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- Melodic death metal emerged in Sweden in the mid-1990s, with the releases of At The Gates’ Slaughter Of The Soul, Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery, and In Flames’ The Jester Race.
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Vocalist, guitarist, music writerStockholm, SwedenMember of Desolator, Soliloquium and several other projectsThe evolution of the Gothenburg sound was very important. Bands like At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity and In Flames pioneered the style early on, mixing death metal with classic heavy metal and Scandinavian folk music. Finland is also a very important country for melodic death metal. Many of the faster melodic bands like Children of Bodom, Kalmah an...
The 2000’s saw the genre develop in several directions. Most notably, many bands became more commercial and tapped into nu-metal and metalcore. Soilwork is the most obvious example. More recent times also saw genre lines blur. Melodic death metal is often combined with genres like progressive metal, doom metal, thrash metal or black metal. It was h...
Melodic death metal had a huge part in my musical evolution. “Whoracle” by In Flames and “Hatebreeder” by Children of Bodom took me from Metallica and Iron Maiden to the world of extreme metal. It was a whole new world, and the perfect gateway to death metal. However, my teenage self was not too happy when In Flames, Soilwork and several other band...
Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy is a band that gatewayed many traditional metal fans into death metal and other forms of extreme metal. Personally, I still enjoy 1999’s “Burning Bridges”, an album filled with tasty, melodic guitar-work. After that one, the band spiraled down fast. However you see it, there’s no denying that Arch Enemy is a band that got a lot of people into extreme metal.
At the Gates
“Slaughter of the Soul” is the riff bible for many melodic death metal fans and players. It’s an album that’s influenced everyone from newer Swedish bands to American metalcore and deathcore. Personally, I’m not that hot on it, but I respect the massive influence it has had on extreme metal. Also, if you enjoy “Slaughter of The Soul”, don’t miss out on its predecessor “Terminal Spirit Disease”.
Carcass
Carcass started out as the fathers of goregrind. The mid-90’s saw them switch music style. The result was “Heartwork”, one of the most classic melodic death metal albums. Even today, I still think it’s a damn good album. Hits like “Buried Dreams” and “Heartwork” really do everything right when it comes to using melody in death metal music.
It’s hard to lump in Death into melodic death metal in any way, but I think 1995’s “Symbolic” is way too influential on the genre to overlook. My argument is easy: songs like “Crystal Mountain” and “1.000 Eyes” are just what progressive and melodic death metal is supposed to be about, both in terms of execution and songwriting.
I definitely enjoy some of the above bands, and even the one’s I don’t enjoy, I’ve listened to in the past. But now it’s time to check out some of my personal favorites. Most of these bands are highly underrated.
Looking for more extreme music recommendations? Well, melodeath isn’t the only death metal sub-genre I’ve written about. Follow the links below to check out some other in-depth guides about death metal styles. And if you like my writing, you might like my music. Head over to Bandcamp to see if that’s the case, Desolator for old school death metal a...
Melodic death metal emerged in Sweden in the mid-1990s, with the releases of At The Gates’ Slaughter Of The Soul, Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery, and In Flames’ The Jester Race. These three albums became the building blocks for the sudden eruption of the Gothenburg metal scene.
Pioneered by the English heavy metal band Carcass with their 1993 album Heartwork, melodic death metal developed further in Sweden (developed by bands like At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity, and In Flames) in the mid-1990s.
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