Melodic Death Metal

Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal which combines the melody of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) with the intensity of death metal. The genre is also known as Gothenburg metal, a reference to the city in Sweden where it originated. Originally the genre combined the harmony style and groove melodies of heavy metal with the harsh thrashing sound and vocals of death metal. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Destroy Destroy Destroy

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Jan 9 Saturday 9 January 2010
Clayton Graham Fike at House of Blues Maren Morris, All That Remains	House of Blues Dallas TX, United States 32.785335 -96.808326	Add shout Buy Tickets
Jan 10 Sunday 10 January 2010
Behemoth Septic Flesh, Graves Of Valor, Lightning Swords Of Death	Masquerade Atlanta GA, United States 33.77103 -84.364537	20 people attending 25 shouts
Jan 19 Tuesday 19 January 2010
DevilDriver at Eagles Club/The Rave/Eagles Ballroom DevilDriver	Eagles Club/The… Milwaukee, United States 43.038243 -87.94337	3 people attending 2 shouts Buy Tickets
Jan 20 Wednesday 20 January 2010
Arch Enemy Exodus, Arsis, Mutiny Within	Recher Theater Towson, Baltimore, United States 39.400915 -76.601998	9 people attending 2 shouts Buy Tickets
Jan 21 Thursday 21 January 2010
Arch Enemy at Fillmore at the TLA Arch Enemy	Fillmore at the TLA Philadelphia, United States 39.941481 -75.148652	1 shout Buy Tickets
Arch Enemy Exodus, Arsis, Mutiny Within	Theater of the… Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States 39.941481 -75.148652	12 people attending 1 shout

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Jorgetime wrote:
yesterday morning

loool

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soul_synergy wrote:
Saturday morning

In flames are metalcore.

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Solovarium wrote:
Friday evening

so , In Flames is what ? :|

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DeadlyDevil wrote:
Friday afternoon

In Flames is not melodic, lolol

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xHybr1dx wrote:
Friday morning

Code For Silence is an amazing band, everyone needs to check out their song titled, "Deathmatch".

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Dicearerandom wrote:
Thursday evening

I never get where this genre comes from. Isn't atonality one of death metal's defining characteristics?

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cosmoretro wrote:
Thursday evening

melodic death metal is not death metal, just like pandas aren't bears [2]

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xHybr1dx wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Random thoughts: Tracedawn's new album titled, "Ego Anthem" is fucking lame. They decided to introduce blast beats and horrible thrash-esque song titles to their music. "Dirt Track Speedball"? Really? Laugh. "Scum"? Seriously? Aite. Still some good songs on the album, but I don't like the lack of the vocalists amazing cleans, which is what really made the band stand out to me on their first release. About half of the tracks are ONLY growls, which saddened me.......................................................................Mygrain would be so good if they had a different vocalist, I absolutely can't stand the vocalists Thrash-styled screaming, or..whatever it is... it's like yelling...it's annoying. His regular cleans and regular death growls are good, but I can't handle the thrash shit he does the majority of the time.

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xHybr1dx wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Deadlock's male vocalist is the worst Melodeath vocalist I've ever heard, the band is amazing, and he in particular just seems to ruin the band as a whole for me. The girl is phenomenal though..........................................................The band called, "Silent Descent" was amazing up until the "death vocals" began....the mother fucker did INHALES...inhale growls in Melodic Death Metal, yes...you read this correctly. I wanted to puke, fucking...why would talented artists like themselves let that douchebag do inhales? My god...fuck Deathcore/Grindcore.....take your inhales elsewhere you talentless waste of life. The rest of the music is phenomenal though, great clean vocals, and a lot of electronica/industrial elements...........................................................................EVERYONE needs to go check out the band, Dark Age, like right now. They are very good, they have a little bit of annoying clean vocals at times, but aside from that, I enjoy them a lot.

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xHybr1dx wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Another band that could have been good is Amorphis, one thing that I don't understand is why they are labeled as "Melodic Death Metal", when after listening to three of their albums, I only counted up 9/33 songs actually having growls. The remaining songs were cleans and these weird yells that were reminiscent of the Lion King and Satan from South Park.... The songs without growls are good, but it's kind of hard to enjoy them when I went into listening to this band expecting Melodeath and getting nothing more than some Power Metal/Progressive Metal that has growls every once in a while......................................... Why does Mors Principium Est like....suck now? When you compare 'Liberation = Termination' to their previous two amazing albums, it’s pretty damn bad. Lots of blast beats, and a lack of ambient elements, which are what really got me into them to begin with. Some of the songs on the CD are good, but it's just a little bit boring. Inhumanity and The Unborn for life!

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gsomej wrote:
Tuesday evening

@Ascaris_l, That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

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edmvndo wrote:
Tuesday morning

in flames \m/

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Ascaris_l wrote:
Monday morning

melodic death metal is not death metal, just like pandas aren't bears

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morg0mir wrote:
9 days ago

U PHAIL,amon amarth and hypocrisy are melodic death,not the these good for nothing bastards...

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cosmoretro wrote:
19 days ago

v power metal on steroids.

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sokookolovo00 wrote:
20 days ago

Kalmah deserves better rating, they defines melodic death_!

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veyita_88 wrote:
21 days ago

Im not a fan of melodeath,but Stigmata by Arch Enemy is really good.

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seshir0 wrote:
22 days ago

Children, ArchEnemy ,Dark Tranquillity :D

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CubesOfMadness wrote:
22 days ago

fucking best shit ever

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cosmoretro wrote:
22 days ago

MOST PLAYED=BORING AS FUCK [2] though I like DT and Scar Symmetry, but still MOST PLAYED=BORING AS FUCK [3]

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