BE: Don't have one. Don't like booze. Never even finished a drink

why there are so many img formats , why there can not be only one?

ms vice tell me name of your fav boozer

Yeah some swedish melodeath like Gates Of Ishtar really brings black and death together and it helps understand why Dissection are sometimes classified the same way

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