Top 15 Melodic Death Metal Bands (You Probably Never Heard Of)

As the title implies, this is a personal compilation of my top 15 melodeath bands that AREN'T in the "melodeath mainstream." In this video, you won't find any Kalmah, Scar Symmetry, In Flames, Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom, Insomnium, Norther, or the likes. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy these "melodeath mainstream" bands too, but I want to give some credit and publicity to all the lesser known guys out there that still make amazing music.

List of bands/songs in the video (in order from most most favorite to least most favorite):
1.) Fractal Gates - Skies of Orion
2.) Deus Ex Machina - Jigsaw
3.) In Grief - In The End
4.) This Ending - The Asylum
5.) Burden of Grief - Swallow the Sun
6.) Callenish Circle - Ignorant
7.) Gardenian - As a True King
8.) Instant Suppression - Shapeless Threat
9.) Hypnosis - The Day We Failed
10.) Dark Age - Minus Exitus
11.) myGRAIN - Downfall
12.) Neptune - Gearsoul Supremacy
13.) D Creation - Silent Echoes
14.) Code for Silence - Giant Man
15.) Closer - Chaos Internal
16.) Blind Stare - Shotgun Symphony (end song)
17.) Beyond the Embrace - Redeemer (intro song)

Sorry about the quality of the video (both overall quality and audio), as well as the part during Burden of Grief that skips. I had a lot of trouble exporting this thing from Windows Movie Maker (it wouldn't let me), and I ended up having to record the preview in Fraps and then stitch two parts together. As always, Fraps got off sync, so that skipping part during BoG shows how off sync it was (I lined up the frames perfectly). I also had to save/compress it around three times during this whole process, so the quality suffered a bit. I'm sure YouTube's upload won't help the quality any.

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[hatefulthoughts]

No Scar Symmetry oO...ok...*runs away*

[Gmodfourever]

@hatefulthoughts If you're saying that in response to the lack of Scar Symmetry in the video itself, read the description.

If you're saying that in response to the fact that I say in the description I am eschewing Scar Symmetry for actually lesser-known bands, then read the title. Particularly the "You Probably Never Heard Of" part.

Because, let's be honest, if you know anyone who CLAIMS to listen to melodeath, and they don't know about SS, then they're not real fans of MDM.

[AmonMetalForever]

Wheres Lunarsea and The Wake?

[Gmodfourever]

@AmonMetalForever Lunarsea are the 15th band (first song played, past the intro) of 15MDMB(YPNHO) Mk 3. You can find it under my Uploads - it's the one whose thumbnail says "GREED"

As to The Wake, I've yet to hear them. I think I may have to investigate them. Be sure to check Mk 4 as well. :P

[Gmodfourever]

Thanks for all the comments and views guys! Be sure to listen to and respond to my second video! Search "another 15 melodic death metal bands you probably never heard of" to find it!

Also, while I agree with Ajax, you guys should just ignore posser - it's obvious he's a troll. By responding to his comment, you're just doing what he wants you to do. Just ignore him.

[synistar04]

Never heard of In Grief, but I'm liking what I'm hearing. I shall check them out. Kudos for Closer, Neptune, Callenish Circle, and Burden of Grief. Love those guys.

[Gmodfourever]

@synistar04 Haha, yeah. In Grief are definitely the best Christian death metal band I've ever heard. And yes, they are Christian - not that that's important, but it just came as a bit of a surprise to me, seeing as you don't see too many good Christian death metal bands out there.

Glad to see there's other people out there that love BoG, CalCir, and Neptune though.

Speaking of BoG, whatever happened to their new album. They said it'd be all mixed in like, January, or something. Lol.

[mvunit3]

Gardenian . . .

Definitely an awesome Tech-Death Metal band that had 3 strong albums and were totally missed by the public, you can usually find their CD's really cheap too ( :( ). One of the 1st bands I heard to do the Clean and Cookie vocals with Edge of Sanity, Opeth and before Soilwork way back when.  "Soulburn" is my fave album :) \m/.

[hatefulthoughts]

@Gmodfourever well, u got me...*returns slowly*

but where is unmoored or solution 45? *dont know where to run to, tho' runs in circles*

[Daedeloths]

haha I laughed at ''?'' down on the right side :D

[LixPlague]

cool... I like them all... looking forward to search more about them...

so does arch enemy :)

[carmine5120]

@NoxSaiiNT Haters be trollin' :3



[jloo222]

Half of these bands aren't melodeath.