Carcass

So, there once was a British death metal band called Carcass that, after ten-ish years of slogging it out, made the best career decision of its life when it hired guitarist Michael Amott (whom you may know would later leave to co-found Arch Enemy.) Amott would help Carcass find its musical footing in a hybrid style that we now call melodic death metal. Essentially, this means that, while the singer is still performing death metal, everybody else is playing music you actually want to listen to, like thrash or classic metal. Even though Amott moved on to help establish the Gothenburg style in Sweden, Carcass never looked back. Sort of. They were inactive for 17 years, but then: Surgical Steel! It's Carcass - CRANK IT!