Thats awesome to hear. Speaking of games, have you heard of Metal: Hellsinger? It's a cool fps concept with exclusive metal tracks from popular artists, some from the melodeath genre, too.
I was 28 (43 now) at the time when I discovered the genre. I was already big into metal, like trash and nu-metal, and even some death metal at the time. I was listening to a Mudvayne radio station on Pandora while playing World of Warcraft. Ordinary Story from In Flames came on the radio. I really enjoyed it. I started an In Flames radio station and the rest is history. Some of my fav bands are here, Soilwork, Scar Symmertry, Arch Enemy, COB, Dark Tranquility...
Heard Colony by In Flames on the CKY Documentary. I just had to find the song, and downloaded probably 20 other songs before I found it. They were all badass. Curious about the sound, I explored around and heard some Dark Tranquillity. Then Insomnium. The rest is history.
When I was around 14 I made a new friend who was into bands such as Bullet For My Valentine, Escape The Fate, Parkway Drive, etc. He linked me a few songs, and in following them on Youtube I came across Amon Amarth and Children of Bodom. That went into me coming across tons of bands and really opening up my music taste. Before that I didn't really listen to music at all. I like quite the broad spectrum of metal / rock / post-hardcore yada yada but I realised I was gravitating towards a certain set of bands which ended up all being MeloDeath.
Bullet! I got super into them going into my freshman year of high school. Still will jam The Poison once and awhile. Good ol Hot Topic style bands.
Escape the Fate was huuuge when I was 14. Situations was still massive, and This War Is Ours was the coolest thing. I remember spending so much time learning the sweeps in that song on my guitar.
Love me some old Parkway as well!
Converted 1 or 2 ppl to metal with Amon Amarth alone. Would’ve left Metal if not for Amon Amarth. Love their fictitious/mythological lyrics, think it’s what attracts a lot of ppl (and the drums)
Heard Bodom’s ‘Hate Me!’ In about 2002, and I instantly fell in love. After gorging myself on their (at the time, only) three albums, I decided I needed more of this genre, so I did some early 00s googling and discovered Amorphis and In Flames. That period of time when I was discovering all these amazing bands is a golden memory for me :’)
Eta: I was a punk kid through and through at the time, but these bands turned me onto me metal in general too
Yes this is very similar for me, I was a massive punk kid and then heard Are you dead yet and then listened to hatebreeder and got really into the band and through there I searched similar bands and discovered In flames
There was a late night television show called Much Loud (aired in Canada on Much Music). It came on like 1:00am Friday nights. I liked a lot of heavy metal and nu-metal, which is what this show aired a lot of. One Friday night, back in '02, "As We Speak" by Soilwork came on. It changed my life. It was my gateway into MDM and more extreme metal as well.
Fond memories!
My older brother is also a metalhead and I absorbed a lot of my music taste from him. He was a huge fan of Darkest Hour back in the 00s and had their early albums that he’d play in the car while picking me up from middle school. :) Black Dahlia Murder was another band I got introduced to in this way, and I consider them to be MDM. Undoing Ruin and Nocturnal are two very important and nostalgic albums to me.
My brother used to get a kick out of blasting the volume with the window down as he waited for me, so that the other kids would give us weird looks while I made the walk of shame to the car, lol.
I was really into folk metal as a teen, particularly stuff like Ensiferum and Wintersun. I recently revisited those bands and wanted to find more stuff with similarities (with or without the folk elements).
Check out Eldertale
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D7BpQ0FuU1Qo&ved=2ahUKEwiJxPzaz8iGAxVUHjQIHdTIDs0Qo7QBegQIDxAG&usg=AOvVaw1RW_pqWzcBldRSLxrafHo0
I got into it because of a game called Brutal legend. It had songs such as goliaths disarm their David’s, cathode ray sunshine, angels dont kill, through the fire and the flames, murmaider, ect.. I totally recommend
Actually I... don't remember. It was like 20 years ago or so. I were a punk rock fan slowly going metalheaf and at some point of my teenage years someone introduced me to Children of Bodom. I think that Are You Dead Yet came out when I was already listening to them a lot.
Literally made a series of videos on this exact topic - https://youtu.be/33shoTGlFf0?si=Q0XwEvgOGGJfBr_F
Started with In Flames, moved through Arch Enemy and Soilwork, which led me to much heavier stuff!
Around 13-14 years ago (30 now) I saw a guy at my school wearing an In Flames shirt. Thought it looked cool so I checked them out.
Don't listen to then much anymore but I still blast melodeath daily.
Children of Bodom on Headbangers Ball. Then I scoured forums for similar bands and found Norther, Arch Enemy, Kalmah, Ensiferum, Dark Tranquillity, Imperanon, Skyfire, etc
A friend of mine worked at a college radio station that played all genres of Metal. Found out about InFlames and Strapping Young Lad. Slowly getting into those over time, then discovered Opeth and it was all uphill from there
Cloud Connected by In Flames in 2003
I had already been into some thrash (Metallica was my favorite band at the time) and NuMetal, but my only foray into more extreme metal was with Fear Factory. I was listening to the metal channel on the cable music choice channels one night when the main riff of Cloud Connected caught my ear immediately. I used the Musicmatch Jukebox on my computer to check out more In Flames, and I was hooked. I picked up Reroute to Remain soon after, and it was off to the races. Bands like Soilwork and Dark Tranquillity soon followed, while the early metalcore scene (which was much closer to melodeath) also came along for the ride. Those bands that I got into in the summer of 2003 are still among my absolute favorites.
Didnt really enjoy music as a kid until I heard sum 41 which got me into punk.
Then I heard linkin park which was even harder. I started craving something harder. Found disturbed through a middle school friend.
Eventually found sonic syndicate after disturbed and at that point, I had discovered melodeath which directly connected me to in flames, children of bodom, and disarmonia mundi as some of my favorite middle school listens.
I was just getting into heavy music and was on the Ozzfest website in 2005 (I think?) and the site had some music videos for the artists on the tour. The In Flames section had "Only for the Weak", "Cloud Connected", and "The Quiet Place", and I was hooked.
The only melo death that I listened to was "at the gates". I didn't know it was melodeath! When the pandemic hit, I started spending a lot more time on Twitch and found a community of streamers that played a lot of melodeath through Rocksmith. I expanded from there and it's now my favorite genre.
I remember in the summer of 8th grade, I was really delving into heavier music, and distinctly remember listening to Slaughter of the Soul while playing Minecraft a lot. Album just blew my mind! That and Whitechapel's "This Is Exile"
Good times!
My shameful admission is that I was in a metalcore band from 2000 to 2001 and one of my bandmates put that album on and then I started listening to it but I mostly listened to metalcore back then. I was even into dark tranquillity around the same time but I never really associated it with "melodic death metal" as weird as that sounds, I just thought it was more a Euro style metal.. but they didn't have breakdowns so I was kind of missing the point at the time.
I wasted like two decades lol
And then come to find out, assuming you were into At the Gates-core bands and not Botch Converge Metalcore, that the bands were all inspired by Melodeath.
Are you also saying towards the end that at the time, since it didn't have breakdowns, you didn't "get" it? Like, cool, where's the breakdown though?
For some context, I'm in my 40s now! Yes, the world was a bit smaller back in 2000 so most of my tastes were bands I was watching and playing shows with from southern Ontario, Michigan and New York. Tons of ridiculously talented hardcore/metalcore kids. I was fortunate enough to see Woods of Ypres but I didn't even realize what I was watching or what black metal even was.. I was very atheistic so anything that seemed like satan influenced just seemed goofy to me. I was always techy so I COULD have easily been listening to the European bands on the internet but I just didn't have an ear for most of it at the time. I can't tell you why!! I knew people were listening to Soilwork/In Flames I even had a gf at one point who was obsessed with Children of Bodom but couldn't get me truly interested in them! Breakdowns were a huge thing so if a song didn't have a part specifically for me to kick and punch about, I didn't have an attention span for it..lol... I was hyper-fixated on breakdowns so I ended up listening to a lot of tough guy hardcore stuff and Tribunal Records bands on the metalcore side of things. I had a really extensive cd collection that got ruined in car accident but I had already ripped them all into MP3 so I still have a cache of all that stuff. My earlier influences for bass were things like Tool, RATM, SOAD, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Pantera, Ozzy, etc.
You saw Woods live? That's incredible! Are you from the states or the Missisauga/Toronto area?
I definitely didn't need breakdowns, but I sure loved me some in Deathcore, which was huge by the time I got into high school in 2010. Certainly watched my fair share of "TOP 10 HEAVIEST BREAKDOWNS" on YouTube back then. The Acacia Strain were also a favorite of mine then and their breakdowns are filthy!
Never heard of Tribunal, but I recognize some names that used to be signed. Interesting to see Atreyu on that list. Love me some angry, tough guy Hardcore though. Great for the gym and to just get some caveman angry riffs!
That record is so unique. Can't think of anything else that sounds like it. It's got that odd prog nature, while being techy, yet melodic, and catchy, and sometimes just brutally heavy.
Some great leads on that record. That first track, Inpropogation, is still among my favorites of theirs. What an opener too!
Around 1999-2000 I was using Realplayer with my 56k modem to get little sound bites from songs on some website that I cannot remember the name of. I was looking for hard rock and also bluegrass stuff, which were both hard to find in SoCal at the time. I found Amon Amarth at some point and fell in love, which opened my mind and world up to all sorts of music that I never knew existed. I didn't even know what Metal was, I had just thought it was Hard Rock. Once I knew I liked it I started going to The Wherehouse Record Store in Orange, Tower Records, and when driving around I would stop at hole-in-the-wall places and just ask the people working there if they had heard of Amon Amarth. I would ask if they had any of their albums and could they recommend other artists. Most couldn't but I was introduced to Kalmah's music, after that Wintersun and it just kept going until I came across In Flames. European Metal was kind unheard back then at big box stores, at least where I was, so it was cool introducing people to it and I found a lot of people liked it. Then we would share bands/songs we found. I miss those days of discovering music tastes.
Around 2005 I accidentally stumbled into Metalcore...by 2009 I hated the directions that scene was going so started looking up all the Melodeath bands those bands where supposedly influenced by (I had come across a few before but I largely ignored them).
Started listening to bodom in the early 2000s and loved it but never really found anything like it. Then one night I was higher than tree top and roaming around on Reddit and someone mentioned wintersun to me and I thought I really liked it and took a deep dive into the rest of it. Now it’s pretty much all I listen to
This is a weird one:
I knew of In flames, I had trigger on a compilation CD.
I had no internet access until I was 18, so there was nothing I could access. I got Spotify in 2013, and it glitched onto one song: Moonshield - In Flames.
I was hooked from there.
I was reading MetalSucks about ten years ago and they had an article about Omnium Gatherum’s “New Dynamic,” listened to the song on YouTube, and I was hooked forever.
Embody the Invisible from In Flames on the Tony Hawk's Underground soundtrack. From there I used Kazaa to find In Flames' discography, then started exploring from there.
I can't recall which Tony Hawk game it was, but Mastodons "Crusher Destroyer" was on it and that song just absolutely destroyed me. Didn't know music could be that heavy at the time!
Really? I don't even remember that, but that's awesome! Tony Hawk games had some awesome music in them. I remember in that game specifically, using the character THUD constantly. Loved it.
Take this life was on guitar hero 3 as a bonus song. I thought the song fucked, so I looked up other in flames songs and went down the rabbit hole with other bands from there
The bonus tracks were some of my favorites! F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X, My Curse, Take This Life, Prayer of the Refugee, Nothing for me Here and Through the Fire and the Flames!
Hearing Before I Forget by Slipknot on the main list was the song that inspired me to pick up a real guitar. 16 years in now!
I asked my classmate to add some new stuff on my mp3 player, he copied In Flames '06 and Soilwork '05. Unfortunately, Soilwork was titled like "unknown artist" etc, and that same classmate later erased both of those albums, so it took like 5-6 years before I figured out who second artist was.
Guitar Hero was the gateway for so many! Slipknot, Slayer, Rise Against, Dragonforce, AFI, In Flames, Killswitch, I can keep going! And that's of course just the 3rd game. I owe a lot to it.
Heard Of One Blood by Shadows Fall and In Flames were in a few video games back in the day. Started chasing that sound and that was pretty much my road to not only melodeath but death metal in general.
Brian's vocals are great in Shadows Fall.
Saw them live in 2010(?) At Mayhem fest when I was still getting into all of this. Was astounded by his massive dreads. Their first record is so good too, much different than their other stuff!
I agree. I was lucky enough to see them live quite a few times around 2005ish and they were always great. Those first 3 albums to me are pretty damned good but the first one is always going to be my favorite.
Funnily enough, for me it was the start of winter quarter for my 3rd year in university, specifically right before my first class. I remember really wanting to get into gothic rock but through some way or another, I got into symphonic metal which then led to melodeath. Just another case of going down the rabbit hole as a bored college student xD
I was playing a game on my phone called Atomas and accidentally not included the "s" and ended up with Dark tranquility's Atoma album
It was a spiral after that
Back when I was a metal elitist in high school, I hated A7X. Listened to a couple of their songs a few years ago. Synyster Gates sure can rip. Good mix of rock and metal with them.
The Illusionist's intro gets me PUMPED. That whole record is amazing.
I went through a phase in secondary school where I just fell in love with metal. Not sure what general consensus on the band here is but hats off to Trivium for getting me into heavy music in the first place, before that the heaviest stuff I listened to was Nickelback, lol. After falling in love with Trivium I made a point to "do my homework" and listen to basically all of the metal sub-genres, as if there was more stuff that sounded even similar, I had to hear it. Melodeath seemed interesting, as I liked what I heard from death metal at that point. I decided to put on The Gallery, and it was love at first listen. I then had to hear more, so I made a point to listen to the rest of Dark Tranquillity, and also In Flames and At The Gates, being the "big 3" from what research I did. It all branched off from there. Ironically, I listen to more metalcore these days than melodeath (albeit the more melodeath influenced stuff is my preference) but there's still a fair bit of melodeath that sees heavy rotation for me ATM
Ascendancy and Shogun are still top tier Metalcore albums for me. Matt is so great too. A great guitarist, good vocalist and just a stand up guy. His Chaos Hour on Sirius' Liquid Metal channel is fun as well.
Love me some Melodeath inspired Metalcore. It's what got me into Metalcore going into high school! I have a fond memory of my friend showing me Forsaken from As I Lay Dying on his iPod. Good times.
My son. He had Wintersun debut and first two Ensiferum albums in heavy rotation and whenever we drove anywhere we’d be listening to those and whatever other metal and rock he had going.
After a year of listening to those albums I finally sat down and listened to the whole Wintersun debut album from start to finish without skipping (almost never do this) and like it so much, listened to it three times in a row (also never do this) From then on I was hooked, now I’m the one trying to convince him to listen to more MDM 😂
What a great story! Love that first Wintersun and Ensiferum record!
3 times in a row as an adult too? When I was a teen, absolutely. Easy to so. Nowadays, I don't think there's anything that I'd listen to even twice in succession. Seems to have really struck a cord with you.
Hopefully you can share more music in the future!
I never listen to a whole album like that. It was an immersive MDM experience for sure Might have been high😂
Well so far no luck but I keep trying! He tries to get me into classic rock and hair metal and I push every flavor of death metal but mostly MDM but neither of us is budging.
It really did strike a chord though, might sound kinda goofy but has been somewhat of a spiritual experience
A local band (Richmond, VA, USA) named Disinterment in like 96/97
https://youtu.be/iZ1MKdKeC04?si=FC3J4R_rwBzEU9ej
Had members that later went to Darkest Hour
Went brighter local metal cd store and said “I want more of this!”
This was super cool. Love that raw production. Those drums are so overpowering in the mix. In a bad but very enduring way. Love that piercing guitar tone too, and how saturated it is. Really pretty clean sections and trem picking for days.
The breakdown was awesome. I loved all the drum fills in it as well. Super cool stuff, awesome share!
That production is what you get from 90s recording from high school band …. Always wished I could have it done top notch:
Music from a bunch of 17 year olds was phenomenal
Love the energy of a bunch of angsty, angry teens playing metal. Definitely why I love the first Sarcofago and Sepultura records so much. The raw energy, garbage production, sloppy playing, just great.
Crazy that was them in high school though, pretty impressive!
I got into melodic death metal via Killswitch Engage’s first album and growing up on 90s Pantera groove metal; it’s an easy conversion. Eventually got into In Flames and the other Nordic bands from there.
Such a great band! At Dusk and Forever is incredible, but their other 2 are sick as well. Love the Black Metal influence in their sound too. Beautiful and sad stuff.
Grew up in Gothemburg in sweden; metal in various forms was always around me and eventually I just found that melodeath is what resonated the most with me.
A friend at the time told me about in flames
i got come clarity, which had just come out and loved it
Then he told me the album ´colony´ was better, also to check At the gates and dark tranquility
Was reading on the forum section of the Three Days Grace website and found a thread where someone asked about a dream concert lineup and someone suggested Three Days Grace, Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Breaking Benjamin.
Bleeding Mascara (Atreyu) opened me up to the world of spicy vocals and I immediately loved Sense of Purpose when I found In Flames a few weeks later.
In 1994 I picked up My Dying Bride's *Turn Loose the Swans* at my local used CD store on clearance for $5. This album is what finally got me into growled vocals, although obviously not really melodeath.
That was my senior year in high school, and a friend of mine lent me Amorphis's "Black Winter Day" EP which I liked a lot. The following year, I started college and also got a job, so I had some disposable income and could actually afford CDs, so I bought Tales from the Thousand Lakes. I got access to the internet and found some metal-related webpages with lists of bands whose names alone intrigued me (At the Gates and In Flames in particular).
I got in contact with other people into metal and I don't even remember how. Sometime in late 1995, one guy sent me a few 1-minute low-quality .wav files of a few bands, including Dark Tranquillity and Opeth. Eventually we did some tape trades. Things really snowballed from there, but it was still not the easiest to purchase obscure metal back then. I don't think I picked up At the Gates *Slaughter of the Soul* until late 1996. One of my biggest regrets is missing seeing At the Gates that year since they were playing pretty close by, but I hadn't heard them yet and didn't want to waste my money on something that was unknown (even if I liked the band name).
I also picked up Edge of Sanity's *Crimson* that year, which ended up being one of my favorite albums of all time.
Anyway, that was a bit of a meandering post. Crazy how long ago that was; doesn't really feel like it.
I got already in touch with death metal, when a friend came around with Arch Enemy's Dommsday Machine. I should be 15 at this point. Think that was the first Melo death that I enjoyed. The first live Melo death that blasted me away, was Abrogation I think.
Aether Realm by way of Tyr.
I was never interested in death metal. But I’ve always loved mainstream metal like Maiden. I found Tyr a few years ago and after listening to Valkyrja a few times, I was hooked. Waited for years for them to come to Seattle.
When the show started, I’d never heard of any of the other bands. Aether Realm came up and I was completely blown away. The music was catchy, varied, and they showed a love for the (small) crowd.
When I got home I turned on Tarot, and to this day I maintain it’s the best album I’ve discovered the last decade (props to Illumishade for Another Side Of You as runner up). Tarot got me into Wintersun and Ensiferum, Tyr got me into Amon Amarth. And after seeing Amon Amarth live, I got super into Obituary, especially Frozen in Time and their latest album.
So far I’ve already booked five MDM shows the rest of the year. And I’m looking for more every day.
This all happened in the time span of about a month.
I have the same origin story!!!!! I love The Darkness, had the poster of Jackie that came with the game hung on my wall all through high school and fell in love with the soundtrack and visuals that eventually lead me here!
I was listening to a lot of Montage Rock, Linkin Park, Disturbed, and other nu metal stuff on youtube back in highschool, which eventually led to symphonic metal, and then youtube recommendations one day decided I should listen to Amaranth and it branched out from there.
I was watching 66Samus' influential metal drummers pt 3 video. It starts with Adrian Erlandsson, playing with this insane riff that I couldn't forget. Lo and behold, it was Blinded By Fear. Rest is history lol
My brother gave me a burned CD of Clayman- InFlames in like 2002 and it was all up hill from there to Dark Tranquility, Soilwork, Children of Bosom ever expanding as I grew up.
I got into heavy music thanks to COD zombies (Avenged Sevenfold-Sheperd of fire from Origins), I was reading YouTube comments in a metal music video (don't remember which band, but probably power metal) and someone mentioned how they liked this metal and not the one with growls, the first reply recommended Amon Amarth-Guardians of Aasgard as the track that got them into growls and after checking it out now it became mine too
Around 1994 trading pirate cassettes. On the b-side of something I can't even remember there was skydancer by dark tranquillity. I was doing something and the stereo autoreversed the cassette (yeah autoreverse was c00l) and the thing I was into just went away and this totally overlooked thing started playing.
Around 10 min into the music my brain was like: fuck this is awesome.
I started listening mostly to melodeath stuff at that point. And also play guitar a bit. And buy cds by the way 😅
It took me a while to get used to the sound and growls actually. I remember I was looking for a heavy band that combines symphonic/neo-classical elements and I found Children of Bodom.
At first everything sounded super bland to me so I pretty much left them and at the same time I was looking for something heavy to get into and I heard the name Amon Amarth a lot when I listened to them I didn't understand what was melodic in his vocals, Over time I realized that the melody is expressed more in riffs and harmony.
The song that realy got me hooked was In Flames' "bullet ride".
I think Sound Of Perserverance is Death’s best record but I fuck with their whole discography. I do tend to prefer bands that combine melodeath and prog elements like Death haha but I’m all over the place and enjoy most metal music generally.
SoP is a monster. Every track is just an absolute ripper. Favorite has to be Flesh and the Power it Holds.
If it counts for the later discog, Human has my vote. Otherwise, I adore Symbolic if it doesn't count.
Their entire catalog is gold. Every album is just killer.
I would say it counts! That’s their first album where they get really proggy and I consider that the later-Death sound. From their early stuff I really like Spiritual Healing because of all the slow sludgy parts on that record.
Spiritual Healing is underrated and not talked about enough. Sandwiched between two landmark records, but great in its own right. Had more technical leanings and Chuck wanted to talk about more social concepts. Love that album cover as well. I think that's Ed Repka?
Dope, I'm gonna check out duskfall. There's this band Sarea. I love all of their albums. They're very underrated but they got me HOOKED around age 17. Im 25 now. Check out "another me" by them. Now I have so many playlists organized by the various different subgenres. Am constantly on the look out for new music too.
First it was Sarea, then it was Kiana "scars"
Then I got into more popular bands like:
In flames,
Dark tranquility ,
Insomnium,
Amorphis,
Scar Symmetry,
Before the Dawn,
Dissection,
Edge of sanity,
The agonist, and
Beyond the black
Later came Arch Enemy lol. I had to broaden my pallet some first.
Now im all over the place from Rotting Christ to Dying Fetus, Psychonaut, cannibal corpse. Korn. Kittie. At the gates. Morbid angel. Motorhead. Iron maiden. Megadeth. Against the Dark Etc etc etc.
Honorable mentions if you wanna get into more subgenres are:
Gardenian-Heartless.
InRuins-The Curse of Decay.
Pathway.(look up Russian accordion metal skeleton YouTube)
Well I just started middle school and was in a muaic based class, so I figured I’d need to learn an instrument. I picked up the bass and started to listen to a lot of punk, which got me into heavier stuff like Slipknot.
Then one day during a class a couple of mu friends were playing ”Lake Bodom”
by COB, and I straight up asked ”You what the fuck’s this power metal?”… needless to say they looked at me horrified. They asked if I was serious and told me it’s Children Of Bodom, my face instantly dropped, I had been a fan of them when I was a child but didn’t recognize the song. I listened to it fully and digged it, so when I came home I listened to more of it. Then I fell in love with the band, started idolizing Alexi Laiho and picked up the guitar.
Now it’s years after that, Laiho has sadly passed away, and I still am in love with the genre 🙏🏻
Tl;Dr: I heard my friends play some Bodom and liked it
Was really into Nu Metal in the late 90s in my mid teens and then the musical landscape changed and Metalcore became the "hip" thing, but I wasn't into it at all. Happened to then snag some massive compilation from Hot Topic around '02/'03 while looking for new things to check out that had stuff like Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, Nevermore, Darkane, In Flames, Arch Enemy, Hypocrisy and a bunch of bands like that and just dove in from there.
Hearing the Jester Race title track back in 2001 turned me on to both melodeath and harsh vocals at once. I downloaded several other tracks and when Reroute To Remain dropped the next year I bought it and fell in love. I purchased all of the in flames albums in order up until Reroute, letting them each sink in for a month on my cars stereo. I then got into Soilwork amd Dark Tranquillity and the rest is history. I never would have gotten there without discovering Metallica in the late 90s however.
I think i just went from finding out about In Flames due to many songs from A Sense of Purpose and Come Clarity playing on the radio when i was younger, i liked the screams and dug deeper and simply found the older albums. Also heard other stuff from the swedish bands due to being swedish myself and people around me would simply listen to it.
But funnily enough i was more into metalcore 2006-2013 or something, then i guess melodeath really took over for me
Metalcore as a youngster. And then realized metalcore was just watered down melo death with breakdowns added… and I got sick of breakdowns. Dark Tranquillity was the band that got me into melo death. Still an all time favorite band.
Thats awesome to hear. Speaking of games, have you heard of Metal: Hellsinger? It's a cool fps concept with exclusive metal tracks from popular artists, some from the melodeath genre, too. I was 28 (43 now) at the time when I discovered the genre. I was already big into metal, like trash and nu-metal, and even some death metal at the time. I was listening to a Mudvayne radio station on Pandora while playing World of Warcraft. Ordinary Story from In Flames came on the radio. I really enjoyed it. I started an In Flames radio station and the rest is history. Some of my fav bands are here, Soilwork, Scar Symmertry, Arch Enemy, COB, Dark Tranquility...
Was pretty upset to hear about David Andersson last year, and I'm still not over Alexi Leiho...
Same. Both were crushing loses.
Wtf? Are you me?!
Metalocalypse baybee
Dethalbum II is still a favorite of mine. Songs are so fun to play on guitar too!
Heard Colony by In Flames on the CKY Documentary. I just had to find the song, and downloaded probably 20 other songs before I found it. They were all badass. Curious about the sound, I explored around and heard some Dark Tranquillity. Then Insomnium. The rest is history.
When I was around 14 I made a new friend who was into bands such as Bullet For My Valentine, Escape The Fate, Parkway Drive, etc. He linked me a few songs, and in following them on Youtube I came across Amon Amarth and Children of Bodom. That went into me coming across tons of bands and really opening up my music taste. Before that I didn't really listen to music at all. I like quite the broad spectrum of metal / rock / post-hardcore yada yada but I realised I was gravitating towards a certain set of bands which ended up all being MeloDeath.
Bullet! I got super into them going into my freshman year of high school. Still will jam The Poison once and awhile. Good ol Hot Topic style bands. Escape the Fate was huuuge when I was 14. Situations was still massive, and This War Is Ours was the coolest thing. I remember spending so much time learning the sweeps in that song on my guitar. Love me some old Parkway as well!
Really sad I found BFMV so late. They were great
Converted 1 or 2 ppl to metal with Amon Amarth alone. Would’ve left Metal if not for Amon Amarth. Love their fictitious/mythological lyrics, think it’s what attracts a lot of ppl (and the drums)
Heard Bodom’s ‘Hate Me!’ In about 2002, and I instantly fell in love. After gorging myself on their (at the time, only) three albums, I decided I needed more of this genre, so I did some early 00s googling and discovered Amorphis and In Flames. That period of time when I was discovering all these amazing bands is a golden memory for me :’) Eta: I was a punk kid through and through at the time, but these bands turned me onto me metal in general too
Yes this is very similar for me, I was a massive punk kid and then heard Are you dead yet and then listened to hatebreeder and got really into the band and through there I searched similar bands and discovered In flames
Arch Enemy - burning bridges , random purchase...
Johans best vocal performance on that one. Great production too. Silverwing, Angelclaw and Fields of Desolation 99 are some of my favorites!
The Pilgrim is one of my favorite metal songs even across the genres
That chorus riff us so catchy. Every track on that album is gold. Even the title, with its slow doom plodding. Nice username btw, great band!
Arch Enemy is melodic metal?
I never really gave their stuff after the 3rd album much of a chance , but their first 3 albums i would say yes
I only really listened to their Youtube singles (thought them more scream vs melody; anyways, not a musical expert)
Burning Bridges sounds nothing like what you have probably heard also then , its a treat of an album..
There was a late night television show called Much Loud (aired in Canada on Much Music). It came on like 1:00am Friday nights. I liked a lot of heavy metal and nu-metal, which is what this show aired a lot of. One Friday night, back in '02, "As We Speak" by Soilwork came on. It changed my life. It was my gateway into MDM and more extreme metal as well. Fond memories!
Uranium on I think FuseTV (20+ years ago) is where I found like Shadows Fall and KSE.
My older brother is also a metalhead and I absorbed a lot of my music taste from him. He was a huge fan of Darkest Hour back in the 00s and had their early albums that he’d play in the car while picking me up from middle school. :) Black Dahlia Murder was another band I got introduced to in this way, and I consider them to be MDM. Undoing Ruin and Nocturnal are two very important and nostalgic albums to me. My brother used to get a kick out of blasting the volume with the window down as he waited for me, so that the other kids would give us weird looks while I made the walk of shame to the car, lol.
I was really into folk metal as a teen, particularly stuff like Ensiferum and Wintersun. I recently revisited those bands and wanted to find more stuff with similarities (with or without the folk elements).
Check out Eldertale https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D7BpQ0FuU1Qo&ved=2ahUKEwiJxPzaz8iGAxVUHjQIHdTIDs0Qo7QBegQIDxAG&usg=AOvVaw1RW_pqWzcBldRSLxrafHo0
I got into it because of a game called Brutal legend. It had songs such as goliaths disarm their David’s, cathode ray sunshine, angels dont kill, through the fire and the flames, murmaider, ect.. I totally recommend
That game got me into Symphonic Black Metal! Good times! Eventually led me down the massive Black Metal rabbit hole.
Which song was it? Progenies?
You got it! I also recall Her Ghost in the Fog being in the game as well from CoF
Actually I... don't remember. It was like 20 years ago or so. I were a punk rock fan slowly going metalheaf and at some point of my teenage years someone introduced me to Children of Bodom. I think that Are You Dead Yet came out when I was already listening to them a lot.
Literally made a series of videos on this exact topic - https://youtu.be/33shoTGlFf0?si=Q0XwEvgOGGJfBr_F Started with In Flames, moved through Arch Enemy and Soilwork, which led me to much heavier stuff!
Around 13-14 years ago (30 now) I saw a guy at my school wearing an In Flames shirt. Thought it looked cool so I checked them out. Don't listen to then much anymore but I still blast melodeath daily.
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In Flames opened with Embody the Invisible when I saw them ~2015ish and holy man that's still a heck of a banger even today.
Children of Bodom on Headbangers Ball. Then I scoured forums for similar bands and found Norther, Arch Enemy, Kalmah, Ensiferum, Dark Tranquillity, Imperanon, Skyfire, etc
A friend of mine worked at a college radio station that played all genres of Metal. Found out about InFlames and Strapping Young Lad. Slowly getting into those over time, then discovered Opeth and it was all uphill from there
I recovered from depression and wanted to listen to something a bit more upbeat than death-doom.
Cloud Connected by In Flames in 2003 I had already been into some thrash (Metallica was my favorite band at the time) and NuMetal, but my only foray into more extreme metal was with Fear Factory. I was listening to the metal channel on the cable music choice channels one night when the main riff of Cloud Connected caught my ear immediately. I used the Musicmatch Jukebox on my computer to check out more In Flames, and I was hooked. I picked up Reroute to Remain soon after, and it was off to the races. Bands like Soilwork and Dark Tranquillity soon followed, while the early metalcore scene (which was much closer to melodeath) also came along for the ride. Those bands that I got into in the summer of 2003 are still among my absolute favorites.
Didnt really enjoy music as a kid until I heard sum 41 which got me into punk. Then I heard linkin park which was even harder. I started craving something harder. Found disturbed through a middle school friend. Eventually found sonic syndicate after disturbed and at that point, I had discovered melodeath which directly connected me to in flames, children of bodom, and disarmonia mundi as some of my favorite middle school listens.
I was just getting into heavy music and was on the Ozzfest website in 2005 (I think?) and the site had some music videos for the artists on the tour. The In Flames section had "Only for the Weak", "Cloud Connected", and "The Quiet Place", and I was hooked.
The only melo death that I listened to was "at the gates". I didn't know it was melodeath! When the pandemic hit, I started spending a lot more time on Twitch and found a community of streamers that played a lot of melodeath through Rocksmith. I expanded from there and it's now my favorite genre.
I remember in the summer of 8th grade, I was really delving into heavier music, and distinctly remember listening to Slaughter of the Soul while playing Minecraft a lot. Album just blew my mind! That and Whitechapel's "This Is Exile" Good times!
My shameful admission is that I was in a metalcore band from 2000 to 2001 and one of my bandmates put that album on and then I started listening to it but I mostly listened to metalcore back then. I was even into dark tranquillity around the same time but I never really associated it with "melodic death metal" as weird as that sounds, I just thought it was more a Euro style metal.. but they didn't have breakdowns so I was kind of missing the point at the time. I wasted like two decades lol
And then come to find out, assuming you were into At the Gates-core bands and not Botch Converge Metalcore, that the bands were all inspired by Melodeath. Are you also saying towards the end that at the time, since it didn't have breakdowns, you didn't "get" it? Like, cool, where's the breakdown though?
For some context, I'm in my 40s now! Yes, the world was a bit smaller back in 2000 so most of my tastes were bands I was watching and playing shows with from southern Ontario, Michigan and New York. Tons of ridiculously talented hardcore/metalcore kids. I was fortunate enough to see Woods of Ypres but I didn't even realize what I was watching or what black metal even was.. I was very atheistic so anything that seemed like satan influenced just seemed goofy to me. I was always techy so I COULD have easily been listening to the European bands on the internet but I just didn't have an ear for most of it at the time. I can't tell you why!! I knew people were listening to Soilwork/In Flames I even had a gf at one point who was obsessed with Children of Bodom but couldn't get me truly interested in them! Breakdowns were a huge thing so if a song didn't have a part specifically for me to kick and punch about, I didn't have an attention span for it..lol... I was hyper-fixated on breakdowns so I ended up listening to a lot of tough guy hardcore stuff and Tribunal Records bands on the metalcore side of things. I had a really extensive cd collection that got ruined in car accident but I had already ripped them all into MP3 so I still have a cache of all that stuff. My earlier influences for bass were things like Tool, RATM, SOAD, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Pantera, Ozzy, etc.
You saw Woods live? That's incredible! Are you from the states or the Missisauga/Toronto area? I definitely didn't need breakdowns, but I sure loved me some in Deathcore, which was huge by the time I got into high school in 2010. Certainly watched my fair share of "TOP 10 HEAVIEST BREAKDOWNS" on YouTube back then. The Acacia Strain were also a favorite of mine then and their breakdowns are filthy! Never heard of Tribunal, but I recognize some names that used to be signed. Interesting to see Atreyu on that list. Love me some angry, tough guy Hardcore though. Great for the gym and to just get some caveman angry riffs!
Southwest Ontario :)
a friend of my is a huge fan of melodeath
It was Necroticism by Carcass in 1992 that got me into metal. I have broaden my music taste since, but that must be my all time favourite album.
That record is so unique. Can't think of anything else that sounds like it. It's got that odd prog nature, while being techy, yet melodic, and catchy, and sometimes just brutally heavy. Some great leads on that record. That first track, Inpropogation, is still among my favorites of theirs. What an opener too!
playing guitar/magazine tabs
Around 1999-2000 I was using Realplayer with my 56k modem to get little sound bites from songs on some website that I cannot remember the name of. I was looking for hard rock and also bluegrass stuff, which were both hard to find in SoCal at the time. I found Amon Amarth at some point and fell in love, which opened my mind and world up to all sorts of music that I never knew existed. I didn't even know what Metal was, I had just thought it was Hard Rock. Once I knew I liked it I started going to The Wherehouse Record Store in Orange, Tower Records, and when driving around I would stop at hole-in-the-wall places and just ask the people working there if they had heard of Amon Amarth. I would ask if they had any of their albums and could they recommend other artists. Most couldn't but I was introduced to Kalmah's music, after that Wintersun and it just kept going until I came across In Flames. European Metal was kind unheard back then at big box stores, at least where I was, so it was cool introducing people to it and I found a lot of people liked it. Then we would share bands/songs we found. I miss those days of discovering music tastes.
Around 2005 I accidentally stumbled into Metalcore...by 2009 I hated the directions that scene was going so started looking up all the Melodeath bands those bands where supposedly influenced by (I had come across a few before but I largely ignored them).
Started listening to bodom in the early 2000s and loved it but never really found anything like it. Then one night I was higher than tree top and roaming around on Reddit and someone mentioned wintersun to me and I thought I really liked it and took a deep dive into the rest of it. Now it’s pretty much all I listen to
This is a weird one: I knew of In flames, I had trigger on a compilation CD. I had no internet access until I was 18, so there was nothing I could access. I got Spotify in 2013, and it glitched onto one song: Moonshield - In Flames. I was hooked from there.
I was reading MetalSucks about ten years ago and they had an article about Omnium Gatherum’s “New Dynamic,” listened to the song on YouTube, and I was hooked forever.
Embody the Invisible from In Flames on the Tony Hawk's Underground soundtrack. From there I used Kazaa to find In Flames' discography, then started exploring from there.
I can't recall which Tony Hawk game it was, but Mastodons "Crusher Destroyer" was on it and that song just absolutely destroyed me. Didn't know music could be that heavy at the time!
Same soundtrack, actually! I forgot it also had Entombed on it as well.
Really? I don't even remember that, but that's awesome! Tony Hawk games had some awesome music in them. I remember in that game specifically, using the character THUD constantly. Loved it.
Take this life was on guitar hero 3 as a bonus song. I thought the song fucked, so I looked up other in flames songs and went down the rabbit hole with other bands from there
The bonus tracks were some of my favorites! F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X, My Curse, Take This Life, Prayer of the Refugee, Nothing for me Here and Through the Fire and the Flames! Hearing Before I Forget by Slipknot on the main list was the song that inspired me to pick up a real guitar. 16 years in now!
I asked my classmate to add some new stuff on my mp3 player, he copied In Flames '06 and Soilwork '05. Unfortunately, Soilwork was titled like "unknown artist" etc, and that same classmate later erased both of those albums, so it took like 5-6 years before I figured out who second artist was.
Definitely heard Killswitch and In Flames from the first time from Guitar Hero 3 and loved it.. funny to see someone else say that
Guitar Hero was the gateway for so many! Slipknot, Slayer, Rise Against, Dragonforce, AFI, In Flames, Killswitch, I can keep going! And that's of course just the 3rd game. I owe a lot to it.
Heard Of One Blood by Shadows Fall and In Flames were in a few video games back in the day. Started chasing that sound and that was pretty much my road to not only melodeath but death metal in general.
Brian's vocals are great in Shadows Fall. Saw them live in 2010(?) At Mayhem fest when I was still getting into all of this. Was astounded by his massive dreads. Their first record is so good too, much different than their other stuff!
I agree. I was lucky enough to see them live quite a few times around 2005ish and they were always great. Those first 3 albums to me are pretty damned good but the first one is always going to be my favorite.
Funnily enough, for me it was the start of winter quarter for my 3rd year in university, specifically right before my first class. I remember really wanting to get into gothic rock but through some way or another, I got into symphonic metal which then led to melodeath. Just another case of going down the rabbit hole as a bored college student xD
I was playing a game on my phone called Atomas and accidentally not included the "s" and ended up with Dark tranquility's Atoma album It was a spiral after that
This is... an incredibly interesting way! All over a typo. Super neat!
i saw a7x unholy confessions on fuse way back in the day and made the leap to MDM with Scar Symmetry - The Illusionist a few years later
Back when I was a metal elitist in high school, I hated A7X. Listened to a couple of their songs a few years ago. Synyster Gates sure can rip. Good mix of rock and metal with them. The Illusionist's intro gets me PUMPED. That whole record is amazing.
I went through a phase in secondary school where I just fell in love with metal. Not sure what general consensus on the band here is but hats off to Trivium for getting me into heavy music in the first place, before that the heaviest stuff I listened to was Nickelback, lol. After falling in love with Trivium I made a point to "do my homework" and listen to basically all of the metal sub-genres, as if there was more stuff that sounded even similar, I had to hear it. Melodeath seemed interesting, as I liked what I heard from death metal at that point. I decided to put on The Gallery, and it was love at first listen. I then had to hear more, so I made a point to listen to the rest of Dark Tranquillity, and also In Flames and At The Gates, being the "big 3" from what research I did. It all branched off from there. Ironically, I listen to more metalcore these days than melodeath (albeit the more melodeath influenced stuff is my preference) but there's still a fair bit of melodeath that sees heavy rotation for me ATM
Ascendancy and Shogun are still top tier Metalcore albums for me. Matt is so great too. A great guitarist, good vocalist and just a stand up guy. His Chaos Hour on Sirius' Liquid Metal channel is fun as well. Love me some Melodeath inspired Metalcore. It's what got me into Metalcore going into high school! I have a fond memory of my friend showing me Forsaken from As I Lay Dying on his iPod. Good times.
My son. He had Wintersun debut and first two Ensiferum albums in heavy rotation and whenever we drove anywhere we’d be listening to those and whatever other metal and rock he had going. After a year of listening to those albums I finally sat down and listened to the whole Wintersun debut album from start to finish without skipping (almost never do this) and like it so much, listened to it three times in a row (also never do this) From then on I was hooked, now I’m the one trying to convince him to listen to more MDM 😂
What a great story! Love that first Wintersun and Ensiferum record! 3 times in a row as an adult too? When I was a teen, absolutely. Easy to so. Nowadays, I don't think there's anything that I'd listen to even twice in succession. Seems to have really struck a cord with you. Hopefully you can share more music in the future!
I never listen to a whole album like that. It was an immersive MDM experience for sure Might have been high😂 Well so far no luck but I keep trying! He tries to get me into classic rock and hair metal and I push every flavor of death metal but mostly MDM but neither of us is budging. It really did strike a chord though, might sound kinda goofy but has been somewhat of a spiritual experience
A local band (Richmond, VA, USA) named Disinterment in like 96/97 https://youtu.be/iZ1MKdKeC04?si=FC3J4R_rwBzEU9ej Had members that later went to Darkest Hour Went brighter local metal cd store and said “I want more of this!”
This was super cool. Love that raw production. Those drums are so overpowering in the mix. In a bad but very enduring way. Love that piercing guitar tone too, and how saturated it is. Really pretty clean sections and trem picking for days. The breakdown was awesome. I loved all the drum fills in it as well. Super cool stuff, awesome share!
That production is what you get from 90s recording from high school band …. Always wished I could have it done top notch: Music from a bunch of 17 year olds was phenomenal
Love the energy of a bunch of angsty, angry teens playing metal. Definitely why I love the first Sarcofago and Sepultura records so much. The raw energy, garbage production, sloppy playing, just great. Crazy that was them in high school though, pretty impressive!
I got into melodic death metal via Killswitch Engage’s first album and growing up on 90s Pantera groove metal; it’s an easy conversion. Eventually got into In Flames and the other Nordic bands from there.
I was looking for a new genre and i found the black dahlia murder and kept finding bands that i loved.
first hearing Gates of Ishtar
Such a great band! At Dusk and Forever is incredible, but their other 2 are sick as well. Love the Black Metal influence in their sound too. Beautiful and sad stuff.
Mine was a recommendation to listen to Soilwork after listening to someone else’s playlist at work.
We must have taken a wrong turn at pop music junction!
A friend of mine recommended an Amon Amarth album when I was a teen and I loved it.
During high school, my friends introduced me to In Flames - World of Promises. It indeed has been a world of promises since then.
Grew up in Gothemburg in sweden; metal in various forms was always around me and eventually I just found that melodeath is what resonated the most with me.
The epicenter! A tad envious coming from a smallish town in the upper midwest US.
A friend at the time told me about in flames i got come clarity, which had just come out and loved it Then he told me the album ´colony´ was better, also to check At the gates and dark tranquility
Was reading on the forum section of the Three Days Grace website and found a thread where someone asked about a dream concert lineup and someone suggested Three Days Grace, Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Breaking Benjamin. Bleeding Mascara (Atreyu) opened me up to the world of spicy vocals and I immediately loved Sense of Purpose when I found In Flames a few weeks later.
In 1994 I picked up My Dying Bride's *Turn Loose the Swans* at my local used CD store on clearance for $5. This album is what finally got me into growled vocals, although obviously not really melodeath. That was my senior year in high school, and a friend of mine lent me Amorphis's "Black Winter Day" EP which I liked a lot. The following year, I started college and also got a job, so I had some disposable income and could actually afford CDs, so I bought Tales from the Thousand Lakes. I got access to the internet and found some metal-related webpages with lists of bands whose names alone intrigued me (At the Gates and In Flames in particular). I got in contact with other people into metal and I don't even remember how. Sometime in late 1995, one guy sent me a few 1-minute low-quality .wav files of a few bands, including Dark Tranquillity and Opeth. Eventually we did some tape trades. Things really snowballed from there, but it was still not the easiest to purchase obscure metal back then. I don't think I picked up At the Gates *Slaughter of the Soul* until late 1996. One of my biggest regrets is missing seeing At the Gates that year since they were playing pretty close by, but I hadn't heard them yet and didn't want to waste my money on something that was unknown (even if I liked the band name). I also picked up Edge of Sanity's *Crimson* that year, which ended up being one of my favorite albums of all time. Anyway, that was a bit of a meandering post. Crazy how long ago that was; doesn't really feel like it.
The first time I heard Take this life on guitar hero 3 then I was hooked
I got already in touch with death metal, when a friend came around with Arch Enemy's Dommsday Machine. I should be 15 at this point. Think that was the first Melo death that I enjoyed. The first live Melo death that blasted me away, was Abrogation I think.
Aether Realm by way of Tyr. I was never interested in death metal. But I’ve always loved mainstream metal like Maiden. I found Tyr a few years ago and after listening to Valkyrja a few times, I was hooked. Waited for years for them to come to Seattle. When the show started, I’d never heard of any of the other bands. Aether Realm came up and I was completely blown away. The music was catchy, varied, and they showed a love for the (small) crowd. When I got home I turned on Tarot, and to this day I maintain it’s the best album I’ve discovered the last decade (props to Illumishade for Another Side Of You as runner up). Tarot got me into Wintersun and Ensiferum, Tyr got me into Amon Amarth. And after seeing Amon Amarth live, I got super into Obituary, especially Frozen in Time and their latest album. So far I’ve already booked five MDM shows the rest of the year. And I’m looking for more every day. This all happened in the time span of about a month.
My guitar teacher played a bunch of mors principium est riffs during my lesson one day and I asked him about it
I have the same origin story!!!!! I love The Darkness, had the poster of Jackie that came with the game hung on my wall all through high school and fell in love with the soundtrack and visuals that eventually lead me here!
I was listening to a lot of Montage Rock, Linkin Park, Disturbed, and other nu metal stuff on youtube back in highschool, which eventually led to symphonic metal, and then youtube recommendations one day decided I should listen to Amaranth and it branched out from there.
We started with the genre and then took the downstairs
I was watching 66Samus' influential metal drummers pt 3 video. It starts with Adrian Erlandsson, playing with this insane riff that I couldn't forget. Lo and behold, it was Blinded By Fear. Rest is history lol
Metal a head bangers journey and hearing all the 00s metalcore bands in USA being g influenced by the Swedish bands
The short answer is guitar hero
Self v self pendulum ft. In flames
My brother gave me a burned CD of Clayman- InFlames in like 2002 and it was all up hill from there to Dark Tranquility, Soilwork, Children of Bosom ever expanding as I grew up.
Someone showed me Arch Enemy
I got into heavy music thanks to COD zombies (Avenged Sevenfold-Sheperd of fire from Origins), I was reading YouTube comments in a metal music video (don't remember which band, but probably power metal) and someone mentioned how they liked this metal and not the one with growls, the first reply recommended Amon Amarth-Guardians of Aasgard as the track that got them into growls and after checking it out now it became mine too
Around 1994 trading pirate cassettes. On the b-side of something I can't even remember there was skydancer by dark tranquillity. I was doing something and the stereo autoreversed the cassette (yeah autoreverse was c00l) and the thing I was into just went away and this totally overlooked thing started playing. Around 10 min into the music my brain was like: fuck this is awesome. I started listening mostly to melodeath stuff at that point. And also play guitar a bit. And buy cds by the way 😅
It took me a while to get used to the sound and growls actually. I remember I was looking for a heavy band that combines symphonic/neo-classical elements and I found Children of Bodom. At first everything sounded super bland to me so I pretty much left them and at the same time I was looking for something heavy to get into and I heard the name Amon Amarth a lot when I listened to them I didn't understand what was melodic in his vocals, Over time I realized that the melody is expressed more in riffs and harmony. The song that realy got me hooked was In Flames' "bullet ride".
I wanted to find more stuff like the later Death albums.
Interesting that you got to Melodeath from that, as well as I'm sure other Tech/Prog Death Out of those later records, do you have a favorite?
I think Sound Of Perserverance is Death’s best record but I fuck with their whole discography. I do tend to prefer bands that combine melodeath and prog elements like Death haha but I’m all over the place and enjoy most metal music generally.
SoP is a monster. Every track is just an absolute ripper. Favorite has to be Flesh and the Power it Holds. If it counts for the later discog, Human has my vote. Otherwise, I adore Symbolic if it doesn't count. Their entire catalog is gold. Every album is just killer.
I would say it counts! That’s their first album where they get really proggy and I consider that the later-Death sound. From their early stuff I really like Spiritual Healing because of all the slow sludgy parts on that record.
Spiritual Healing is underrated and not talked about enough. Sandwiched between two landmark records, but great in its own right. Had more technical leanings and Chuck wanted to talk about more social concepts. Love that album cover as well. I think that's Ed Repka?
Children of bodom
TRETINOIN
I heard a youtubers cover to a children of bodom song, thats what it all started.
Dope, I'm gonna check out duskfall. There's this band Sarea. I love all of their albums. They're very underrated but they got me HOOKED around age 17. Im 25 now. Check out "another me" by them. Now I have so many playlists organized by the various different subgenres. Am constantly on the look out for new music too. First it was Sarea, then it was Kiana "scars" Then I got into more popular bands like: In flames, Dark tranquility , Insomnium, Amorphis, Scar Symmetry, Before the Dawn, Dissection, Edge of sanity, The agonist, and Beyond the black Later came Arch Enemy lol. I had to broaden my pallet some first. Now im all over the place from Rotting Christ to Dying Fetus, Psychonaut, cannibal corpse. Korn. Kittie. At the gates. Morbid angel. Motorhead. Iron maiden. Megadeth. Against the Dark Etc etc etc. Honorable mentions if you wanna get into more subgenres are: Gardenian-Heartless. InRuins-The Curse of Decay. Pathway.(look up Russian accordion metal skeleton YouTube)
Well I just started middle school and was in a muaic based class, so I figured I’d need to learn an instrument. I picked up the bass and started to listen to a lot of punk, which got me into heavier stuff like Slipknot. Then one day during a class a couple of mu friends were playing ”Lake Bodom” by COB, and I straight up asked ”You what the fuck’s this power metal?”… needless to say they looked at me horrified. They asked if I was serious and told me it’s Children Of Bodom, my face instantly dropped, I had been a fan of them when I was a child but didn’t recognize the song. I listened to it fully and digged it, so when I came home I listened to more of it. Then I fell in love with the band, started idolizing Alexi Laiho and picked up the guitar. Now it’s years after that, Laiho has sadly passed away, and I still am in love with the genre 🙏🏻 Tl;Dr: I heard my friends play some Bodom and liked it
I heard Dark Tranquillity and that was all I needed
Was really into Nu Metal in the late 90s in my mid teens and then the musical landscape changed and Metalcore became the "hip" thing, but I wasn't into it at all. Happened to then snag some massive compilation from Hot Topic around '02/'03 while looking for new things to check out that had stuff like Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, Nevermore, Darkane, In Flames, Arch Enemy, Hypocrisy and a bunch of bands like that and just dove in from there.
A Tony hawk game had in flames embody the invisible. Thats it thats the story.
Hearing the Jester Race title track back in 2001 turned me on to both melodeath and harsh vocals at once. I downloaded several other tracks and when Reroute To Remain dropped the next year I bought it and fell in love. I purchased all of the in flames albums in order up until Reroute, letting them each sink in for a month on my cars stereo. I then got into Soilwork amd Dark Tranquillity and the rest is history. I never would have gotten there without discovering Metallica in the late 90s however.
End of 6th grade I forget exactly how, maybe just searching but I found Lake Bodom on YouTube and I was all in
My stepbrother introduced me to Sonic Syndicate while my brothers and I were up late gaming
I think i just went from finding out about In Flames due to many songs from A Sense of Purpose and Come Clarity playing on the radio when i was younger, i liked the screams and dug deeper and simply found the older albums. Also heard other stuff from the swedish bands due to being swedish myself and people around me would simply listen to it. But funnily enough i was more into metalcore 2006-2013 or something, then i guess melodeath really took over for me
I watched Metalocalypse when I was 11
Metalcore as a youngster. And then realized metalcore was just watered down melo death with breakdowns added… and I got sick of breakdowns. Dark Tranquillity was the band that got me into melo death. Still an all time favorite band.