Melodic Death Metal

Subgenre of death metal. Emerged 1990. Wikipedia

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72 artists with 2.2M combined listeners. 79% of them sit in the Black Metal / Melodic Death Metal / Blackgaze community on the map. It shares the most artists with Melodic Metalcore.

Where Melodic Death Metal sits on the map

• Black Metal / Melodic Death Metal / Blackgaze · 57 artists (79%)
• Progressive Metal / Progressive Rock / Prog Metal · 4 artists (6%)
• Melbourne Bounce / Melbourne Bounce International / Slap House · 2 artists (3%)
• Power Metal / Fantasy Metal / Symphonic Rock · 2 artists (3%)
• Math Rock / Japanese Shoegaze / Japanese Math Rock · 2 artists (3%)
• Modern Rock / American Metalcore / Metalcore · 1 artists (1%)

Strongest pairings in Melodic Death Metal

Melodic Death Metal artists who most often share real, user-made playlists.

1. Arch Enemy & Amon Amarth · 68 shared playlists
2. Children of Bodom & Amon Amarth · 39 shared playlists
3. Arch Enemy & Insomnium · 36 shared playlists
4. Arch Enemy & Children of Bodom · 36 shared playlists
5. Insomnium & Dark Tranquillity · 35 shared playlists
6. Insomnium & Amon Amarth · 33 shared playlists
7. Arch Enemy & Dark Tranquillity · 33 shared playlists
8. Insomnium & Children of Bodom · 31 shared playlists
9. Insomnium & Amorphis · 28 shared playlists
10. Dark Tranquillity & At the Gates · 27 shared playlists

Related genres

Genres that share the most artists with Melodic Death Metal, for their size.

• Melodic Metalcore · 17 shared artistsBoth: Children of Bodom, Dark Tranquillity, Amorphis
• Melodic Metal · 11 shared artistsBoth: Soilwork, Wintersun, Be'lakor
• Swedish Melodeath · 10 shared artistsBoth: Dark Tranquillity, Hypocrisy, Omnium Gatherum
• Finnish Metal · 8 shared artistsBoth: Wintersun, Sentenced, Before the Dawn
• Symphonic Black Metal · 3 shared artistsBoth: chthonic, Sacramentum, Stormkeep
• Finnish Melodeath · 2 shared artistsBoth: Parasite Inc., Dawn Of Solace
• Swedish Doom Metal · 3 shared artistsBoth: Draconian, Daylight Dies, Nailed To Obscurity
• Death Metal · 3 shared artistsBoth: At the Gates, Before the Dawn, This Ending

Artists

72 artists tagged Melodic Death Metal, ranked by listeners.

1. Arch Enemy397.9K listeners · Metal
2. Amon Amarth364.5K listeners · Metal
3. Children of Bodom351.8K listeners
4. Dark Tranquillity104.8K listeners
5. Amorphis99.9K listeners
6. Soilwork73.4K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
7. Insomnium73.4K listeners
8. Hypocrisy69.8K listeners
9. Rotting Christ56.1K listeners · Black Metal
10. The Agonist51.7K listeners · Canadian Metal
11. Wintersun45.9K listeners
12. Kataklysm40.3K listeners
13. Draconian38.1K listeners · Gothic Metal
14. At the Gates33.1K listeners
15. Kalmah25.8K listeners
16. Scar Symmetry22.3K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
17. Sylosis20.3K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
18. Sentenced20.2K listeners · Gothic Metal
19. Be'lakor19.6K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
20. Borknagar18.1K listeners · Black Metal
21. The Unguided17.3K listeners
22. Omnium Gatherum16.2K listeners
23. Norther15.0K listeners
24. Mors Principium Est15.0K listeners
25. In Mourning12.9K listeners
26. Before the Dawn12.8K listeners
27. The Halo Effect10.9K listeners · Metalcore
28. Wolfheart10.3K listeners
29. Graveworm9.7K listeners · Symphonic Metal
30. Lucidious9.5K listeners · Emo Rap
31. Austrian Death Machine8.9K listeners · Metalcore
32. Eternal Tears of Sorrow8.9K listeners
33. Lawrence8.6K listeners · Pop
34. Sybreed8.5K listeners
35. Mnemic8.0K listeners · Groove Metal
36. Dark Lunacy7.4K listeners
37. Edge Of Sanity7.3K listeners
38. Aephanemer6.9K listeners
39. Disarmonia Mundi6.5K listeners
40. chthonic6.0K listeners
41. Parasite Inc.5.8K listeners
42. Bloodred Hourglass5.6K listeners
43. Shylmagoghnar5.1K listeners
44. Catamenia5.0K listeners
45. Mercenary4.9K listeners
46. Shade Empire4.7K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
47. Nightrage4.7K listeners
48. Daylight Dies3.9K listeners · Swedish Doom Metal
49. Brymir3.6K listeners · Symphonic Metal
50. Fractal Gates3.5K listeners
51. Aeternam2.7K listeners
52. Noumena2.3K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
53. Sacramentum2.2K listeners
54. Dawn Of Solace2.1K listeners
55. Edge of Paradise1.9K listeners · Industrial Metal
56. Gormathon1.9K listeners
57. Nightfall1.8K listeners · German Metal
58. Nailed To Obscurity1.7K listeners
59. Deals Death1.6K listeners
60. Mörk Gryning1.5K listeners
61. Words Of Farewell1.5K listeners
62. Stormkeep1.5K listeners
63. Imperanon1.2K listeners
64. Pamplemousse1.0K listeners · Swedish Melodeath
65. Aetherian1.0K listeners · Swedish Melodeath
66. Candlelight1.0K listeners
67. Thanh Nguyen1.0K listeners
68. Meadows End1.0K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
69. This Ending1.0K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
70. Ceremonial Oath1.0K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
71. Eucharist1.0K listeners
72. Duskmourn1.0K listeners