BEYOND THE DARK SUN - Melodeath For The Win!

BEYOND THE DARK SUN - Melodeath For The Win!

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beyondtehdarksun
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April 28, 2010
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A beginner's guide to genuine blasting. Call it Gothenburg, call it extreme power - whatever, it's always enjoyable.

Now ranked for even more win.
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Wintersun - Wintersun
Why? Fanboy-ism. Mental cinema. Supersonic journeys over snowy plains.
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Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony
This is easily the best MD album of the 2010s. Kalmah tends to be hit or 'meh' and this one totally hits the spot. Full speed agression and melody is blended with rarely seen skill, and is perfected by the decision to end the album on the high-note, midtempo hymn that is 'The Trapper'.
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Kalmah - 12 Gauge
Splendid symbiosis of aggression and melody, epic hooks, the first three tracks blow away every other melodeath album.
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Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
DT at their most melodic, and one of their most highly regarded albums.
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Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
The album that got me into melodeath, blending ingenious neoclassical melodies with technical madness without ever sound chaotic. On a second list though, Tägtgren put too much of his signature sound in the mix.
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Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Timeless classic.
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Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Massive, atmospheric, slightly progressive. The follow-up is but a cheap copy of this one, whatever people say, there is only one "Countless Skies".
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Pain Confessor - Incarcerated
Breakthrough of a formerly unremarkable band, with a striking Insomnium influence, bashing even Insomnium itself.
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Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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03.03.2022 - 08:24
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Ah yes... few things are better than melodic death metal

Some of my favorites (not in order):
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes
In Flames - The Jester Race
Amorphis - Elegy
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came
Sylosis - Edge of the Earth
(Wintersun - Wintersun
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Dan Swanö - Moontower)

The last six MS doesn't categorize as melodeath, but it's close enough I think.
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Written by F3ynman on 03.03.2022 at 08:24


Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Dan Swanö - Moontower)

These 4 albums are progressive death metal or call it extreme progressive metal if you want to.
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