to listen to?

 

[Zephyrus]

Amon Amarth
Insomnium
Kronos
Hypocrisy
Carcass - Heartwork
later Kataklysm
Dissection

 

[Blind Guardian]

Dissection
Unanimated
later Edge Of Sanity

 

[The Ozzman]

Children of Bodom
Blood Stain Child
Soilwork
Scar Symmetry
Into Eternity
Imperanon

 

[Triton]

Illnath-Cast Into Fields Of Evil Pleasure
Some really good recent stuff.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I used to be hugely into Melodic Death Metal, and my interest in the mid nineties Swedish scene has recently returned. These are my recommendations, with those in bold being quite easily the best the genre has to offer:

A Canorous Quintet - Silence of the World Beyond
Ablaze My Sorrow - If Emotions Still Burn
Amon Amarth - Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Cardinal Sin - Spiteful Intents
Ceremonial Oath - Carpet
Crown of Thorns - Eternal Death
Decameron - My Shadow...
Dissection - The Somberlain
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Embracing - I Bear the Burden of Time
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Eucharist - Mirrorworlds
Excretion - Voice of Harmony
Gates of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path
Godgory - Sea of Dreams
Infernal Gates - From the Mist of Dark Waters
Lord Belial - Unholy Crusade
Miscreant - Dreaming Ice
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Necrophobic - Darkside
The Moaning - Blood From Stone
Sacrilege - Lost in the Beauty you Slay
Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil

But of course, the greatest melodic Metal album to emerge from Sweden is, and always will be, Sacramentum's Far Away From the Sun.

 

[The Ozzman]

Isn't SOTLB black metal?

 

[Slayed Necros]

There's a few albums amongst the list that tread the line of Black Metal, but I imagine the OP will enjoy them nonetheless.

 

[skeptik]

That list will serve me well too, I've been meaning to explore the more melodic end of the spectrum. I actually just won The Moaning on eBay today.

 

[Seditious]

Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
Amon Amarth - Once Sent From the Golden Hall
Amon Amarth - The Crusher
Amon Amarth - Versus the World (+ Bonus CD)
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Amorphis - Far From the Sun
Dan Swanö - Moontower
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Dark Tranquillity - Haven
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Empyrium - A Wintersunset
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - A Virgin and A Whore
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Sinner's Serenade
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Vilda Mánnu
Hypocrisy - Abducted
Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy - Into the Abyss
Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter
Hypocrisy - The Forth Dimension
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
Hypocrisy - Virus
In Flames - Black Ash Inheritance (1997 MCD)
In Flames - Lunar Strain
In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Whoracle
Kalmah - Swampsong
Kalmah - The Black Waltz
Norther - Dreams of Endless War
SuidAkrA - Emprise to Avalon
SuidAkrA - Lupine Essence
Insomnium - In the Halls of Awaiting
Insomnium - Since the Day It All Came Down
Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
Saturnus - For the Loveless Lonely Nights
Saturnus - Martyre
Saturnus - Paradise Belongs to You
Saturnus - Veronica Decides to Die

bout covers it

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Eh, Saturnus is pushing it...more doomy than most, Insomnium sometimes as well.

Regardless, they are good...here are a few more recs:

Cipher System - Central Tunnel 8 (modern w/ electronics, etc.)
Holymarsh - In The Holymarsh (great melo-death from S. Korea)
Holymarsh - Infliction Ov The Morbid Intention (excellent stuff!)
Detonation - An Epic Defiance (epic and inspiring stuff)
Detonation - Portals To Uphobia (like the other album)
Dawn Of Dreams - Darklight Awakening (for Sacramentum fans!)
Zonaria - Infamy And The Breed (for Hypocrisy fans!)
Cidesphere - Interment (Turkish[?!] melodic DEATH metal!)
Furia - Un Lac De Larmes Et De Sang (impressive theatrical MDM)
Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments Of D-Generation (of course)
Omnium Gatherum - Spirits And August Light (emotional melo-death)
Compos Mentis - Fragments Of A Withered Dream (symphonic)
Compos Mentis - Gehennesis (symphonic)
Mictlantecuhtli - Pillars Of Science (black/thrash influenced MDM)

I'm sure I'll come up with more...

 

[The Ozzman]

Cipher System and Detonation

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Isn't SOTLB black metal?

I much prefer "The Somberlain", but I too have never heard of it being called MeloDeath. I guess they have a refined sound that's not hard to appreciate though & it's always a good recommendation.

I'm not very good with this MeloDeath stuff, but here goes. Sounds to me like you would like Bodom/Norther. I have them in my MeloDeath folder & they're not going anywhere despite the many labels they could fall under.

Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Wintersun - s/t
Norther - Dreams of Endless Wars
Norther - Mirror of Madness
Arch Enemy - Black Earth
Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Carcass - Heartwork

Meh, I suck at MeloDeath. Everything else I've heard from it wasn't all that great, but I too could use some of these recs. I probably need some Hypocrisy more than about anything so far. I like to work my way into the obscure stuff within genres.

 

[The Ozzman]

Follow The Reaper is one of the best melodeath albums I've ever heard

 

[nissan]

Definitely check the At The Gates earlier ablums, and also The Absence.

 

[Faint]

Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt
Arsis - A Diamond For Disease (EP)
The Absence - From Your Grave
The Absence - Riders Of The Plague
Mors Principium Est - The Unborn

Can't think of anymore that haven't been suggested. :|

 

[Manic Ferocity]

That list will serve me well too, I've been meaning to explore the more melodic end of the spectrum. I actually just won The Moaning on eBay today.

Damnit! That's where that shit went. I saw that and was meaning to buy it some time in the near future.

 

[Valerie]

Good job Faint, I strongly second both of the Arsis mentions, as well as the Mors Principium Est mention.

Check out Daylight Dies (a little doomish).

 

[WhiteRaven]

Threat Signal - Under Reprisal

 

[FenriR]

Kalmah. No question about it. Gods of melodeath.

Insomnium are good too.