After internal arguing, and difficulties to be produced, the band finally managed to find its own style, as melodic death metal.

The band shows a style in the vein of Swedish-influenced melodic death metal.

At that time, their musical style was fast, typical European melodic death metal.

After the line up change, Holy Blood changed their style to melodic death metal and began to record the first studio album.

Their sound can be described as a mixture of melodic death metal and trance music.

The album consisted of technical metalcore with melodic death metal influences.

Their music has been described as a cross between thrash and melodic death metal.

Some of their riffs are near to melodic death metal.

Both of these bands influenced Swedish melodic death metal.

In Flames is also a direct influence on many of the melodic death metal bands that have followed.