Best Melodic Death Metal Bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Arch Enemy 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Burning Bridges (1999) #36 Rise of the Tyrant (2007) #85 Wages of Sin (2001) #246
2	Dark Tranquillity 1991, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Damage Done (2002) #17 Fiction (2007) #44 Atoma (2016) #189
3	In Flames 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Alternative Metal	Colony (1999) #171 The Jester Race (1996) #203 Whoracle (1997) #285
4	Children of Bodom 1997, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal	Hate Crew Deathroll (2003) #112 Follow the Reaper (2000) #166 Hatebreeder (1999) #223
5	Omnium Gatherum 1996, Finland Melodic Death Metal	New World Shadows (2011) #21 Beyond (2013) #144 Grey Heavens (2016) #833
6	Kalmah 1998, Finland Melodic Death Metal	12 Gauge (2010) #77 The Black Waltz (2006) #402 They Will Return (2002) #458
7	Insomnium 1997, Finland Melodic Death Metal	Winter's Gate (2016) #42 Heart Like a Grave (2019) #181 One for Sorrow (2011) #278
8	Soilwork 1996, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Alternative Metal, Metalcore	The Living Infinite (2013) #736 The Panic Broadcast (2010) #923 Verkligheten (2019) #942
9	Eternal Tears of Sorrow 1994, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	A Virgin and a Whore (2001) #160 Chaotic Beauty (2000) #309 Before the Bleeding Sun (2006) #783
10	Scar Symmetry 2004, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal	Holographic Universe (2008) #686 Morphogenesis (2008) [Single] The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity) (2014) #1315
11	Amon Amarth 1992, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Heavy Metal	Twilight of the Thunder God (2008) #393 With Oden on Our Side (2006) #795 Once Sent From the Golden Hall (1998) #1047
12	Heaven Shall Burn 1997, Germany Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Invictus (2010) #387 Of Truth and Sacrifice (2020) #1272 Iconoclast (2008) #1335
13	Mors Principium Est 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal	...and Death said live (2012) #494 The Unborn (2005) #941 Dawn of the 5th Era (2014) #1061
14	Disarmonia Mundi 1999, Italy Melodic Death Metal	Fragments of D-Generation (2004) #453 Mind Tricks (2006) #506 Nebularium + the Restless Memoirs EP (2009) [Compilation]
15	Mercenary 1991, Denmark Melodic Death Metal	Architect of Lies (2008) #568 The Hours That Remain (2006) #659 Through Our Darkest Days (2013) #1276
16	At the Gates 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Slaughter of the Soul (1995) #227 The Red in the Sky Is Ours (1992) #1203 Terminal Spirit Disease (1994) #1699
17	Norther 1996, Finland Melodic Death Metal	Death Unlimited (2004) #966 Mirror of Madness (2003) #1232 Dreams of Endless War (2002) #1274
18	Wintersun 2003, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	Time I (2012) #167 The Forest Seasons (2017) #1281 Wintersun (2004) #1679
19	Shade Empire 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Industrial Death Metal, Symphonic Death Metal, Black Metal	Anti-Life Saviour (2017) [Single] Omega Arcane (2013) #355 Poetry of the Ill-Minded (2017) #719
20	In Mourning 2000, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Weight of Oceans (2012) #340 Monolith (2010) #489 Shrouded Divine (2008) #504
21	Method 2002, Korea Melodic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Abstract (2015) #1091 Survival Ov the Fittest (2006) #1605 Warrior's Way (2013) [EP] #1711
22	Blood Stain Child 2000, Japan Melodic Death Metal, Trance Metal	Mozaiq (2007) #1087 ε psilon (2011) #2185 Idolator (2005) #2334
23	Dark Lunacy 1997, Italy Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal, Gothic Metal, Doom Metal	The Diarist (2006) #564 Devoid (2000) #874 Forget Me Not (2003) #1114
24	Be'lakor 2004, Australia Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Gothic Metal	Vessels (2016) #501 Stone's Reach (2009) #574 Of Breath and Bone (2012) #647
25	Remnants of the Fallen 2009, Korea Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Shadow Walk (2016) #637 Perpetual Immaturity (REDUX 2013 Edition) (2013) [EP] #1285 Hate and Carrion (2020) [Single]
26	MyGrain 2004, Finland Melodic Death Metal	MyGrain (2011) #594 Orbit Dance (2006) #2094 Signs of Existence (2008) #3010
27	The Black Dahlia Murder 2001, United States Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Nocturnal (2007) #731 Everblack (2013) #1328 Ritual (2011) #2175
28	Eluveitie 2002, Switzerland Melodic Death Metal, Folk Metal	Slania (2008) #1406 Origins (2014) #2095 Helvetios (2012) #2752
29	Edge of Sanity 1989, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Crimson (1996) #136 Unorthodox (1992) #2077 Crimson II (2003) #3153
30	Darkest Hour 1995, United States Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore Punk	Deliver Us (2007) #1168 Undoing Ruin (2005) #2641 Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation (2003)
31	Nightrage 2000, Greece Melodic Death Metal	A New Disease Is Born (2007) #1881 Descent Into Chaos (2005) #2151 Insidious (2011) #2708
32	Hypocrisy 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	A Taste of Extreme Divinity (2009) #798 Virus (2005) #975 Osculum Obscenum (1993) #1624
33	The Agonist 2004, Canada Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Prisoners (2012) #1913 Eye of Providence (2015) #1972 Orphans (2019)
34	Gyze 2011, Japan Melodic Death Metal	Northern Hell Song (2017) #1216 Fascinating Violence (2013) #1954 Black Bride (2015) #3114
35	Dimension Zero 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Silent Night Fever (2002) #1441 This Is Hell (2003) #1728 He Who Shall Not Bleed (2007) #3156
36	Forest of Shadows 1997, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Doom Metal	Where Dreams Turn to Dust (2001) [EP] #356 Among the Dormant Watchers (2018) Six Waves of Woe (2008) #2642
37	The Haunted 1996, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal	One Kill Wonder (2003) #1543 rEVOLVEr (2004) #1691 Unseen (2011)
38	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1325 Elements of the Infinite (2014) #2228 Apoptosis (2019)
39	Skyfire 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Power Metal	Spectral (2004) #3320 Liberation in Death (2017) [EP] Esoteric (2009) #3617
40	The Unguided 2010, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Metalcore, Alternative Metal	Phoenix Down (2012) [Single] Hell Frost (2011) #2362 Inception (2013) [Single]

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