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Hmm I would like to update the bands here with a comment, anyway here is a summary of essential Melodic Death Metal albums :
Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall
Afflicted - Prodigal Sun
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
Carcariass - Hell On Earth
Crypt Of Kerberos - World of Myths
Ceremonial Oath - The Book Of Truth (only THIS album)
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Desultory - Into Eternity
Edge Of Sanity - Unorthodox
Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon
Gorement - The Ending Quest
God Macabre - The Winterlong[/b
Hypocrisy - (Well..most of their stuff !)
Necrophobic - [b]The Nocturnal Silence
Nocturnus - The Key
Septic Flesh - Esoptron
Sentenced - Shadows Of The Past
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry / The Astral Sleep
Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
Unanimated - In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead
Sure, if you have any more suggestions, shoot ! |
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Sweden pwns all when talking Melodic Death Metal.  |
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| Well, the REAL meaning of Melodic DM is kinda forgotten nowadays... sad ! |
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| Wouldn't Death's The Sound of Perseverance qualify as Melodic Thrash? |
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Quite hasty I was in my article...anyway, the bands I'm up to now are in that comment I made 
Death's SoP has loads of influences, although this reminds my little point of view over this genre. |
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Lucas - 10.09.2006 at 13:10
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Written by ylside on 10.09.2006 at 00:38
Well, the REAL meaning of Melodic DM is kinda forgotten nowadays... sad !
Yes, very true. I wasn't talking about Gothenburg music, but about 'true' Swedish Metal. *ELIIIIIIIIITIST!!!* |
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| what is be wrong to say that Cob is just melodic metal? |
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| It's all wrong since they have absolutly not one second of Melodic DM in them. CoB are basically power metal, to me at least. |
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Draklar - 11.09.2006 at 17:18
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Quote:
Just try to imagine one Children of Bodom (or Norther or Kalmah) song without vocals: it can be close to what Sonata Arctica do. The easier way is to listen to Norther's remix of "Chasm", since it's a clean vocals song 
Anyway, nice article. Finally I know the difference between Melodeath and Gothenburg. |
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| Does the keyboard have anything to do with bands like CoB, Kalmah, EToS.....etc. dropping out of the Melodeath Genre? (I have totally understood what you have just written in the article but I was just wondering...) |
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Nocturnus and some other bands used keyboard way before CoB and friends and used them in a very awesome way (NOTHING to do with CoB keyboard wankery!) !
So basically it doesn't drop out anything, it's just what comes with it, there's no keyboard=cheesy theory for me, at least |
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Written by ylside on 11.09.2006 at 16:21
It's all wrong since they have absolutly not one second of Melodic DM in them. CoB are basically power metal, to me at least.
Notice the "just" and the "melodic", but I totally agree with the article, good job. |
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Written by Sunioj on 26.12.2006 at 18:50
Written by ylside on 11.09.2006 at 16:21
It's all wrong since they have absolutly not one second of Melodic DM in them. CoB are basically power metal, to me at least.
Notice the "just" and the "melodic", but I totally agree with the article, good job.
Thanks!
Oh yeah sorry, my mistake, I read it but i understood melodic DM. |
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Great article dude, I've been thinking about this a fair bit lately. I totally agree with you. Something I noticed is Bodom etc, like other power bands, use a lot of pedal notes (chords that are held for a while, rather than shifting riffs). For example the song Downfall after 44 seconds. Also there's very obvious cheese in their keyboards/melodic guitars.
Maybe you could mention something about Gothenburg vocals being different to original death vox? Another difference I like to note is the industrial/electronic influences in the music.
The biggest hole I found - you didn't mention Carcass! What up with that? Heartwork (late 93) has tons of melody & Swansong after that, & even parts of Necroticism, 91 or 2.
And offtopic, your Zoldon disc is on its way |
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Yes...Carcass, actually I had many comments about late Carcass before, but the thing is Carbass is too much heavy-metal shall I say ? I would rather focus on some specific albums that are just plain DM with a surplus of melody. it's been a long time since i've listened to Necroticism (thus totally forgot how it sounded like) but you're right in that.
Thanks for Zoldon ! |
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Syk - 01.01.2007 at 05:54
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| Are you saying Heartwork is HM with death vox? |
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Syk - 02.01.2007 at 02:46
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| But.. but... the really low tuning, the atonal riffs such as Carnal Forge and Arbeit Macht Fleisch, the remnants of gore in the lyrics, and the intensity of the drums throughout... surely it's death. |
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Written by Syk on 02.01.2007 at 02:46
But.. but... the really low tuning, the atonal riffs such as Carnal Forge and Arbeit Macht Fleisch, the remnants of gore in the lyrics, and the intensity of the drums throughout... surely it's death.
What I meant is that I prefer focusing on bands that didn't went far from normal death metal and added some melodies, you'll feel like i'm repeating myself a lot but, Carcass' sound on those albums is exactly like you said, heavy metal with DM vocals and an aggressive edge, which actually is melodic DM to you and a lot of people, I would never refer to Carcass as HM but more DMish, I'm contradicting myself here but it's just to show you that how they sound is one thing , but the feel the band gives can be another thing (athmosphere, lyrics,past albums,etc...which in itself is a criteria used by people to categorize things). You see, you may be right and I may be wrong but that's how I see it. I don't claim I hold the perfect truth or something !!
I don't know if this answered to your question or no actually. |
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Syk - 02.01.2007 at 06:22
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| Lol OK, I don't completely get you but I'll drop it now |
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moonshield - 13.01.2007 at 00:46
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Not that i disagree, this article brings light to unbelievers  , but i would like to mention some of albums that represents MDM, and that aren't mentioned (read: listen to them when you have some time):
Gardenian - Sindustries
Ebony Tears - Tortura Insomniae, A Handful of Nothing
Dark Tranquillity - Gallery
Arch Enemy - Black Earth, Burning Bridges
First two bands are dead (R.I.P.), and other two are widely known, but I like that albums  |
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| I liked the article, especially the gothenburg metal part, quite interesting as it's always included in melo-death, sometimes people don't even know about its existence. The extreme power (or speed power with harsh vocals) case is really funny, there're still lots of people that think CoB or Kalmah are melo death. |
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| glad I know the exact difference between Gothenburg Metal and Melodic Death now....I thought Gothenburg Metal was pretty much any metal that came out of that area. |
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| Good article, I liked it. Some things I cleared up, specailly beacuse I'm not all that into death metal, so I don't know much about it. Now I know a bit more. Overall I think it's good |
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| Thanks !! There are some few things I would like to change again actually but lazyness caught me.. |
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Great article, even though I haven't heard most bands you mentioned I still read all the way to the end. Very interesting!  |
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Written by Guest on 13.01.2007 at 00:46
Not that i disagree, this article brings light to unbelievers , but i would like to mention some of albums that represents MDM, and that aren't mentioned (read: listen to them when you have some time):
Gardenian - Sindustries
Ebony Tears - Tortura Insomniae, A Handful of Nothing
Dark Tranquillity - Gallery
Arch Enemy - Black Earth, Burning Bridges
First two bands are dead (R.I.P.), and other two are widely known, but I like that albums
Well, I don't know about Ebony Tears, but I'd put Gardenian in the gothenburg section.
Ylside, what do you think of The Gallery ? It's not really Gothenburg like later Dark Tranquillity ; it has complex rythm structures like death metal, aggressiveness too, but it also has harminised guitars. I consider it melodeath, what about you ? |
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I thought Ebony Tears was some sort of modern death/thrash. I've heard only Evil as Hell though.
@Momo : The Gallery is not really DM in my books, only their demos (try to download them somewhere) are straight on good death metal. You see even their first album Skydancer (my favorite DT album along with The Gallery) has very melodic tendencies with a slow atmosphere, acoustic parts and female vocals etc.
Did you heard Amorphis' first album ? If you didn't I urge you to! that is really Death Metal with melodic riffs all over it. |
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Written by ylside on 18.08.2007 at 02:03
I thought Ebony Tears was some sort of modern death/thrash. I've heard only Evil as Hell though.
@Momo : The Gallery is not really DM in my books, only their demos (try to download them somewhere) are straight on good death metal. You see even their first album Skydancer (my favorite DT album along with The Gallery) has very melodic tendencies with a slow atmosphere, acoustic parts and female vocals etc.
Did you heard Amorphis' first album ? If you didn't I urge you to! that is really Death Metal with melodic riffs all over it.
Btw both Eucharist albums are quite influential as well it seems. Especially their 1992 release. |
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Ah yes Eucharist, heard only a demo and the first album. Nice enough, although I don't see it as a must listen.
Latest death metal album with bits of melody I discovered was Vomiturition - A leftover. |
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Written by ylside on 18.08.2007 at 02:44
Ah yes Eucharist, heard only a demo and the first album. Nice enough, although I don't see it as a must listen.
The strange thing is that many bands say they are influenced by them though. That's why I mentioned them. |
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| Hmm weird, although it may have one of lots of other bands that influenced them, do you still remember who said it? . Anyways, Eucharist's first album's only problem is that it's VERY weakly produced. |
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Written by ylside on 18.08.2007 at 02:03
I thought Ebony Tears was some sort of modern death/thrash. I've heard only Evil as Hell though.
@Momo : The Gallery is not really DM in my books, only their demos (try to download them somewhere) are straight on good death metal. You see even their first album Skydancer (my favorite DT album along with The Gallery) has very melodic tendencies with a slow atmosphere, acoustic parts and female vocals etc.
Did you heard Amorphis' first album ? If you didn't I urge you to! that is really Death Metal with melodic riffs all over it.
DT demos : I know them, but they sound quite thrash to me, especially with this predominant Sabbat influence. I said quite, because it's death too, OK.
About Amorphis, do you speak about Karelian Isthmus ? I don't know it (yet). But I really like Tales From The Thousand Lakes, so... |
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Written by Darkside Momo on 08.09.2007 at 13:06
About Amorphis, do you speak about Karelian Isthmus ? I don't know it (yet). But I really like Tales From The Thousand Lakes, so...
Yes, The Karelian Isthmus. Check it ! |
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GT - 13.09.2007 at 13:54
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| Nice article...made me understand Death Metal (melodic or not) a little better. I'll try some of the recommendations |
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| very good job,I mainly appreciate the clarification of the difference between Melo Death and Gothenburg |
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Written by ylside on 08.09.2007 at 21:55
Written by Darkside Momo on 08.09.2007 at 13:06
About Amorphis, do you speak about Karelian Isthmus ? I don't know it (yet). But I really like Tales From The Thousand Lakes, so...
Yes, The Karelian Isthmus. Check it !
Checked !
Quite good actually, sometimes reminiscent of Bolt Thrower. But I still prefer Tales... |
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And where is Technical Death Metal?? Isnt At The Gates technical death metal  It is for me....  |
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i like first part good example, deep, good knowlage and i like those bands, but I disagrie about EoS best albums iMO 'The Spectral Sorrows' best song'Black Tears' from 'Purgatory Afterglow'
More I live and somehow i think Gethernburg ematl are overated lil bit in nowdays
LAST PART ALL SHOOD READ IT BEFOR POST IN MELODIC FORUMS!!!
PS OLD TIAMAT AND THERION was great |
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im a huge fan of melodeath an that was a good article! and im going to havve to check out some of those recommended albums  nice work! |
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| Are there some guys who listen catamenia?! its melodic black but... |
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Written by Krle_metalherra on 16.12.2008 at 17:49
Are there some guys who listen catamenia?! its melodic black but...
Yes they are melodic black, but what does have to do with an article on melodic death? |
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Oh, Melodic Death...Hmmm...
I have just registered here,so I have no posts yet...
well, my fav. melodic death bands are kalmah,Amon amarth,Amorphis, Et. tears of sorrow,Imperanon... |
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Written by Krle_metalherra on 16.12.2008 at 18:17
well, my fav. melodic death bands are kalmah,Amon amarth,Amorphis, Et. tears of sorrow,Imperanon...
Hmm, I suggest you actually read this article thoroughly first before posting such nonsense  |
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Written by ylside on 18.08.2007 at 02:03
@Momo : The Gallery is not really DM in my books, only their demos (try to download them somewhere) are straight on good death metal. ..
Why do you say demos (as in plural for demo)? when in fact they only released one demo (Trail of Life Decayed) which is btw melodic death metal and not just straight on dm. As Septic Broiler they only released one demo as well but that was straight up thrash.
As for Eucharist's influence you asked for? Well Eucharist influenced DT, old In Flames and quite a lot of other Swedish mdm bands. Remember Eucharist were already very active in the Göthenburg scene before they even released a demo. And especially the two aforementioned bands name them as a prime influence on their early mdm days. |
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K†ulu - 04.01.2009 at 20:45
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It's good you mentioned Death with their Symbolic and TSOP because after listening to Symbolic for 5000 times, I started to realize that they don't really fit into the Progressive Death Metal category, and they sound more like something which I would tag with "Melodic." Seriously, listen to it... I start to really doubt that this is Death Metal at all. It has a lot of very melodic riffs/songs with again very melodic solos, and the only thing that speaks "extreme" is the vocals.
And one more thing, comparing their "progressive" album to any other band labeled with the same genre makes it obvious how different they are from the rest, like Cynic or Atheist.
Sorry for sort of off-topicness. |
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| I know I'm 3 years late, but really, thanks for this article. I typed into Google asking the difference between melodeath and gothenburg. Now I even got the bonus of knowing about extreme power too lol |
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Written by Ag Fox on 11.06.2009 at 05:50
I know I'm 3 years late, but really, thanks for this article. I typed into Google asking the difference between melodeath and gothenburg. Now I even got the bonus of knowing about extreme power too lol
Why would you type it into google when you could have just come here in the first place? |
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