| 4.5 superb |
| A Canorous Quintet Silence of the World Beyond |
| A Canorous Quintet The Only Pure Hate |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes |
| Anata The Infernal Depths of Hatred |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure |
| Angra Holy Land |
| Angra Angels Cry |
| Arch Enemy Stigmata |
| Artillery By Inheritance |
| As Hope Dies Legions Bow to a Faceless God |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours |
| Atheist Piece of Time |
| Avantasia The Metal Opera |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera |
| Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade |
| Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos |
| Brimstone Carving a Crimson Career |
| One of the more overlooked bands of their time, Brimstone take a unique approach to power metal by opting for harsh vocals instead of the cleans usually found in the genre. This is power metal with an edge, well worth checking out for any power metal fan looking for something different. |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| Carnage Dark Recollections |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Catafalque (BEL) Awakening |
| Belgian technical melodeath heavily inspired by early At the Gates and Eucharist. |
| Cenotaph (MX) Epic Rites: 9 Epic Tales & Death Rites |
| Centinex Reflections |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Crimson Glory Crimson Glory |
| Crimson Glory Transcendence |
| Crimson Massacre The Luster of Pandemonium |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends |
| Dark Moor The Gates of Oblivion |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dark Tranquillity Of Chaos and Eternal Night |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Dawn Nær Solen Gar Nider For Evogher |
| Dawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) |
| Dead Blue Sky Symptoms of an Unwanted Emotion |
| Perhaps some of the most interesting melodic metalcore I've had the pleasure of hearing. Dead Blue Sky take the metalcore formula, strip it down a bit, add in some melodic death/black along with some symphonic elements and wrap it all up in a hazy, atmospheric production and melancholic mood to go along with At the Gates-inspired riffs and keys. |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Deathrow Deception Ignored |
| Deformity Superior |
| Demetori Il Mondo dove e finito il Tempo |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Dimension Zero Penetrations From the Lost World |
| Short and sweet, but packs quite the punch. Those that love Fredrik Johansson's work on "December Flower" from The Jester Race in particular will find more of his superb style on here, so be sure to check this out. A must for the melodeath fanatic. |
| Dio The Last in Line |
| Disarmonia Mundi Fragments Of D-Generation |
| Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Edguy Theater of Salvation |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Equilibrium Sagas |
| Eternal Autumn The Storm |
| Superb Gothenburg melodeath that heavily emphasizes the genre's traditional heavy metal characteristics, Judas Priest in particular being a big influence on the riffs here. An overlooked gem that's a must for fans of the genre. |
| Eucharist Mirrorworlds |
| Evanescent Soul Observatory from Tyrannical Ages |
| A fairly obscure gem blending progressive melodic black/death with symphonic and gothic elements. Highly recommended. |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood |
| Fall of the Leafe Evanescent, Everfading |
| Criminally overlooked melodeath/meloback with folk elements that deserves to be heard by more listeners. Fans of Obsequiae in particular should absolutely give this a spin as they have definitely taken some cues from this band's early work. Evanescent, Everfading is truly ever beautiful, everlasting. |
| Fall of the Leafe August Wernicke |
| Fates Warning The Spectre Within |
| Fates Warning No Exit |
| Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Doomsday for the Deceiver |
| Followbane Dead Fantasia |
| Freedom Call Eternity |
| Galneryus The Flag Of Punishment |
| Galneryus Advance To The Fall |
| Galneryus Angel of Salvation |
| Gamma Ray No World Order |
| Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon |
| Gates of Ishtar At Dusk and Forever |
| Gorement The Ending Quest |
| Grotesque Incantation |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone |
| Helstar A Distant Thunder |
| Helstar Nosferatu |
| Hibria Defying the Rules |
| Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider |
| Imperial Circus Dead Decadence Kurooshiku Saita Seisan Na Mukuro Wa Kanaderu- |
| Imperial Circus Dead Decadence MOGARI - Shi E Fukeru Omoi Wa Rikujoku Sura Kurai |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Flames Clayman |
| In Flames Subterranean |
| Inanna Converging Ages |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Intestine Baalism An Anatomy of the Beast |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Savior Condition Red |
| Jag Panzer Ample Destruction |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Julie Laughs Nomore When Only Darkness Remains |
| Melodeath with hints of power metal and complex song structures, like if Blind Guardian decided to make an old-school melodeath album. |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Kamelot Epica |
| Kamelot Karma |
| Kamijo Symphony of the Vampire |
| Katatonia Dance of December Souls |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| King Diamond ''Them'' |
| King Diamond Conspiracy |
| KMFDM Angst |
| KMFDM Nihil |
| Labyrinth Return to Heaven Denied |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 |
| Lost Horizon Awakening the World |
| Masterplan Masterplan |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Metal Church Metal Church |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Ministry The Land of Rape and Honey |
| Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste |
| Ministry Psalm 69 |
| Miseration Your Demons ~ Their Angels |
| Mork Gryning Return Fire |
| Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence |
| Necrophobic Darkside |
| Nocturnal Winds Everlasting Fall |
| Obliveon From This Day Forward |
| Overkill Feel the Fire |
| Paradise Lost Gothic |
| Persefone Truth Inside the Shades |
| Persefone Shin-Ken |
| Persuader Evolution Purgatory |
| Queensryche Rage for Order |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Realm Endless War |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands |
| Rhapsody of Fire Dawn of Victory |
| Running Wild Port Royal |
| Running Wild Black Hand Inn |
| Sacramentum Finis Malorum |
| Sacred Outcry Towers of Gold |
| Sacrilege GBG The Fifth Season |
| Scanner Hypertrace |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Sentenced Amok |
| Septicflesh Mystic Places of Dawn |
| Shiina Ringo Muzai Moratorium |
| Shiina Ringo Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana |
| Skyclad A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Slayer Haunting the Chapel |
| Soilwork Steelbath Suicide |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica |
| Sonata Arctica Silence |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Stratovarius Infinite |
| Stratovarius Episode |
| Sybreed Antares |
| Symphony X Twilight in Olympus |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite |
| Target (BE) Master Project Genesis |
| Testament The Legacy |
| Testament The New Order |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Chasm Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph |
| The Chasm Procession to the Infraworld |
| The Crown Eternal Death |
| Their last outing under the original Crown of Thorns name, The Crown's Eternal Death is a potent combination of melodeath, thrash and black metal that's equal parts melodic and aggressive. Highly recommended. |
| The Crown Deathrace King |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| Theory In Practice The Armageddon Theories |
| Thousand Leaves End of Endless Night |
| Thousand Leaves Dead Night Blind |
| Threnody As the Heavens Fall |
| Excellent melodic death with hints of prog and released at a time when the genre was just starting out, complete with neat punchy bass. |
| Torchbearer Death Meditations |
| Toxik Think This |
| Tyr Eric The Red |
| Unanimated Ancient God of Evil |
| Undying The Whispered Lies of Angels |
| Raw, intense melodic metalcore that really brings out the melodic death metal influence, Undying combines the best of both worlds in superb fashion on this excellent album. |
| Unmoored Indefinite Soul-Extension |
| Versailles Noble |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Virgin Steele The Marriage of Heaven And Hell: Part I |
| Watchtower Energetic Disassembly |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| X Japan Blue Blood |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Canorous Quintet As Tears |
| A Canorous Quintet Reflections of the Mirror |
| A Mind Confused Anarchos |
| Absidia (GER) Written In Minor Key |
| Abysm (USA) Shadow of Malevolence |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Amorphis Black Winter Day |
| Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus |
| Anata Dreams of Death and Dismay |
| Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription |
| Angra Rebirth |
| Apophis Heliopolis |
| Arch Enemy Black Earth |
| Armoured Angel Stigmartyr |
| Armoured Angel Mysterium |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease |
| Artillery Fear of Tomorrow |
| Artillery Terror Squad |
| As Hope Dies Birthplace and Burial Site |
| At the Gates Gardens of Grief |
| Atheist Elements |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Autumn Leaves Embraced by the Absolute |
| Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day |
| Balflare Downpour |
| Balmora With Thorns of Glass and Petals of Grief |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Black Forest Dream |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Blazon Stone Return to Port Royal |
| Power metal which heavily worships Running Wild (if their band name and album title weren't already any indication) that's just as top-notch and fun as their idols. |
| Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear |
| Blind Guardian Follow the Blind |
| Blind Guardian Tales from the Twilight World |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine |
| Bloodstone (SWE) Hour of the Gate |
| Two demos of raw, aggressive Swedish death metal. Plenty of dark, occult vibes with hints of black metal and melodic undertones that aren't too overbearing. |
| Blot Mine Porphyrogenesis |
| Bolt Thrower ...For Victory |
| Bolt Thrower War Master |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal |
| Brothers Grimm (USA-OH) Helm's Deep |
| Caliban A Small Boy and A Grey Heaven |
| Cardinal Sin (SWE) Spiteful Intents |
| A short but sweet four-song (with one of those just being a very short instrumental) meloblack/death EP in the vein of Dissection, having the advantage of having a former member of said band. |
| Cemetery Dwell Towards A Dreadful Cosmos |
| Cemetery Winds Unholy Ascensions |
| Cenotaph (MX) Saga Bélica |
| Ceremonial Oath Carpet |
| Chthonic Seediq Bale |
| Cirkeln A Song To Sorrow |
| Crystal Age Far Beyond Divine Horizons |
| Cyanotic (DK) Sapphire Season |
| Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector |
| Darkest Hour The Mark of the Judas |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Dawn Sorgh pa Svarte Vingar Flogh |
| Dawn of Orion For the Lust of Prophecies Undone |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Decameron (SWE) My Shadow... |
| Deceased Fearless Undead Machines |
| Deformity Murder Within Sin |
| Demetori Shout at the Devil |
| Demetori Sendaisoushi ~ Offering to The Sukhavati |
| Demons and Wizards Demons & Wizards |
| Depresy A Grand Magnificence |
| Depresy Sighting |
| Despair Decay of Humanity |
| Despised Icon Consumed By Your Poison |
| Despised Icon The Healing Process |
| Desultory Into Eternity |
| Desultory Bitterness |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst |
| Dio Dream Evil |
| Disarmonia Mundi Cold Inferno |
| Discordance Axis Jouhou |
| Dismember Indecent & Obscene |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Edge of Sanity Unorthodox |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows |
| Edguy Vain Glory Opera |
| Edguy Mandrake |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Endthisday Sleeping Beneath the Ashes of Creation |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr |
| Eucharist A Velvet Creation |
| Excretion Voice of Harmony |
| An excellent example of early melodeath that seems to have sadly been overlooked, and that's quite a shame. With a variety of excellently crafted dual guitar riffs, solid drumming, passionate, melodic solos and aggressive vocals, Voice of Harmony is an album you don't want to miss out on. At the very least one should give the highlight of the album "Suicide Silence" a peek. |
| Fatal Embrace (SWE) Shadowsouls' Garden |
| Fates Warning Parallels |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles |
| Galneryus Beyond the End of Despair... |
| Galneryus One For All - All For One |
| Gamma Ray Power Plant |
| Garden of Shadows Heart of the Corona |
| Gates of Ishtar A Bloodred Path |
| Gates of Ishtar The Dawn of Flames |
| Glacial Coffin Scorched Realm |
An excellent example of melodic black/death from the murky swamps of Baton Rouge. Another great band from my home state, so you know they're Davey-approved.
https://glacialcoffin.bandcamp.com/album/scorched-realm |
| Grave Digger Excalibur |
| Grave Digger Tunes of War |
| GridLink Longhena |
| GridLink Coronet Juniper |
| Halford Resurrection |
| HammerFall Glory To The Brave |
| HammerFall Legacy Of Kings |
| Hayaino Daisuki The Invincible Gate Mind of the Infernal Fire Hell |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers |
| Heaven Shall Burn Asunder |
| Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take |
| Helloween Walls of Jericho |
| Helloween The Time of the Oath |
| Helloween The Dark Ride |
| Helloween Helloween EP |
| Helstar Remnants of War |
| Horrified In the Garden of the Unearthly Delights |
| Horrified The Ancient Whisper of Wisdom |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy |
| Hypocrisy Abducted |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Iced Earth Horror Show |
| In Aeternum Forever Blasphemy |
| One of the more obscure Dissection-likes, though not any less quality. |
| In Flames Lunar Strain |
| In Flames Black-Ash Inheritance |
| Insania Sunrise in Riverland |
| Really underrated power metal that takes cues from the greats like Helloween and Gamma Ray. Don't sleep on this, Sput. |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Iron Savior Unification |
| Iron Savior Iron Savior |
| Iron Savior Firestar |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony |
| Kalmah Palo |
| Kamelot The Fourth Legacy |
| KMFDM XTORT |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment |
| Lord Belial Enter The Moonlight Gate |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
| Manticora Roots of Eternity |
| Manticora Darkness with Tales to Tell |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Mercenary The Hours That Remain |
| Mercenary Soundtrack for the End Times |
| After 10 years since Through Our Darkest Days, Mercenary return with a solid comeback album that shows they still got it even after the decade-long wait. |
| Mercenary 11 Dreams |
| Merciless Unbound |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Mi'gauss Open Season |
| Midvinter At the Sight of the Apocalypse Dragon |
| Miseration The Mirroring Shadow |
| Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena |
| Mork Gryning Mörk Gryning |
| Mork Gryning Tusen Ar Har Gatt |
| Nailbomb Point Blank |
| Neaera The Rising Tide of Oblivion |
| Necrophobic The Call |
| Night in Gales Towards the Twilight |
| Nocturnal Rites The Sacred Talisman |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Ophthalamia A Journey in Darkness |
| Ouija Riding Into The Funeral Paths |
| Overkill Taking Over |
| Persuader When Eden Burns |
| Persuader The Hunter |
| Project: Roenwolfe Project: Roenwolfe |
| Prophets of Doom Access to Wisdom |
| Queensryche Empire |
| Queensryche The Warning |
| Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| Red Sky MPFW |
| Running Wild Pile of Skulls |
| Running Wild Blazon Stone |
| Running Wild Under Jolly Roger |
| Sacramentum The Coming of Chaos |
| Sacrilege GBG Lost in the Beauty You Slay |
| Sarcasm (SWE) Burial Dimensions |
| Recorded in 1994, but unfortunately never seeing the light of day until 2011 and finally getting an official album release in 2016. This is a lost gem of the golden age of melodic black/death metal, sounding akin to the classic mid-90's melodeath style as much as it does to Dissection. |
| Savage Circus Dreamland Manor |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph |
| Septicflesh Temple of the Lost Race |
| Septicflesh The Ophidian Wheel |
| Sevenday Curse After the Storm |
| Shiina Ringo Sanmon Gossip |
| Sins of Omission The Creation |
| A hidden gem of Gothenburg-styled melodeath with a variety of tight, hard-hitting riffs (with half of the guitars being contributed by future Dismember guitarist Martin Persson) and raspy vocals coupled with that sweet Fredrick Nordstrom production. The Creation is a sadly overlooked album not to be missed. |
| Skyclad The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth |
| Skyfire Spectral |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait |
| Solution .45 For Aeons Past |
| State Craft To Celebrate the Forlorn Seasons |
| Straightout Undying Beauty and the Symphony of Sadness |
| Symphonic blackened melodic metalcore that follows in the style of Dead Blue Sky, and manages to be just as damn good at it. |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| Stratovarius Destiny |
| Stratovarius Dreamspace |
| Sybreed Slave Design |
| Sybreed The Pulse of Awakening |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Symphony X The Damnation Game |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| Tears Seven Times As Porphyria Once Went |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth |
| Testament Brotherhood of the Snake |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous |
| The Crown The Burning |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Few Against Many Sot |
| The Moaning Blood From Stone |
| Theory In Practice Third Eye Function |
| Thousand Leaves Blind Night Sorrow |
| Torchbearer Warnaments |
| Toxik World Circus |
| Unanimated In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead |
| Uncanny Splenium For Nyktophobia |
| Undead Corporation Gensoukyo Kara Chyou Koutetsu Jyuuteii Bakuon |
| Undead Corporation Mangetsu no Yoru ni Cyou Senritsuteki Tei Bakuon |
| Undead Corporation Oni Togizoushi |
| Undying This Day All Gods Die |
| Versailles Jubilee |
| Versailles Lyrical Sympathy |
| Whispered Thousand Swords |
| X Japan Vanishing Vision |
| X Japan Jealousy |
| X Japan Dahlia |
| 3.5 great |
| Ablaze My Sorrow If Emotions Still Burn |
| Overlooked mid-90's melodeath similar to the likes of early At the Gates-circa With Fear and Eucharist. |
| Abominant The Way After |
| Abysm (USA) Sol Invictus |
| Aeolian Echoes of the Future |
| Algaion Vox Clamentis |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amon Amarth Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds |
| Amorbital Invidia |
| Amorphis Privilege of Evil |
| Angra Cycles Of Pain |
| Another Dimension Immortal Black Chaos |
| Apophis Down in the Valley |
| Ares Kingdom Return to Dust |
| Arkona (RUS) Ot Serdtsa K Nebu |
| Armoured Angel Angel of the Sixth Order |
| Artillery When Death Comes |
| As Hope Dies As Hope Dies |
| Astralborne Across the Aeons |
| Astriaal Deception Revelation |
| Astriaal Renascent Misanthropy |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being |
| Atavistia Cosmic Warfare |
| Aurora (DNK) Eos |
| Prog-tinged Danish melancholic melodeath with some songs utilizing both male and female vocals (and some interesting vocal effects for the male vox). Also has a definitely 90's album cover. |
| Azure (SWE) Moonlight Legend |
| Azure (SWE) A Vicious Age Lasting |
| Baa Rhythm When a Tiger Makes Light of a Flock |
| Don't let the silly cover art and album concept about a sheep uprising against a troublesome tiger fool you, this is quality melodic death by way of Intestine Baalism (of which the project Baa Rhythm is named for) worship that can be easily enjoyed separately from the concept. |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Black Horizons Suicide Symphonies |
| Black Horizons A Dream's Funeral |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror |
| Bolt Thrower In Battle There Is No Law! |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Ceremonial Oath The Book of Truth |
| Ceremonial Oath Lost Name of God |
| Chepang Swatta |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood |
| Children of Bodom Hexed |
| Cirkeln The Primitive Covenant |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| Darkest Hour The Prophecy Fullfilled |
| Darkest Hour So Sedated, so Secure |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora |
| Dawn of Orion On Broken Wings |
| Dead To Fall Villainy & Virtue |
| Deadlock Wolves |
| Deathevokation The Chalice Of Ages |
| Deceased Supernatural Addiction |
| December Flower When All Life Ends... |
| Deformity Misanthrope |
| Demetori Sinen ni Nozomu ga Gotoshi |
| Despised Icon Beast |
| Despised Icon Purgatory |
| Desultory Counting Our Scars |
| Desultory Through Aching Aeons |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Dimension Zero Silent Night Fever |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid |
| Dio Sacred Heart |
| Disarmonia Mundi Nebularium |
| Dismember Massive Killing Capacity |
| Dismember The God That Never Was |
| Dismember Pieces |
| Dissection Into Infinite Obscurity |
| Dissection Where Dead Angels Lie |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Ebony Tears Tortura Insomniae |
| Ebony Tears' debut may often feel a tad derivative compared to their fellow Swedish peers and some vocal decisions (mostly in the clean vox) may seem questionable, though the use of female vocals and violins help to keep things somewhat interesting. |
| Elvenking Heathenreel |
| Eternal Autumn The Werewolf Diaries |
| Eternal Lies Spiritual Deception |
| Fates Warning Inside Out |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Finntroll Midnattens Widunder |
| Flames of Betrayal The Rain Reeks of Heaven |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Frozen Dawn The Decline of the Enlightened Gods |
| Galneryus Reincarnation |
| Gamma Ray Majestic |
| GridLink Amber Gray |
| GridLink Orphan |
| Heaven Shall Burn In Battle There Is No Law |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto |
| Heaven Shall Burn vs. Caliban The Split Program |
| Helloween Master of the Rings |
| Helloween Better Than Raw |
| Helstar Burning Star |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| Horrified Eternal God |
| Huronian Beyond Frozen Heights |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony |
| Hypocrisy The Fourth Dimension |
| Iced Earth Dystopia |
| Iced Earth The Dark Saga |
| Iced Earth Iced Earth |
| Imaginary Flying Machines Princess Ghibli |
A collection of songs from various Studio Ghibli films performed by a handful of melodeath/metalcore bands (Disarmonia Mundi and Blood Stain Child being the more notable names of the bunch). The concept is certainly interesting, and the music ain't too shabby either. Some covers work out better than others (my personal favorite being Disarmonia Mundi's rendition of "Kimi wo Nosete" from Castle in the Sky) and it works better in smaller doses, but for the concept alone, it's definitely worth at least a curious peek.
Also, if you ever wanted to hear a melodeath cover of "Take Me Home, Country Roads", this album has it. It's just fun. |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls |
| Iron Savior Dark Assault |
| James LaBrie Elements Of Persuasion |
| Judas Priest Ram It Down |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield |
| Kalmah For the Revolution |
| Kalmah Kalmah |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage: Remastered |
| Kvaen The Funeral Pyre |
| Lord Belial Unholy Crusade |
| Lovebites Judgement Day |
| Maleficarum Across the Heavens |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Mercenary Through Our Darkest Days |
| Mercenary Architect of Lies |
| Mercenary Everblack |
| Starting as a straightforward melodeath band with First Breath, Mercenary's Everblack sees the band beginning to turn into the melodic death/power metal hybrid they're known for with the addition of clean vocals alongside harsh vocals. While not quite as polished as 11 Dreams, it's still a great transitional album that bridges the gap between the two rather nicely. |
| Ministry Rio Grande Blood |
| Ministry Houses Of The Molé |
| Miseration Tragedy Has Spoken |
| Miseration Black Miracles And Dark Wonders |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| Mork Gryning Hinsides vrede |
| Mork Gryning Maelstrom Chaos |
| Naglfar Vittra |
| Neaera Armamentarium |
| Neaera Let The Tempest Come |
| Necrophobic Hrimthursum |
| Necrophobic The Third Antichrist |
| Necrophobic Mark of the Necrogram |
| Necrophobic Spawned by Evil |
| Necrowretch Swords of Dajjal |
| Night in Gales Sylphlike |
| Nightfall Parade into Centuries |
| Nightrage Sweet Vengeance |
| No One Knows What The Dead Think No One Knows What The Dead Think |
| Noctes Pandemonic Requiem |
| Noumena Absence |
| Solid Finnish melodeath with great melodies and a mixture of clean and harsh vocals from both male and female vocalists. |
| Noumena Anatomy of Life |
| October Tide Grey Dawn |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift |
| Overkill Under the Influence |
| Prayer for Cleansing Rain In Endless Fall |
| Prayer for Cleansing The Tragedy |
| Prophanity Stronger Than Steel |
| Raunchy Velvet Noise |
| Red Sky Knife Behind the Smile |
| Rhapsody of Fire Rain of a Thousand Flames |
| Running Wild Masquerade |
| Sarcasm (SWE) Esoteric Tales of the Unserene |
| Sarcasm (SWE) Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire |
| Scum (FIN) Mother Nature |
| Scum (FIN) Purple Dreams and Magic Poems |
| Shadow Shadow |
| Shadow Forever Chaos |
| Shadows Fall Somber Eyes to the Sky |
| Shadows Fall Of One Blood |
| Shiina Ringo Hi Izuru Tokoro |
| Sinira The Everlorn |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost |
| Skyclad Jonah's Ark |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Solution .45 Nightmares in the Waking State, Pt. 2 |
| Stormkeep Galdrum |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Stratovarius Elements, Pt. 1 |
| Swordmaster Wraths of Time |
| Sybreed God Is an Automaton |
| Taetre The Art |
| Relatively overlooked blackened melodic death metal. Raspy vocals, great melodies and solid drumming. |
| Testament Practice What You Preach |
| Testament The Gathering |
| Testament Low |
| The Arcane Order Distortions from Cosmogony |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal |
| The Chasm Procreation of the Inner Temple |
| The Chasm From the Lost Years |
| The Chasm Reaching the Veil of Death |
| The Crown Hell Is Here |
| The Crown Crowned in Terror |
| The Darksend Unsunned |
| The Darksend Antichrist in Excelsis |
| The Elysian Fields We...The Enlightened |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost |
| The Stranded Survivalism Boulevard |
| Theocracy Mosaic |
| Theory In Practice Colonizing The Sun |
| Thulcandra Ascension Lost |
| Thulcandra Under a Frozen Sun |
| Torchbearer Yersinia Pestis |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Undead Corporation Gokutetsu |
| Undying At History's End |
| Vaguedge Dies for Dies Irae Clamantes Monimentum Mortis |
A solid melodeath offering from Imperial Circus Dead Decadence/Another Stream alumni Rib:y(uhki), Hull and KIM that, while is more subdued and accessible, still holds up on its own merits.
Also props for starting with a Blinded by Fear interpolation in the opener. |
| Violation Beyond The Graves |
| Void (USA-LA) Horrors of Reality |
| Warmen Here for None |
| Without Grief Deflower |
| Xoth Exogalactic |
| 3.0 good |
| Ages (SWE) Uncrown |
| Algaion Oimai Algeiou |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger |
| Apophis Gateway to the Underworld |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Ares Kingdom Incendiary |
| Arsis United in Regret |
| Artillery B.A.C.K. |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself |
| Aurora (DNK) Sadiam |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Black Reaper (CHN) Celestial Descension |
| Fairly decent meloblack, but as TheSpirit (RIP) puts it, a lack of identity with being a carbon copy of Dissection and songs dragging out for longer than they should does put a hamper on it. The Dismember cover was a neat surprise, though. Overall worth it for fans of this sound, but not much else to offer for others. |
| Black Sabbath Tyr |
| Blood Stain Child Idolator |
| Blood Stain Child Epsilon |
| Carcass Torn Arteries |
| Chthonic Mirror Of Retribution |
| Contempt of the Light In the Darkest of Times |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Dark Tranquillity Enter Suicidal Angels |
| Darkest Hour The Misanthrope |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance |
| Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal |
| Dead To Fall Everything I Touch Falls To Pieces |
| Deadlock Manifesto |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Devin Townsend Empath |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence |
| Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth |
| Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Ebony Tears Handful of Nothing |
| If their first album felt derivative at times, Ebony Tears decide to go full on Slaughter-era At the Gates here, right down to the similar vocals. Not a bad album, but loses a lot of the more interesting stuff from their debut. |
| Edge of Sanity Infernal |
| Edguy Kingdom of Madness |
| Enforsaken The Forever Endeavor |
| Ensiferum From Afar |
| Enter My Silence Remotecontrolled Scythe |
| Solid Finnish Gothenburg-styled melodeath, nothing more, nothing less. There isn't anything here that reinvents the wheel in particular for those not already well-acquainted with the genre, but melodeath fans are sure to find a good time here with its accessible production and solid riffs. |
| Enter My Silence Coordinate D1SA5T3R |
| Eternal Lies Burning the Nest |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Fear Factory Transgression |
| Gamma Ray Land of the Free II |
| Grief of Emerald Nightspawn |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice |
| Heidevolk De Strijdlust Is Geboren |
| Helloween Rabbit Don't Come Easy |
| Hypocrisy Into the Abyss |
| Imaginary Flying Machines Princess Ghibli II |
| Mostly more of the same from the first Princess Ghibli compilation, with some slight differences. Just about every band from Princess Ghibli I returns along with two new bands in Rise to Fall and The Stranded (although The Stranded being new is a bit of a stretch considering it's just a Disarmonia Mundi side project). There's also more of an electronic influence here that's not limited to Blood Stain Child being on the album, which can be hit or miss for some. And lastly, there doesn't seem to be as many highs as on the previous compilation, but there's still a decent cover here and there. Overall, it's only really worth it if you liked the first Princess Ghibli. |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| Judas Priest British Steel |
| Judas Priest Rocka Rolla |
| Kamelot Siege Perilous |
| Siege Perilous, Kamelot's first outing with renowned vocalist Roy Khan, is perhaps the best of Kamelot's first efforts, however, it's bogged down by weaker songwriting than later albums and a less than stellar production that doesn't really use Khan's voice to the fullest. Regardless, it's still an album worth looking into to see how Khan got his start with the band, and how much he and the rest of Kamelot would improve from here. |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| Kvaen The Great Below |
| Leukemia Grey-Flannel Souled |
| A very strange album, in that it just might be the earliest example of melodic metalcore, seemingly created unintentionally by an obscure Swedish death metal band. What is displayed here isn't really too notable aside from that fact, but it is quite the interesting album regardless. |
| Lord Belial Kiss the Goat |
| Lothlorien The Primal Event |
Symphonic-tinged Gothenburg style melodeath, Lothlorien's The Primal Event features synths aplenty and guitar leads that wouldn't be out of place on an early In Flames album. While the drums could use a bit more impact and the symphonic elements can be a bit too much sometimes, The Primal Event is still a decent, overlooked album.
Unfortunately, the chance to see if they would improve would be lost as their debut would also be their last. |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Mercenary First Breath |
| Mercenary's first outing is certainly an interesting start, unlike their next few albums that have a mixture of melodeath and power metal, this one's mostly pure melodeath. It's a fairly decent start, just don't expect anything like their other stuff. |
| Ministry The Last Sucker |
| Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul |
| Moaning Wind Visions In Fire |
| While not being particularly innovative, Visions In Fire is still a worthwhile listen for those looking for more melancholic Gothenburg-styled melodeath. |
| Mork Gryning Pieces of Primal Expressionism |
| myGRAIN myGRAIN |
| myGRAIN Orbit Dance |
| Naglfar Diabolical |
| Naglfar Sheol |
| Necromicon Realm of Silence |
| Necrophobic Bloodhymns |
| Necrophobic Death to All |
| Necrophobic Dawn of the Damned |
| Night in Gales Thunderbeast |
| Night in Gales The Last Sunsets |
| Night in Gales Dawnlight Garden |
| Nightrage Descent Into Chaos |
| Ninkharsag The Dread March Of Solemn Gods |
| Nivlhel Nivlhel |
| Noctes Vexilla Regis Prodeunt Inferni |
| Noumena Death Walks With Me |
| Oathean The Eyes of Tremendous Sorrow |
| Omnium Gatherum Stuck Here on Snakes Way |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe |
| Running Wild The Rivalry |
| Sacramentum Thy Black Destiny |
| Sarcasm (SWE) Stellar Stream Obscured |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions |
| Scheitan Travelling in Ancient Times |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance |
| Shiina Ringo Sandokushi |
| Sins of Omission Flesh On Your Bones |
| Slayer Divine Intervention |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Solution .45 Nightmares In The Waking State Pt. 1 |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime |
| Straightout Forsaken Upon Nemesis |
| Testament Souls of Black |
| Testament The Ritual |
| The Elysian Fields Adelain |
| The Everdawn Poems - Burn the Past |
| At the Gates-worship, particularly from the Slaughter of the Soul era. While Poems - Burn the Past likely won't impress everyone, it's worth a peek at the very least for fans of the aforementioned album. |
| The Everdawn Opera of the Damned |
| Thorium Oceans Of Blasphemy |
| Thulcandra A Dying Wish |
| Thulcandra Fallen Angel's Dominion |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man |
| Toxik Dis Morta |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno |
| Tryglav The Ritual |
| Unanimated Victory in Blood |
| Unanimated In the Light of Darkness |
| Unmoored Kingdoms of Greed |
| With their second outing, Unmoored thankfully ditch the groove metal-tinged melodeath of Cimmerian and opt for straightforward death metal with elements of not only melodeath but also prog. While not quite reaching the highs of their classic Indefinite Soul-Extension, Kingdoms of Greed offers a glimpse into the bright future that the band would eventually attain. |
| Vanity (GRC) Enslaved |
| White Zombie La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1 |
| Wintersun Time I |
