History Main / MelodicDeathMetal

* Upon Stone

* Thirdmoon

From one perspective, melodeath was created by the British band Music/Carcass; however, it's unclear whether they were truly the first. Whatever your stance, everyone can agree that the style was popularised by three bands from Gothenburg, Sweden: Music/InFlames, Music/AtTheGates, and Music/DarkTranquillity. The success of these three bands resulted in a number of mainly Scandinavian bands that took on the style, while several bands from Finland (Music/ChildrenOfBodom, Norther, and Kalmah) created a flashier, more bombastic style that borrowed heavily from power metal and helped influence both that genre and a host of other, newer melodic death acts.

From one perspective, melodeath was created by the British band Music/Carcass; however, it's unclear whether they were truly the first. Whatever your stance, everyone can agree that the style was popularised by three bands from Gothenburg, Sweden: Music/InFlames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity. The success of these three bands resulted in a number of mainly Scandinavian bands that took on the style, while several bands from Finland (Music/ChildrenOfBodom, Norther, and Kalmah) created a flashier, more bombastic style that borrowed heavily from power metal and helped influence both that genre and a host of other, newer melodic death acts.

From one perspective, melodeath was created by the British band Music/Carcass; however, it's unclear whether they were truly the first. Whatever your stance, everyone can agree that the style was popularised by three bands from Gothenburg, Sweden: In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity. The success of these three bands resulted in a number of mainly Scandinavian bands that took on the style, while several bands from Finland (Music/ChildrenOfBodom, Norther, and Kalmah) created a flashier, more bombastic style that borrowed heavily from power metal and helped influence both that genre and a host of other, newer melodic death acts.

From one perspective, melodeath was created by the British band [[Music/Carcass Carcass]]; however, it's unclear whether they were truly the first. Whatever your stance, everyone can agree that the style was popularised by three bands from Gothenburg, Sweden: In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity. The success of these three bands resulted in a number of mainly Scandinavian bands that took on the style, while several bands from Finland (Music/ChildrenOfBodom, Norther, and Kalmah) created a flashier, more bombastic style that borrowed heavily from power metal and helped influence both that genre and a host of other, newer melodic death acts.

From one perspective, melodeath was created by the British band [[Carcass]]; however, it's unclear whether they were truly the first. Whatever your stance, everyone can agree that the style was popularised by three bands from Gothenburg, Sweden: In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity. The success of these three bands resulted in a number of mainly Scandinavian bands that took on the style, while several bands from Finland (Music/ChildrenOfBodom, Norther, and Kalmah) created a flashier, more bombastic style that borrowed heavily from power metal and helped influence both that genre and a host of other, newer melodic death acts.

From one perspective, melodeath was created by the British band Carcass; however, it's unclear whether they were truly the first. Whatever your stance, everyone can agree that the style was popularised by three bands from Gothenburg, Sweden: In Flames, At the Gates, and Dark Tranquillity. The success of these three bands resulted in a number of mainly Scandinavian bands that took on the style, while several bands from Finland (Music/ChildrenOfBodom, Norther, and Kalmah) created a flashier, more bombastic style that borrowed heavily from power metal and helped influence both that genre and a host of other, newer melodic death acts.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Music/{{Hypocrisy}}, Music/{{Arsis}}, [=DevilDriver=], Eyeconoclast, Music/HeavenShallBurn, Music/FleshgodApocalypse (as of ''Agony''), Music/{{Kataklysm}} (on later albums), Music/AtTheGates, Music/{{Revocation}}, Music/{{Carcass}} (''Heartwork'' onward), Johan Liiva-era Music/ArchEnemy, and Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder are this to other bands in the genre thanks to a greater death metal slant.

* Music/ArchEnemy (Notable for - eventually - having a female singer doing growling vocals.)

+ DeathMetal, NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal

+ ThrashMetal, BlackMetal, PowerMetal, SpeedMetal, ProgressiveMetal, HardcorePunk, HardRock, PostRock {{Metalcore}} (in later bands)

+ ThrashMetal, BlackMetal, PowerMetal, SpeedMetal, HardcorePunk, HardRock