Maiden is my favorite bad, can't beat the classics. I'm not a huge fan of death either, i like my music to have a melody to it hence the melodic part aha. I like bands such a
Eluveitie, Falconer, Dalriada, Dagon, Insomnium, Nightwish, Northland, Noumena, Triddana, Skiltron, Suidakra, Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Children of Bodom, Catamenia, Disarmonia Mundi, Kalmah.
Quite a list haha