>>243 (OP) awesome band. however, I have yet to hear Dan Swano's solo stuff.

>>243 (OP) >swanöpilled before 4chan went down i told anon i would make a list of every single pre-gothenburg sound melodic death metal release in my library and tape/cd collection. everything from the big releases to obscure demo tapes without a metal archives page. i spent like 20 hours listening to shit and digging through the crates and was just about to post it and the site went down ;_;" i'll dump the list later when its more finalized. hope anon sees it.

i'll post a few gems i've been enjoying lately. early mdm is what got me into metal it will always be a favorite. >Psychoparadox is the first band to have produced a metal release after the war and falling apart from SFR Yugoslavia in 1992. They are one of the bands that literally revived the metal scene in the region.

heres the list so far, WIP. there's some doom/death and gothenburg stuff that needs to be removed. and i still have a lot to add. this list is albums that are before the slaughter of the soul/jester race/the gallery era sound. and albums that had their own evolutionary path divergent from heavy influence from the gothenburg sound. stuff that sounds more like the red in the sky is ours & wfiktbd, skydancer, lunar strain, north from here etc. really early and proto-mdm is its own list (less complete rn) mbm is also its own list but some borderline/half and half stuff is on here. i'll make a gothenburg era/sound list too, but i'll only include the gems for that one. A Canorous Quintet - As Tears A Canorous Quintet - Only The Pure Hate A Canorous Quintet - Silence Of The World Beyond A Mind Confused - Anarchos A Mind Confused - Poems Of A Darker Soul Ablaze My Sorrow - If Emotions Still Burn Abominant - The Way After Absurdus - Under the Never Setting Sun Agony Lords - The Sun of the Cursed Agony Lords - Unions Amorbital - Crystal Rhapsody Amorbital - Invdia Ancestor - With No Strings Attached Ancient Ceremony - Cemetary Visions Ancient Ceremony - Synagoga Diabolica Ancient Ceremony - Under Moonlight We Kiss Ancient Ceremony - Where Serpents Reign Arghoslent - Arsenal Of Glory Arghoslent - Galloping Through The Battle Ruins Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry Armageddon - Crossing the Rubicon As Serenity Fades - Earthborn At Dawn They Sleep - Red Sun At The Gates - The Gardens Of Grief At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness Atropos Silent Touch Auberon - The Tale of Black Autumn Leaves - Embraced By The Absolute Autumn Verses - Tunes of Disconsolation Battlelust - Of Battle And Ancient Warfare Behind The Scenery - Nocturnal Beauty Of A Dying Land Caliban / Kaliban - Divine Landscapes Callenish Circle - Drift Of Empathy Cardinal Sin - Spiteful Intents Catafalque - Awakening Cemetery (DE) - Enter The Gate Cenotaph - Epic Rites: 9 Epic Tales & Death Rites Cenotaph - Riding Our Black Oceans Centinex - Reflections Ceremonial Oath - Carpet

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Clandestine (Pol) - Samotny jednorożec Clandestine (Pol) - Umarłe Konie <-- bad audio qual Coarse - Downwards Coarse - The Chant Crestfallen - Secrets of Time <-- start is gothenburgy Crown of Thorns - Eternal Death Crown of Thorns - The Burning Crystal Age - Far Beyond Divine Horizons Cyanotic - Promo 95 Cyanotic - The Chasm Within <-- poor audio qual Dark Tranquility - Skydancer Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer For Evogher Dawn of Dreams - Darklight Awakening Dawn of Dreams - Garage Days in Hell (2nd half) Dawn of Dreams - Silent Endless Nothing Dawn of Relic - One Night in Carcosa Decameron - My Shadow Deface - Silent Coldness Deface - The Temple Of Truth Depresy - A Grand Magnificence Desolate - Eventide of the Orb and Heavens Desultory - Bitterness Disinterment - Endless dormanth - valley of dreams Dusk - Pure and Obscure Ebony Tears - Tortura Isomniae Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows Edge Of Sanity - Unorthodox Elbereth - ...and Other Reasons Embracing - I Bear The Burden Of Time <-- listen engraved (swe) - before the tales Epoch of Unlight - What Will Has Been Epoch of Unlight - Within The Night... Eternal Autumn - The Storm Eternal Deformity - Forgotten Distant Time Eternal Deformity - Nothing Lasts Forever Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Vilda Mánnu Ethnocide - Tearful (remaster is better) Eucharist - A Velvet Creation Eucharist - Mirrorworlds Evenfall - Kosto Excretion - The Dream Of Blood Excretion - Voice of Harmony Exhumation - Seas Of Eternal Silence Exterminator - Forgotten Souls Fall of the Leafe - Evanescent, Everfading Fall of the Leafe - Storm Of The Autumnfall Fatal Embrace - Shadowsoul's Garden Fester - Silence Garden Of Shadows - Heart Of The Corona Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon Gates of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path Gates of Ishtar - The Dawn Of Flames Godgory - Sea of Dreams Gorement - The Ending Quest gothony - demo 1995 Gothony - Hidden Thoughts hilarion - promo 98 Horrified - In The Garden Of The Unearthly Delights Horrified - The Ancient Whisper Of Wisdom Hypocrisy - The Fourth Dimension Hypocrite - Dead Symbols Hypocrite - Edge Of Existence Hypocrite - Into The Halls Of The Blind In Flames - Lunar Strain In Flames - Promo 93 In Flames - Subterrenean In Thy Dreams - Stream Of Dispraised Souls Infernal Gates - From the Mist of Darkwaters Insanity - Embrace My Soul insanity - embrace my soul insanity - the deepest abyss Internal Decay - A Forgotten Dream Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy Of The Beast Intestine Baalism - The Energumenus Invocation (Grc) - Lonesome Was The Last Journey Iscariota - Cosmic Paradox Judgement Day - Cir-Cum-Cis-Ion of the Mar-Tyr Julie Laughs Nomore - When Only Darkness Remains Kataklysm - Sorcery Kataklysm - Temple Of Knowledge Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls Katatonia - For Funerals To Come Käsi - Käsi Liers In Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art Lothlorien - In The Depth Of Thee Mourning Maze of Torment - The Force Mephistopheles - Landscape Symphonies Mercenary - First Breath Mercenary - Supremacy Misanthrope - 1666... Théâtre bizarre <-- make sure to get the remaster Misanthrope - Miracles: Totem Taboo misanthrope - visionnaire Miscreant - Dreaming Ice Moaning Wind - Visions in Fire Morgue (DE) - Dreamscapes Mortified - Serenity, Tranquillity, Peace <-- rly bad production zoomer warning Night in Gales - Sylphlike Night in Gales - Towards The Twilight Nightfall - Athenian echoes Nightfall - Parade into Centuries Nocturnal Winds - Everlasting Fall Nocturnal Winds - Of Art and Suffering Obskure - Overcasting Ophthalamia - A Journey In Darkness Ophthalamia - Via Dolorosa Path of Debris - Time Lies in Chains Path of Debris - Waveless Ocean Path of Debris - When Darkness Descends Prophanity - Messenger Of The Northern Warrior Host Prophanity - Stronger Than Steel Psychoparadox - ...And Your Life Is Just Another Dream Psychoparadox - Apeiron Psychoparadox - Through the Labyrinths of Sleeping Galaxy Purgatorium - Travels Quo Vadis - Forever... Sacrilege - Lost In The Beauty You Slay Sacrilege - To Where Light Can't Reach Satariel - Lady Lust Lilith Schaliach - Sonrise Scum - Purple Dreams & Magic Poems Selefice - Where Is The Heaven Sentenced - North From Here Serenade Deprived - Clarity Through Murder Serenade Deprived - Serenade Deprived SIEGED MIND - Emptiness Sieged Mind - Restless (note these tracks are remastered on eternal) <-- listen may be death metal Sil Khannaz - Gerbang Kayangan Supuration - The Cube The Elysian Fields - Adelain The Elysian Fields - We... the Enlightened The Embraced - In My Dreams... I Am Armageddon The Embraced - The Birth Threnody - As The Heavens Fall Threnody - Bewildering Thoughts Throne Of Chaos - Fata Morgana Tribal Eagle - Deuteronomium Unanimated - Ancient God Of Evil Unanimated - In The Forest of the Dreaming Dead Vanity - Enslaved Vehemence - God Was Created Victimized - Victimized Violation - Beyond The Graves Vociferation Eternity - For Thee....... Vociferation Eternity - In Aeternum Vociferation Eternity - Meadow's Yearn Vociferation Eternity - Ocean Myth Vociferation Eternity - Psalm of Infernal Parturation * Withered Beauty (Swe) - Through Silent Skies Withered Beauty - Withered Beauty Withering Surface - Scarlet Silhouettes Withering Surface - Unique Within the Night (Demo) - Epoch of Unlight (Full Album) - i prefer the og pressing for everything with multiple unless stated. although my notes on that are incomplete rn. this is wip.

if you're one of the younger guys on 4chan who didn't grow up on this stuff read the book swedish death metal. and listen to all the stuff that influenced the genre its good too. & i'll shill this guy's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@radiofreeinnsmouth1337 not me but our taste is exactly the same. he doesn't have a separate playlist for melodic death metal related videos so you have to wade through the death metal one is the only problem.

>>255 https://gofile.io/d/vt1LUR this one's a lost gem that got some hype in the 2000's then forgotten again.

>>255 https://gofile.io/d/ICdBk3 some of the better albums got little recognition because they came out too late or did their own thing that sounded good but wasn't as influential on other bands.

>>255 https://gofile.io/d/tkFcSg don't sleep on the slavic stuff. doesn't get nearly the same attention but its some of the best. i have an album on the tip of my tongue that's like a lost dan swano album and high quality i wanted to post... but i can't remember its name.