Its kewleo yo.

Arch Enemy
The Absence
At The Gates
In Flames

etc..

ummmm... what.... is it morning already?

The Duskfall
Amon Amarth
Carcass Heartwork and Swansong

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I was just listening to Dark Tranquility's "Exposures; In Retrospect and Denial." Awesome CD. Sucks, thought, because it started skipping on the 7th track.

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here i was thinking, "bah, this shmuck should have used the search function", then i tried it, and didnt find another thread (on the first page anyway)

quo vadis
garden of shadows
blinded by faith
asguard
demonoid
darkside
dark tranquillity
dissection (reinkaos only )
death
enforsaken
god dethroned
In ruins
insomnium
shadow
warblade

lol NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Hypocrisy
Children of Bodom
Omnium Gatherum
Imperanon
Blind Stare
Skyfire
Soulscar
Beyond Within
Mygrain
Suidakra
Mors Principium Est
The Haunted(their new shit is terrible though)
Kalmah
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Shades of Dusk
Into Eternity(somewhat..?)
The Wake
Vehemence
Augury(somewhat)

Etc., Etc.

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haha, 8 of those were going to be on my list, but i didnt feel like seeing someone bitch about how its something other. for ex. "skyfire isnt melo-death!!! its melodic symphonic orchestral neoclassical deathblack LOZ"

Zonaria
wintersun
the plauge
the crown
svart
cant you call death's symbolic melodic death metal
cipher system
gates of ishtar
sacrilege
avatar
Dimension Zero
Cant you call Opeth Melodeath sometimes to?

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haha, yeah I know what you mean...

Oh, NORTHER.

There are so many bands of this genre, the best bet is too look it up at metal archives or the Metal Observer.

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Let's not forget Insomnium

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i didnt

and yeah, Norther.

im sure there are more that need listing. well, more that i like.

Tiamat's Old albums - melodic death

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I'm not 100% sure they count, but if they do, Dismember put EVERY other melodic death metal band to shame.

HAAAATTTEEE CAAAMPPAAAIIIIGNNNN!!!!



If they don't count... then At The Gates.

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Hey hey hey hey hey hey WAIT!

Ominium Gatherum? I just got a track from them last night on this brutal death/black/grind compilation and they were definately some fucking crushingly heavy brutal death band. Are there 2 or something? Maybe I'm just wrong and should have looked at this before I posted.

No Idea...but it's these guys I was talking about.

http://www.omniumgatherum.org/

I have their first album(special edition with a lot of bonus songs) and it's pretty badass. A lot of solid catchy songs.

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Haha, I meant these guys:

http://metal-archives.com/band.php?id=188

http://www.myspace.com/omnium1

Get that crap out of a decent thread!

Aussie's are known for their thievery.

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i would but i cant find the good thread LOLz

Embryo, you tossers.

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Yes. Awesome stuff.

bump

Anyone listen to Soilwork?

I think they are really good. Im planning on buying Natural Born Chaos.

Is Fragments of Unbecoming melodeath?

I used to be hugely into melo death but over time I've brushed it aside. Still love AA to death tho, and Arsis too although they incorporate too much other influences to be considered mdm. Tech and brutal DM with melody like Psycroptic is where its at.

Dismember, Entombed, and all the other old Swedish bands don't count, AtG do though(I don't like them, nor an of their clone bands).

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Kalmah and Insomnium are my big ones for melo death. I can listen to all their albums all the way through and never want to skip a track. That's money well spent.

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I used to be huge on the melodic stuff, but it hasnt really piqued my interest as of late. I love Heartwork-era Carcass, and Dismember's "Like an Everflowing Stream" (is that melodeath?), but other than that, I find myself listening to alot of other stuff, whether it be brutal death, 80s thrash, or even black metal. God, I remember I used to love it though, especially Soilwork, and especially "The Chainheart Machine". That album was aces

When the genre first got started back in the mid-90's, it was a really good idea. Combining Iron Maiden-esque melodies that were tuned down a bunch, mixed with harsh vocals is a great combo. The problem is that when 3,440,990,979,551,234 bands agree with my previous statement, it got overly stagnated and it is getting really, really stale now.

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At the gates ???????? Death???????

A LOT of bands you have posted do death metal.melod
ic death metal is not "all that isn't brutal!"

some melodic death bands (AS I INTEND MELODIC)


dark tranquillity*****
Novembre **** (make a donation to your spirit and listen them)
Inflames***
Children of bodom***
Opeth****
Dissection ( black melodic)*****
Imsonium****
kalmah****

Huh? Since when is At the Gates not considered melodic death metal?

At the gates in my opinion are not so melodic

ok??

thats absurd!! Slaughter of the Soul is incredibly melodic.

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yes slaughter of the soul is very melodic ( one of the best death metal albu in the history) but IMHO not so "sweet" for melodic death metal.
And it is only 1 album.

Yeah..you're a fool, even their older shit was as well. And minus the first two/three albums, Death is melodic Death metal.

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y said that I am a fool.. ok im fool
but you can't discern death metal from melodic
what is worse?


if death are melodic death so you want paragonate death to dark tranquillity?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????


( i prefer death but Chuk said that he do death metal)

Arcane Grail shits all over any band listed so far.

paragonate??? If you want to argue, you have to use real words. If you aren't from America/England?austrailia then you are sorta forgiven......but if not

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Nothing in the melo-death realm has grabbed my attention lately other than Wintersun which was one of my favorite albums of 2004.

no I m not from America /england or Australia
and so?
what will you do? (correct answer : nothing)
what ill do? ill say FUCK YOU!

hey, at least he got the "FUCK YOU" right.

Pretty decent stuff, but I consider em more folk/black than melodic death

Well that is not entirely true. I am laughing at you right now, does that count?

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BRB, you didn't mention Canada..he must be a canadian!

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Shit!!! I can't believe I forgot that, I have failed as a bag of bones and smooth, silky muscles.

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meh, no one gives a shit about Canada anyways. unless you like SARS.

mm I think yes it count

No way in hell. It's overhyped as fuck.

With so many clone bands nowadays like BDM, The Absence(sorry ih27frets!), etc. and a billion fucking metalcore bands that ripped off the Gothenburg sound, there's nothing new in the scene, it's just a pool of bands ripping each other off. So how does a ripoff of a ripoff done a million times sound? Pretty boring to me.

Btw, Wintersun are viking/melodic speed, there are no elements of death metal in their music.



Death is death metal with melody(in which many cases is absent in some modern songs too), not melodic death metal. The evolved to a more proggish sound but they were still a plain ol DM band at their core.

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death = death metal . It is exactly wath Im saying

So, I guess the melodic death metal tag is a falsehood since all the bands that have ever been categorized as such have nothing to do with Suffocation or Morbid Angel, or any bands like those. I agree, that these bands really aren't DM, I have just conformed to the genre label I guess. Sad ain't it? Honestly, it's probably the worst genre tag in metal's history as all these bands (Soilwork, Dark Tranquility, In Flames etc.) have much more to do with thrash, and basically nothing to do with Death Metal. If there was a best band ever that's been classified as melodic death, I'd say it's Dissection, but really weren't they more blackened thrash anyway?

Dt and inflames are melodic death metal and not trash also
for the use of growling in vocals and because their songs deal with ( for blood red bass : yes I know this verb) death and other tipical death metal tematics.

Yeah early In Flames and DT is genuine DM. Like Lunar Strain and shit, that's pretty DM just more melodic, it even reminds me of Cynic and Atheist at times. But then both just sort of went different ways, IF went mallcore after Colony/Clayman and DT are just more of an industrial extreme band, not really DM anymore. But most Gothenburg bands have more traditional metal influence(ie: Ozzy, Maiden, Priest) than anything else, so I feel "death metal" is inappropriate in most cases for these bands. But hey, there is no definite sound for death metal either, Morbid sounds nothing like Obituary nor do they sound like Cynic or Severed Savior or Psycroptic. I think DM is very varied, it's not just Cannibal Corpse nowadays, while mdm is just too narrow, only 1 kind of sound that doesn't expand...

The only Swedish style melo death bands that are really death metal bands are those that took after Dismember and Entombed, which aren't many really(ie: Amon Amarth... can't think of any more!).

Earlier AtG is definately real melo death but then they sort of abandoned that and started playing more commercial groove/extreme metal(like The Haunted) before they split up.

EDIT: By the way, calling bands like Children of Bodom, Norther, Ensiferum and similar Finnish bands death metal is also very off. They're just modern speed/power with extreme vocals, with the exception of Ensiferum and Wintersun which have modern viking metal influence(like all the Oooooh singing ), I don't see any death metal at all in there. Cool bands though, especially Ensiferum and Wintersun.

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children of bodom

They aren't DM god damn it.

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i didnt say they were. but they are a good melodic band.

VanishingSystem

The topic is Melodic Death Metal

good for you cuz i dont care

CoB is NOT MeloDeath so stfu bitch.

And then the n00bs argued.

can you not fucking read? i know theyre not death. if youd look youd see that i already said that fucktard.

The topic=Melodic DEATH Metal

omg. never fuckin mind. your so fucking stupid.

This topic is strictly about Melodic Death Metal. CoB is not MeloDeath, so dont talk about it in here you cunt.

no need for name callin. dont make me tell your mother on you. nice choice of word too. its not like ive been called that 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times since ive been here. dumbass.

You couldnt get within 2 feet ov my mother without getting eaten.

Well it is the truth you are a cunt.

Now can we please get back on topic-which is Melodic DEATH Metal.

Ok now, what does everyone think of Arch Enemy?

He got banned

And good riddance. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

I ended up listening to all of "Ghost Reveries" from Opeth. First time I had, thanks to this long ass traffic jam. Awesome cd. Never realized it.

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i always considered death prog, but thats just me.

lets see, melo death

arch enemy
at the gates
the absence
arsis
amon amarth
black dahlia murder
beyond the embrace
dark tranquillity
daylight dies
enforsaken
in flames
into eternity
insomnium
norther
passenger
seducer's embrace
soilwork
suidakra

all great bands, and yes, i would put norther in here. cunt.

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Passenger is a nu metal band, and Norther have no death elements at all. The rest are fine if you ignore the external(prog, black, thrash on Arsis, power or folk respectively) influences on Arsis, Into Eternity, and Suidakra. Yeah Opeth were death prog, now they're just prog extreme metal, no really defined sound nowadays I think.

I think Arsis are just plain ol classically/proggy inspired tech death metal.

Death was DM of course, then evolved into prog death, it's all the gothencore bands that stole their sound and Carcass'.

I really don't give a flying fuck about genre classifications, if it's good I'll like it, but given the similar nature of so many bands, it's bound to happen(people labeling them).

Intestine Baalism are a Dismember style band, not really melodic but if you like melo death with a more traditional DM edge you'll love them.

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So?

I was just mentioning it in case other people felt the same way or not.

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that is a terrible observation. im not trying to start shit, so dont get worked up over it, but Mirror of Madness has plenty of melo-death to it. for ex. midnight walker and mirror of madness. on top of that there are a hell of a lot of riffs throughout the album that would easily count as "death elements". i mean, if skyfire and kalmah can be called melodic death, norther sure as hell can too.

I disagree, death metal is far more aggressive in nature, even melo death. Norther are a cool band but they're nowhere even close to being considered DM. Kalmah is a similar band that fits the category because they really take after death metal bands, Norther just take influence from power, speed and thrash metal bands. They are as much of a death metal band as Children of Bodom.

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fair enough. so youre talking about the overall sound of it right? for me, if i hear a riff i think sounds black, i call it a black element, if i hear a death sounding riff, death element. may not be effective in all cases, but decent enough so far. yes, i hear the thrash and power, but i still feel melo-death out of it as well.

Why discuss Opeth in the Melo death thread? They are not melo death.

I was under the impression they were Melodic Death.

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They used to play proggish melo death in their early days, and slowly brushed aside the few death elements they had...

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who the hell is this guy??? if you look at all of his posts you can tell how much of a jackass he is.

You can also see he is banned.

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one less asshole to worry about i guess.

devildriver, with a name like that youre gonna have to be a whoooole lot cooler than you are now if you wanna gain some respect around here.

what do you mean....

Nope, they are progressive death metal.

devildriver is a name of a band dude. and im not gunna be here for long anyways so i could care less.

OH SNAPS THERES A DEVILDRIVER SONG IN THAT STAEMENT., LAWL

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Death with Devildriver fanboys. And there was death, so die you homeless necrophile. Would any of you consider Ensiferum MeloDeath?

If anyone can find my lyrical quote and name the band in the above statement you get one dollar.

Disclaimer: I reserve all rights not to give you the dollar just because i say so.

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LOLz, I got it.

and by the way, I love devildriver. Don't give a fuck what you guys think, they're awesome.

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avulsed, homeless necrophile?

ensiferum is viking/folk metal, IMO

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Good job! heres your dollar

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"Hey! I didn't order sausage!"

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I'll take it.

Eternal Tears of sorrow
Insomnium (thanks to dave)

No prob bro!

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By saying "could care less", it would imply that you do care.

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And by gettin' all clever with someone who has been banned for some time....it would appear...you care even more...HMMM HMMMM HOOOO HUMMMM

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Woops, didn't catch that.

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Lately I've been listening to an inmense amount of MDM mainly from Sweden. So I'll list all of the MDM bands that I think you guys should give a listen to.

In Thy Dreams
Chastisment
Amon Amarth ( of course)
In Flames (old)
Dark Tranquility
Ceremonial Oath
Sonic Syndicate
Divine Souls
The Moaning
Zonaria
Embracing
Hydra
Cyphoria

Come on people, bring these thread alive so we can discuss the best metal genre.

Some more reccommedations.

Eyetrap
Nightrage
Carnal Grief

I've been listening to mostly brutal shit but Mors Principium Est is pretty awesome.

Check out Suicidal Seduction. They are MDM with br00tal vox.

I haven't seen Ablaze My Sorrow mentioned anywhere in this thread... on the album "The Plague" they definatly fit the genre.... at least I think so. It kicks fuckin ass.

I got a myspace bulletin from Imperanon saying they are no longer. That is a damned shame.

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What about Paths Of Possession? I am not sure of them myself, what I've heard was a little on the generic side. Although that is one kickass album cover they have.

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