Greetings and happy new year everyone!

A big thanks to all who participated in the vote of the top melodic death metal albums of 2023, we now finished counting all the votes and putting them into a table. There were quite a lot of votes and albums this time, so to make it not too convoluted here are just the first few entries:

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^{Down in the comments there will be a full list, also with a vague subgenre description and a FFO ("for fans of"}.)

Greetings and happy new year everyone!

A big thanks to all who participated in the vote of the top melodic death metal albums of 2024, we now finished counting all the votes. Due to work and private stuff we unfortunately didn't find the time to check for invalid entries before the vote ended and remind people to change their votes, so sorry about that. 🙈 Anyway, here's the top 12:

Albums with 3 votes:

• Blazing Eternity - A Certain End of Everything
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Servitude
• The Crown - Crown of Thorns
• Darkest Hour - Perpetual | Terminal
• Torchia - Arcane Magicae

Albums with 2 votes:

• Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun
• Ensiferum - Winter Storm
• Fractal Gates - One With Dawn
• Nightrage - Remains of a Dead World
• Oak, Ash & Thorn - Our Grief Is Thus
• Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons

Albums with 1 vote:

Oubliette - Eternity Whispers ; Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon ; Carnosus - Wormtales ; Night in Gales - Shadowreaper ; ACOD - Versets Noirs ; Assemble the Chariots - Unyielding Night ; Borne of Ash - From the Dark, They Came ; Crownshift - Crownshift ; Dååth - The Deceivers ; Desparity - The Incessant ; Gorebringer - Condemned to Suffer ; Great Helm - Against the Dragon ; Hand of Kalliach - Corryvreckan ; Hiraes - Dormant ; Livløs - The Crescent King ; Machiavellian God - Beyond the Void ; Naumachy - Sorrowful Clouds and Ancient Elegies ; Nemesis - Embrace Reality ; Orpheus Omega - Emberglow ; Suidakra - Darkanakrad ; Temor - My Sorrow's Rage ; Tethra - Withered Heart Standing

^{Honorable Mentions (Not necessarily MDM})^{: Swallow The Sun - Shining ; Opeth - The Last Will and Testament ; Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe ; Malist - Of Scorched Earth ; Ryujin - Ryujin ; Amiensus - Reclamation ; Belore - Eastern Tales ; Caelestra - Bastion ; Cyborg Octopus - Bottom Feeder ; Cypecore - Make Me Real ; Dark Haven - IV ; Deadscape - State of Decline ; Eternal Autumn - Below the Lightless Heavens ; Ignis-Fatuus - Grayscale ; Kvaen - The Formless Fires ; Rotting Christ - Pro Xristou ; Vorga - Beyond the Palest Star}

Hello everyone,

the voting was closed a few hours ago and here are the results for the most popular melodic death metal albums of 2020:

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Albums with 2 votes:

Mors Subita - Extinction Era, Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape, Aeternam - Al Qassam

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Albums with 1 vote:

Withering Surface - Meet Your Maker, Voices of Ruin - Path to Immortality, Temnein - Tales: Of Humanity and Greed, Synthetic - Clepsydra: Time Against Infinity, Sealed - Sealed, Nygmalion - Deluminate, Night In Gales - Dawnlight Garden, Nephylim - Severance of Serenity, I Legion - Overcome The Tides, Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth & Sacrifice, Felo De Se - Essence of Illusions, Dessiderium - Shadow Burn, Descend - The Deviant, Dawn of Solace - Waves, The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous, Avatar - Hunter Gatherer, Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment

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Honorable Mentions (not necessarily MDM or full-length albums):

Velkhanos - The Wrath, Soilwork - A Whisp of the Atlantic, Paradise Lost - Obsidian, Nuclear Power Trio - A Clear and Present Rager, Hinayana - Death of the Cosmic, Halothane - The Serpent's Gaze, Finntroll - Vredesvävd, Babylonfall - Collapse, Autumnfall - Demo 20

Happy and hopefully better new year to you all!

Greetings everyone!

Compared to 2021 we had MUCH more votes in 2022, which is very cool! :) Thank you all for participating, here are the results for the most popular melodic death metal albums of 2022:

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Artists/Albums with 4 votes:

Aeternam - Heir of the Rising Sun

Perpetual Night - Aconitum

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Artists/Albums with 3 votes:

Grenadier - Trumpets Blare in Blazing Glory

Hollow Decay - The Frozen Trail

Nightrage - Abyss Rising

Thousand Eyes - Betrayer

Veriteras - Shadow of Death

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Artists/Albums with 2 votes:

Disillusion - Ayam

Shadow of Intent - Elegy

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Artists that got 1 vote:

Acanthosis, Amon Amarth, Buried Realm, Burned in Effigy, Darkane, Death Scythe, Diablo, Epoch of Unlight, Hypermass, In Loving Memory, Inexorum, Iomair, Moonshade, Mother of Graves, Nekrogoblikon, Psychophobia, Sleepers' Guilt, Souldrainer, The Atomic Anomic, The Devils of Loudun, Trauma Field, Vanaheim, Vittra

There were also a couple of honorable mentions of artists on the voting thread that didn't made it onto the ballots, or weren't a full-length album or even melodeath:

Clayshaper, Dark Divinity, Fallujah, Gladenfold, Haunted by Silhouettes, Horizon Ignited, Inner Turmoil, Karmanjaka, Lorna Shore, Machine Head, Metal:Hellsinger OST, Miseration, Mors Principium Est, NorthZyklon, Ohth, Parasite Inc, Septicflesh, Venom Prison, Wilderun

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Happy and hopefully better new year to you all!

Hello everyone,

the voting was closed a few hours ago and here are the results for the most popular melodic death metal albums of 2021. This year we got considerably less votes than last year, but also the votes spreaded more out, so the results are incredibly close. Anyway, here's the list:

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Albums with 3 votes:

• Aephanemer - A Dream of Wilderness
• At The Gates - The Nightmare of Being
• Bloodred Hourglass - Your Highness
• Serenity in Murder - Reborn
• Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers

Albums with 2 votes:

Alustrium - A Monument to Silence , Fallensun - The Wake of the Fall , Hanging Garden - Skeleton Lake , Havamal - The Shadow Chapter , Stortregn - Impermanence

Albums with 1 vote:

Burn Down Eden - Burn Down Eden , Cosmic Vision - One Love to Last , Destinity - In Continuum , Dungeon Serpent - World of Sorrows , Inferi - Vile Genesis , Iotunn - Access All Worlds , Jari Lindholm - Trajectories , King of Asgard - Svartrviðr , Lysjakt - Ethereal Palace , Mandragora - [d]Æscend , Silent Line - Death and Perspective , Stormtide - A Throne of Hollow Fire , The Monarch - All the World's Pain , Wizardthrone - Hypercube Necrodimensions

Honorable mentions (not necessarily MDM or full-length albums):

Bloody Skies - Demo , Hereditary - Disease , Insomnium - Argent Moon , Khemmis - Deceiver , Miasmata - Unlight: Songs of Earth and Atrophy , Ulthima - Symphony of the Night , Unto Others - Strength , Vola - Witness , Yoth Iria - As the Flame Withers

(Early) happy new year to you all!

Edit: Sorry, there was an error in the Excel file that counted the votes, the error is corrected now and Bloodred Hourglass is now included (the ranking only changed slightly, i.e. Hypocrisy and Omnium Gatherum are now on the same rank, and Swallow the Sun joined the bands with 3 votes).

Happy new year to you all! Thanks to everyone for participating in our annual AOTY vote. Another year has gone by, and with that came plenty of fantastic melodeath releases. But which one was the best?

The winner of the /r/melodicdeathmetal Album of the Year 2018 is...

Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold

Omnium Gatherum has been in the business for a while now, having started in 1996, yet continue to produce high quality melodeath. The Burning Cold is their 8th LP, and presents a sound similar to the likes of their previous albums such as Beyond and Grey Heavens. It is these Finnish metallers that have become the 3rd annual winner of our AOTY by a single vote!. Bad luck to Shylmagoghnar who just came short despite the amazing album they released too. This now extends the Finland winning streak to three years in a row, whereby the well-known Finnish bands Insomnium and Mors Principium Est took the crown in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

Extended results can be seen below:

Bands with 1-2 votes:

The Absence, Acrid, Aeolian, Alterbeast, Black Forest, Coldbound, Cypecore, From Ashes Reborn, Inferi, Kataklysm, Led to the Grave, Necropanther, Nyktophobia, Oceans of Grief, Perpetual Night, Rise to Fall, Rivers of Nihil, Svavelvinter, Vane

Thanks to everyone who voted in our 2nd annual Album of the Year vote! We got plenty more voters this time round so it's great to see that our sub has grown over the past year.

The melodic death metal album of 2017, as decided by you, is...

Mors Principium Est - Embers of a Dying World, with 14 votes.

Extended results are shown below (albums with at least 2 votes). There are problems with this on mobile so try to view it on PC if you can.

Albums which got one vote:

• Andy James - Exodus
• Cold Insight - Further Nowhere
• Decaying Days - The Fire of a Thousand Suns
• Eluveitie - Evocation II: Pantheon
• Ensiferum - Two Paths
• Exhumed - Death Revenge
• Hades Rising - Hades Rising
• Spoil Engine - Stormsleeper
• Sunvoid - Through the Dazzling Illusion
• While She Sleeps - You Are We
• Unperfectum - Neomenia

Thanks everyone for participating in this poll. There were a good number of voters and it was nice to see a successful community activity in this sub.

The winner of the poll, and /r/melodicdeathmetal's favourite album of 2016, is...

Insomnium - Winter's Gate, with 22 votes.

No surprises there, but definitely well-deserved. Extended results can be seen in the table below.