Melodic Death/Doom Metal

[drummer1_tim]

So this is a genre I've been heavily invested to over the years and has been an inspiration for my band www.reverbnation.com/woccon. Daylight Dies, Swallow the Sun and Katatonia have been the biggest influence on our writing style. Anyone else have any bands to recommend? Also if u get chance, check out my bands new song. Tell me what u think!

[NTNR]

Re: Melodic Death/Doom Metal Katatonia begot October Tide, Daylight Dies, Rapture & Slumber. Personally I didn't consider Katatonia "melodic" but the bands they spawned were. Swallow the Sun isn't so much melodic as they are general Doom/Death mixing both heavy and melodic like most do. Early Lacrimas Profundere were very melodic and very Anathema influenced. Fall of Empyrean were (if memory serves) fairly melodic. Process of Guilt has a lot of melody as well. Doom/Death bands with melodic albums: Paradise Lost - Draconian Times My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River Shape of Despair - Illusion's Play (Funeral Doom)

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Melodic Death/Doom Metal

Katatonia begot October Tide, Daylight Dies, Rapture & Slumber. Personally I didn't consider Katatonia "melodic" but the bands they spawned were. Swallow the Sun isn't so much melodic as they are general Doom/Death mixing both heavy and melodic like most do. Early Lacrimas Profundere were very melodic and very Anathema influenced. Fall of Empyrean were (if memory serves) fairly melodic. Process of Guilt has a lot of melody as well. Doom/Death bands with melodic albums: Paradise Lost - Draconian Times My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River Shape of Despair - Illusion's Play (Funeral Doom)

Swallow the Sun is a very melodic band, almost like melodeath done in a doomy manner. Also, Katatonia are extremely melodic, and are not really a riffy band. Their melodies on Brave Murder Day and especially Dance of December Souls are some of my favorite melodies in all of metal, and while they have influenced a slew of great bands, nobody has been able to touch their greatness IMO. If you dig Katatonia, you should check out Bethlehem's debut Dark Metal, which has a similar sound in some ways, but is much more malevolent sounding overall.

[NTNR]

Re: Melodic Death/Doom Metal

Swallow the Sun is a very melodic band, almost like melodeath done in a doomy manner. Also, Katatonia are extremely melodic, and are not really a riffy band. Their melodies on Brave Murder Day and especially Dance of December Souls are some of my favorite melodies in all of metal, and while they have influenced a slew of great bands, nobody has been able to touch their greatness IMO. If you dig Katatonia, you should check out Bethlehem's debut Dark Metal, which has a similar sound in some ways, but is much more malevolent sounding overall.

Don't mistake melancholic for melodic. While the aforementioned bands do have melody in their music I wouldn't call either "melodic", nor would I call StS melodeath done doomy. The first Bethlehem wasn't Doom, it was Dark. Great album, but not in the same vein.

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Melodic Death/Doom Metal

Don't mistake melancholic for melodic. While the aforementioned bands do have melody in their music I wouldn't call either "melodic", nor would I call StS melodeath done doomy. The first Bethlehem wasn't Doom, it was Dark. Great album, but not in the same vein.

Dark Metal = doom metal + black metal, and I've always expressed that Katatonia was more of a black/doom band than a death/doom band, and there are a great deal of similarities on Bethlehem's more drawn out and less direct tracks to Dance of December Souls. I'm not calling Katatonia melodic in the same sense as In Flames, but on Dance of December Souls, nearly all of the guitar lines are drawn out melodic patterns as opposed to being "riffs" of a traditional variety, and on Brave Murder Day the guitar lines focus on consonant melodic chord progressions that do sound very dreary, while keeping the same lead structure as before. Daylight Dies is a bit closer to "melodeath done doomy" than StS, but they fall into the same category IMO, especially since their melodies are structured in more of a melodeath way.

[NTNR]

Re: Melodic Death/Doom Metal Daylight Dies apparently spawned from a melodeath band. Their roots show, but they aren't Katatonia or StS. Katatonia were way too chord happy on BMD, but obviously not so much on DODS. That was a blackish knock off of Gothic by Paradise Lost. And yes Doom + Black = Dark but the first Katatonia falls in to the Doom/Death field over the Dark Metal field or possibly the Black/Doom field. Either way it's a good album.