Top Ten Melodic Death Metal Albums

At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Cemetary - An Evil Shade Of Grey
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dawn (Swe) - Nær Solen Gar Nider For Evogher (or black metal, frankly all that matters is that it's fucking awesome)
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream (ok, so technically not melodic death metal, but it is death metal with a lot of melody)
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Gates of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path
Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun (refer back to Dawn statement)

well my list is fucked but I don't care
 
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer
In Thy Dreams - Stream of Dispraised Souls
A Canorous Quintet - As Tears
Amon Amarth - Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds
A Canorous Quintet - Silence of the World Beyond
At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
In Flames - Subterranean
In Flames - Lunar Strain
 
Guys, don´t pretend that "melo-death" is a genre different from "melodic death metal". "Melo-Death" is nothing but a short name for the genre. And don´t go around saying: "But Melo-Death is stuff like Soilwork and later In Flames, and Melodic Death Metal is like old stuff, like In Flames - The Jester Race and At The Gate´s - Slaughter of the Soul"
If you wanna call later In Flames and Soilwork something else than melodic death metal, then fucking do it, don´t call it "melo-death" and claim that "melo-death" is different than "melodic-death".
It´s like saying that R-tard is different from retard, and that BTW is different than "by the way".

Anyway, here are my favorite 10 metal albums with some melodic death metal influences:
1. Clayman - In Flames
2. Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom
3. Colony - In Flames
4. Reroute to Remain - In Flames
5. Revolver - The Haunted
6. Figure Number Five - Soilwork
7. The Gallery - Dark Tranquillity
8. Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
9. Fiction - Dark Tranquillity
10. Silent Night Fever - Dimension Zero
 
Death Delirium said:
A lot of bands mentioned in this thread sound like power metal bands with raspy vocals. I can't recall death metal sounding anything like power metal.
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Curious as to why you're picking on other people with a straight up death band on your list(Bloodbath) when they arent melodeath at all
 
Bloodbath has melody. I'm listing death metal bands/albums with melody. I think first and formost a band has to actually be a death metal in the first place and than add whatever,etc..

My list makes more sense than people listing Children of Bodom,etc..
 
DEAD-BEAT said:
Guys, don´t pretend that "melo-death" is a genre different from "melodic death metal". "Melo-Death" is nothing but a short name for the genre. And don´t go around saying: "But Melo-Death is stuff like Soilwork and later In Flames, and Melodic Death Metal is like old stuff, like In Flames - The Jester Race and At The Gate´s - Slaughter of the Soul"
If you wanna call later In Flames and Soilwork something else than melodic death metal, then fucking do it, don´t call it "melo-death" and claim that "melo-death" is different than "melodic-death".
It´s like saying that R-tard is different from retard, and that BTW is different than "by the way".

Anyway, here are my favorite 10 metal albums with some melodic death metal influences:
1. Clayman - In Flames
2. Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom
3. Colony - In Flames
4. Reroute to Remain - In Flames
5. Revolver - The Haunted
6. Figure Number Five - Soilwork
7. The Gallery - Dark Tranquillity
8. Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
9. Fiction - Dark Tranquillity
10. Silent Night Fever - Dimension Zero
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I definitely agree with In Flames being in the list for most important melodic death metal releases; but Reroute To Remain isn't a very influential album, in my opinion. It came after In Flames's Golden Age, and really offered nothing new. I definitely agree with Clayman though, and a lot of people have already said Jester Race which I think is the most influential.
 
Death Delirium said:
Bloodbath has melody. I'm listing death metal bands/albums with melody. I think first and formost a band has to actually be a death metal in the first place and than add whatever,etc..

My list makes more sense than people listing Children of Bodom,etc..
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I´ve never listened to "Bloodbath", but your argument fails. Nope, Melodic Death Metal is not death metal that is "melodic" only. There is a huge difference. Compare The Jester Race to some random CC album and you´ll see the difference. It´s not a subgenre in my opinion, it is not some added melody, melodic death metal is a totally distinct and unique genre, that has less to do with death metal that you think.

Listen to The Jester Race, Whoracle, The Gallery, Slaughter of the Soul, then listen to some random Death Metal albums, you´ll see the difference.
 
Einherjar86 said:
I definitely agree with In Flames being in the list for most important melodic death metal releases; but Reroute To Remain isn't a very influential album, in my opinion. It came after In Flames's Golden Age, and really offered nothing new. I definitely agree with Clayman though, and a lot of people have already said Jester Race which I think is the most influential.
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I definately agree with you! Reroute to Remain isn´t a very influential album, it just happens to be one of my favourites. Reroute to Remain is just Clayman taken to another level with some more melodic hooks and evolution of certain aspects.
Again, that wasn´t a "mostly influential" list, it´s my favourite albums :) Sorry if I wasn´t being that clear.
 
I guess I've kind of been misinterpreting the thread as well. Reroute to Remain is a good album; but I still enjoy the old ones more (Clayman and before). "Only For the Weak" is my favorite In Flames song.

Well, if we're talking favorites, I have to say Norther's Death Unlimited (although I know this will probably piss some people off). I really think it shows them breaking away from the whole Children of Bodom influence and drafting their own sound. And there are some very epic, melodic songs on that record.
 
Skyfire is the best band confused with COB, because they are much more compositionally progressive. Fucking awesome band imo

The problem people are having here with melo-death/death metal that's melodic (MELODIC DEATH METAL) is indeed a semantic one. Dismember are melodic, and they're death metal. They are much, much more melodic than most of the old-school Swedish bands, and they were very influential to a lot of bands currently playing death metal with more than a scoop of melody. They were one of the first bands to combine heavy metal-esque lead guitar harmonies with death metal rhythmic structures and implement both carefully in a formula that actually COMBINED them and didn't try to mix them like oil and water.

There lies the difference between melo-death and melodic death metal. Yes, it's probably nitpicking, but so is the whole black metal vs. 1st wave BM/proto-BM argument so...it should be noted. These are different genres. Melo-death in the Gothenburg style pioneered by bands like early Soilwork, early In Flames/Ceremonial Oath, Gates of Ishtar, Eucharist, etc. is more like heavy/power metal structured music without much reference to death metal rhythmic capacity/technicality or the bludgeoning bottom-heavy riffs that typify death metal as a standalone genre. That is where the difference lies. And this isn't my opinion, it's the goddamn truth; if you can't hear it, get your ears checked!

This is also THE LAST TIME I fucking write this...
 
V.V.V.V.V. said:
Skyfire is the best band confused with COB, because they are much more compositionally progressive. Fucking awesome band imo

The problem people are having here with melo-death/death metal that's melodic (MELODIC DEATH METAL) is indeed a semantic one. Dismember are melodic, and they're death metal. They are much, much more melodic than most of the old-school Swedish bands, and they were very influential to a lot of bands currently playing death metal with more than a scoop of melody. They were one of the first bands to combine heavy metal-esque lead guitar harmonies with death metal rhythmic structures and implement both carefully in a formula that actually COMBINED them and didn't try to mix them like oil and water.

There lies the difference between melo-death and melodic death metal. Yes, it's probably nitpicking, but so is the whole black metal vs. 1st wave BM/proto-BM argument so...it should be noted. These are different genres. Melo-death in the Gothenburg style pioneered by bands like early Soilwork, early In Flames/Ceremonial Oath, Gates of Ishtar, Eucharist, etc. is more like heavy/power metal structured music without much reference to death metal rhythmic capacity/technicality or the bludgeoning bottom-heavy riffs that typify death metal as a standalone genre. That is where the difference lies. And this isn't my opinion, it's the goddamn truth; if you can't hear it, get your ears checked!

This is also THE LAST TIME I fucking write this...
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Haha, what, don't want to discuss genres? Just kidding V.

But just to clarify; you would categorize Amorphis's Elegy as melodic death metal, right?
 
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