Some Essential Melodic Death Albums

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Some Essential Melodic Death Albums

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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.
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Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
2007
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The Absence - Riders Of The Plague
2007
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Darkane - Expanding Senses
2002
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Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down
2004
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Luna Mortis - The Absence
2009
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Dark Tranquillity - Projector
1999
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In Flames - Colony
1999
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Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt
2004
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Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
2001
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Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
2000
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Scar Symmetry - Symmetric In Design
2005
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Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
2001
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Dark Age - Dark Age
2004
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Darkane - Demonic Art
2008
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Dimension Zero - Silent Night Fever
2002
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Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
1995
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In Flames - The Jester Race
1996
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At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
1995
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Hypocrisy - The Arrival
2004
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Cipher System - Central Tunnel 8
2004
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Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
1997
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In Flames - Whoracle
1997
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Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
1998
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The Absence - Enemy Unbound
2010
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Amon Amarth - Versus The World
2002
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Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
1998
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Eluveitie - Slania
2008
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Hypocrisy - Virus
2005
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Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void
2010
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Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
2002
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Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
2006
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Arch Enemy - Dead Eyes See No Future
2004
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The Knife Trade - The Knife Trade [E.P.]
2005
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Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was
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Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns
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Eucharist - Mirrorworlds
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Insomnium - One For Sorrow
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BeastOfMetal456
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17.08.2011 - 21:22
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Wow, that's good.
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08.09.2011 - 16:18

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Nice list I've been of fan of the genre for years now and I've had trouble finding anything particularly special, this should help nicely though
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02.10.2011 - 23:39

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Nice Work, bro. But is Opeth really Melodeath?
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02.10.2011 - 23:41

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Nice Work, bro. But is Opeth really Melodeath?
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05.02.2012 - 05:56

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Children of Bodom's Album should have definitely been Hatebreeder
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10.02.2012 - 22:15

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HCD is the only CoB album I really get in to. It's not meant to be an exhaustive list, just my favorites of the style.
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13.02.2012 - 05:33

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Great list but i'd keep it to one album per band, that way you can get more variety
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13.02.2012 - 10:56

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Very good choices IMO, especially the unusual ones (Dark Age is very underrated). Makes me want to update the similar list I made some time ago.
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No Eucharist? hell they inspired Dark tranquillity and their two are the best melodeath albums around
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Childeren Of Bodom have nothing to do with melodeath. It's extreme power metal they play, that's it.
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LordHypnos
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Opeth isn't melodeath. They are progressive death metal
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