Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* Fission ( band ), a Swedish melodic death metal band

The two operas of Schoenberg's pupil Alban Berg, Wozzeck ( 1925 ) and Lulu ( incomplete at his death in 1935 ) share many of the same characteristics as described above, though Berg combined his highly personal interpretation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique with melodic passages of a more traditionally tonal nature ( quite Mahlerian in character ) which perhaps partially explains why his operas have remained in standard repertory, despite their controversial music and plots.

" Opeth's growling vocals and heavy guitars ( liberally intermixed with gothic metal-evocative acoustic passages and clean melodic vocals ) often see them cited as progressive death metal, yet their vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt refers to Yes and Camel as major influences in the style of their music.

* Amon Amarth, a melodic death metal band

* Disarmonia Mundi, an Italian melodic death metal band from Turin

Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium has transposed and used Hölderlin's verses in several songs.

When Grotesque fell apart he started melodic death metal band At the Gates.

He is earning praise for his Gothenburg-based outfit, The Great Deceiver, far removed from his previous work — a product of the Gothenburg melodic death metal scene mixed with influences from artists such as The Cure and Joy Division.

Both of these bands influenced Swedish melodic death metal.

Kalmah is a melodic death metal-band from Oulu that formed in 1998.

Like many of the other Scandinavian death metal bands, Dismember began softening their sound in the mid-1990s, with 1995's Massive Killing Capacity more melodic approaches, which had a good public response.

Many Swedish death metal bands are associated with the melodic death metal movement, thus giving Swedish death metal a different sound from other variations of death metal.

Although Norway is notorious for its quantity of black metal, Gothenburg in Sweden has a large melodic death metal scene, while Stockholm is notorious for its rawer death metal scene.

According to Stewart Mason of Allmusic, the " increasingly melodic " style of Swedish death metal combines the post-hardcore aggression and guttural vocals of black metal with melodic and technically proficient guitar lines.

Melodic death metal, on the other hand, has had a notable influence on the melodic metalcore sound of the 2000s.

* Miasma ( album ), a 2005 album by the melodic death metal band The Black Dahlia Murder

Tactical is the debut album by American melodic death metal band World Under Blood, released on July 26, 2011 in North America and July 29, 2011 in Europe by Nuclear Blast Records.

Some remarkable examples of such bands are Stratovarius, highly renowned as one of the top power metal bands of the world, and Children of Bodom, with their creative combination of power metal and melodic death metal.

Japanese bands had a more melodic sound that resembled power metal.

Despite containing a lot of melodic and so called " Gothenburg metal " riffs, it was praised by fans and critics alike.

The groups sound is known to flow back and forth between ambient, experimental, major, positive melodies to aggressive, technical, heavy metal influenced single-note progressions with the vocals holding the same contrast between multi-voice harmonies and soulful falsettos to explosive, powerful, melodic shouting all being led by a distinct and unique, jazz influenced drumming style.

However, the album was considerably more melodic than most thrash metal albums, perhaps a lasting influence of the bands punk past.

These include, beside glam metal: melodic metal, false metal, poodle bands, nerf metal, pop metal or metal pop, the last of which was coined by critic Philip Bashe in 1983 to describe bands such as Van Halen and Def Leppard.

Def Leppard's music is a mixture of hard rock, AOR, pop and heavy metal elements, with its multi-layered, harmonic vocals and its melodic guitar riffs.

The term was first used in the middle of the 80s and refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a later more widespread and popular style based in Europe ( especially Germany, Finland, Italy, Scandinavia ), Latin America ( Argentina, Brazil ) and Japan, with a lighter, more melodic sound and frequent use of keyboards.

Another British band, Iron Maiden, brought epic and melodic sensibility to metal, creating anthem-like, easy to singalong music, an approach widely embraced by modern power metal musicians.

Power metal is today associated with fast tempo and melodic harmonies, the sound tempered by characteristics of speed metal, power metal's musical forerunner.

* Ark ( UK band ), a melodic rock band

* Stress ( band ), an early 1980s melodic rock band from San Diego

* Olympian-A 5 piece melodic hardcore / punk band from Exeter, Devon-UK.

The Kinks ' early recordings of 1964 ranged from covers of R & B standards like " Long Tall Sally " and " Got Love If You Want It "; to the chiming, melodic beat music of Ray Davies ' earliest original compositions for the band, " You Still Want Me " and " Something Better Beginning "; to the more influential proto-metal, protopunk, power chord-based hard rock of the band's first two hit singles, " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".

Billboard praised the band for its " dark poetic leanings, effects-laden guitars and strong melodic hooks ".

* Margate ( band ), a Southern California melodic rock band

Metallica's Load ( 1996 ) and ReLoad ( 1997 ) each sold in excess of 4 million copies in the US and saw the band develop a more melodic and blues-rock sound.

Love's desire to take the band in a more melodic and controlled rock format led bassist Emery to leave the band, and drummer Caroline Rue followed.

Since Sweatman can be heard making melodic variations even in his 1916 recordings, it might be argued that Sweatman recorded an archaic type of jazz earlier than the Original Dixieland band.

AFI has been hailed by numerous publications for contributing to the modern melodic hardcore and post-hardcore genres and revolutionizing goth punk ; in 2006 MTV executive Amy Doyle called the band " one of the most compelling live rock bands today.

On USA Union ( recorded in Los Angeles, 27-28 July 1970 ), though, Mandel was compelled to make do without his remarkable sustain and usage of feedback as musical, even melodic, technique ; and on Memories the band was stripped down to a trio.

In response, Shermann formed the band Fate, which pursued a more melodic rock direction.

After a spell without a contract, the band released a new EP titled Tip of The Iceberg ( 2008 ), which paid homage to their melodic hardcore influences.