Best Melodic Death Metal Bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Arch Enemy 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Burning Bridges (1999) #30 Rise of the Tyrant (2007) #83 Wages of Sin (2001) #235
2	Dark Tranquillity 1991, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Damage Done (2002) #18 Fiction (2007) #45 Where Death Is Most Alive (2009) [Video]
3	In Flames 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Alternative Metal	Colony (1999) #172 The Jester Race (1996) #213 Whoracle (1997) #271
4	Children of Bodom 1997, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal	Hate Crew Deathroll (2003) #114 Follow the Reaper (2000) #173 Hatebreeder (1999) #207
5	Omnium Gatherum 1996, Finland Melodic Death Metal	New World Shadows (2011) #21 Beyond (2013) #140 Grey Heavens (2016) #903
6	Kalmah 1998, Finland Melodic Death Metal	12 Gauge (2010) #74 The Black Waltz (2006) #405 They Will Return (2002) #437
7	Insomnium 1997, Finland Melodic Death Metal	Winter's Gate (2016) #41 Heart Like a Grave (2019) #230 One for Sorrow (2011) #315
8	Soilwork 1996, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Alternative Metal, Metalcore	The Living Infinite (2013) #833 Verkligheten (2019) #925 The Panic Broadcast (2010) #1027
9	Eternal Tears of Sorrow 1994, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	A Virgin and a Whore (2001) #153 Chaotic Beauty (2000) #309 Before the Bleeding Sun (2006) #767
10	Scar Symmetry 2004, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal	Holographic Universe (2008) #657 Morphogenesis (2008) [Single] The Unseen Empire (2011) #1319
11	Amon Amarth 1992, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Heavy Metal	Twilight of the Thunder God (2008) #396 With Oden on Our Side (2006) #813 Once Sent From the Golden Hall (1998) #1017
12	Heaven Shall Burn 1997, Germany Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Invictus (2010) #373 Iconoclast (2008) #1307 Veto (2013) #1449
13	Mors Principium Est 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal	...and Death said live (2012) #489 The Unborn (2005) #924 Dawn of the 5th Era (2014) #1039
14	Disarmonia Mundi 1999, Italy Melodic Death Metal	Fragments of D-Generation (2004) #430 Mind Tricks (2006) #472 Nebularium + the Restless Memoirs EP (2009) [Compilation]
15	Mercenary 1991, Denmark Melodic Death Metal	Architect of Lies (2008) #576 The Hours That Remain (2006) #635 Through Our Darkest Days (2013) #1247
16	At the Gates 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Slaughter of the Soul (1995) #222 The Red in the Sky Is Ours (1992) #1185 Terminal Spirit Disease (1994) #1861
17	Norther 1996, Finland Melodic Death Metal	Death Unlimited (2004) #950 Mirror of Madness (2003) #1201 Dreams of Endless War (2002) #1242
18	Wintersun 2003, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	Time I (2012) #193 The Forest Seasons (2017) #1251 Wintersun (2004) #1636
19	Shade Empire 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Industrial Death Metal, Symphonic Death Metal, Black Metal	Anti-Life Saviour (2017) [Single] Omega Arcane (2013) #348 Poetry of the Ill-Minded (2017) #698
20	In Mourning 2000, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Weight of Oceans (2012) #376 Monolith (2010) #508 Shrouded Divine (2008) #552
21	Method 2002, Korea Melodic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Abstract (2015) #1070 Warrior's Way (2013) [EP] #1554 Survival Ov the Fittest (2006) #1571
22	Blood Stain Child 2000, Japan Melodic Death Metal, Trance Metal	Mozaiq (2007) #1148 ε psilon (2011) #2215 Idolator (2005) #2282
23	Dark Lunacy 1997, Italy Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal, Gothic Metal, Doom Metal	The Diarist (2006) #548 Devoid (2000) #845 The Rain After the Snow (2016) #1033
24	Remnants of the Fallen 2009, Korea Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Shadow Walk (2016) #612 Perpetual Immaturity (REDUX 2013 Edition) (2013) [EP] #1259 Hate and Carrion (2020) [Single]
25	MyGrain 2004, Finland Melodic Death Metal	MyGrain (2011) #574 Orbit Dance (2006) #2034 Signs of Existence (2008) #2951
26	The Black Dahlia Murder 2001, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Metalcore, Blackened Metalcore, Thrash Metal	Nocturnal (2007) #1194 Everblack (2013) #1303 Ritual (2011) #2108
27	Be'lakor 2004, Australia Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Gothic Metal	Vessels (2016) #631 Stone's Reach (2009) #665 Of Breath and Bone (2012) #730
28	Eluveitie 2002, Switzerland Melodic Death Metal, Folk Metal	Slania (2008) #1375 Origins (2014) #2035 Helvetios (2012) #2689
29	Darkest Hour 1995, United States Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore Punk	Deliver Us (2007) #1149 Undoing Ruin (2005) #2342 Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation (2003)
30	Nightrage 2000, Greece Melodic Death Metal	A New Disease Is Born (2007) #1838 Descent Into Chaos (2005) #2086 Insidious (2011) #2646
31	Edge of Sanity 1989, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Crimson (1996) #167 Unorthodox (1992) #2211 Crimson II (2003) #3083
32	Hypocrisy 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	A Taste of Extreme Divinity (2009) #776 Virus (2005) #956 Osculum Obscenum (1993) #1713
33	The Agonist 2004, Canada Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Prisoners (2012) #1873 Eye of Providence (2015) #1923 Orphans (2019)
34	Dimension Zero 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Silent Night Fever (2002) #1411 This Is Hell (2003) #1681 He Who Shall Not Bleed (2007) #3084
35	The Haunted 1996, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal	One Kill Wonder (2003) #1504 rEVOLVEr (2004) #1648 Unseen (2011)
36	Gyze 2011, Japan Melodic Death Metal	Northern Hell Song (2017) #1170 Fascinating Violence (2013) #1721 Black Bride (2015) #2275
37	Forest of Shadows 1997, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Doom Metal	Where Dreams Turn to Dust (2001) [EP] #403 Among the Dormant Watchers (2018) Six Waves of Woe (2008) #2580
38	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1299 Elements of the Infinite (2014) #2174 Apoptosis (2019)
39	Skyfire 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Power Metal	Spectral (2004) #3239 Liberation in Death (2017) [EP] Esoteric (2009) #3531
40	The Unguided 2010, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Melodic Metalcore, Alternative Metal	Phoenix Down (2012) [Single] Hell Frost (2011) #2312 Inception (2013) [Single]

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