Can I get some recommendations for some newer stuff? My favorites are like Arch Enemy (Angela Gossow years), Eluveitie, Galneryus, Vampillia, and Children of Bodom
So any great Melodic Death Metal, Folk Metal (more on the Melodic Death Metal side than Thrash Metal inspired), Experimental Black Metal, or Power Metal (but I'm really picky about this subgenre) bands that are still releasing stuff.
Spotify links welcome.
No spotify because I'm lazy. But I'm going through my music directory for you...
Alcest (blackgaze staple)
Chthonic (Taiwanese "folk" metal)
Crimfall (folk; plan to release their third album soon after a longer hiatus)
Dark Tranquility (melodeath genre staple)
Ensiferum (folk genre staple)
Equilibrium (light hearted pagan metal; don't know how popular outside Germany)
Harakiri For The Sky (emerging blackgaze band)
Heidevolk (power-folk-metal?)
In Vain (melodeath insider tip)
Insomnium (melodeath staple)
Kataklysm (death/melodeath staple. I think newer albums are more your style)
Ne Obliviscaris (just give it a listen)
Soilwork (melodeath staple)
Wintersun (folk-y/symphonic melodeath)