Hey everyone just tell me your favorite melodic death metal albums that you can never, ever stop listening to. It can even be a little metal core, but not the metalcore that claims they have melodic death metal influences like KSE or something like that Mine are:

In Flames: Lunar Strain, The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony, Clayman, (or course the old in flames)

Scar Symmetry: Symmetric In Design, Pitch Black Progress, Holographic Universe

Fear My Thoughts: Vulcanus, Hell Sweet Hell

Shadows Fall: The Art Of Balance, The War Within, most of Of One Blood

At The Gates: Slaughter of the Soul, Terminal Spirit Disease

Soilwork: The Chainheart Machine, Natural Born Chaos, Figure Number Five

Opeth: Their whole discography of course

Children of Bodom: Hatebreeder

Kalmah: They Will Return

Katatonia: Night is the new day (though not death metal obviously anymore, still melodic metal)

Darkest Hour: Deliver Us

Dark Tranquillity: The Gallery, Damage Done

Mnemic: Mechanical Spin Phenomenom, The Audio Inject Soul

Arsis: We Are The Nightmare

Adversary: Singularity

The Human Abstract: Nocturne

Disillusion: Back to Times of Splendor

Into Eternity: Scattering of Ashes, Buried In Oblivion, The Incurable Tradegy

A lot of the stuff you listed are more towards the Gothenburg side and Extreme Power, not Melodic Death Metal

I'll be slightly more specific then...

Gothenburg
Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrants

Extreme Power
Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore

Melodic Death
Fractal Gates - Altered State Of Consciousness
In Mourning - Shrouded Divine, Monolith

Metalcore
Heaven Shall Burn - Deaf To Our Prayers

Others
Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor
Persefone - Shin-Ken

won't say I can't stop listening to them, because I move on from one album to another quite quickly (I think), but these are the ones that haven't gotten old on me. Yes, I know, it's pretty mainstream...

For the top of my head: (I'm sure there are many more)

Edge of Sanity - Crimson,Crimson II, Purgatory Afterglow
Rapture - Songs for the Withering
In Flames - The Jester Race, Whoracle
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Dark Tranquillity - Gallery
Carcass - Heartwork
Hypocrisy - Abducted, Virus
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - A Virgin and a Whore
In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
Slumber - Fallout
Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand lakes

For me its all MDM albumsd who's been realised in late 80's n early 90's even mid 90's(its ancient history nowdays) simply all, cant name anyone, all , simply all never gets old for me

For me it would have to be Scar Symmetry's first two albums (Symmetric In Design and Pitch Black Progress) and The Jester Race by In Flames

Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Opeth - Deliverance

For me it's gotta be:

Mors Principium Est - Inhumanity
Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
Omnium Gatherum - The Red Shift
Dimension Zero - He Who Shall Not Bleed
Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Skyfire - Mind Revolution
Falchion - Chronicles of the Dead
Kalmah - The Black Waltz (Though I think I'm going to end up liking 12 Gauge more)
Frosty Eve - Polar Night

Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt

This album changed the way I listened to music....it will never get old for me.

Mercenary's 11 Dreams is one I frequently go back to.

Be'lakor - Frail's Tide
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

I particularly enjoyed 'Twilight of the Thunder God' by Amon Amarth. Also 'Slania' by Eluveitie is a very enjoyable album for me, but it's not really straight-forward melodeath.

Hypocrisy - S/T, The Final Chapter
Mors Principium Est - Inhumanity
Omnium Gatherum - Spirits and August Light
Kalmah - Swamplord
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - A Virgin and a Whore
Slumber - Fallout
Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Zonaria - Infamy and the Breed
Insomnium - The Day it All Came Down
Detonation - Emission Phase
Norther - Mirror of Madness
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

I wouldn't say Opeth is melodic death metal... But i agree, their albums never get old.

And from actual MDMD i think Amon Amarth and Dark Tranquillity have done some of the best albums in this genre, and they shall never get old or be forgotten

There are a few on my list, and some of you already mentioned them. I'm probably forgetting some, but here's what I remember at the moment.

Opeth (probably all of them, but I'd say specially Still Life and Blackwater Park)
Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns, Versus the World, With Oden on Our Side...
Dark Tranquillity - Probably all of them?
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper and Hatebreeder
Carcass - Heartwork
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin and a Whore
Kalmah - Swampsong
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
In Mourning - Monolith (I know it was released this year, but I doubt it will ever get old)
Skyfire - Spectral

Dark tranquillity-the gallery
amon amarth-with oden on our side
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
wintersun-wintersun
kalmah-they will return
hypocrisy- Virus
edge of sanity -purgatory afterglow
At the Gates -terminal Spirit Disease

Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream.
Now that's GOOD melodeath.

Amon Amarth - Versus The World and Hypocrisy - The Arrival are two top sh*t albums that I never get tired of.

All of Kalmah and Amon Amarth's albums.

Mercenary's "EverBlack" and "11 Dreams". They are Melodic death metal at perfection, simple as that. Nothing can compare

Amon Amarth - With Odin on our Side
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
Be'lakor - (All)
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty
Falchion - Legacy of Heathens
Gates of Ishtar - Dawn of Flames + At Dusk and Forever
Immortal Souls - Under the Northern Sky
In Mourning - The Shrouded Divine
Insomnium - (Pretty much all)
Kalmah - " " "
Light This City - Facing the Thousand
Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination
Neaera - Armamentarium
Noumena (All)
Profugis Mortis - So it Begins
Saturnus (All)
Suidakra - Emprise to Avalon
The Wake (All)

And fuck tons more.

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God, Versus the World, With Oden on Our Side
Hypocrisy - The Arrival, Virus
Be'lakor - The Frail Tide, Stone's Reach
Kalmah - The Black Waltz, Swamplord, Swampsong
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Eucharist - Mirrorworlds
Godgory - Ressurection
Mercenary - 11 Dreams
Cormorant - Metazoa
Dark Tranquility - Damage Done
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
Gates of Ishtar
Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

This my friends is the best of melo death, at least in my opinion

THE GALLERY!! its simply the best melo-death album ever made. i also think its one of the best metal albums ever!! whoreacle by in flames is also a masterpiece!

I just have to chime in with The Jester Race and Slaughter of the Soul. Yes, they are well, well known, but I could listen to those all day and I discovered both years ago.

Carcass - Heartwork
In Flames - Moonshield
Insomnium - Down With the Sun
Arch Enemy - My Apocolypse
At the Gates - Cold
Dark Tranquility - Iridium
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder Gods
Eluveitie - Inis Mona
Opeth - Still Life
Omnium Gatherum - Greeneyes

Some repeats but my favs never the less...

Barren Earth - Curse of the Red River
Be'Lakor - Stones Reach
Fractal Gates - Altered state of Consciousness
The Project Hate - The Lustrate Process
Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

Written by Ag Fox on 05.05.2010 at 08:31


Melodic Death
Fractal Gates - Altered State Of Consciousness
In Mourning - Shrouded Divine, Monolith

Didn't know you were big on In Mourning. Good to know. I love them They quickly become of my my fav bands.

Of all the albums listed, Damage Done is probably the one I go back to more often. In fact, very very often. But In Mourning albums are still very fresh and get many spins on a regular basis.

Written by BloodTears on 19.12.2011 at 15:00

Written by Ag Fox on 05.05.2010 at 08:31


Melodic Death
Fractal Gates - Altered State Of Consciousness
In Mourning - Shrouded Divine, Monolith

Didn't know you were big on In Mourning. Good to know. I love them They quickly become of my my fav bands.

Written by BloodTears on 11.08.2009 at 17:58

Written by Ag Fox on 10.08.2009 at 17:44

Written by MeloDeathViking on 31.07.2009 at 17:28

Written by Ag Fox on 30.07.2009 at 20:48

Mm... been on my sort of "to-check-out-list" for a while now... better move it up the (huge) queue XP

Yeah, I definitly think it's worth the time to check out, even if you end up not liking it. I would put it in my top 10 albums from 2008.

Finally tried it last night. Good album and I know that it's the type that would grow on me. I'll probs listen again it tonight. Won't know whether it will break through my 2008 top 10 though XD
Thanks for those who urged me

I told you you had good taste.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-9o3l3rhQ

very good underated band.