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Best band to use melody in death metal?
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Author:  noodles [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:44 am ]
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I've been thinking about this for all of today, and rather than choosing one of the standard melodic death bands I would have to go with Gojira. The way they have some subtle melody just makes their heavy parts that much more dynamic and heavy...

which band do you think uses melody best in death metal?
Author:  Ness [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:49 am ]
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Carcass
Author:  Carnifex Umbris [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:41 am ]
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If we're talking inside the actual genre of melodeath, I'd have to say either Heartwork-era Carcass, The Duskfall or Whoracle-era In Flames. If you want a band that doesn't play melodeath, I'd go with Vehemence (for "real" death metal) or Opeth.
Author:  Eyesore [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:27 am ]
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Dark Tranquillity.

The melody is not as overt as in many bands of the genre, it's there the whole time unlike just in the choruses on a lot of those other bands.
Author:  NewFriendAncientEnemy [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:38 am ]
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Vehemence, specifically on God Was Created, and the previous album's (TTFWIH) Reconditioning the Flock.
Author:  KillDeathDead [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:47 am ]
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JR and Subterrainean In Flames.
Author:  Kathaarian [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:48 am ]
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Melodeath bands would be too obvious here so I think we're talking brutal death metal here. I'll second Vehemence and add Vital Remains, Behemoth, Nile and Intestine Baalism. These bands keep their brutality but also manage to be melodic.
Author:  Anonymous [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:47 am ]
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Carcass, Heartwork era.
Author:  rio [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:32 am ]
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Lost Soul are excellent integrators of melody into Brutal Death.

For melodeath, my favourite is Terminal Spirit Disease era ATG.
Author:  Dago [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:12 pm ]
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Arsis. Melodic and still very technical.
Carcass, Behemoth, Lykathea Aflame.
Author:  lizardtail [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:15 pm ]
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definetly Lykathea Aflame, yeah, but also !T.O.O.H.! .. the second track from Rad a Trest might be the world's best death metal folk song
Author:  Dago [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:42 pm ]
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lizardtail wrote:
definetly Lykathea Aflame, yeah, but also !T.O.O.H.! .. the second track from Rad a Trest might be the world's best death metal folk song


So true!
Author:  Radical Cut [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:44 pm ]
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Lykathea Aflame!
Author:  Dago [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:48 pm ]
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But in a way or another, one more and another one less all death metal bands manage to have some kind of melody in their music.
Author:  Misha [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:59 pm ]
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Radical Cut wrote:
Lykathea Aflame!

Now that's great metal!
Author:  Goat [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:04 pm ]
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Dago wrote:
But in a way or another, one more and another one less all death metal bands manage to have some kind of melody in their music.


Exactly. Else it'd be, like, drone or something.

I'd agree with you, Carcass, Behemoth, Nile were the first three I thought of, although Dark T. get an honourable mention for-that-cool-song-off-of-Projector-whose-name-I've-forgotten.
Author:  Radagast [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:06 pm ]
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Children of Bodom











































Aye right. :wink:
Author:  rio [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:12 pm ]
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I'm sure something can be a-melodic without being drone. I don't think a riff counts as a melody, so often bands that are purely based around riffs and rhythmic trickery have no melody at all in them.

It's hard to apply melody to a lot of DM. But yeah, like most people have already said, Lykathea Aflame certainly occupy that upper-strata of DM bands with a genuine flare for it. And like I said, I'd put ATG's Terminal Spirit Disease up there as well, but not too many others.
Author:  Radagast [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:13 pm ]
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rio wrote:
I'm sure something can be a-melodic without being drone. I don't think a riff counts as a melody, so often bands that are purely based around riffs and rhythmic trickery have no melody at all in them.

It's hard to apply melody to a lot of DM. But yeah, like most people have already said, Lykathea Aflame certainly occupy that upper-strata of DM bands with a genuine flare for it. And like I said, I'd put ATG's Terminal Spirit Disease up there as well, but not too many others.


Surely some of the more crazy mathcore stuff out there is absent of melody?
Author:  Goat [ Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:15 pm ]
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rio wrote:
I'm sure something can be a-melodic without being drone. I don't think a riff counts as a melody, so often bands that are purely based around riffs and rhythmic trickery have no melody at all in them.

It's hard to apply melody to a lot of DM. But yeah, like most people have already said, Lykathea Aflame certainly occupy that upper-strata of DM bands with a genuine flare for it. And like I said, I'd put ATG's Terminal Spirit Disease up there as well, but not too many others.


I was being a bit sarcastic, hence my use of italics.
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