I notice Dark tranquillity has a lotta records out. which do you recommend?

I know you weren't asking me but I thought I'd give you my input to try the album Fiction first. That got me hooked on Dark Tranquility :)

I would start with "The Gallery" one of the essential early melodic death metal records and then its follow up album "The Minds I" then listen to "Damage Done" probably my favourite Dark Tranquillity album. If you like these then listen to the rest of the stuff.The only album I don`t like is "Projector" as singer Mikael Stanne changed his vocal style to a more operatic baritone style and it sucks.

thanks for the help guys. the music is great

If you're getting into melo death metal then definitely check out Hypocrisy. Swedish band from early '90's, started out as your run of the mill death metal band, then kicked out their Satanic vocalist and started focusing their lyrics on the extraterrestrial and the paranormal. Good album to start out with is either Abducted or The Final Chapter.

Yngwie Malmsteen.

If you want crushingly heavy music that retains a good amount of musical sensibility; get "The Red in the Sky is Ours" by At the Gates and "Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious" by Carcass.

Both of these bands were swinging ****s in the melodic death scene, and with later releases both bands sound became much more simplified and melodic. So, the virtue of these earlier releases it they retain a good deal of the inventiveness, technical proficiency, and sheer power that was lost on later releases by these bands and the clones that followed.

Math-Death-Metal-Grind: core.
 

I have been really into the "core" scene for about the past year and was wondering If you all have any favorites you would recommend in the same vein.
At the moment im really into The Number Twelve LLY, The Red Chord, Destroyer Destroyer, Meandhimcallitus, SYNT, and The Great Redneck Hope.

Need some metal I will like been listening to some Devin Townshend and liked it actually liked it! so all you metalheads out there recommend me something please.

A lot of Devin Townsend`s stuff is not really traditional metal as such and touches onto prog rock and ambient metal to name just two areas, what type of sound do you like? This may help narrow it down somewhat.