Nice list, man. havent listened to all of 'em, but i will

Scar Symmetry: Holographic Universe
Be'lakor: (all)
In Flames: Clayman
Insomnium: One For Sorrow
Opeth: Blackwater Park, Morningrise

Amon Amarth - Versus The World
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
Nightrage - Sweet Vengeance

and Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper (if you count them as Melodic-Death Metal)

Those albums bring back memories. Swedish Melo-Death is what curbed my music taste in the right direction when I was a young teenager Some of these albums are 10 years old and to this day I still love them!

Be'lakor and Suidakra are the only two bands i think i listen to over and over again, no real specific albums. It is definitely not one of my favourite genres though.

Oh this could be so much longer if it wasn't just MDM =p

Amorphis - Silent Waters / Skyforger / The Beginning of Times
Archeon - The End of the Weakness
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Dark Tranquility - Damage Done / Character
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty / Before the Bleeding Sun
Imperanon - Staind
Insomnium - Since the Day It All Came Down / Above the Weeping World / One for Sorrow
Kalmah - Swamplord / They Will Return / Swampsong / The Black Waltz
Raintime - Flies and Lies
Runic - Liar Flags
Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
Suidakra - Emprise to Avalon / Signs for the Fallen / Crogacht / Book of Dowth
Wintersun - Wintersun

I guess I'm not too picky when it comes to music =p

Great list

Torchbearer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGNRpu0rDjc&feature=related

Miseration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGgI8_RxRio

Noumena
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWxMIMe18VQ

Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Elegy
Am Universum
Eclipse
Skyforger

Disarmonia Mundi : Fragments Of D-Generation; Mind Tricks; The Isolation Game
Scar Symmetry: Symmetric In Design; Pitch Black Progress; Holographic Universe
Dark Tranquillity: Character; Fiction
Arch Enemy: Anthem Of Rebellions; Doomsday Machine; Rise Of The Tyrant
In Flames: Clayman; Reroute To Remain; Come Clarity
Amon Amarth: With Oden On Our Side; Twilight Of The Thunder God
Soilwork: Figure Number Five; Stabbing The Drama
Darkane: Layers Of Lies
The Duskfall: Frailty; Lifetime Supply Of Guilt; Source; The Dying Wonders Of The World
Edge Of Sanity: Purgatory Afterglow; Crimson; Crimson II; Infernal
Skyfire: Spectral; Mind Revolution; Timeless Departure; Esoteric
As I Lay Dying: An Ocean Between Us; Shadow Are Security
Neaera: Armamentarium


Anything that is catchy.

There is a ying and yang to Melodeath that I must address though it has become one of my more favorite genres. On one hand it has suffered from both derivation and stagnation. It has grown quite large since the Gothenburg scene first caught the zeitgeist so to speak and sparked an evolution in metal. The expansion of melodeath though caused a great disparity in quality from top to bottom within the genre. However, some of the best work of the genre is extremely memorable. Personally, I can listen to my fav songs of my fav melodeath artists over and over again without getting bored. That is the magic of it, that some of the most prolific melodeath releases also happen to be some of my favorite albums.

Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (deserves it's own spot above their other albums)
Dark Tranquillity - Projector, Damage Done, Fiction
Carcass - Heartwork
Amorphis - Elegy, Tales From the 1k Lakes
In Flames - Jester Race, Colony
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Insomnium - Above the Weeping World
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side, Surtur Rising
Mors Principium Est. - The Unborn, Inhumanity
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Unanimated - In the Forrest of the Dreaming Dead
Mercenary - 11 Dreams
Kalmah - The Black Waltz
Scar Symmetry - Anything with Christian Alvestam (check out Miseration and Solution.45 too)

Quite a few more, but as it is I'm not really mentioning much that hasn't been mentioned. Here are a few I haven't seen yet. I don't know that I would put them in top 20 MD albums or so, but these are still good listens.
Callenish Circle - My Passion, your pain
Immortal Souls - Wintereich
Eventide - Diaries from the Gallows
Into Eternity - Buried in Oblivion

Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon

Single best melodeath album I heard so far.

Wintersun-Wintersun
Carcass-Heartwork
Amon Amarth-pretty much everything the have ever released as their material is repetitive(excluding The Crusher, which sucks)

At The Gates - Sloughter Of The Soul

Scar Symmetry - All Albums
In Flames - Jester Race through Clayman
Be'lakor - Stones Reach/Of Breath and Bone
Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
Disarmonia Mundi - Mind Tricks/The Isolation Game
Carcass - Heartwork
Mercenary - 11 Dreams
Kalmah - The Black Waltz/12 Gauge
Rise To Fall - Restore The Balance (Generic as hell but I'm a sucker for stuff like this)
Noumena - Absence
Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift/New World Shadows


just a few of my favorites

Eternal Tears Of Sorrow's A Virgin And A Whore is incredible as well; perhaps the most ethereal melodic death metal record out there?

Ahh Be'lakor first two albums...

Many of the above so I'm only going to name an Ep that I think hasn't been named yet: In Flames - Subterranean and Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges. However, the best melodic death metal ever needs no presentation: Amorphis - Tales from the thousand lakes! It's so good I bought it three times (long story). If you don't know it, shame on you

Wintersun- wintersun
one of my favorite albums of all time i wore this cd out lol

I think the must once I till today love hear them but I never get bored of them Ammmmmmm

1 - Arch Enemy - Wages of sin
2 - Grave worm - (N)utopia
3 - Within Temptation - Mother Earth
4 - Tristania - Beyond the veil
5 - Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty
6 - Therion - Thile
7 - Nightwish - oceanborn
8 - Cradle of filth - Dusk & her Embrace
9 - Evanescence - Fallen
10 - Lacuna coil - Comalies
11 - Dream evil - Evilized
12 - Axxis - Dance with dead
13 - Xandria - Ravenheart

really great albums

Written by Blackleaf on 30.06.2012 at 06:13
really great albums

That's nice and all, but the OP was asking for melodic death metal albums, not your random favorites.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 30.06.2012 at 07:49

Written by Blackleaf on 30.06.2012 at 06:13
really great albums

That's nice and all, but the OP was asking for melodic death metal albums, not your random favorites.

Ohhhh Sorry I thought you said a melodic albums without being death or any other genre Im sorry again my bad

but there some death once I had said such as eternal tears of sorrow , arch enemy , graveworm . so I think this is faxing the problem !

Written by Windir on 29.06.2012 at 05:05

Many of the above so I'm only going to name an Ep that I think hasn't been named yet: In Flames - Subterranean and Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges. However, the best melodic death metal ever needs no presentation: Amorphis - Tales from the thousand lakes! It's so good I bought it three times (long story). If you don't know it, shame on you

Good call; both Subterranean and Burning Bridges are classic. I really don't care for anything Arch Enemy put out after that one.

Stone's Reach by Be'Lakor never gets old.

Amorphis - Eclipse, Silent Waters, Skyforger
Wintersun - Wintersun, and probably the Time duo as they are released
All of Opeth


That's all I can think of right now, I'll have to come back to this post later.

Opeth, Blackwater Park...their best album

Written by nana.MD on 02.10.2012 at 19:40

Opeth, Blackwater Park...their best album

what does that album have to do with mdlodic death metal? oh wait..... nothing at all

Noumena - Absence
Noumena - Anatomy of Life
For the ones that dont know this band, it's like Be'lakor, but already made 6 or 7 years ago and better in my opinion

Written by enumaelis on 03.10.2012 at 01:25

For the ones that dont know this band, it's like Be'lakor, but already made 6 or 7 years ago and better in my opinion

This comparison is quite inaccurate solely for the reason that Be'lakor don't use clean vocals at all, let alone female ones. On top of that, Be'lakor's songs are often double the length. Noumena are still a good band, don't get me wrong, Absence in particular.

Written by Risto on 04.10.2012 at 12:46

Written by enumaelis on 03.10.2012 at 01:25

For the ones that dont know this band, it's like Be'lakor, but already made 6 or 7 years ago and better in my opinion

This comparison is quite inaccurate solely for the reason that Be'lakor don't use clean vocals at all, let alone female ones. On top of that, Be'lakor's songs are often double the length. Noumena are still a good band, don't get me wrong, Absence in particular.

Well, I don't think it's that big difference that Noumena use cleans in some songs, and that the average lenght of Be'lakor songs is 3 min. more. Sometimes I even think they are stretching songs too much :S just my taste.
I mean about the style in composing and the sound. For me it's already done and better with Noumena, Kalmah and Insomnium, and their best albums are superior to Be'lakor in my opinion, and made a lot of time before. Nevertheless, of course, as I like them both, I also like Be'lakor, but somehow it's not so new for me.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.10.2012 at 00:58

Written by nana.MD on 02.10.2012 at 19:40

Opeth, Blackwater Park...their best album

what does that album have to do with mdlodic death metal? oh wait..... nothing at all

It doesn't have so much to do with In Flames/Dark Tranquility styled metal, more like the fact that it is a form of melodic metal with death metal influences.

Genesis: invisible touch, we can't dance.
dire straits: brothers in arms
huey lewis and the news: sports
bruce springsteen: all albums of course
billy idol: rebel yell

and delicate sounds of thunder by pink floyd. I know it's a live album, but its awesome!