Acid Bath - Tranquilized
Hailing from my state of Louisiana
they experimented with death metal but overall they're a sludge metal band
Mastodon is also one of my favorite sludge metal bands:
MASTODON - "Seabeast"
And as for melodic death metal:
Carcass - Heartwork
This CD was a huge influence on the development of melodic death metal. Gothenburg bands added more melodic riffs and such making melodic death metal what it is today
Hailing from my state of Louisiana
they experimented with death metal but overall they're a sludge metal band
Mastodon is also one of my favorite sludge metal bands:
MASTODON - "Seabeast"
And as for melodic death metal:
Carcass - Heartwork
This CD was a huge influence on the development of melodic death metal. Gothenburg bands added more melodic riffs and such making melodic death metal what it is today