Best Melodic Death Metal Bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Arch Enemy 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Burning Bridges (1999) #54 Rise of the Tyrant (2007) #106 Wages of Sin (2001) #271
2	Dark Tranquillity 1991, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Damage Done (2002) #18 Fiction (2007) #44 Atoma (2016) #225
3	In Flames 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Alternative Metal	Colony (1999) #183 The Jester Race (1996) #199 Whoracle (1997) #205
4	Children of Bodom 1997, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Power Metal	Hate Crew Deathroll (2003) #116 Follow the Reaper (2000) #159 Hatebreeder (1999) #216
5	Omnium Gatherum 1996, Finland Melodic Death Metal	New World Shadows (2011) #23 Beyond (2013) #184 Grey Heavens (2016) #906
6	Carcass 1986, United Kingdom Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Death 'n' Roll	Heartwork (1993) #130 Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious (1991) #329 Surgical Steel (2013) #337
7	Insomnium 1997, Finland Melodic Death Metal	Winter's Gate (2016) #52 Heart Like a Grave (2019) #235 One for Sorrow (2011) #341
8	Kalmah 1998, Finland Melodic Death Metal	12 Gauge (2010) #96 The Black Waltz (2006) #484 They Will Return (2002) #520
9	Amorphis 1990, Finland Progressive Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Silent Waters (2007) #428 Halo (2022) #489 Skyforger (2009) #562
10	Soilwork 1996, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Alternative Metal, Metalcore	Övergivenheten (2022) #709 The Living Infinite (2013) #801 Verkligheten (2019) #802
11	Eternal Tears of Sorrow 1994, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	A Virgin and a Whore (2001) #192 Chaotic Beauty (2000) #404 Before the Bleeding Sun (2006) #971
12	Persefone 2001, Andorra Progressive Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Aathma (2017) #120 Spiritual Migration (2013) #203 Shin-Ken (2009) #354
13	Amon Amarth 1992, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Twilight of the Thunder God (2008) #403 Once Sent from the Golden Hall (1998) #793 With Oden on Our Side (2006) #828
14	Scar Symmetry 2004, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal	Holographic Universe (2008) #772 Morphogenesis (2008) [Single] The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity) (2014) #1543
15	Heaven Shall Burn 1997, Germany Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Invictus (2010) #459 Iconoclast (2008) #1759 Veto (2013) #2205
16	Mors Principium Est 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal	...and Death said live (2012) #629 The Unborn (2005) #954 Dawn of the 5th Era (2014) #1196
17	At the Gates 1990, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Slaughter of the Soul (1995) #214 The Red in the Sky Is Ours (1992) #1888 At War with Reality (2014) #1918
18	Wintersun 2003, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	Time I (2012) #162 Wintersun (2004) #1313 The Forest Seasons (2017) #1479
19	Disarmonia Mundi 1999, Italy Melodic Death Metal	Fragments of D-Generation (2004) #395 Mind Tricks (2006) #597 Nebularium + the Restless Memoirs EP (2009) [Compilation]
20	In Mourning 2000, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Weight of Oceans (2012) #280 Monolith (2010) #560 Shrouded Divine (2008) #655
21	Mercenary 1991, Denmark Melodic Death Metal	Architect of Lies (2008) #644 The Hours That Remain (2006) #903 Through Our Darkest Days (2013) #1542
22	Norther 1996, Finland Melodic Death Metal	Death Unlimited (2004) #1191 Mirror of Madness (2003) #1735 Dreams of Endless War (2002) #1745
23	Amaranthe 2008, Sweden Trance Metal, Melodic Metalcore, Melodic Death Metal	Amaranthe (2011) #909 Manifest (2020) #2473 The Nexus (2013) #4674
24	Be'lakor 2004, Australia Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Gothic Metal	Stone's Reach (2009) #416 Vessels (2016) #423 Of Breath and Bone (2012) #680
25	Shade Empire 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Industrial Death Metal, Symphonic Death Metal, Black Metal	Anti-Life Saviour (2017) [Single] Omega Arcane (2013) #353 Poetry of the Ill-Minded (2017) #754
26	Method 2002, Korea Melodic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Abstract (2015) #1145 Survival Ov the Fittest (2006) #1985 Warrior's Way (2013) [EP] #2222
27	The Black Dahlia Murder 2001, United States Melodic Death Metal	Nocturnal (2007) #975 Everblack (2013) #1492 Ritual (2011) #1825
28	Remnants of the Fallen 2009, Korea Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Shadow Walk (2016) #789 All the Wounded and Broken (2020) #985 Perpetual Immaturity (REDUX 2013 Edition) (2013) [EP] #1614
29	Edge of Sanity 1989, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Crimson (1996) #240 Unorthodox (1992) #1932 The Spectral Sorrows (1993) #2583
30	Blood Stain Child 2000, Japan Melodic Death Metal, Trance Metal	Mozaiq (2007) #1187 ε psilon (2011) #2712 Idolator (2005) #3282
31	Dark Lunacy 1997, Italy Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Metal, Gothic Metal, Doom Metal	The Diarist (2006) #701 Devoid (2000) #948 Forget Me Not (2003) #1382
32	Hypocrisy 1991, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	A Taste of Extreme Divinity (2009) #986 Virus (2005) #1206 Hell over Sofia - 20 Years of Chaos and Confusion (2011) [Video]
33	Eluveitie 2002, Switzerland Melodic Death Metal, Folk Metal	Slania (2008) #1247 Origins (2014) #2775 Helvetios (2012) #3297
34	MyGrain 2004, Finland Melodic Death Metal	MyGrain (2011) #742 Orbit Dance (2006) #2823 Signs of Existence (2008) #4610
35	Chthonic 1995, Taiwan Melodic Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Takasago Army (2011) #656 賽德克巴萊 (2005) #2760 武徳 / Bú-Tik (2013) #3647
36	Nightrage 2000, Greece Melodic Death Metal	A New Disease Is Born (2007) #2825 Descent Into Chaos (2005) #2897 Insidious (2011) #4016
37	All That Remains 1998, United States Melodic Metalcore, Melodic Death Metal	The Fall of Ideals (2006) #972 Victim of the New Disease (2018) #2388 ...For We Are Many (2010) #5739
38	DevilDriver 2002, United States Groove Metal, Melodic Death Metal	The Fury of Our Maker's Hand (2005) #1188 Beast (2011) #2401 The Last Kind Words (2007) #2847
39	Sonic Syndicate 2005, Sweden Melodic Metalcore, Melodic Death Metal, Synthesizer Rock, Alternative Metal	Jack of Diamonds (2008) [Single] Only Inhuman (2007) #2238 Psychic Suicide / Denied (2007) [Single]
40	Darkest Hour 1995, United States Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore Punk	Deliver Us (2007) #1252 Undoing Ruin (2005) #3921 Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation (2003) #4005
41	The Agonist 2004, Canada Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore	Prisoners (2012) #2528 Eye of Providence (2015) #2667 Orphans (2019) #5073
42	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1379 Apoptosis (2019) #1801 Damnun (2022) #2055
43	The Halo Effect 2021, Sweden Melodic Death Metal	Days of the Lost (2022) #443 Shadowminds (2021) [Single] Days of the Lost (2022) [Single]
44	Barren Earth 2007, Finland Progressive Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Curse of the Red River (2010) #896 A Complex of Cages (2018) #2130 The Devil's Resolve (2012) #4236
45	Gyze 2011, Japan Melodic Death Metal	Northern Hell Song (2017) #1762 Fascinating Violence (2013) #2652 Black Bride (2015) #4749
46	The Haunted 1996, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal	One Kill Wonder (2003) #1482 rEVOLVEr (2004) #1871 Unseen (2011) #5866
47	Forest of Shadows 1997, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Doom Metal	Where Dreams Turn to Dust (2001) [EP] #402 Among the Dormant Watchers (2018) Six Waves of Woe (2008) #3922
48	Dimension Zero 1995, Sweden Melodic Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Silent Night Fever (2002) #1724 This Is Hell (2003) #2570 He Who Shall Not Bleed (2007) #4805
49	Sylosis 2000, United Kingdom Thrash Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Progressive Metal	Conclusion of an Age (2008) #1449 Edge of the Earth (2011) #2690 Monolith (2012) #3980
50	Kataklysm 1991, Canada Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Sorcery (1995) #1404 In the Arms of Devastation (2006) #5700 Temple of Knowledge (Kataklysm Part III) (1996) #5791

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