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| Best Melodic Death Bands You've Never Heard of
Melodic death metal...would have to be, when done just the right way, my all time favorite genre of metal. However, that "done properly" part is no easy feat. The best melodic death bands are those that blend brutality and melody to perfection with more-than-sufficient technicality. If you're looking for Gothenburg bands, look elsewhere. This list is for honest to god melodic death. Keep in mind that the order of this list was determined by a combination of my love for the band and their level of obscurity. | | 1 | Insomnium
Insomnium is the best melodic death band that none of you have probably heard of. No, they are not the greatest ever, but they do melodic death metal like no other band in existence. And overlooking them just as they have been overlooked throughout their career should be a crime among metalheads. They're damn heavy, but they manage to hold a defined, captivating melody on top of that. With a progressive side bearing an uncanny resemblance to the almighty Opeth, Insomnium is brutality with a dreamlike tranquility. | | 2 | Autumn Leaves
Ah, yes...the Dutch melodic death metallers that never got an ounce of recognition. Autumn Leaves' sound truly defines death metal. The music is fast and brutal, just like real death metal. But unlike "brutal death" bands, their riffs ficus on a serious melody and emotion instead of senseless carnage. Although they only made two albums that have long since been out of print (I have to take this opportunity to whore the fact that I own an original copy of their super-rare debut album) both are worthy of every second of a melodic death fan's time. | | 3 | Arsis
Everyone around here knows Arsis by now, but it's the least we could do to support a band who is virtually unknown completely in a starving American metal scene. I take pride in knowing that I was one of the original two Arsis whores on mx (now known as sputnik). Together with my Arsis-Brother Arucard, we whored them relentlessly. Now thanks partly to us and mainly to the distribution of the A Diamond for Disease EP, this entire site knows and loves Arsis. I won't go into detail on their sound, because anyone who doesn't know them owes it to themselves to discover their magic. All I can say is...they deserve all the credit they get. | | 4 | Dismember
Hm...this band ranks so low on the list because they aren't necessarily a "melodic" death metal band. Like an Ever Flowing Stream is by all means a classic death metal album, but they've since taken their raw, old-school Swedish death metal sound and added the melody. The God That Never Was is an excellent example of the raw, true death metal side of melodic death. | | 5 | Fragments of Unbecoming
This band is steadily gaining more and more popularity, and it's about time. The guitars duel each other with lead melodies phenominally. The vocals are layered and compliment each other perfectly. They don't put the "death metal" in melodic death metal, but they sure as hell take it to a level that Gothenburg bands are afraid to touch. | |
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08.07.06 | Akercocke doesnt count? | Shadows
08.07.06 | Akercocke isn't melodic death at all.
And son of a bitch, my thorough descriptions aren't showing up. | francesfarmer
08.07.06 | I've actually heard of all of these sans number 5, if thats what your getting at. | Blokus
08.13.06 | Awesome list. Although I've never heard Fragments of Unbecoming. | Thor
08.19.06 | All hail Arsis. m/ | Wizard
09.02.06 | Can't exactly say any of these bands can even own up to the Gothenburg bands such as In Flames or Dark Tranquility, but I can pretty much agree with you that these bands are not to well known. Ive heard them all, but they just dont have that click I get from the Swedes! | wikuk
09.12.06 | Insomnium Owns! | Drunken Viking
09.27.06 | If you haven't heard/love Arsis, you deserve death. | MarkedFortune
11.17.06 | Absolute Madness
Tops | supra_speed
02.02.07 | Dismember melodic death? fail
They do have a few melodies. But definately are not melo-death | Emim
09.16.11 | Schaliach | InFlamesWeThrash666
07.30.14 | Insomnium used to be so "underground" back then. | thumbcrusher
07.30.14 | oh hai 2006 | InFlamesWeThrash666
07.30.14 | rip shadows |
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