Original sentence: Death and Morbid Angel, often considered the "godfathers" of death metal, are primary influences on the genre, but its progenators are still a mystery.Melodic Death metal, though from the same geographic area as Black Metal, rarely speaks of Satanism or the downfall of Christianity, but has more poetic themes, which vary greatly.Melodic death metal is generally considered an offshoot of death metal.Nearly all melodic death metal bands are from the Scandinavian region, especially from Sweden and Finland.Some credit In Flames as the band which popularised the sub-genre.The Black Dahlia Murder.The song structures are generally more progressive, using diverse themes throughout the song.The subgenre contains more melodic guitar riffs and solos, which are sometimes acoustic, and also occasional 'clean' singing as opposed to traditional death grunt vocals
Edited sentence: Bands that would appear later in the decade (and following) would experiment with a progressive metal and power metal direction.Dimension Zero.Generally, "melodic death metal" can be pretty difficult to describe, as there are many death metal subgenres easily categorized as melodic, namely "Doom/Death" (My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Anathema).However, the origin of classication is bestowed upon the Gothenburg, Sweden scene of the early 1990s, which was brought to light by the city's "big 4", Entombed, At The Gates, In Flames, and Dark Tranquillity.If the term itself is any indication, "melodic death metal" is perhaps  the most accessible of any extreme metal genre.Into Eternity.Melodic death metal is an unofficial, often subjective style of death metal where harmony is more focused in stong structures than the traditional "extreme" elements.The early sound was characterized by the fusion of 1980's thrash metal and grindcore (which would soon evolve into death metal) with NWOBHM guitar riffing and solos.While Iron Maiden and Judas Priest were influential for thrash metal, the central Scandinavian country would be among the first to combine all 3 genres