>the only good melodeath album is a masterpiece
>everything else in the genre is garbage
how is this possible?

>band does something interesting and original
>that's amazing! lets call it a genre
>bunch of bands make derivative copies
basically analog AI

SOTS isn't bad, but it gets old very fast.
It's not even the best of the "melodeath band softens their sound" albums.

>>127111265 (OP)
Anything by Dark Tranquillity mogs this overrated album

>>127111265 (OP)
That's almost every metal genre

>>127112730
That's true a lot of it is garbage. Especially continental eurocringe

>>127112751
All the genres usually have a great album and endless imitators who usually suck
Only like traditional, thrash, and prog really have multiple bands worth a damn

In flames is complete cringey shit by the way

Your balls are backwards and in flames is absolutely the best thing to occur in music in the last 20 years. Everything in flames did was great, the jester race is the best melodeath record of all time and their metalcore records are great too, OP is a tard.

>>127113072
Their melodies are pure european power metal cringe, the lyrics are gay and the singer's accent is awful but I guess not everything is garbage

>>127111265 (OP)
Except you posted the wrong album!

>Kronos - Colossal Titan Strife
>Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy of the Beast
>Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers

Melodeath peaked three times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw2jGQcD32s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFg-uURZaZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcOtViMq8q4

>>127111265 (OP)
Luckily for you, there was a shit ton of 2000s metalcore that just straight up ripped off this album's riffs, so there's a lot there for you to enjoy.

90's melodeath was so shit