Best Melodic Death Metal Bands

127 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Arch Enemy 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Burning Bridges (1999) #28 Rise of the Tyrant (2007) #78 Wages of Sin (2001) #243
2	Dark Tranquillity 1991, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Damage Done (2002) #18 Fiction (2007) #48 Atoma (2016) #167
3	In Flames 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Alternative Metal	Colony (1999) #156 The Jester Race (1996) #219 Whoracle (1997) #279
4	Children of Bodom 1997, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal	Hate Crew Deathroll (2003) #107 Follow the Reaper (2000) #201 Hatebreeder (1999) #202
5	Omnium Gatherum 1996, Finland Melodic Death Metal	New World Shadows (2011) #22 Beyond (2013) #149 Grey Heavens (2016) #872
6	Kalmah 1998, Finland Melodic Death Metal	12 Gauge (2010) #75 The Black Waltz (2006) #371 They Will Return (2002) #400
7	Soilwork 1996, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Alternative Metal, Metalcore	The Living Infinite (2013) #804 Verkligheten (2019) #921 The Panic Broadcast (2010) #976
8	Insomnium 1997, Finland Melodic Death Metal	Winter's Gate (2016) #39 One for Sorrow (2011) #294 Above the Weeping World (2006) #333
9	Eternal Tears of Sorrow 1994, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	A Virgin and a Whore (2001) #125 Chaotic Beauty (2000) #278 Before the Bleeding Sun (2006) #833
10	Scar Symmetry 2004, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal	Holographic Universe (2008) #627 Morphogenesis (2008) [Single] The Unseen Empire (2011) #1273
11	Amon Amarth 1992, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Heavy Metal	Twilight of the Thunder God (2008) #384 With Oden on Our Side (2006) #789 Once Sent From the Golden Hall (1998) #1563
12	Heaven Shall Burn 1997, Germany Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore	Invictus (2010) #357 Iconoclast (2008) #1263 Veto (2013) #1391
13	Mors Principium Est 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal	...and Death said live (2012) #463 The Unborn (2005) #891 Dawn of the 5th Era (2014) #1033
14	Disarmonia Mundi 1999, Italy Melodic Death Metal	Fragments of D-Generation (2004) #363 Mind Tricks (2006) #450 Nebularium + the Restless Memoirs EP (2009) [Compilation]
15	Mercenary 1991, Denmark Melodic Death Metal	Architect of Lies (2008) #547 The Hours That Remain (2006) #596 Through Our Darkest Days (2013) #1193
16	Norther 1996, Finland Melodic Death Metal	Death Unlimited (2004) #908 Mirror of Madness (2003) #1095 Dreams of Endless War (2002) #1188
17	At the Gates 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Slaughter of the Soul (1995) #258 The Red in the Sky Is Ours (1992) #1507 Terminal Spirit Disease (1994) #1793
18	Wintersun 2003, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	Time I (2012) #187 The Forest Seasons (2017) #1197 Wintersun (2004) #1549
19	Shade Empire 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Industrial Death Metal, Symphonic Death Metal, Black Metal	Anti-Life Saviour (2017) [Single] Omega Arcane (2013) #334 Poetry of the Ill-Minded (2017) #755
20	In Mourning 2000, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Weight of Oceans (2012) #360 Monolith (2010) #498 Shrouded Divine (2008) #522
21	Method 2002, Korea Melodic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Survival Ov the Fittest (2006) #1456 Warrior's Way (2013) [EP] #1495 Abstract (2015) #1591
22	Dark Lunacy 1997, Italy Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal, Gothic Metal, Doom Metal	The Diarist (2006) #495 Devoid (2000) #727 The Rain After the Snow (2016) #980
23	Blood Stain Child 2000, Japan Melodic Death Metal, Trance Metal	Mozaiq (2007) #1099 Idolator (2005) #2202 ε psilon (2011) #2244
24	MyGrain 2004, Finland Melodic Death Metal	MyGrain (2011) #546 Orbit Dance (2006) #1969 Signs of Existence (2008) #2865
25	The Black Dahlia Murder 2001, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Metalcore, Blackened Metalcore, Thrash Metal	Everblack (2013) #1242 Nocturnal (2007) #1577 Ritual (2011) #2087
26	Be'lakor 2004, Australia Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Gothic Metal	Vessels (2016) #591 Stone's Reach (2009) #636 Of Breath and Bone (2012) #708
27	Remnants of the Fallen 2009, Korea Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Shadow Walk (2016) #581 Perpetual Immaturity (REDUX 2013 Edition) (2013) [EP] #1274 Versus (2013) [Split]
28	Eluveitie 2002, Switzerland Melodic Death Metal, Folk Metal	Slania (2008) #1316 Origins (2014) #1970 Helvetios (2012) #2598
29	Darkest Hour 1995, United States Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore Punk	Deliver Us (2007) #1100 Undoing Ruin (2005) #2430 Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation (2003)
30	Hypocrisy 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	A Taste of Extreme Divinity (2009) #750 Virus (2005) #914 Osculum Obscenum (1993) #1665
31	Nightrage 2000, Greece Melodic Death Metal	A New Disease Is Born (2007) #1654 Descent Into Chaos (2005) #2127 Insidious (2011) #2564
32	Edge of Sanity 1989, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Crimson (1996) #220 Unorthodox (1992) #2214 The Spectral Sorrows (1993)
33	The Agonist 2004, Canada Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Prisoners (2012) #1802 Eye of Providence (2015) #1855 Lullabies for a Dormant Mind (2009) #3876
34	Dimension Zero 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Silent Night Fever (2002) #1356 This Is Hell (2003) #1628 He Who Shall Not Bleed (2007) #2996
35	Gyze 2011, Japan Melodic Death Metal	Northern Hell Song (2017) #1120 Fascinating Violence (2013) #1649 Black Bride (2015) #2197
36	Forest of Shadows 1997, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Doom Metal	Where Dreams Turn to Dust (2001) [EP] #417 Among the Dormant Watchers (2018) Six Waves of Woe (2008) #2498
37	The Haunted 1996, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal	One Kill Wonder (2003) #1453 rEVOLVEr (2004) #1592 Unseen (2011)
38	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1240 Elements of the Infinite (2014) #2108 Apoptosis (2019)
39	Skyfire 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Power Metal	Spectral (2004) #3148 Liberation in Death (2017) [EP] Esoteric (2009) #3422
40	The Unguided 2010, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Metalcore, Alternative Metal	Phoenix Down (2012) [Single] Hell Frost (2011) #2233 Inception (2013) [Single]
41	Anterior United Kingdom Melodic Death Metal	Echoes for the Fallen (2011) #942 This Age of Silence (2007) #1139
42	Bloodshot Dawn 2003, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Bloodshot Dawn (2012) #1228 Demons (2014) #1239 Reanimation (2018)
43	Parasite Inc. 2007, Germany Melodic Death Metal	Time Tears Down (2013) #452 Dead and Alive (2018) Parasite Inc. (2009) [Demo]
44	Before the Dawn 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Gothic Metal	Rise of the Phoenix (2012) #1123 My Darkness (2003) Deathstar Rising (2011) #3752
45	Anal Funeral 2006, Korea Melodic Death Metal	아주 커다란 양철이의 빚 (The Yang-Chul's Tremendous Debt) (2015) [Demo]
46	Solution .45 2007, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	For Aeons Past (2010) #1608 Perfecting the Void (2015) [Single] Clandestinity Now (2009) [Single]
47	Starkill 2012, United States Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Black Metal, Power Metal	Fires of Life (2013) #2130 Virus of the Mind (2014) Shadow Sleep (2016)
48	Deals Death 2008, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Point Zero Solution (2013) #1719 Elite (2012) #1924 Internal Demons (2009) #3610
49	Ebony Tears 1996, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	A Handful of Nothing (1999) #1800 Tortura Insomniae (1997) #2972 Evil As Hell (2001)
50	Naildown 2005, Finland Melodic Death Metal	World Domination (2005) #1362 Dreamcrusher (2007) #2464

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