Top 10 Extreme Metal Songs with the Most Melodic Guitar Lines (Excluding Melodic Death Metal)

I excluded melodic death metal because it's melodic by default as its name suggests.

From my experience, the extreme metal songs with the most melodic guitar lines come from these subgenres: progressive death metal, black metal, and technical death metal.


Usually these melodic guitar parts aren't rhythm-oriented headbanging riffs, they are just melodies (but not solos).
The question of this list is: can brutality and melody co-exist in a song, and sound good? According to this list, the answer is 'Yes'.

Oh, and by "melodic" I mean "metal melodic" and not imported poppy and cheesy melodies from pop(ular) genres that aren't metal.
The Top Ten
1 Akroasis - Obscura

In my book Obscura is the absolute winner in the category "melodic brutality". They just found that balance between "technical perfection" and "melodic fluidity".
Just play the song sample to get an idea of what I'm talking about.

Yes, many of you probably already noticed that I love and respect this young band, and what I said above is one of the reasons I highly appreciate them.

2 The Deported - Beyond Creation

Their approach is very similar to Obscura's

3 Weltseele - Obscura

Beautiful progressive death metal (play the sample)

4 La Vinteren Vare Evig - Den Saakaldte

One of those incredibly beautiful and melodic black metal riffs (in the 2nd half of the song sample).

5 Shadowfear - Vader

Just play the song sample - the guitar line is absolutely awesome. And melodic.

6 And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope - Ne Obliviscaris
7 Crystal Mountain - Death

Play the song sample

8 Freezing Moon - Mayhem

The intro in very melodic and it's 2 minutes long, plus there are very melodic sections later in the song

9 Devour Me, Colossus (Part I): Blackholes - Ne Obliviscaris
10 Apparition - Spawn of Possession
The Contenders
11 Ode to the Sun - Obscura
12 Septuagint - Obscura
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