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Carcass , shown here performing at Gods of Metal festival in Bologna, Italy (2008), helped define the
melodic death metal genre with their 1993 album
Heartwork .
[1]
This is a list of melodic death metal bands .
Melodic death metal is a
heavy metal music style that combines elements from the
new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) with elements of
death metal . The term "Gothenburg metal" is often used to describe bands associated with or stylistically similar to the melodic death metal scene that originated around
Gothenburg , Sweden.
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