Written by LichBorne on 26.10.2012 at 11:05

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!

You've posted in the wrong thread, this one's about melodic death

Written by LichBorne on 26.10.2012 at 11:05

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!

Fun to rad this in this topic

Insomnium - Above The Weeping World and Since The Day It All Came Down
Kalmah - Swamplord
Mercenary - The Hours That Remain and Architect of Lies
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

The old stuff from Amon Amarth.

Easily crimson by edge of sanity

Absence - Noumena
Anatomy of life - Noumena
Be'lakor - (all)
Curse of the red river - Barren Earth
In flames - (early)
The gallery - Dark tranquillity
Slaughter of the soul - At the gates
In mourning - (All, if you consider them melodeath)

Other than some you've already mentioned,
Archenemy - Rise of the Tyrant
Also the first two Haunted albums.

No love for Heaven Shall Burn, Dark Age, myGRAIN, Degradead, Enforsaken, Skinlab or Descending? I love the few that mentioned Disarmonia Mundi and Eventide as both I feel deserve more attnetion even though Disarmonia is done (The Stranded's first album isn't bad, but it's not true Melodeath to me). More like newer Soilwork and In Flames which I still love, but I see it as something different.
In Flames, Soilworks early stuff, Mercenary, Mos Principium Est, Wintersun, Arsis, Adversary, Scar Symmertry, Mnenic and COB is more melodeath than anything else really. I know they have a lot of speed and power metal in their music too but melodeath is their main ingredient.

My favorites are:

In Flames: The Jesters Race, Whoracle, Colony and Clayman (all are fucking awesome and I never get sick of any of them)
Soilwork: Steelbath Suicide, The Chainheart Machine, A predators Portrait and Figure Number Five (i really love these guys)
Heaven Shall Burn: Veto (new album fucking kicks ass), Whatever it May Take and Deaf to our Prayers (brutal awesomeness)
Dark Age- everything
Wintersun- both albums are truly remarkable and I can't until Time II comes out. Jari is kick ass!
COB- Follow the Reaper (Alexi dominates on this album)
Degradead- Out of Body Experience (very solid, nothing ground breaking, but catchy and well put together)
Arch Enemy- Khaos Legions, Doomsday Machine and Anthems of Rebelion
Disamonia Mundi- everything. Ettore Riggoti is an incredible musician
Mors Principium Est- everything


I could keep going but I've had too many beers to continue typing. Have a good night and keep listening to melodeath as it along with the new wave of thrash are taking over metal. Metalcore will be dead soon I'm sure.

Hey come on, Dismember - God That Never Was.

Written by Aseliot on 03.08.2013 at 12:49

Hey come on, Dismember - God That Never Was.

wouldn't call that melodic death metal, just plain old old school death metal

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.08.2013 at 13:01

Written by Aseliot on 03.08.2013 at 12:49

Hey come on, Dismember - God That Never Was.

wouldn't call that melodic death metal, just plain old old school death metal

It's swedish death metal, which is known be more melodic than normal death metal. Anyway, the album is really melodic compared to other stuff.

The title suggest that we mention our favorite Melo Death Album as albums we love more than other don't get old for the lover, mine would be:

Reroute to Remain by In Flames, an album like Tutti Frutti, no grey exchangeables but only colourfull fruity highlights

Written by Guest on 06.08.2013 at 01:40

an album like Tutti Frutti, no grey exchangeables but only colourfull fruity highlights

Good ol' makin' sense

Dark Tranquillity's and In Flames' catalogs ... 'nuff said!

Well for me, I love all of DT's discography. But as far as In Flames goes... I sorta gotta go with the crowd that stops caring after Clayman. Although I admittedly like some of Reroute to Remain... specifically Dawn of a New Day. But I was just plain angry at Soundtrack to your Escape, and can't get into anything after that either.

Dark Tranquillity is one of my all time fav bands though. The Gallery, Damage Done, Fiction, Character, Projector, Haven, those would be the favorites.

When it comes to melodeath in general, the genre is marred by derivation, and a lot of cloning of ideas, yet what is great about melodeath is that the most memorable and greatest efforts from the most talented bands in the genre are very memorable and you just don't get sick of them. A great melo album just often sticks out in your mind more so than great albums in a variety of other genres.

Some melodic metal from Slovakia. Thats a band comeback after 8 yeras.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmP5CMze2Z8

ENJOY!

Carcass - Heartwork
Carcass - Swansong
Children of Bodom - Something wild
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Dissection - Somberlain
Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

First three albums of Amorphis

To be honest, Reroute To Remain is an album that still sounds as fresh and catchy as when it first came out and it's infinitely better than the 3 albums that followed it.

Damage Done, Natural Born Chaos, Hypocrisy and The Forever Endeavor continue to be amazing in my ears.

The Everdawn - Poems - Burn the Past.
Here's a song:

I will list a songs not albums:

Amon Amarth -- Gods of war arise

is the one that I would never ever stop listening to

No love for Character? Yeah, The Gallery is widely regarded as DT's best, but Character is amazing.

Don't know if Orphaned Land even counts (Well, there's death growls and it's melodic... ugh, melodic death?), but Mabool never gets old.

Nothing can beat this album.... okay, maybe something CAN but I have yet to find it. I hope I do though

Kalmah - They will return, Seventh Swamphony
Amon Amarth - With Oden on our Side
Insomnium - Above the weeping world
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
In Mourning - Shrouded Divine

1. Garden of Shadows - 'Oracle Moon' (this album is beastly and criminally underrated)
2. Carcass - 'Heartwork' (The archetype of my favorite type of melodeath - death metal, with melody)
3. Amorphis - 'Skyforger'
4. Black Dahlia Murder - 'Ritual'
5. Be'Lakor - 'Of Breath and Bone'
6. In Flames - 'Whoracle' (My first melodeath album; it holds a special place in my heart)

Also been digging Omnium Gatherum, Ne Obliviscaris, and Mirrorthrone recently.

I could never get into Dark Tranquility, At The Gates, or Arch Enemy.

Written by arsuarez on 12.02.2014 at 04:42

3. Amorphis - 'Skyforger'

Not really a melodic death metal record... or did you have a Freudian slip there?

Anything by Callenish Circle

Written by Risto on 12.02.2014 at 09:57

Written by arsuarez on 12.02.2014 at 04:42

3. Amorphis - 'Skyforger'

Not really a melodic death metal record...

Then what is it then? There are some melodic death elements thrown in it..

I know I'm going with the safe albums here but I don't listen to melodic death that much. The Jester Race is up there for me, also Stone's Reach I've listened to over 30 times and still it's like my first.

Honestly I could just put on Swamplord by Kalmah on endless repeat and be in perfect peace. People throw Kalmah off as a CoB copycat, but Swamplord is an absolute masterpiece. Besides, Kalmah has consistently put out solid albums, whereas CoB will put out good and then meh albums.