Melodic Metal

Subgenre of metal music that combines the heavy, distorted guitars and aggressive vocals of traditional metal with the melodic, harmonic, and often progressive elements of other genres.

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40 artists with 955.4K combined listeners. 40% of them sit in the Black Metal / Melodic Death Metal / Blackgaze community on the map. It shares the most artists with Melodic Death Metal.

Where Melodic Metal sits on the map

• Black Metal / Melodic Death Metal / Blackgaze · 16 artists (40%)
• Power Metal / Fantasy Metal / Symphonic Rock · 13 artists (33%)
• Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal / Old School Thrash · 3 artists (8%)
• Metalcore / Melodic Metalcore / Alternative Metal · 2 artists (5%)
• Modern Blues / Modern Blues Rock / Roots Rock · 1 artists (3%)
• Old School Thrash / Thrash Metal / Crossover Thrash · 1 artists (3%)

Strongest pairings in Melodic Metal

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

1. Behemoth & Septicflesh · 9 shared playlists
2. Mors Principium Est & Eternal Tears of Sorrow · 8 shared playlists
3. Wintersun & Finntroll · 8 shared playlists
4. Be'lakor & Shylmagoghnar · 7 shared playlists
5. Avatar & Infected Rain · 7 shared playlists
6. Mors Principium Est & Norther · 6 shared playlists
7. Wintersun & Eternal Tears of Sorrow · 6 shared playlists
8. Wintersun & Norther · 5 shared playlists
9. Mors Principium Est & Shylmagoghnar · 5 shared playlists
10. Soilwork & Disarmonia Mundi · 5 shared playlists

Related genres

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

• Melodic Death Metal · 11 shared artistsBoth: Soilwork, Wintersun, Be'lakor
• Black Metal · 6 shared artistsBoth: Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, Septicflesh
• Symphonic Rock · 5 shared artistsBoth: ELYSION, Dark Sarah, Dominum
• Finnish Power Metal · 2 shared artistsBoth: Grimgotts, Holy Knights
• Progressive Power Metal · 2 shared artistsBoth: Pyramaze, Vandroya
• Prog Metal · 3 shared artistsBoth: Pyramaze, dEMOTIONAL, Lee McKinney
• Symphonic Power Metal · 2 shared artistsBoth: Follow The Cipher, Alterium
• Groove Metal · 2 shared artistsBoth: Cradle of Filth, Septicflesh

Artists

40 artists tagged Melodic Metal, ranked by listeners.

1. Cradle of Filth273.8K listeners · Black Metal
2. Behemoth200.1K listeners · Black Metal
3. Avatar80.1K listeners · Modern Rock
4. Soilwork73.4K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
5. Finntroll56.3K listeners · Folk Metal
6. Wintersun45.9K listeners · Melodic Death Metal
7. Septicflesh33.7K listeners · Groove Metal
8. Simone Simons29.0K listeners · Progressive Rock
9. Be'lakor19.6K listeners · Melodic Metalcore
10. Norther15.0K listeners · Melodic Death Metal
11. Mors Principium Est15.0K listeners · Melodic Death Metal
12. Infected Rain14.4K listeners
13. Raised Fist11.5K listeners · Swedish Metal
14. Kanonenfieber10.2K listeners · Canadian Metal
15. Eternal Tears of Sorrow8.9K listeners · Melodic Death Metal
16. ELYSION7.3K listeners · Symphonic Rock
17. Disarmonia Mundi6.5K listeners · Melodic Death Metal
18. Parasite Inc.5.8K listeners · Melodic Death Metal
19. Shylmagoghnar5.1K listeners · Melodic Death Metal
20. Dark Sarah4.3K listeners · Symphonic Rock
21. Follow The Cipher3.6K listeners · Fantasy Metal
22. Starbenders3.6K listeners · Swedish Power Metal
23. Gruesome3.6K listeners
24. Pyramaze3.4K listeners · Prog Metal
25. Bal-Sagoth3.1K listeners · Black Metal
26. Dominum2.5K listeners · Symphonic Rock
27. dEMOTIONAL2.5K listeners · Prog Metal
28. Vandroya2.3K listeners
29. Slice The Cake2.3K listeners · Deathcore
30. Volturian2.2K listeners · Symphonic Rock
31. Mörk Gryning1.5K listeners · Melodic Death Metal
32. Lee McKinney1.0K listeners · Gymcore
33. Pamplemousse1.0K listeners · Swedish Melodeath
34. Cold Cinema1.0K listeners · Power Metal
35. SinHeresY1.0K listeners · Hard Rock
36. Grimgotts1.0K listeners · Power Metal
37. Novantra1.0K listeners · Gothic Metal
38. Holy Knights1.0K listeners · Power Metal
39. Alterium1.0K listeners · Swedish Power Metal
40. Summoning the Lich1.0K listeners · Metalcore