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Posted by Account deleted, 20.07.2006 - 13:29
Please post here your top 5-10 Melodic death albums
Please Explain

myn are:

1.Dark Tranquillity - The gallery
Well what can I say...
Great guitar work, changes of tempo, great screams of despair, lyrics are amazing and contian Greek mythology and latin.
It touches me very deeply.

2. Arch enemy - Wages Of Sin
I just love her and the fast riffs and great solos
One of the classics for me- the first metla albums I ever liket.

3.At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
Pain and despair, so sick, so touching, tho The riffs sometimes are weak.

4.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall
Im sure Im a viking when I listen to this band !
I lvoe it! its so epic !

5.Eternal Gray - Kindless
One hell of an original death metal machine. Grea great riffs, remind me of old school.

6.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Black metal + Death metal a classic !

7.Entombed - Left Hand Path
a Classic two...killer riffs fast and cutting tho flesh like butter!

8.Dark Tranquillity- Character
Probably the most perfect album of Dark Tranquillity. graet work in wirting and lyrics.

9.Unanimated - In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead
Original , sounds like Black metal + Death.
Very recommended .

10.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
What melodic riffs! Great musicianship !
OLDSCHOOL death metal that owns!


As really dont see 6 and 7 and Melodic Death but anyways...
21.09.2007 - 19:07
W-Lash
Metal Master
Amon Amarth is the only one melodic death band that i can listen (other sound like crap for me).
And this band has less then 10 albums. It means that they all go in this top...:) I can't put them in an order because it's too fucking hard to decide which one is better than another one.
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22.09.2007 - 09:56
graywolf87
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Carcass...Heartwork...period.
also almost all Edge of Sanity albums...period again.
...and Quo Vadis' Day into Night (if you consider that MD?)...well...period.!
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23.09.2007 - 03:03
BurbotsRevenge
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ok, i prob gonna miss out a couple but here goes: (in no particular order)

1. Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder: great album, filled with great riffs/solos
2. Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin: AE's best album to date in my opinon, has everything
3. Kalmah - Swampsong: Awesome album!! perfect MD!
4. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Saul: great riffs and melodic structure
5. Amon Amarth - With Oden on OUr Side: beautfiul melody work combined with brtual riffs and growls
6. Dark Tranquillity - Character: reall good album that has everything
7. Insomnium - above the weeping world: really awesome riffs and meldoci work
8. Disarmonia Mundi - Mind Tricks: really awesome album, with great riffs and solos
9. Norther - um, hard to choose which norther album - mirrir of madness: great MD album with many great songs
10. Death -Sound of perserverence: Awesome MD/technical death (watever) album, that has great riffsd solos, eerything!

NB i tried to use albums from different bands, otherwise theres be more Kalmah, CoB etc albums, and i also missed out on many other great other MD bands; Ensiferum, ETOS, Wintersun, In Flames, and prob others

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23.09.2007 - 11:09
Marcel Hubregtse
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I thought that this topic was about melodic death metal? then why keep people bringing up bands that have nothing to do with melodic DEATH metal such as CoB, Kalmah, Norther, most albums by Dark Tranquillity, everythign Arch Enemy did with Angela Gossow on vocals
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23.09.2007 - 14:24
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Tage Westerlund
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 23.09.2007 at 11:09

I thought that this topic was about melodic death metal? then why keep people bringing up bands that have nothing to do with melodic DEATH metal such as CoB, Kalmah, Norther, most albums by Dark Tranquillity, everythign Arch Enemy did with Angela Gossow on vocals


Man one dude soemwhere in forums say CoB are Melo death metal but I dont remeber where and who, but i was lafing all day
About Arch Enemy I agree I prefere older albums before Angela was there(forgot name to vocalist) old good AE was whit male vocals and it was great
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23.09.2007 - 15:52
Remus
1. Arch Enemy - Stigmata it has AE's best melo-death guitaring. Wages of Sin might be a better album overall but it's not really melo-death.
2. Amon Amarth - With Oden on our Side what can i say, this is the definition of melodic death-metal and one of the band's greatest.

P.S.

CoB, Norther, Kalmah, while they are amazing, they are not death-metal! Melodic yes, but not death.
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23.09.2007 - 16:18
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Tage Westerlund
Written by Remus on 23.09.2007 at 15:52



CoB, Norther, Kalmah, while they are amazing, they are not death-metal! Melodic yes, but not death.


Melo/Extreme Power metal
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23.09.2007 - 16:21
Remus
^Yup, mr K7 pretty much summed it up.
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24.09.2007 - 17:22
Warman
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 23.09.2007 at 11:09

I thought that this topic was about melodic death metal? then why keep people bringing up bands that have nothing to do with melodic DEATH metal such as Dark Tranquillity, everythign Arch Enemy did with Angela Gossow on vocals

You wouldn't consider that to be Melodic Death Metal?
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30.09.2007 - 21:43
Olli
1.) Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
2.) In Flames - Jester Race (Hard choice between other in flames albums but I'll choose one to make room for other bands lol)
3.) Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
4.) Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama (Not sure if thats really melodeath, but meh)
5.) Dark Tranquility - Damage Done
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30.09.2007 - 22:29
Warman
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Written by Olli on 30.09.2007 at 21:43

4.) Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama (Not sure if thats really melodeath, but meh)

Some kind of Alternative Melodic Death Meta I'd sayl, so it fits on your list.
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30.09.2007 - 23:27
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Tage Westerlund
Written by Warman on 30.09.2007 at 22:29

Written by Olli on 30.09.2007 at 21:43

4.) Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama (Not sure if thats really melodeath, but meh)

Some kind of Alternative Melodic Death Meta I'd sayl, so it fits on your list.


Or new age of MDM or modern MDM
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30.09.2007 - 23:29
Warman
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Written by Bad English on 30.09.2007 at 23:27

Or new age of MDM

Yeah, that's a good label too!
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01.10.2007 - 05:00
b0000mst1ck
i hate posting when it comes to putting bands into a genre because it always turns into an argument, but melo-death is my favorite. so here goes...

soilwork - a predator's portrait
dark tranquillity - character
in flames - colony
insomnium - above the weeping world
amon amarth - with oden on our side
satariel - hydra
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02.10.2007 - 16:06
Woutjinho
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The Crown - Crowned Unholy
good stuff. Crowned In Terror, Drugged Unholy were my fav.

Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Punish My Heaven and Mine Is The Grandeur Of Melancholy Burning are great

At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Slaughter Of Soul is still a song I listen often and play on guitar

Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
my first Dark Tranquillity album

The Crown - Deathrace King
not as good as Crowned Unholy... too bad

Soilwork - Figure Number Five
pretty good but it got bored pretty fast. not complex at all, very easy stuff
but probably will listen to it more and more, my girlfriend start to like this
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07.10.2007 - 05:51
Frost/bitten
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Death - Sounds of Perseverance
Great album, iv always been a big chuck schuldiner fan, his style is just incrdible.
Opeth - Morningrise
Although i dont consider all their albums melo/death the first three most definately were melo.death
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
I think this band dose have elements of doom metal in their lyrics, but they are definately melo/death in their sound and style of playing.
My Dying Bride - the Light at the end of the world
Ok firstly they are doom, but they have a great deal of death metal in their music as well. This album is really an incredible piece of art.
In the Woods - The Heart of the Ages
Ok its more of a melodic/black, but it is still in the same aura of the other albums mentioned in my list.

My list looks a little different to most here, but each of the bands has a melodic side and a death side, whether or not you argee with my posting them. They may not be purely melodic/death, they do indeed meet the requirements.
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09.10.2007 - 00:30
Thrashy
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In Flames - Lunar Strain (I just love it very melodic and classic stuff)
Soilwork - Figure Number Five ( it has the best melodic songs of soilwork its just awesome)
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul (the masterpiece of melodeath)
Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion (do i need to explain ? it has we will raise)
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress (aa this guys are great i hope they keep that way like the song the illusionist , its a good example that gothenburg is still alive)
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09.10.2007 - 22:56
Mustis
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1 - Dark Tranquillity- Fiction ( i love this album just for terminus (were death is most alive) and the other songs are excellent too
2 - Kalmah - They Will Return (just hear swamphell and priciple hero and you will see what im talkin about)
3 - Imperanon - Stained (Not a really popular band but for me its great, a shame they are over)
4 - Kalmah - Swamplord
5 - Wintersun - Wintersun
6 - Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore
7 - Dark Lunacy - Devoid
8 - Dark Lunacy - The Diarist
9 - Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
10 - Dark Tranquillity - Character
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09.10.2007 - 23:00
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Tage Westerlund
Written by Guest on 07.10.2007 at 05:51

Death - Sounds of Perseverance
Great album, iv always been a big chuck schuldiner fan, his style is just incrdible.
Opeth - Morningrise
Although i dont consider all their albums melo/death the first three most definately were melo.death
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
I think this band dose have elements of doom metal in their lyrics, but they are definately melo/death in their sound and style of playing.
My Dying Bride - the Light at the end of the world
Ok firstly they are doom, but they have a great deal of death metal in their music as well. This album is really an incredible piece of art.
In the Woods - The Heart of the Ages
Ok its more of a melodic/black, but it is still in the same aura of the other albums mentioned in my list.

My list looks a little different to most here, but each of the bands has a melodic side and a death side, whether or not you argee with my posting them. They may not be purely melodic/death, they do indeed meet the requirements.


Man Novembers Doom are death/doom metal death are prog death metal,s ame whit Opeth ....
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12.10.2007 - 10:27
b0000mst1ck
Written by Guest on 09.10.2007 at 22:56

3 - Imperanon - Stained (Not a really popular band but for me its great, a shame they are over)


agreed. that was a great album and band.
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06.08.2008 - 21:32
havoheJ
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01 Carcass - Heartwork (The title song is awesome, also the album with the musicstyle change by Carcass)
02 At the Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul (the second place goes to this one)
03 Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (still the best album of Dark Tranquillity)
04 Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side (a little bit better than Versus the World)
05 In Flames - The Jester Race (this and Whoracle are the only albums I like from In Flames)
06 Hypocrisy - Abducted
07 Edge Of Sanity - Crimson (Interesting masterpiece by Edge of Sanity)
08 Wintersun - Wintersun (has Power Metal influence but it´s still a Melodic Death Metal album)
09 Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes (who doesn´t know this brilliant album from Amorphis)
10 God Dethroned - Into the Lungs of Hell (The Lair of the White Worm was brilliant too but this one before it was of course better...)
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06.08.2008 - 21:36
Warman
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Written by b0000mst1ck on 12.10.2007 at 10:27

Written by Guest on 09.10.2007 at 22:56

3 - Imperanon - Stained (Not a really popular band but for me its great, a shame they are over)


agreed. that was a great album and band.

Yeah, I'd love to hear more from them.
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06.08.2008 - 22:09
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Elite
In no fucking particular order:

Dark Millennium - Ashore The Celestial Burden
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Eucharist - Mirrorworlds
Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes
Liers In Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art EP
At The Gates - Gardens Of Gried EP
At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
Detonation - An Epic Defiance
Detonation - Portals To Uphobia

Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
These are the ONLY two DT albums that are actually melodic death metal the rest ISN'T

Carcass - Heartwork.

Although I despise EVERYTHING they stand for, musically everything by Arghoslent should be in here as well. And then especially their masterpieces Incorrigable Bigotry and Hornets Of The Pogrom



And NO not At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul since that has NOTHING to do with melodic death metal whatsoever.



Oh, and why the bleeding fuck are people naming bands such as Kalmah and Children of Boredom here when they ahve nothing to do with melodic death metal whatsoever?
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07.08.2008 - 01:27
Hamird
Lieutenant
I'm not into Melodic Death, so I can sort my favorite albums easily.

1- Hypocrisy - Virus
2- Hypocrisy - Final Chapter
3- Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
4- Amon Amarth - With Odin on Our Side
5- Hypocrisy - Arrival

To explain why, first I like Amon Amarth because of their lyrics, then because of the music. And Hypocrisy have a great great ability in performing the melodic death, and I believe Hypocrisy guitar-team, is the best guitar-team in metal (After 2006-2008 Deicide) So they easily can perform metalodic death metal.
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21.11.2008 - 19:41
Metalbound7
1.- At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
2.- Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
3.- In Flames - The Jester Race
4.- Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
5.- Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama

Melodic Death Metal!
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23.11.2008 - 22:04
Dark Blood
The Avenger
My list in no particular order:

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (Definitely a melo death classic as everyone knows)
Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama (I generally think they're good, but this album was incredibly good and addictive)
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction (Maybe one of my top 5 albums of 2007.. I just love it)
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side (They never let me down, and I like everything from them, but I had to choose an album so..)
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore (Possibly my favourite melo death albums of all time.. awesome keyboards)
Skyfire - Spectral (Incredibly good. The keyboard melodies are insane! I love it!)
Carcass - Heartwork (Another classic)
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin (Maybe the best from Arch Enemy.. although doesn't have my fav songs)
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25.11.2008 - 07:47
Eddie.White
1.- Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery.
2.- In Flames - The Jester Race.
3.- At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul.
4.- Dark Tranquillity - Projector.
5.- Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama.
6.- In Flames - Whoracle.
7.- Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter.
8.- At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours.
9.- Dark Tranquillity - Character.
10.- Deadlock - Wolves.
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30.11.2008 - 03:44
selken
Irreligious
Ok lets look at my playlist and put them in order xD

Hypocrisy - Virus
Arch Enemy - Burnin Bridges
Scar Simmetry - Pitch Black Progress
Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
Amon Amarth - The Avenger
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29.03.2009 - 20:18
Deadmeat
Necrobutcher
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 06.08.2008 at 22:09


Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
These are the ONLY two DT albums that are actually melodic death metal the rest ISN'T


what style are the rest (especialy their last two releases) supposed to be?
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29.03.2009 - 20:55
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Elite
Written by Deadmeat on 29.03.2009 at 20:18

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 06.08.2008 at 22:09


Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
These are the ONLY two DT albums that are actually melodic death metal the rest ISN'T


what style are the rest (especialy their last two releases) supposed to be?


I would call them Gothenburg. Cause there isn't the lightest hint of death metal left in them any more.
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