[Discussion] Essential Melodic Death Metal albums for a hypothetical /r/metal wiki section.

Mostly, I've chosen albums that are close to death metal which is melodic, rather than melodic/power metal with harsh vocals. These are what I've come up with:

Melodic Death Metal

• (1992) At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours

• (1993) Unanimated - In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead

• (1993) Carcass - Heartwork

• (1993) Desultory - Into Eternity

• (1994) Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes

• (1994) Miscreant - Dreaming Ice

• (1995) Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery

• (1995) Sentenced - Amok

• (1996) In Flames - The Jester Race

• (1996) Gates of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path

• (1996) Hypocrisy - Abducted

• (1996) Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

• (1997) Children of Bodom - Something Wild

• (1997) October Tide - Rain Without End

• (1997) Eucharist - Mirroworlds

• (1998) Gates of Ishtar - At Dusk And Forever

• (1998) Fall Of The Leafe - Evanescent, Everfading

• (1998) Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide

• (1999) Rapture - Futile

• (2000) Kalmah - Swamplord

• (2000) Garden Of Shadows - Oracle Moon

• (2000) Children Of Bodom - Follow the Reaper

Objectively, we can cut the list down right here, because various subgenres namely Melodic Death, Melodic Death with Power Influences, Melodic Death with Doom influences are covered.

The list below: these I did for my personal enjoyment, and if someone wants to go a little deeper into melodic death. Also, lists newer melodic death metal that have taken influences from early Melodic Death.

• (2001) Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin

• (2001) Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin and a Whore

• (2001) Hollenthon - With Vilest of Worms to Dwell

• (2002) Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry

• (2002) Vehemence - God Was Created

• (2002) Mercenary - Everblack

• (2003) Callenish Circle - My Passion // Your Pain

• (2003) Intestine Baalism - Banquet in the Darkness

• (2003) Immortal Souls - Ice upon the Night

• (2003) Norther - Mirror of Madness

• (2004) Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments of D-Generation

• (2004) Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination

• (2004) Shade Empire - Sinthetic

• (2004) Into Eternity - Buried in Oblivion

• (2004) Skyfire - Spectral

• (2004) Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt

• (2004) Wintersun - Wintersun

• (2005) Mors Principium Est - The Unborn

• (2005) Nightrage - Descent into Chaos

• (2005) Noumena - Absence

• (2006) Dissection - Reinkaos

• (2006) Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress

• (2006) Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion

• (2006) Lunarsea - Hydrodynamic Wave

• (2006) Fragments of Unbecoming - Sterling Black Icon: Chapter III - Black but Shining

• (2006) Insomnium - Above the Weeping World

• (2007) Naildown - Dreamcrusher

• (2007) Before the Dawn - Deadlight

• (2007) The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal

• (2007) The Absence - Riders of the Plague

• (2007) Swallow the Sun - Hope

• (2007) Zonaria - Infamy and the Breed

• (2008) Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift

• (2008) Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God

• (2008) In Dread Response - From the Oceanic Graves

• (2009) Insomnium - Across the Dark

• (2009) Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

• (2009) Tracedawn - Ego Anthem

• (2009) Wretched - The Exodus of Autonomy

• (2009) Synestesia - Feeniks

• (2010) Eventide - The Beast and the Machine

• (2011) Sylosis - Edge of the Earth

• (2011) Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination

• (2011) Deceased - Surreal Overdose

• (2012) In Mourning - The Weight of Oceans

• (2012) Dethklok - Dethalbum III

• (2013) Soilwork - The Living Infinite

• (2013) Before The Dawn - Deathstar Rising

• (2014) Allegaeon - Elements of the Infinite

• (2014) Whispered - Shogunate Macabre

I'm sure I'm missing a lot of albums in between, hence the discussion.