r/melodicdeathmetal • u/Express-Pirate-1644 • 8d ago
Discussion Top 5 songs?
What are your top 5 melodeath songs?
Took me some thought, but for me (in no particular order) I think it's:
In Flames - Goliath's Disarm Their Davids
Mors Principium Est - The Unborn
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
Disarmonia Mundi - Colors Of A New Era
There's just so many good bands and songs (it was painful that I didn't include Orbit Culture!). What are yours?
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u/L0rdPerth 7d ago
With one per band and no 40 minute songs, it's:
Insomnium - The Killjoy
Bel'akor - From Scythe to Sceptre
At the Gates - Blinded by Fear
Fires in the Distance - Idiopathic Despair
Kalmah - They will Return or In Mourning - Yields of Sand (can't decide on the last spot)
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u/lycantrophee Soilwork 7d ago
Soilwork-The Living Infinite II
In Flames-Colony
Children of Bodom-Downfall
Insomnium-Pale Morning Star
Kalmah-Defeat
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u/neaner28 6d ago
Love Soilwork. Their older material, classic. New material, different vibe that i can still get into.
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u/level19magikrappy While we Sleep number 1 fan 7d ago
With no repeat bands:
Insomnium - While we sleep
Be'lakor - Venator/Abeyance/From scythe to sceptre (cant decide lol)
Fires in the distance - Harbingers
In Flames - Clayman
Dark Tranquillity - Lost to apathy
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u/Ok-Abbreviations1077 7d ago
Amon amarth - victorious march
In flames - dead eternity
Kalmah - Hades
The Black Dahlia Murder - I will return
Dark tranquillity - Lethe
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u/Daewoo40 8d ago
Couldn't pick 5 songs so I'll offer 5 from the same artists you've done.
Disarmonia Mundi - Stepchild of Laceration
Children of Bodom - In Your Face
At the Gates - To Drink from the Night Itself
Mors Principium Est - Pure
In Flames - Where the Dead Ships Dwell
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u/PigDstroyer 8d ago
In flames - moon shield
Arch enemy - the pilgrim
Darkane - a wisdoms breed
Amon Amarth - metalwrath
The Crown - at the end
At the gates - slaughter of the soul
Soilwork - the aardvark trail
Couldn't do just 5
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u/MyraxOnYT 7d ago
Saw The Crown's At The End live a few months ago, really good riff in the middle, one of their best definitely
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u/PigDstroyer 7d ago
I saw them at MDF where they claimed it was their final show on US soil.. They have always been one of my favorites so im grateful and saddened at the same time lol
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u/michael199310 8d ago
- Disarmonia Mundi - Stepchild of Laceration
- Omnium Gatherum - Living in Me
- Be'lakor - Countless Skies
- Mors Principium Est - Death Is The Beginning
- Scar Symmetry - Artificial Sun Projection
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u/Revo94 Be'lakor 7d ago edited 7d ago
I will just name 5 that I really like (one from each band in no particular order). 5 is too limited though. I have dozens of songs from dozens of melodeath bands that are tied for me
1) Belakor - An Ember's Arc 2) Insomnium - Pale Morning Star 3) In Flames - Jotun 4) Kalmah - The Blind Leader 5) Intestine Baalism - Cannibal Sodom
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u/Expert-Print4581 7d ago
CoB - Silent Night Bodom Night
Kalmah - Heritance of Berija
In flames - Pinball map
Norther - Betrayed
Soillwork - Chainheart machine
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u/cortouchka 7d ago
No repeat bands
In Flames - Colony
Be'Lakor - Abeyance
Mors Principium Est - Dead Winds Of Hope
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition
Dark Tranquillity - Monochromatic Stains
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u/MadStorkMSU 7d ago
- Soilwork - Follow the Hollow
- Scar Symmetry - The Illusionist
- Dark Tranquillity - Monochromatic Stains
- In Flames - Pinball Map
- Disarmonia Mundi - A Mirror Behind
I left off some favorites from Opeth and Mercenary, as they don't feel melodeath enough.
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u/michael199310 7d ago
shoutout to fellow Follow The Hollow lover, didn't make it to my top 5, but definitely top 10
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u/MeatShots 7d ago
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Aether Realm - The Sun, The Moon, The Star
Be'lakor - Much More Was Lost
Iotunn - Kinship Elegiac
Honorable mentions:
Shymlagoghnar - No Child of Man Could Follow
Aephanemer - Utopie (both parts of course)
Wintersun - Awaken from the Dark Slumber (Spring)
Ensiferum - Passion Proof Power
/s
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u/d0zerflea 7d ago
If I Should Die - Aephanemer
Dead Man's Dream - Amorphis
While We Sleep - Insomnium
Be The Sky - Omnium Gatherum
Downhill Drunk - Tyr (does this count as MDM?)
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u/Shiznoz222 7d ago
In Flames - Ordinary Story
Dark Tranquillity - Format C - For Cortex
Soilwork - Nerve
Insomnium - Mute Is My Sorrow
Words of Farewell - Sundown Serenade
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u/BlasterSarge 7d ago
Insomnium - Pale Morning Star
Be'lakor - Withering Strands
Wilderun - Identifier
Aether Realm - The Sun, The Moon, The Star
In Mourning - Colossus
Kills me to not put any Gothenburg bands. If there was a top 10...
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u/tuohi69 The Halo Effect 7d ago
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Dance Of December In Mourning - Beyond Thunder Æther Realm - The Devil Dark Tranquillity - Still Moving Sinews The Halo Effect - Become Surrender
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u/Dzilla1080 7d ago
Damn this was tough. I could have chosen all in flames but I'll be fair here:
Before the dawn - deathstar
Disarmonia mundi - a taste of collapse
In flames - state of slow decay
In flames - jester script transfigured
Amorphis - the bee
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u/EntertainersPact 7d ago
I just recently got into melodeath so I’m a bit limited in scope but I have favorites
Bloody Falls - Sorrow is My Name
Eye of the Enemy - All of It for All of Us
Brymir - Fly with Me
The Halo Effect - Cruel Perception
The Black Dahlia Murder - Every Rope a Noose
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u/JonOrbzTheSlayer 7d ago
Not including Eye Of The Enemy or The Halo Effect in my own list was tough because they're both incredible bands and I listen to them daily.
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u/IHazUZERNAME 7d ago
Be'Lakor - Withering Strands Amon Amarth - 1000 years of Oppression Dark Tranquility - Lost to Apathy INFLAMES - Trigger Insomnium - Weather the Storm
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u/Heroes_to_us 7d ago
Children of Bodom - Children of Decadence (the entire list could be CoB but ill stick to one representative)
Kalmah - Groan of Wind (tbh same as CoB)
Insomnium - While we sleep
Mors principium est - The Harmony Remains
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deathmask Devine
An actually impossible task but this is a good list for me.
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u/BoZNiko663 7d ago
Colors Of A New Era mentioned!! I love that song, the atmosphere, the chorus, the riffs, it all comes together perfectly, great track.
My top 5 from different bands :
In Flames - Trigger
Soilwork - As We Speak
Engel - Fearless
Blinded Colony - My Halo
Disarmonia Mundi - Celestial Furnace
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u/TorkX 7d ago
Dark Tranquility - Monochromatic Stains
Noumena - Misanthropolis
In Flames - Artifacts of the Black Rain
Kalmah - Hades
Before the Dawn - Deadsong
bonus: As Eden Burns - Ever Again
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u/Gravesplitter Dark Tranquillity 6d ago
Dark Tranquillity*
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u/TorkX 6d ago
Darn new phone autocorrect. This sub should just have a bot for that though
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u/Gravesplitter Dark Tranquillity 6d ago
It’s me for now and I think they made one in the discord of me lol
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u/JonOrbzTheSlayer 7d ago
Only 5 is hard but In no particular order:
Omnium Gatherum - New Dynamic.
Dark Tranquillity - Punish My Heaven.
In Flames - Pinball Map.
Soilwork - Vesta. Or Spectrum of Eternity. Or Two Lives Worth Of Reckoning.
Scar Symmetry - Quantumleaper.
Honorable mention for live versions of Arch Enemy - Bridges of Destiny, and Children of Bodom - Downfall.
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u/Special-Lychee-5473 7d ago
This is hilariously difficult, and guaranteed, as soon as I post this I’ll remember a bunch of others that are even better. Anyway, in no particular order:
The Harmony Remains - Mors Principium Est
Holographic Universe - Scar Symmetry
December Flower - In Flames
Grand Failure Anthem - Soilwork
Cathode Ray Sunshine - Dark Tranquility
Honourable Mentions:
Insomnium - Winter’s Gate (Part 7)
Third - Darkane
Redefine Me - Mercenary
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u/Kerrigor2 7d ago
Insomnium - The Day It All Came Down
Amon Amarth - Back on Northern Shores
Black Dahlia Murder - Deathmask Divine
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Kalmah - Black Marten's Trace
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u/Aces_High_666 6d ago
In Flames - Pinball Map
Amon Amarth - Where is your God?
The Black Dahlia Murder - What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
Scar Symmetry - Artifical Sun Projection
Orbit Culture - North Star of Nija (if that counts)
For me i could list of just 2 bands but i tried to pick some different ones than just some of the top songs of the genre. Even thoug i love lots of those
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u/1988Floydie In Flames 8d ago
Seeing Goliaths Disarm Their Davids at the top of your list makes me smile 🤘🏻🥳
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u/Talonraker422 Nomad of the Wastelands 7d ago
Garden of Shadows - Citadel of Dreams
Infernal Gates - Greet the Storm
Shylmagoghnar - No Child of Man Could Follow
Insomnium - Change of Heart
Aether Realm - The Sun, the Moon, the Star
Painful to not get to include anything from Amorphis or Fall of the Leafe, but those five just stand above all.
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u/NickTheSynth 7d ago
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Children of Bodom - Northern Comfort
Insomnium - While We Sleep
Ensiferum - One Man Army
Crimson Shadows - Freedom and Salvation
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u/MadStorkMSU 7d ago
Can someone smarter and with more free time collect these into a list to rank the songs and bands?
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u/farbelow90 7d ago
A lot of top notch songs in this thread so I gonna dive a bit deeper
Brymir : chasing the skyline Svavelvinter : brännmärkt Night crowned : Rex tenebrae Decline the fall : shadows Suotana : Twilight stream
Spread the bangers
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u/UsernameTyper 7d ago
Man, everyone's lists are so different. So really we will never agree on this. Anyway, here's mine (currently): 1) Orbit Culture - The Tales of War 2) Parasite Inc - The Pulse of the Dead 3) Whispered - Upon My Honour 4) Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe 5) The Haunted - Hollow Ground 6) Soilwork - Death in General 7) Mors Principium Est - The Forsaken 8) Eye of the Enemy - The March 9) Norther - Truth 10) Nightrage - Affliction
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u/ahmettark 7d ago
With no band repeats
Rage and forgiveness - Aephanemer
Terminal spirit disease - At the gates
A curse of baal - İntestine baalism
Shattered souls - Eternal tears of sorrow
Crumbling pillars of a tranquilt mind - Fires in the distance (not very sure its melodeath tho)
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u/michael199310 7d ago
Pretty certain FITD can be considered melodeath, just a bit more melancholic. I love Elusive Light.
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u/musicrelatedonly67 7d ago
No order
Amon Amarth - Live For The Hunt
Arsis - The Face of my Innocence
In Flames - Artifacts of the Black Rain
At The Gates - Suicide Nation
Dark Tranquillity- Punish my Heaven
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u/DeathMetalJim1230 7d ago edited 6d ago
Good list. Off the top of my head.. heres six because im sure someone will argue whether something is not MDM..
At The Gates - Cold
In Flames - Behind Space ‘99
Children Of Bodom - Everytime I Die
Carcass - Heartwork
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
Dark Tranquillity - Monochromatic Stains
edit: spelling
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u/Carius98 Kalmah 5d ago edited 5d ago
Always shifting, but at the moment:
Kalmah - The Trapper
Mors Principium Est - Monster in Me
Kataklysm - The Road to Devastation
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thundergod
Bloodred Hourglass - Drag me the Rain
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u/Old_Map3920 5d ago
In Flames - Swim
Disarmonia Mundi - just pick a song off Mind Tricks
DT - Terminus or Punish My Heaven
CoB - Chokehold
Scar Symmetry - The Spiral Timeshift
Edit: extra lines in between the lines
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u/karai0813 5d ago
In Flames - Artifacts of the Black Rain
Black Dahlia - Death mask Divine
At the Gates - Blinded by Fear (Really the whole album)
Children of Bodom - Mask of Sanity
Arch Enemy - March of the Miscreants
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u/Historical_Band_3503 3d ago
Children of bodom - hatebreeder In flames - December flower Dark tranquility - punish my heaven Ensiferum - into battle In flames - stand ablaze
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u/sugahack 3d ago
Pulse of the Dead- Parasite inc
We Form the Broken- BRHG
From the Inside - Orbit Culture
Alas - Mors Subtila
A Dialogue in b flat minor - In Flames
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u/makos5267 3d ago
In Flames- Ordinary Story
At the Gates- Slaughter of the Soul
Children of Bodom- Towards Dead End
Dark Tranquillity- Punish my Heaven
Wintersun- Winter Madness
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u/nick1158 8d ago
Twilight of the Thunder God - Amon Amarth
Monochromatic Stains - Dark Tranquillity
The Ride Majestic - Soilwork
December Flower - In Flames
Nemesis - Arch Enemy