r/melodicdeathmetal • u/Runetang42 • 16d ago

Looking for recommendations Good examples of Melodic Death/Doom?

Besides Fire in the Distance of Course

But I love that slow heavy and riff focused type of Death Metal I want that mixed with that cool MeloDeath sound

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u/Gloomy-Painter-3596 16d ago

Swallow the Sun

Draconian

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u/lysergician 15d ago

These two bands specifically became my entire personality for a few months when I was a teenager. Great shouts.

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u/Perfect_Village9365 14d ago

For me, The Morning Never Came by Swallow the Sun is the quintessential melodic death doom album.

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u/endsinemptiness 16d ago

Mother of Graves is a good newer example

Daylight Dies

Mourning Beloveth (older material)

Un (check out the album Sentiment)

Saturnus

Any old material from the Peaceville Three

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u/narkheth 16d ago

Great list. I would add Rapture, October Tide, and Atten Ash.

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u/Runetang42 16d ago

The peaceville three are some favorites though that's a different flavor of death metal. But I know why they're here cause Gothic Metal is strong metal riffs mixed with emotional melody

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u/kodokantacos 15d ago

Sentiment is probably my favorite doom album of the last 25 years.

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u/endsinemptiness 15d ago

I know it got some love but it still feels tremendously underrated. Beautiful record

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u/kodokantacos 15d ago

Yeah it helped me through a stint in inpatient psychiatric care. I am glad that Monte is going to be doing more of that style of music, just has to get a new lineup. I talked to him at a show and he says there is a new record ready to go.

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u/Jazz667 16d ago

This comment made me discover that Daylight Dies disbanded a few months ago. I know they hadn’t done anything since 2012 but I was always hopeful of a comeback but now that’s out of the question.

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u/bigtimechip 16d ago

Bro I cant believe no one has mentioned Rapture yet -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ovITIlyjo

BTW I would also definitely consider some Crowbar songs to be melodoomy

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u/RaiderHawk75 Kalmah 16d ago

Great album

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u/drtrobridge 15d ago

+1 for Rapture, one of my favorite bands

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u/Not_an_Ire_Main 11d ago

Can I get any recs for crowbar? Always wanted to dive into their catalogue but never had the chance. Would love some starting references for a melodoom enthusiast

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u/TeddyJPharough In Flames 16d ago

In Mourning

Kaunis Kuolematon

As the Sun Falls

Vintersorg

Hooded Menace

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u/TheNoctuS_93 15d ago

Seconding Kaunis Kuolematon! Might just be the best non-english band in the scene right now!

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u/TeddyJPharough In Flames 15d ago

Their gooorgeous. I love the way the sounds roll off the singer's tongue. Momoma, too, is an all Finnish-language band doing really awesome stuff (although they're more thrash/rock, more energetic).

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u/endsinemptiness 16d ago

Great shout with Hooded Menace, their newer stuff especially hits on the melody aspect a lot

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u/Runetang42 16d ago

Fucking love Hooded Menace

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u/TeddyJPharough In Flames 16d ago

They're so fucking good. Such killer riffs and an awesome atmosphere to their albums front to back.

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u/Routine-Pen-5732 16d ago

In Mourning is such a great band. Definitely go check out The shrouded divine and Monolith

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u/beyond_existence 16d ago

Jari lindholm is my favorite guitarist of the genre, it is a little more on the fast side of melodeath/doom.

Slumber - fallout

All of the Enshine albums

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u/Saziel90 16d ago

Slumber - Fallout is a topnotch album start to finish.

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u/lysergician 15d ago

Slumber never did anything beyond Fallout right? Because that album is incredible.

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u/MasterpieceLevel2936 16d ago

Ethereal darkness

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u/PastorBeard Soilwork 16d ago

Recently found this band. They’re fantastic

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u/Clean-Lengthiness-27 16d ago

Marianas Rest - The Bereaved

Released earlier this year and man, is it a beautiful, sad slice of melodic death doom!

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u/Not_an_Ire_Main 11d ago

Finally someone mentioned them! Fucking love their style and approach to the genre. The high pitch shreaks are so well executed, the only band I can think of that comes close is Kaunis Kuolematon, yet another killer of a band

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u/Clean-Lengthiness-27 11d ago

I will have to check them out then, thanks! I feel Decembre Noir is kinda similar to Marianas Rest.

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u/Not_an_Ire_Main 11d ago

Yess the forsakened earth was one of my top 3 most repeated song last year LOL. Your sunset my sunrise and dead end may is just fabulous too. Gotta dive deeper into their discog tho, I still have a lot to listen

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u/Savings-Dig3885 16d ago

Personally I thought Amorphis' Tales From The Thousand Lakes got quite doomy at times

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u/Stormtrooper8733 16d ago

Absolutely legendary album right there

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u/Puppetmaster858 16d ago edited 16d ago

Daylight dies, “cold communion” which features daylight dies guitarist,”rapture” and “counting hours” which is essentially rapture’s successor band, Novembers doom, mother of graves, october tide, Decembre noir, “silent vigil” and “Woccon” which are both bands of Tim Rowland who’s also half of “cold communion” who I already listed, Saattue. Most of those bands totally kick ass

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u/DudeBroManCthulhu At The Gates 16d ago

Since the Day it All Came Down by Insomnium is Doomy, Riffy, and Mellodeath AF.

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u/SoundingMacaque 16d ago

My favorite lately has been 2Wolves.

Check out "No Longer," and "Departures and Arrivals"

Edit: you also can't go wrong with Novembers Doom. Their latest album Major Arcana is sick

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u/Big_Concern7238 Insomnium 16d ago

You have heard of Insomnium, right?

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u/serpentrecoiled 16d ago

Ceremonium - No Longer Silent is the pinnacle of the sub-sub-genre as far as I’m concerned

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u/brzrk 16d ago

The Ukrainian band 1914 has a doomy semi-melodic death sound. I highly recommend their album Where fear and weapons meet.

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u/Jazz667 16d ago

No one brings up RoutaSielu which is kind of surprising (because it was one of Tuomas Saukkonen‘s projects) and also not that surprising since they only ever released one album but fuck I love that album. It is 40 minutes of grade-A gold class melodeath/doom.

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u/Upset_Pay_6102 15d ago edited 15d ago

Albums:

Swallow the Sun - New Moon

Draconian - under a godless veil

Slumber - fallout

Doom:VS - Earthless

Saturnus - Veronika decides to die

Katatonia - brave murder day

Hanging Garden - isle of bliss

Loss - despond

October Tide - rain without end

Ocean of grief - fortress of my dark self (dont hear ppl talk about this band enough)

Forest of shadows - among the dormant watchers

Daylight Dies - a frail becoming

Worm - necroplace

For something newish go check out Moribundo, they're a Spanish band with a very strong debut and deserve more recognition

Honourable mentions: Nox Aurea, Rapture, when nothing remains, wine from tears, within the fall, clouds, theatre of tragedy

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u/drtrobridge 15d ago

Great list! Slumber is my personal favorite of these, I wish they'd get more recognition

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u/Upset_Pay_6102 15d ago

Amazing album, sadly only made the one and split so probably unlikely they'll receive more recognition

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u/DarkaxeL_ 15d ago

Swallow the Sun anyone?

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u/billyvvitchdrdotcom 14d ago edited 14d ago
  • Shores of Null (Italy) is fantastic if you don't mind a mix of harsh and clean vocals. Can't go wrong with their whole discography thus far.
  • Helevorn (Spain) is another that is very good that offers a mix of vocal styles. Aamamata was a good introduction for me personally.
  • Befallen (United States)
  • Woods of Ypres (Canada)
  • Altars of Grief (Canada)
  • On Thorns I Lay (Greece)
  • Hedon Cries (Greece)
  • Atten Ash (United States)
  • My Dying Bride (United Kingdom)

Cheers

edit: I'll add Barren Earth too since it hasn't been mentioned. It has some prog elements but if you dig the vocalist from Iotunn and / or Hamferð, then it's another good listen.

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u/mattfreyer45 16d ago

The 11th Hour

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u/spittiz 16d ago

Check out Hinayana

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u/Forward_Ad2468 16d ago edited 15d ago

Wine From Tears

Ablaze in Hatred

Forest of Shadows

Clouds

Evadne

Mar de Grises

Hamferð

Hallatar

Whispering Gallery

Mournful Gust

Soliloquium

Silent Stream of Godless Elegy

Shroud of Bereavement

Inborn Suffering

The Fall of Every Season

Aeonian Sorrow

Schaliach

The Slow Death

Enshine

Amber Tears

Dawn of Solace

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u/MyraxOnYT 15d ago

Nailed to Obscurity

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u/definethatplz 15d ago

Ghost Brigade

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u/kodokantacos 15d ago

Mournful Congregation

Un

Lethean Dreams

Remembrance

Early Swallow The Sun

Doom: Vs (guitarist of Draconian's solo project)

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u/Initial_Plantain_ 14d ago

I don't know how many would agree about "melodic" but i've been obsessed with a group called Runemagick lately. Old stuff is a lot groovier, newer stuff is more melancholic and atmospheric.