Anyway, @Danic, also check out In Flames - The Jester Race, At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul, Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side, and Carcass - Heartwork for some foundations of the genre.

Gothenburg stuff, real early melodeath, is a lot closer to Dissection, so it kind of makes sense to me now. Bad English has a couple of articles on northern Swedish metal that can point you in that direction.

It took the longest time for me to understand the classification, and I still think they’re clearly more black than death, but it all made sense to me once I started hearing more melodeath from northern Sweden. The opposite of

thanks for recomendation🤝!!

I always found it weird that Dissection is labeled as melodeath/meloblack. I don't hear any death metal in their sound. It's not entirely black like Norwegian black, but it's typical Swedish black

Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone, Dark Lunacy - The Diarist, Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane, Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

Hello, can someone give me a list of melodic death metal, recommendations, good songs, etc.