I can't lie, melodeath mostly sucks as a genre. Black metal is far better for mixing 'extreme' metal playing with stronger melodicism. Doing it with death metal just sounds contrived and unsatisfying

The bigger bands like TBDM and CoB are basically just power metal with harsher vocals. And most of the tryhard bands like Instestine Baalism are just overrated as fuck, like >>127043717 said

There's still some I enjoy, I like picrel for example. Nothing exceptional but I feel like it doesn't get mentioned enough

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>>126689390
Underrated gem