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What Are the Essential Melodic Death Metal/Gothenburg Sound Albums?
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:36 pm
At the Gates, In Flames, Dark Tranquility...what else?
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Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:40 pm to Mr Personality
If you want American bands then check out early Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, and Overcast. As for Swedish bands, you could add Soilwork though I'm not a big fan.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:46 pm to Mr Personality
In Flames is my answer.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:47 pm to Brosef Stalin
Early Killswitch as in first 2-3 albums?
Posted on 5/24/16 at 2:50 pm to Mr Personality
Alive or Just Breathing definitely. The stuff from when Jesse Leach was first in the band.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 3:12 pm to JohnZeroQ
I'm a huge In Flames fan
Posted on 5/24/16 at 4:36 pm to Brosef Stalin
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add Soilwork though I'm not a big fan
I fricken love Soilwork.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 4:46 pm to Mr Personality
Katatonia
Posted on 5/24/16 at 6:22 pm to Mr Personality
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What Are the Essential Melodic Death Metal/Gothenburg Sound Albums?
Slaughter of the Soul IS the Gothenburg Scene. Period.
Subsequent releases by some of the other mentioned bands barely maintain any semblance of death metal, whereas At the Gates was always very firmly rooted in the Swedish brand of death.
However, one of my favorite albums from that period was The Red in the Sky is Ours. It sounds like much more traditional death metal and is very low-fi in terms of sound quality, not quite on bar with black metal releases of the time, but it's definitely a few notches below Slaughter of the Soul. It just frickin' kicks arse.
The aforementioned album is the sort of work that is either immensely praised or incessantly condemned because it was so influential at the time of its release.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 6:29 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
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Katatonia
Does Katatonia really fit the melodic death metal label?
Their first two LPs and the first EP are unequivocally death doom with the slow plodding pace and intense vocals.
However, they involved into something almost completely apart from all of those other bands. They're almost alternative metal with the clean vocals, brooding subject matter, and melodic sound.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:36 pm to saint amant steve
Would Blackwater Park fall in this category? If so, that.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 10:21 pm to lpgreat1
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Would Blackwater Park fall in this category?
Opeth's work is mostly considered progressive metal. They certainly display elements of both death guttural vocals and melodic instrumentation synonymous with the Gothenburg Sound, but I'm not sure how you could listen to In Flames or Soilwork and then argue that either band sounds like Opeth.
Regardless, that is a damn fine album. You have good taste, Sir.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 1:27 am to Mr Personality
Storm of the lights bane by dissection.
Also, the somberlain.
Also, the somberlain.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 10:36 am to SEClint
I think The Textures - Silhouettes fits to some degree.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 4:00 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Textures
Love me some Textures. Dualism is one of my favourite albums.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 6:38 pm to ChatRabbit77
Dang, never figured i'd run into another Textures fan
Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:00 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Another Textures fan here. 
Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:59 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I can't wait for Genotype to come 
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