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| 10 Essential Melodic Death Metal
Been awhile since I've made one of these...10 essential melo-death albums. | | 1 |  | Carcass
Heartwork
One of the first, and one of the best. While very melodic, it's also extremely br00tal. | | 2 |  | At The Gates
Slaughter of the Soul
Also helped pioneer the melo-death scene, At The Gates delivers a fast, relentless and raw sound in a melodic form. | | 3 |  | Dark Tranquillity
The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity is more on the melodic side of the spectrum. Unlike Heartwork and Slaughter of the Soul, The Gallery shows lots of diversity with fast and slow sections, acoustic passages, and a hint of folk influence for good measure. They're later albums are synth-infused and still holds up to most of the albums on this list. | | 4 |  | In Flames
The Jester Race
The Jester Race features tons of guitar harmonizing and tasteful acoustic passages throughout. While not incredibly brutal or fast, the guitar work and Anders's vocals more than make up for it. | | 5 |  | Soilwork
The Chainheart Machine
Soilwork is generally not well liked on elitist music sites mainly because of the metalcore influence and alternative metal in later albums. This album has by far some of the best guitar soloing in the melo death scene though. | | 6 |  | Insomnium
Above the Weeping World
It's really fucking good. It's because it has some doom metal influences. | | 7 |  | Kalmah
They Will Return
Really fast paced and very modern-sounding, They Will Return relies on guitar shreding and smooth keyboard melodies to create their own sound. | | 8 |  | Into Eternity
Buried in Oblivion
While not traditional melo-death, Into Eternity deliver a prog-infused melo-death sound with some sick shredding and a wide range of different vocals. | | 9 |  | Hypocrisy
Virus
This album gave melo-death the revitalizing breath that it really needs. Sounds very similar to 90s melo-death bands. It's Peter Tagtgren's band so it has to be good. | | 10 |  | Garden of Shadows
Oracle Moon | |
Lunarfall
06.01.09 | oops #10's description got cut off, should be
"American melo-death with tons of atmosphere and well-written, intricate songs."
list was kind of hard, i was trying to keep out prog death bands and children of bodom, which leaves only a handful of good melo-death left | Mordecai.
06.01.09 | Edge of Sanity muthafucka. But other than that, good list | jingledeath
06.01.09 | Awesome stuff though I need 1 and 8 | DBlitz
06.01.09 | 10 is the only essential thing on the list | CkCk
06.01.09 | none of these are essential :-/ | FistfulOfSteel
06.01.09 | dawn of tears - descent
skyfire - any album | ConorMichaelJoseph
06.01.09 | Cheers for this list, I've been meaning to get into some melodeath, so I'll check out some of these | rasputin
06.01.09 | yeah none of these are essential, and 1, 5,6, 7, 8 and 9 aren't even worth listening to. | KILL
06.01.09 | 1 3 and 4 are amazing, need to check out 9 badly good list | BallsToTheWall
06.01.09 | Dismember- The God That Never Was
Intestine Baalism- Banquet
early Amon Amarth
uhh...melodic death metal, I havent heard any good albums ina long time. Just stick to I.B and Dismember. Although, the new Nightrage sounds promising. | ninjuice
06.01.09 | First four are definitely essential, although Colony if my fav. IF album. | Zip
06.01.09 | I have 1 | Athom
06.01.09 | Kalmah kinda suck. I would put A Celebration of Guilt on here. | gaslightanthem
06.01.09 | look at all these non essential albums | Zip
06.01.09 | Um 1. | gaslightanthem
06.01.09 | i could do without it | Zip
06.01.09 | Yeah well you're gay. | gaslightanthem
06.01.09 | no immune to bad music | Zip
06.01.09 | Lol. | FadeToBlack
06.01.09 | Good list. 3 is best though | jayfatha
03.04.11 | The Absence? |
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