Your favorite melodic death bands
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Topic: Your favorite melodic death bands
Posted By: Metallica999
Subject: Your favorite melodic death bands
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 3:16pm
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Anyone else on here likes melodeath? :D My favorite bands are Dark Tranquillity, Children Of Bodom and Insomnium (Their 2nd and last albums are amongst the most unique melodeath albums i have ever heard). I also like early In flames. Lately i've been discovering Kalmah and Arch Enemy and i must say they sound really good. What about you guys? |
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 3:21pm
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I�m not much of a melodeath fan but Burning Bridges by Arch Enemy ( I�m not too fond of the rest of their disco) is one great album. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 3:24pm
That may be my favorite of theirs. |
UMUR wrote:Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2010 at 3:27pm
Edge of Sanity - progressive melodic death metal with some balls.  ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 6:12am
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http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/at-the-gates.aspx" rel="nofollow - At the Gates - " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/at-the-gates--slaughter-of-the-soul.aspx" rel="nofollow - Slaughter of the Soul " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/carcass.aspx" rel="nofollow - Carcass - " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/carcass--heartwork.aspx" rel="nofollow - Heartwork " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/mindmare.aspx" rel="nofollow - Mindmare - " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/mindmare--disordered-existence%28ep%29.aspx" rel="nofollow - Disordered Existence " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/arch-enemy.aspx" rel="nofollow - Arch Enemy - " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/arch-enemy--stigmata.aspx" rel="nofollow - Stigmata " & " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/arch-enemy--burning-bridges.aspx" rel="nofollow - Burning Bridges " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/james-labrie.aspx" rel="nofollow - James LaBrie - " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/james-labrie--static-impulse.aspx" rel="nofollow - Static Impulse " [yes, indeed] http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/soulskinner.aspx" rel="nofollow - Terra Tenebra - " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/soulskinner--subconscious.aspx" rel="nofollow - Subconscious " http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/cyanotic%28denmark%29.aspx" rel="nofollow - Cyanotic - " http:///www.metalmusicarchives.com/cyanotic%28denmark%29--chasm-within%28demo%29.aspx" rel="nofollow - Chasm Within " ------------- 
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 8:03am
Yes they are certainly not melodeath but melodic death metal and even though that somehow means the same it really doesn�t now does it?  ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 9:48am
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Then Terra Tenebra dn Cyanotic aren't melodeath either :-S but they are melodic death metal...
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 3:05pm
Very true - they aren't melodeath like In Flames or Arch Enemy, but just have a melodic take on death metal. EoS can be pretty brutal at times, but in comparison to other death metal acts of their time, they aren't that heavy.  ------------- Check out my YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/demiseoftime |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 3:10pm
http://www.myspace.com/sonorousodiumofficial/music" rel="nofollow - Sonorous Odium  |
Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2010 at 3:48pm
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Not really a fan of the sub genre. I like In Flames early stuff (their first 2 albums) Slaughter of the Soul is pretty great. I never thought of CoB as melodeath but I do like them as well. ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2010 at 11:51pm
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CoB's early stuff I think of as extreme power metal, and great stuff. Their recent stuff is melodeath. And pretty much horrible. I'll take the extreme power variant any day. ------------- Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want. |
Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2010 at 2:29am
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When it comes to melodeath...there is an unrealized (or maybe just overlooked) album. Purgatory Afterglow by Edge of Sanity. Brilliant, and also seems like a true melodeath album, in that it's actually a merger of death metal and melodic songwriting. Also released a whole year before Slaughter of the Soul, the Gallery, and the Jester Race ------------- Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Testament. The real Big Four of thrash metal! Listen to doom metal, worship Satan |
Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2010 at 4:56am
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Raintime's latest album (which is not really melodic death metal per se, but it does contain a lot of melodeath elements) is recommendable... even if there are too many poppy elements for my taste. The same applies to the forthcoming Deadlock album.
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Posted By: Metalbaswee
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2010 at 7:55am
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2010 at 4:45pm
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Blooddrunk has to be the worst metal album I've ever heard. It seriously bored me to tears. I wrote a review on it if you would like to see my further thoughts.
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Posted By: Vobiscum
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2012 at 7:19am
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Arch Enemy In Flames Dark Tranquility |
Posted By: IMPF2112
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2012 at 9:12pm
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Edge of Sanity Eluveitie Children of Bodom Heartwork-era Carcass And Wintersun are one of my absolute most favourite bands, but I never understood why anyone would call them Melodic Death Metal. They sound more like an epic combination of Melodic Black Metal, Power Metal and Folk Metal to me.
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Posted By: Drunb
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2012 at 6:33am
I agree about Blooddrunk being their worst album... although Relentless wasn't all that much better. But I'd say there are some decent songs on that album (the word "decent" is pretty damn sad for a band who released an album like Hatebreeder) such as the title track, Smile Pretty For The Devil and Roadkill Morning. Tie My Rope, One Day You Will Cry and Done With Everything Die For Nothing are by far the worst songs written by the band.
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Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2012 at 11:29am
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Be'Lakor Imsomnium early Arch Enemy Carcass |
Posted By: AnnieDoucet
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2012 at 2:13pm
Arch Enemy is my favourite band and the first one I listened to haha. Angelina is a babe  Dark Tranquility and Insomnium are good too, havn't heard of the other ones. But I also like: In Flames Ensiferum Slipknot Avenged Sevenfold Eluveitie... Annie ------------- One of our favorite events to do as a family in Highlands Ranch. This year there is going to be a http://www.tropicalbeat.com" rel="nofollow - Caribbean band Pan Jumbies led by an acclaimed steelpan artist! |
Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2012 at 2:41pm
Avenged Sevenfold is not melodic death metal, it's just metalcore; Slipknot is alternative/nu metal.
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Posted By: FallingxSkies
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2012 at 5:14pm
| Is Between the Buried and Me considered melodic? or even a death band? If so definitely them! love their album colors how its so crazy and different then your usual metal album (In my opinion) |
Posted By: bartosso
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2012 at 5:26pm
First of all, hello there ! Nice to see a new face around here. BtBaM is not death metal, as far as I know it's progressive metalcore. But I do agree, Colors is definitely an unusual album.------------- http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - http://shrineofllyria.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: FallingxSkies
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2012 at 2:08am
Ello sir! Thats good to hear since I feel pretty awkward trying to post  ....:3 woah I like a prog band..interesting. and yeah put the whole album on my wannabe Ipod oh think I got a cool band whose melodic! Fear My Thoughts :)
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Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2012 at 12:56am
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Opeth, if you consider them as such. Dark Tranquillity & Eluveitie if not. There's not too many bands I can stand w/cookie monster vocals, the music itself really has to stand out for me to overlook/get used to 'em.
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Posted By: Diogenes
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2012 at 1:26am
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IMO Mercenary from 2002-2008 was as good as melodeath gets. They had VERY heavy power metal influences but were still clearly a melodic death metal band. I've yet to hear a band use a variety of vocal styles as well as they did during that period. I guess I'm not much of a fan either, because I can't think of any other can't-miss recommendations. I dig most of Scar Symmetry's stuff and Skyfire is pretty cool, but off the top of my head that's about it. |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2012 at 1:49am
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Hmm...if we�re talking more old school death metal acts with melodic elements I�d mention the Necrophobic and the Unanimated debuts. They are certainly not melodeath, but just a slightly more melodic (and blackened) take on old school Swedish death metal. ------------- http://www.lyngby-boldklub.dk/" rel="nofollow - Forever TRUE - Forever BLUE! https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2012 at 5:40pm
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The only melodeath I own is Wages Of Sin by Arch Enemy (which I barely ever listened to apart from the first two songs and the priest/maiden covers on the bonus disc) and the 3 most recent Amon Amarth albums. I've heard Slaughter Of The Soul by At The Gates once too, but didn't care for it. Other than that, the genre is an absolute mystery to me. -------------  My Blog: http://kingcrimsonprog.wordpress.com/ |
Posted By: O Lodger!
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2012 at 6:49am
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Do Amorphis (My Kantele period) count? Otherwise Dark Tranquility. And I find Amon Amarth pretty melodic!
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Posted By: ChaosAngel
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2012 at 6:10am
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Favorite melodeath? Arch Enemy In Flames Carcass Amon Amarth The preceding are, of course, in no particular order... |
Posted By: vmoore
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2012 at 1:55pm
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Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2012 at 3:33pm
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Just found about these guys a few days ago. Sounds good to me They are from Quebec, but I'm reading that the singer is originally from Morocco? Just ordered the first album (first video), hopefully it'll get here by Christmas.
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