Melodic Death Metal Style Overview

Melodic Death Metal Music Description

Melodic death metal is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal.

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  Still Life
  Opeth
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  My Arms, Your Hearse
  Opeth
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  Blackwater Park
  Opeth
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  Heartwork
  Carcass
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  Clayman
  In Flames
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  Twilight Of The Thunder God
  Amon Amarth
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  Surgical Steel
  Carcass

Melodic Death Metal Artists

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  In Flames
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  Arch Enemy
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  Amon Amarth
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  Dark Tranquillity
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  Children Of Bodom
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  Nightrage
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  Paul Wardingham

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  Official Live Tape 1987
  Thanatos (4)
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  A Winter Shadow
  Tiamat
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  -Live-
  Phlebotomized
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  Ruler Of The Dark
  Hypocrite
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  To Atonement I Am Avowed
  Cauteror
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  Released Psychos Vol. 2
  Various
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  Dark Infinity
  Defunctis

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  Soundtrack To Your Escape
  In Flames
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  Heartwork
  Carcass
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  Ashes Of The Wake
  Lamb Of God
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  Shrouded Divine
  In Mourning
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  Come Clarity
  In Flames
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  Colony
  In Flames
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  Colony
  In Flames