Carcass , shown here performing at Gods of Metal festival in Bologna, Italy (2008), helped define the melodic death metal genre with their 1993 album Heartwork .[ 1]
This is a list of melodic death metal bands . Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) with elements of death metal . The term "Gothenburg metal" is often used to describe bands associated with or stylistically similar to the melodic death metal scene that originated around Gothenburg , Sweden.
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