Bleh, melodic death metal was fine after the 2000's. Don't listen to the purists. If it has a hook and doesn't completely sacrifice heaviness, then it works. Soilwork are miles beyond Dark Tranquility or In Flames at this point in the game. Plus their songwriting gets better with every release.
The real champs in the genre these days are guys like Christian Alvestem (Solution .45, formally of Scar Symmetry) who snarls with the best of them but has a great pure clean singing voice as well.
But to be fair, its all just basically elaborate pop with a death metal influence on the backburner.
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