These are 36 of the my favorite Melodeath albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's because this is my favorites list, not yours. Feel free to make recommendations, however.

1.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

2.The Absence - Riders Of The Plague

3.Darkane - Expanding Senses

4.Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down

5.Luna Mortis - The Absence

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If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me

1.Adagio - Underworld

2.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

3.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

4.After Forever - Decipher

5.After Forever - After Forever

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1.Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again

2.Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Novembre - Arte Novecento

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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- only studio albums
- only albums featured on MS

1.After Forever - Decipher

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

4.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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Good year! Some of the best albums of all time is here. Also, Maiden releasing one of the most underestimated albums ever.

1.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast

2.Embraced - Amorous Anathema

3.Nightwish - Oceanborn

4.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

5.Thyrfing - Thyrfing

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So, these are basically my favourite albums of all time, including non-metal/rock acts, compilations and live albums. Needless to say, I would need a couple of days to go through all of these.

1.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

3.Riverside - Out Of Myself

4.Rotting Christ - Triarchy Of The Lost Lovers

5.Anathema - Alternative 4

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Overall year rating:
3,5/5

1.Katatonia - Discouraged Ones

2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

3.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

4.Bethlehem - Sardonischer Untergang Im Zeichen Irreligiöser Darbietung

5.Meshuggah - Chaosphere

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Favorite releases from 1998

Updated 9/4/20

1.Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy

2.Angelcorpse - Exterminate

3.Incantation - Diabolical Conquest

4.Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh

5.Suffocation - Despise The Sun

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