Top Ten Melodic Death Metal Albums

[waif]

Since these things are all the rage. You don't have to name 10. Whatever.

Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
Dark Tranquility - Of Chaos And Eternal Night
In Flames - Subterranean
In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Lunar Strain
At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours
At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Kataklysm - In The Arms Of Devastation
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed

I clearly need to expand beyond the Gothenburg stuff...

 

[Einherjar86]

I'd put Norther's Death Unlimited up there.

What about Amon Amarth?

 

[The Ozzman]

Subterranean is an EP and shouldn't count

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

Kalmah - They Will Return

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

If we're talking melo-death like Gothenburg type stuff:

Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Holymarsh - In The Holymarsh
Holymarsh - Infliction Ov The Morbid Intention
Cipher System - Central Tunnel Eight
Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments Of D-Generation
In Flames - The Jester Race (preferably with Black Ash Inheritance)
Intestine Baalism - Banquet In The Darkness
Enter My Silence - Coordinate: D1SA5T3R

 

[blood_drunk]

Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
In Flames - Whoracle
In Flames - The Jester Race
Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments of D-Generation
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Hypocrisy - Virus
Hypocrisy - Abducted
Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter

 

[AchrisK]

There aren't ten good ones.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

If we're talking melo-death like Gothenburg type stuff:

Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Holymarsh - In The Holymarsh
Holymarsh - Infliction Ov The Morbid Intention
Cipher System - Central Tunnel Eight
Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments Of D-Generation
In Flames - The Jester Race (preferably with Black Ash Inheritance)
Intestine Baalism - Banquet In The Darkness
Enter My Silence - Coordinate: D1SA5T3R

Intestine Baalism is melo-death? I honestly don't know, but I always under the impression that they were straight-up melodic death metal.

 

[AchrisK]

Is not melo-death just short for melodic death metal?

 

[rms]

exactly what it stands for

 

[Slayed Necros]

At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Dissection - The Somberlain
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
Embracing - I Bear the Burden of Time
Cardinal Sin - Spiteful Intents
Decameron - My Shadow...
Miscreant - Dreaming Ice
Crown of Thorns - Eternal Death
A Mind Confused - Anarchos

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Intestine Baalism is melo-death? I honestly don't know, but I always under the impression that they were straight-up melodic death metal.

Yeah they are borderline. Some songs are straight Gothenburg (The Planet, A Knight Appears From The Lake Of Blood, The Avenger Full Of Vengeance On God) with deeper vocals. But some are definitely more in the Dismember/death metal w/ melody vein. If they don't count then I'd have to add a Skyfire album or something.

 

[waif]

What about Amon Amarth?

d'oh!

 

[challenge_everything]

ATG - TRITSIO
Dark Tranquillity - The Galley
Dies Irae - Naive
Arsis - Celebration of Guilt
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Amorphis - Elegy
Disillusion - back to Times of Splendour
Wintersun - Wintersun
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Orphaned Land - Mabool

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Is not melo-death just short for melodic death metal?

No...melo-death (aka Gothenburg) is a genre to describe bands that utilize Iron Maiden-esque guitar harmonies, somewhat power metal influenced leads, and even occasional use of clean vocals. Melo-death has close ties with harsh power metal (Children of Bodom, Skyfire, Norther, et al) but usually shares at least some traits with death metal.

 

[General Zaroff]

I think we should call it Gothencore.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Oh yeah, and I don't like melo-death/Gothenburg that much but for some reason I like metalcore and some cheesy, harsh power metal. I have very weird and random tastes.

 

[Matt]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress yet

 

[waif]

No...melo-death (aka Gothenburg) is a genre to describe bands that utilize Iron Maiden-esque guitar harmonies, somewhat power metal influenced leads, and even occasional use of clean vocals. Melo-death has close ties with harsh power metal (Children of Bodom, Skyfire, Norther, et al) but usually shares at least some traits with death metal.

Clarification: CoB have nothing to do with melodeath.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

They're harsh power metal; a close cousin of melo-death which is what I implied in the first place. There's no clarification to be made.