I feel like you already made this video, but it’s nice to see it updated with some new stuff (thank you for mentioning my band AGAIN, and with the OG album cover with the stretched out logo lol!) On the subject of Purgatory Afterglow and EoS, I feel like The Spectral Sorrows is a better representation of EoS as a melodic death metal band because its a lot more consistently “death metal” but also still very melodic. Purgatory Afterglow has some really amazing melodeath songs like “Of Darksome Origin,” but then other parts of the album are musical brainfarts like “Black Tears” that hardly count as metal at all. I remember checking Purgatory Afterglow out after your first video and it turned me off of EoS entirely for years lol. Also nice to put Be’Lakor on here, I like them a lot. “Outlive the Hand” makes me almost cry often. Again it’s nice to see you make these videos.
Can we just take a moment to recognize that Dan Swano is THE most unrecognized dude in extreme metal history? Maybe Snorre from Thorns is the one who comes closest, but Swanos impact was massive and I bet if you went to a Blood Incantation show today, 99% of the crowd would be clueless.
Its the uplifting chord progressions. I listen to trance as well as metal and I get the same feelings from up tempo tech trance and uplifting trance that I get from melo death. This type of songwriting obviously has a huge presence in metalcore too especially the european side of Metalcore like Heaven Shall Burn type shit. alot of american metalcore from that period leans more towards hardcore punk and groove metal influence.
Andy Moor & Adam White - The Whiteroom Veracocha - Carte Blanche (Sneijder Remix) John O Callaghan - Stresstest (John Askew Remix) Armin Van Buuren - Communication Pt 3 Some of my favorites.@@lupvladimir3506
Melodeath is one of my favourite styles of metal, so this was a great video of recommendations! Also, kudos to you for mentioning Edge of Sanity, who I would argue were probably the first Swedish melodeath band before In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity started (and possibly even influenced them as well). I would also argue that Death helped pioneered melodeath as well, since their later albums, especially Symbolic, were quite melodic compared to their earlier material.
Melodic death metal and melodic black metal are my favorite genres especially the 90's era like Moonstruck (Sweden), Gates of Ishtar, Hypocrite, Everdawn, Crown of Thorns, God Dethroned, A Canorous Quintet, etc. Amon Amarth is still my favorite. I got into them in 1999 before they got real big. The first album is my favorite. Gates of ishtar maybe my 2nd favorite. My favorite album is The Dawn of Flames.
And the second song: da du ta da du ta da du ta Da du ta da du ta da du tu da du tu da du da du tu da du ta dauuuu lol Just making light fun but I love it too. 😂
Melody adds character and nuance to music. Extreme music for extreme music’s sake is boring to me. It’s a mentality that has its place but also has a shelf life. Idk over the years I’ve grown as a listener and extreme music with the mentality to just sound heavy, doesn’t do it for me anymore. I love melodeath because it adds a new venue/platform to play around with. Apart from certain bands, plain ol Death Metal can be monotonous to me, it doesn’t satisfy me.
It is an important tool that is sorely missing when lacking in appropriate amounts, but that should not allow people to become one trick ponies with it
I used to love the whole 90's approach to Melodic Death Metal, nowadays it's usually got such a pop style song structure..verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus. It can get tiring quickly Looking back at albums like The Gallery by Dark Tranquillity is was completely different and had more interesting and diverse song structures, that's what I miss
I hate to tell you Marksoreilly94, but remove the solo, and that is any old school deathmetal formula. Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death. If you gonna have a criticism of something at least put some actual effort into your argument, cause this one is weak as fuck. Be funny if everyone had the "formula" you want, you would be bitching about that lmao.
I love melodic death metal. Thanks for the list of bands to check out. This subgenre makes it a bit easier to get into extreme metal for beginners too.
I love melodic and symphonic metal in general, I find it's a more challenging listen because you have to pay attention to the layers of detail when it's done well.
I didn't like heartwork but i kept coming back to see if it will ever click for me and it did...7 months later and now it's my favorite melodeath album alongside Intestine Baalism albums all combined in the number two spot.
Wyatt, you beautiful specimen. You're getting me to put so much great music on my spotify downloads. Looking forward to listening to some of these albums. Might even order a couple that aren't on the streaming service
Awesome video! Melodic death metal is my favorite genre, i was introduced to metal as a whole through Edge of Sanity!! It's great seeing so many great bands getting the praise they deserve! (And i agree intestine baalism is the best of the best)
They didn’t really start out as Melodic Death Metal, but one the biggest (If not the biggest) Death Metal bands to make a huge change to their sound was Death in 1995 with Symbolic. In my opinion it’s one of their best albums, and it’s also one of their albums where I listen to almost of the tracks.
I mean, melodeath really helped me to get into death metal as a whole. I started to like death metal when i heard Carcass' Heartwork for the first time.
Purgatory Afterglow is definitely my favourite EoS. Cool video! Personally also love Schaliach’s Sonrise and anything Anata related for this sphere even if neither are particularly brutal or conventional.
So fuckin happy to see FollowBane get some recognition. Was scrolling the archives for more melodeath bands to listen to (as it is my personal favorite subgenre) and stumbled upon them. After listening to Dead Fantasia I was blown away. For anyone interested in that symphonic melodeath style, xGodx by Serpent is an amazing album that needs more recognition. They are also from Japan and that album quickly became one of my all time favorites. As well after they broke up some of the members formed Veiled in Scarlet, and that band is also great. There are a lot of shitty atg, in flames, and dt worship bands but the genre is so much more than that.
btw to clarify I don't hate atg, dt or in flames, I love all three, but there are a lot of bad copies of them out there which causes a lot of people to think mdm is just atg, dt, and in flames worship.
no discussion of melodeath is complete w/o Vehemence - "God Was Created". an absolute classic and landmark of the genre that really has no equal. stunningly beautiful leadwork, amazing brutal riffs, great songwriting and to top it all off, some of the most disturbing and spine-chilling lyrics ever penned in death metal that puts most brutal/slam/goregrind to shame. easily the best example of the style to come out of the USA, at the very least.
I think we should drop the term "melodic" to name any genre. It literally means that something has a melody, the correct term for the diversity of melodies is "melodious".
This is kinda random but if anyone hasn't heard of the melodeath band, "disarmonia mundi", I highly suggest it. They're the most underrated band and they're from Italy, but imo one of the best in the genre. Check out "perdition haze" "a taste of collapse" "flare" "celestial inferno" or "parting ways" by them to get started. I cant believe no one has heard of them.
@@alucard3317 mine is mindtricks, followed by the isolation game. Check out the song "the shape of things to come" and read the lyrics if you haven't heard it already. I just found it for the first time the other day and its now one of my favorites by them. Its super heavy in the verses and the lyrics are just badass, but has perfect clean melodic vocals for the chorus 👌
@@cliftonjames785 I’ll definitely check it out, I also have to say that I like Cold Inferno almost as much as The Isolation Game, but Mindtricks is amazing as well, my favorite song on that album is probably Nihilistic Overdrive
@@alucard3317 not gonna lie, I wasn't really into cold inferno. I did like coffin, magma diver, toys of acceleration, and loneliness of the long distance runner though. Nihilistic overdrive is a fantastic song. Id say my favorite though is either a taste of collapse, or parting ways. I think parting ways is one their most brutal songs, atleast lyrically speaking
@@cliftonjames785 Yeah parting ways is amazing, but it also makes me super happy, that you liked Coffin, and I have to admit Cold Inferno was a grower, I also was disappointed at first listen, but it grew on me, Creation Dirge is such a killer opener, I also really enjoy Stormghost, Oddities of the Ravishing Chasm, Clay of Hate and Behind Closed Doors, but Coffin is my favorite off of that album, even in my top 5 Disarmonia Mundi Songs which are (heavily biased because of The Isolation Game): in no order: Blacklight Rush, Nihilistic Overdrive, Structural Wound, Coffin, Perdition Haze ^^
This makes death metal fans really sound like they have self confidence issues. Who cares what others think of your music? If you like it, that's all that matters.
Yay melodic death metal, perhaps one of my favorite genres. Awesome album mentions and lots of fun reccomendations for me to check out. Speaking of bands sounding like At the Gates, Sein's album The Denial of Death was a very good example of the Slaughter of the Soul sound and I feel this is the closest of ever seen anyone nail the sound to a t and I have talked about it before in a blog on MA where I referred to it as Slaughter of the Soul 2.0. Definitely a great release imo
I'm showing my age here, but by '93, it seemed that death metal had worn out its welcome, so Heartwork was a breath of fresh air, and I got full-swing into the Gothenburg sound in '96, because it seemed so new and exciting. The feeling I got was that they were trying to recapture the classic rock/metal feel of their (also my own) childhood of the 80s, while making some arena-ready death metal. Mission accomplished! One important band you forgot to mention was Dissection, as they were huge in the scene. Also, Sacramentum, who were compared with Dissection but I think were actually better - I still play the "Finis Malorum" EP regularly today! Also Varathron and Rotting Christ from Greece (though they are more associated with black metal now), and Einjerar and Old Man's Child from Norway (on both of their debuts).
I would also add Scum (FIN). DAMN they're so overlooked in melodeath scene. They incorporate a very psychedelic and doomy sound within their aggression and melodic sound. Mother Nature has more aggressive tendencies but Purple Dreams and Magic Poems take one step further with the approach and make them sound so unique. Same goes Garden Of Shadows (their third album) as well which unfortunately was delayed due to label's lack of response but in 2016 their long lost album was finally released to the public.
Wyatt I found your channel like 2 days ago and I have watched an unhealthy amount of your content, I am gonna need you to drop everything else in your life and upload more. THANKS!
Incredible video, definitely gonna have to listen to the bands you've mentioned. Also, I appreciate the disclaimer given for Arghoslent along with giving examples of similar bands that aren't racist. Melodeath is probably my favorite genre, and yeah that includes the At the Gates ripoff bands but I never did a deep dive into the more brutal sounding bands so I greatly appreciate this video.
Oh boy i can hear the REEEEEES already in the distance Lol. I gotta say 100 percent respect to your channel for even daring to mention Arghoslent, you analyze the bands for what they are, strictly music oriented, you are a true transparent reviewer. 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Lyrics are literally part of being "strictly music oriented". You cant avoid discussing that part and only talk the music when they go together. Especially not in bands where all their music follows similar lyrical themes so strongly. That would be like talking about Nile without mentioning Egyptian themes, only here is a band with openly racist and ethno-supremacist themes. With that being said, his analysis was pretty good. Arghoslent's music sounds very good. And it's worth hearing if you can stomach the lyrics. I only prefer he didn't beat around the bush saying "controversial themes". Just call it for what it is. I choose not to listen to them but I've heard multiple songs, and it's undeniable their music is well written and sounds good, It's okay to admit both the band sounds good, is racist af, and then let people make their choice from there.
The problem is that Gothenburg MDM became so mainstream that other styles got overshadowed and MDM is just a shorthand for "Gothenburg power metal with harsh vocals", and I would say the Gothenburg scene is a mistake and ruined MDM for DM fans So unless they took a progressive/technical direction (which is how i discovered EoS and subsequently Opeth), I usually just go for Japanese MDM for some mold-breaking bands like ICDD and Intestine Baalism
I love ICDD, been waiting for that new album for so long that when it finally came out this year I kinda... Didn't believe it? Like I guess I just thought I was in a daze and didn't even listen to it for several days lol
Melodic death metal is ny favoutite genre of music. I like how diverse the genre is. Most of the bands mentioned were familiar, but not all.Some of my personal listening suggestions: Desultory Uncanny (These two are more death metal, but have the melodic element) Soilwork's first two for some heavier Gothenburg style Gates of Ishtar Bloodred hourglass Nailed to Obscurity Allegaeon for those into technical stuff
I have 3 recommendations most people have heard of that barely meet the definition : Anata - Conductor's Departure Inferi - Path Of Apotheosis Swallow the Sun - The Morning that Never Came
Is that a Depeche Mode shirt?! I loved Melo-death as a kid, got heavily into ATG and the Haunted when I was 15 (25 years ago), Soilwork and In Flames and Dark Tranquillity, and lesser known stuff like Gardenian and Darkane. Its a great genre with all kinds of incredible song writing. Sure it got trendy, that happens, but that whole scene ruled my younger metal years. Gates of Ishtar is a great example of how melodic death was blended with black, Dawn as well.
TLDR: Wyatt if you like Intestine, give Imperial Circus Dead Decadence a listen and tell us your thoughts about them If you like Intestine Baalism and Followbane, then I 100% have to recommend Imperial Circus Dead Decadence to you. Basically put Intestine, Followbane and Dimmu Borgir into a blender and don't stop until you see only one singular colour. That colour would be ICDD's sound Personally I would recommend their 2nd and 3rd full lengths, and the EPs between those 2 albums Vermilion D Alice Syndrome is sort of a sister band to ICDD (same vocalist but no other members overlap with the project but instead it's a completely different person handling all the instruments), but instead of having a triumphant vibe in the last song in their albums, VDAS albums are just darker, grimmer and more gothic than ICDD. I would recommend Karasu but other albums are worth a listen
I started with Melodic Death Metal with Amon Amarth just when Twilight of the Thundergod came out but I think checking everything from Arrival of the Thimble Winter to Surtur Rising would be an excellent way to open yourself to Melodic Death metal as well as bridge yourself into Folk Metal or even black metal if you liked the earlier works, on top of Johan Hegg;s vocals sounding more like a death metal Viking warrior compared to a lot of Melodic Death Metal vocalists who I feel are higher pitched like black metal or lower closer to what you might expect from death metal in general.
a band that I'm into recently is Lost In Wonders, this band is so underappreciated. the guys behind the project are from my city here in Brazil (Curitiba). all you guys should try a listening
I'm having some deja vu, you hit the nail on the head with all these picks. I've also compiled to what I believe the best MeloDeath out there. So please check it out anyone reading this.
I liked the playlist man, you got most of the bands that keep the essence of pure death metal in their sound (ps and nice surprise to see one of my uploads in there 😄)
I think Daniel Ekeroth made a point either in his book "swedish death metal" or one of the interviews about it at the time that the swedish bands basically hit on the melodic thing by accident, because a lot of people in the bands at the time thought thrash was death metal, you'd have for example some local band with a bay area style riff with a singer doing a death growl over the top.
Probably my favorite “flavor” I guess of death metal. Probably because I used to listen to a lot of NWOBHM a lot. Stuff like Stratovarius. Also, those last two albums could spawn a new genre, “Atmospheric Death Metal”, I mean, Black metal can be atmospheric, so why not. Ps, Arghoslent is pretty cool I guess..
They're probably well known enough that they don't need mentioning here. But how do you make a Melo Death video and not talk about Insomnium? Glad to see Be'lakor get some love though.
I would highly recommend Slumber's lone full length Fallout. Another bit of that more "Somber" style of Melodeath. I also recommend any Godgory album but especially Resurrection.
I still remember how pissed I was when Carcass put out Heartwork. Back then it was the ultimate sellout and basically the end of death metal for me. Today I totally love that album.
that bit at the beginning about melodic tendencies being present from the outset, that was a very good point. same as how black metal had loads of punk tendencies without having to re-invent a genre by making "punk black metal." all these ultra specific genres are fucking ridiculous. unrelated question, but will you PLEEEEEEEEASESESESE get into Old Nick and talk about them some. maybe its just me, but i firmly believe that they are the best and most interesting new black metal band from america. cheerz lads. anyone reading, check out Old Nick.
Glad to see Stone's Reach all the way at the end. I suppose by this broadened definition of melodic death metal, I'd say Chapel of Disease is one of my favorite melodeath bands.
I feel like you already made this video, but it’s nice to see it updated with some new stuff (thank you for mentioning my band AGAIN, and with the OG album cover with the stretched out logo lol!) On the subject of Purgatory Afterglow and EoS, I feel like The Spectral Sorrows is a better representation of EoS as a melodic death metal band because its a lot more consistently “death metal” but also still very melodic. Purgatory Afterglow has some really amazing melodeath songs like “Of Darksome Origin,” but then other parts of the album are musical brainfarts like “Black Tears” that hardly count as metal at all. I remember checking Purgatory Afterglow out after your first video and it turned me off of EoS entirely for years lol. Also nice to put Be’Lakor on here, I like them a lot. “Outlive the Hand” makes me almost cry often. Again it’s nice to see you make these videos.
Can we just take a moment to recognize that Dan Swano is THE most unrecognized dude in extreme metal history? Maybe Snorre from Thorns is the one who comes closest, but Swanos impact was massive and I bet if you went to a Blood Incantation show today, 99% of the crowd would be clueless.
Damn I must've missed your band. What album did he show?
Edit: nvm I'm just a bit brain-dead. But what's the album in your pfp?
Black tears is not a musical brainfart lol, just because it is not heavy it doesn't mean that it's bad.
Wyatt, can you defend me from my crippling anxiety?
I don't understand why one of the most heartfelt, exciting, sincere genres needs to be defended. I swear melodeath cures depression
Its the uplifting chord progressions. I listen to trance as well as metal and I get the same feelings from up tempo tech trance and uplifting trance that I get from melo death. This type of songwriting obviously has a huge presence in metalcore too especially the european side of Metalcore like Heaven Shall Burn type shit. alot of american metalcore from that period leans more towards hardcore punk and groove metal influence.
Andy Moor & Adam White - The Whiteroom
Veracocha - Carte Blanche (Sneijder Remix)
John O Callaghan - Stresstest (John Askew Remix)
Armin Van Buuren - Communication Pt 3
Some of my favorites.@@lupvladimir3506
I love it. No defense required.
I love Intestine Baalism, such an underrated band. Great to know you like them
Melodeath is one of my favourite styles of metal, so this was a great video of recommendations! Also, kudos to you for mentioning Edge of Sanity, who I would argue were probably the first Swedish melodeath band before In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity started (and possibly even influenced them as well). I would also argue that Death helped pioneered melodeath as well, since their later albums, especially Symbolic, were quite melodic compared to their earlier material.
Finally someone said EOS was the first one doing melodeath
Melodic death metal and melodic black metal are my favorite genres especially the 90's era like Moonstruck (Sweden), Gates of Ishtar, Hypocrite, Everdawn, Crown of Thorns, God Dethroned, A Canorous Quintet, etc. Amon Amarth is still my favorite. I got into them in 1999 before they got real big. The first album is my favorite. Gates of ishtar maybe my 2nd favorite. My favorite album is The Dawn of Flames.
Gates of Ishtar is awesome! Underrated band
And the second song: da du ta da du ta da du ta Da du ta da du ta da du tu da du tu da du da du tu da du ta dauuuu lol
Just making light fun but I love it too. 😂
@@Devogor Abyssos i absolutely love that band. I never hear anyone talk about them.
Gates of Ishtar are awesome. All 3 albums are perfect. First album A bloodred path is a masterpiece
@@Devogor Yeah both good albums. I kinda like the first album a bit more but they're both really good.
"welcoming riffs"
Ah yes, no one is as welcoming and inviting as Arghoslent.
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Melody adds character and nuance to music. Extreme music for extreme music’s sake is boring to me. It’s a mentality that has its place but also has a shelf life. Idk over the years I’ve grown as a listener and extreme music with the mentality to just sound heavy, doesn’t do it for me anymore. I love melodeath because it adds a new venue/platform to play around with. Apart from certain bands, plain ol Death Metal can be monotonous to me, it doesn’t satisfy me.
It is an important tool that is sorely missing when lacking in appropriate amounts, but that should not allow people to become one trick ponies with it
I used to love the whole 90's approach to Melodic Death Metal, nowadays it's usually got such a pop style song structure..verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus. It can get tiring quickly
Looking back at albums like The Gallery by Dark Tranquillity is was completely different and had more interesting and diverse song structures, that's what I miss
Gallery is the definition of innovation, probably ghe best mdm album of all time
I hate to tell you Marksoreilly94, but remove the solo, and that is any old school deathmetal formula. Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death. If you gonna have a criticism of something at least put some actual effort into your argument, cause this one is weak as fuck. Be funny if everyone had the "formula" you want, you would be bitching about that lmao.
@@Devogor Belakor are an exception I'll give you that, the genre needs more innovative bands like them and less like Arch Enemy
I love melodic death metal. Thanks for the list of bands to check out. This subgenre makes it a bit easier to get into extreme metal for beginners too.
My favourite melodeath band has to be insomnium. Some of the most awesome emotional melodic death metal ever. Absolutely wicked shit.
Wow. Haven't heard Intestine Baalism in forever! So happy you mentioned them. Such a good band.
Every Intestine Baalism album is great. My personal favorite is their second album, Banquet in the Darkness. But they are all amazing.
I would also say Dechristianize by Vital Remains is a “brutal melodeath” album, still waiting for more of this by them
Agreed I'm glad you said that, super underrated band
The guitar work on the title track is just absolutely legendary.
Vital Remains at its best is melodic, the melody is what drew me to their sound in the first place
I fucking love that song
@Ezzgar I agree with Ezzgar on this one
I love melodic and symphonic metal in general, I find it's a more challenging listen because you have to pay attention to the layers of detail when it's done well.
If I hear anybody hating the great Carcass I'm going to do something horrible
I didn't like heartwork but i kept coming back to see if it will ever click for me and it did...7 months later and now it's my favorite melodeath album alongside Intestine Baalism albums all combined in the number two spot.
Death’s last three albums were melodic death metal so I basically have to like the subgenre
Jester Race will always be the GOAT for me
Anders' vocals are so much worse than Mikael's vocals though. The Gallery is better.
I can't agree more. 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I swear you cover the best bands, I find so much music via your channel. Another great video thanks bro keep up the good work.
Wyatt, you beautiful specimen. You're getting me to put so much great music on my spotify downloads. Looking forward to listening to some of these albums. Might even order a couple that aren't on the streaming service
Garden of shadows - Oracle moon to me is the epitome of all atmospheric/melodic death metal.
Easily the 2nd best Melodic death metal album I've ever heard honestly
Inb4 Wyatt mentions Arghoslent for the 50th time.
guilty
Thanks for recommending bands similar to Intestine baalism I love that band so much and I love Arghoslent
Dungeon Serpent is so good oO. WOW, Thanks man. I have been hunting for more stuff like intestine baalism for over 10 years now. Thank you so much!
As an already huge melodeath fan, this gave me so many good tips. Be'lakor really are awesome!
I find it funny that a death metal fan wears a Depeche Mode shirt
I find it funny that a Wyatt wears a Depeche Mode shirt
Awesome video! Melodic death metal is my favorite genre, i was introduced to metal as a whole through Edge of Sanity!! It's great seeing so many great bands getting the praise they deserve! (And i agree intestine baalism is the best of the best)
They didn’t really start out as Melodic Death Metal, but one the biggest (If not the biggest) Death Metal bands to make a huge change to their sound was Death in 1995 with Symbolic. In my opinion it’s one of their best albums, and it’s also one of their albums where I listen to almost of the tracks.
Babe wake up, Wyatt dropped another banger of a video
Love the Garden of Shadows and Be'Lakor mentions, two of my favorite melodeath releases are from them.
I mean, melodeath really helped me to get into death metal as a whole. I started to like death metal when i heard Carcass' Heartwork for the first time.
The same happened to me,i didn't like extreme metal at all and heartwork made me a fan of the genre since then
This channel gives me so much great music recommendation! thanks
Love the Depeche Mode Violator shirt! Great album!
Purgatory Afterglow is definitely my favourite EoS. Cool video! Personally also love Schaliach’s Sonrise and anything Anata related for this sphere even if neither are particularly brutal or conventional.
Three of my favorite melodeath albums from the naughty list are Soilwork "Natural Born Chaos", In Flames "Clayman" and Arch Enemy "Wages Of Sin".
Everytime I watch one of your videos I discover like 3 or 4 albums or bands I want to go listen to!
followbane is so underrated its insane. Most of their albums are bangers.
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@@serene0silence focus on the awkward language, stuttering and mispronouncing in the video, pal
I've been watching you for years man great video as always
For anyone coming here - Eucharist's A Velvet Creation. Worth it entirely.
Missing Gates of Ishtar, The Crown, Kronos, Vornagar, Eucharist and Arsis
So fuckin happy to see FollowBane get some recognition. Was scrolling the archives for more melodeath bands to listen to (as it is my personal favorite subgenre) and stumbled upon them. After listening to Dead Fantasia I was blown away. For anyone interested in that symphonic melodeath style, xGodx by Serpent is an amazing album that needs more recognition. They are also from Japan and that album quickly became one of my all time favorites. As well after they broke up some of the members formed Veiled in Scarlet, and that band is also great. There are a lot of shitty atg, in flames, and dt worship bands but the genre is so much more than that.
btw to clarify I don't hate atg, dt or in flames, I love all three, but there are a lot of bad copies of them out there which causes a lot of people to think mdm is just atg, dt, and in flames worship.
If I had never found Amon Amarth, I never would’ve gone down the rabbit hole. 🤷🏻♂️ I appreciate gateway music a lot.
Same
no discussion of melodeath is complete w/o Vehemence - "God Was Created". an absolute classic and landmark of the genre that really has no equal. stunningly beautiful leadwork, amazing brutal riffs, great songwriting and to top it all off, some of the most disturbing and spine-chilling lyrics ever penned in death metal that puts most brutal/slam/goregrind to shame. easily the best example of the style to come out of the USA, at the very least.
BeLakor and Insomnium are brilliant
I love japanese metal and it's great to have more to listen to, thanks!
This was an excellent video. I'm pumped you mentioned Mi'Gauss!
I think we should drop the term "melodic" to name any genre. It literally means that something has a melody, the correct term for the diversity of melodies is "melodious".
the lyrics for slaughter of the soul don't get enough praise
This is kinda random but if anyone hasn't heard of the melodeath band, "disarmonia mundi", I highly suggest it. They're the most underrated band and they're from Italy, but imo one of the best in the genre. Check out "perdition haze" "a taste of collapse" "flare" "celestial inferno" or "parting ways" by them to get started. I cant believe no one has heard of them.
The Isolation Game is My favorite Disarmonia Mundi Album, literally perfect
@@alucard3317 mine is mindtricks, followed by the isolation game. Check out the song "the shape of things to come" and read the lyrics if you haven't heard it already. I just found it for the first time the other day and its now one of my favorites by them. Its super heavy in the verses and the lyrics are just badass, but has perfect clean melodic vocals for the chorus 👌
@@cliftonjames785 I’ll definitely check it out, I also have to say that I like Cold Inferno almost as much as The Isolation Game, but Mindtricks is amazing as well, my favorite song on that album is probably Nihilistic Overdrive
@@alucard3317 not gonna lie, I wasn't really into cold inferno. I did like coffin, magma diver, toys of acceleration, and loneliness of the long distance runner though. Nihilistic overdrive is a fantastic song. Id say my favorite though is either a taste of collapse, or parting ways. I think parting ways is one their most brutal songs, atleast lyrically speaking
@@cliftonjames785 Yeah parting ways is amazing, but it also makes me super happy, that you liked Coffin, and I have to admit Cold Inferno was a grower, I also was disappointed at first listen, but it grew on me, Creation Dirge is such a killer opener, I also really enjoy Stormghost, Oddities of the Ravishing Chasm, Clay of Hate and Behind Closed Doors, but Coffin is my favorite off of that album, even in my top 5 Disarmonia Mundi Songs which are (heavily biased because of The Isolation Game): in no order: Blacklight Rush, Nihilistic Overdrive, Structural Wound, Coffin, Perdition Haze ^^
The Black Waltz by Kalmah is one of my favorite metal albums of all time.
This makes death metal fans really sound like they have self confidence issues.
Who cares what others think of your music? If you like it, that's all that matters.
Yay melodic death metal, perhaps one of my favorite genres. Awesome album mentions and lots of fun reccomendations for me to check out. Speaking of bands sounding like At the Gates, Sein's album The Denial of Death was a very good example of the Slaughter of the Soul sound and I feel this is the closest of ever seen anyone nail the sound to a t and I have talked about it before in a blog on MA where I referred to it as Slaughter of the Soul 2.0. Definitely a great release imo
I'm showing my age here, but by '93, it seemed that death metal had worn out its welcome, so Heartwork was a breath of fresh air, and I got full-swing into the Gothenburg sound in '96, because it seemed so new and exciting. The feeling I got was that they were trying to recapture the classic rock/metal feel of their (also my own) childhood of the 80s, while making some arena-ready death metal. Mission accomplished! One important band you forgot to mention was Dissection, as they were huge in the scene. Also, Sacramentum, who were compared with Dissection but I think were actually better - I still play the "Finis Malorum" EP regularly today! Also Varathron and Rotting Christ from Greece (though they are more associated with black metal now), and Einjerar and Old Man's Child from Norway (on both of their debuts).
Most melodic DM can sound just like Power Metal with Death vocals
I would also add Scum (FIN). DAMN they're so overlooked in melodeath scene. They incorporate a very psychedelic and doomy sound within their aggression and melodic sound. Mother Nature has more aggressive tendencies but Purple Dreams and Magic Poems take one step further with the approach and make them sound so unique. Same goes Garden Of Shadows (their third album) as well which unfortunately was delayed due to label's lack of response but in 2016 their long lost album was finally released to the public.
Thanks for showing me a ton of bands I haven't listened to before
I heard you qualifying "Be'lakor - Stone's Reach" as "elegant" and my first reaction was WTF. But after a listen I think I get what you meant
Wyatt I found your channel like 2 days ago and I have watched an unhealthy amount of your content, I am gonna need you to drop everything else in your life and upload more. THANKS!
Incredible video, definitely gonna have to listen to the bands you've mentioned. Also, I appreciate the disclaimer given for Arghoslent along with giving examples of similar bands that aren't racist. Melodeath is probably my favorite genre, and yeah that includes the At the Gates ripoff bands but I never did a deep dive into the more brutal sounding bands so I greatly appreciate this video.
Oh boy i can hear the REEEEEES already in the distance Lol. I gotta say 100 percent respect to your channel for even daring to mention Arghoslent, you analyze the bands for what they are, strictly music oriented, you are a true transparent reviewer. 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Lyrics are literally part of being "strictly music oriented". You cant avoid discussing that part and only talk the music when they go together. Especially not in bands where all their music follows similar lyrical themes so strongly. That would be like talking about Nile without mentioning Egyptian themes, only here is a band with openly racist and ethno-supremacist themes.
With that being said, his analysis was pretty good. Arghoslent's music sounds very good. And it's worth hearing if you can stomach the lyrics. I only prefer he didn't beat around the bush saying "controversial themes". Just call it for what it is. I choose not to listen to them but I've heard multiple songs, and it's undeniable their music is well written and sounds good, It's okay to admit both the band sounds good, is racist af, and then let people make their choice from there.
The problem is that Gothenburg MDM became so mainstream that other styles got overshadowed and MDM is just a shorthand for "Gothenburg power metal with harsh vocals", and I would say the Gothenburg scene is a mistake and ruined MDM for DM fans
So unless they took a progressive/technical direction (which is how i discovered EoS and subsequently Opeth), I usually just go for Japanese MDM for some mold-breaking bands like ICDD and Intestine Baalism
I love ICDD, been waiting for that new album for so long that when it finally came out this year I kinda... Didn't believe it? Like I guess I just thought I was in a daze and didn't even listen to it for several days lol
only sots was a mistake early in flames and likes were good.
I can't follow you on that. Best I can do is accepting "powered death".
please defend me from existing
Melodic death metal is ny favoutite genre of music. I like how diverse the genre is. Most of the bands mentioned were familiar, but not all.Some of my personal listening suggestions:
Desultory
Uncanny (These two are more death metal, but have the melodic element)
Soilwork's first two for some heavier Gothenburg style
Gates of Ishtar
Bloodred hourglass
Nailed to Obscurity
Allegaeon for those into technical stuff
I think Arghoslent deserves a mention but I completely understand why you wouldn't want to talk about them lmao. Love the video.
I love Purgatory Afterglow by Edge of Sanity. Thank you for mentioning that album, Wyatt.
hell yeah intestine baalism. anatomy of the beast is so good.
I took a shot every time you said Intestine Baalism and now I am deceased
wyatt is so cute, does anyone else have a crush on him?
I have 3 recommendations most people have heard of that barely meet the definition : Anata - Conductor's Departure
Inferi - Path Of Apotheosis
Swallow the Sun - The Morning that Never Came
I absolutely love melodic death metal. Mainly cause I’m into Power Metal and Thrash Metal heavily.
By any chance do you know the band Traumatic Voyage and their album Traumatized...? Definetely a hidden gem that deserves a entire video in itself
such a hidden gem
I'm surprised you didn't mention dismember when you started name dropping OSDM bands going Melo-Death later on down the line.
The band Majesties on 20Buckspin sounds like Slaughter of the Soul straight up, stoked on their release
Is that a Depeche Mode shirt?!
I loved Melo-death as a kid, got heavily into ATG and the Haunted when I was 15 (25 years ago), Soilwork and In Flames and Dark Tranquillity, and lesser known stuff like Gardenian and Darkane. Its a great genre with all kinds of incredible song writing. Sure it got trendy, that happens, but that whole scene ruled my younger metal years. Gates of Ishtar is a great example of how melodic death was blended with black, Dawn as well.
Kalmah is one of my favorites!
TLDR: Wyatt if you like Intestine, give Imperial Circus Dead Decadence a listen and tell us your thoughts about them
If you like Intestine Baalism and Followbane, then I 100% have to recommend Imperial Circus Dead Decadence to you. Basically put Intestine, Followbane and Dimmu Borgir into a blender and don't stop until you see only one singular colour. That colour would be ICDD's sound
Personally I would recommend their 2nd and 3rd full lengths, and the EPs between those 2 albums
Vermilion D Alice Syndrome is sort of a sister band to ICDD (same vocalist but no other members overlap with the project but instead it's a completely different person handling all the instruments), but instead of having a triumphant vibe in the last song in their albums, VDAS albums are just darker, grimmer and more gothic than ICDD. I would recommend Karasu but other albums are worth a listen
Love this band just as much as i love Thousand Leaves, both great japan melodeath bands
I started with Melodic Death Metal with Amon Amarth just when Twilight of the Thundergod came out but I think checking everything from Arrival of the Thimble Winter to Surtur Rising would be an excellent way to open yourself to Melodic Death metal as well as bridge yourself into Folk Metal or even black metal if you liked the earlier works, on top of Johan Hegg;s vocals sounding more like a death metal Viking warrior compared to a lot of Melodic Death Metal vocalists who I feel are higher pitched like black metal or lower closer to what you might expect from death metal in general.
Amon amarth is a bad starter for anyone trying to get into Melodic Death
Melodic death metal is my jam so needless to say this is my favorite video
dawn of flames in the background 🤘
Haha I had a fucking feeling you were playing Perpetual Dawn at the start. Best GOI song if you ask me.
It used to be my favorite genre now it's one of my favorites
a band that I'm into recently is Lost In Wonders, this band is so underappreciated. the guys behind the project are from my city here in Brazil (Curitiba). all you guys should try a listening
I'm having some deja vu, you hit the nail on the head with all these picks.
I've also compiled to what I believe the best MeloDeath out there.
So please check it out anyone reading this.
I liked the playlist man, you got most of the bands that keep the essence of pure death metal in their sound (ps and nice surprise to see one of my uploads in there 😄)
Nice playlist.
Also, even cooler NintendoCaprisun Playlist, that guy is my childhood (next to FamilyJules)
Great choices for hard-core Melodeath. One I've been enjoying recently: Sarcasm
I think Daniel Ekeroth made a point either in his book "swedish death metal" or one of the interviews about it at the time that the swedish bands basically hit on the melodic thing by accident, because a lot of people in the bands at the time thought thrash was death metal, you'd have for example some local band with a bay area style riff with a singer doing a death growl over the top.
I freaking love melodeath
I dont take any metal advice from anyone who doesn't have various types of swords, Good Job Buddy! all joking aside, pretty in depth video
May I recommend Broken Torso
Probably my favorite “flavor” I guess of death metal.
Probably because I used to listen to a lot of NWOBHM a lot. Stuff like Stratovarius.
Also, those last two albums could spawn a new genre, “Atmospheric Death Metal”, I mean, Black metal can be atmospheric, so why not.
Ps, Arghoslent is pretty cool I guess..
Melodic death metal and melodic black metal are and will always be my favorite genre ....who care about genre dictators
They're probably well known enough that they don't need mentioning here. But how do you make a Melo Death video and not talk about Insomnium? Glad to see Be'lakor get some love though.
ngl was just expecting you to bring up arghoslent for 21 minutes.
No one mentioning Eucharist? They are one of the pioneers from Sweden. Love their albums "A velvet creation" and "Mirrorworlds"
I feel like I need to take out a notepad for each of your videos so I can write down all the bands you recommend
I would highly recommend Slumber's lone full length Fallout. Another bit of that more "Somber" style of Melodeath. I also recommend any Godgory album but especially Resurrection.
Highly recommend Vaelmyst - Secrypts of the Egochasm. Think edge of sanity meets Rotting Christ. It’s the first Melodeath album I’ve loved in YEARS.
I still remember how pissed I was when Carcass put out Heartwork. Back then it was the ultimate sellout and basically the end of death metal for me. Today I totally love that album.
that bit at the beginning about melodic tendencies being present from the outset, that was a very good point. same as how black metal had loads of punk tendencies without having to re-invent a genre by making "punk black metal." all these ultra specific genres are fucking ridiculous.
unrelated question, but will you PLEEEEEEEEASESESESE get into Old Nick and talk about them some. maybe its just me, but i firmly believe that they are the best and most interesting new black metal band from america.
cheerz lads. anyone reading, check out Old Nick.
Great video man
Glad to see Stone's Reach all the way at the end. I suppose by this broadened definition of melodic death metal, I'd say Chapel of Disease is one of my favorite melodeath bands.