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The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music. Lyrics are generally melodramatic and dark with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences.
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- Cradle of Filth. Cradle of Filth are a British band that formed in 1991. They are one of the most controversial and notorious gothic metal bands of all time.
- Within Temptation. Within Temptation are a Dutch band that formed in 1996. They are one of the most successful and acclaimed gothic metal bands in the world, with over three million records sold worldwide.
- Nightwish. Nightwish are a Finnish band that formed in 1996. They are the most successful and popular gothic metal band in the world, with over nine million records sold worldwide.
- Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost are a British band that formed in 1988. They are considered one of the founders of gothic metal, along with Anathema and My Dying Bride.
Gothic metal (or goth metal) is a fusion genre combining the aggression of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music.
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- Celtic Frost – Into The Pandemonium (1987) Not just the birthplace of avant garde metal, Swiss visionaries Celtic Frost’s third LP was steeped in gothic atmospheres wholly new to the genre.
- Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses (1994) Specifically it’s the digipak edition of the Drab Four’s third album that zeroes in on the full gothic motherlode: filling up the inlay with stone angels, dropping the interludes and fun punk knockabouts and replacing them with the doomed majesty of Suspended In Dusk, and resequencing the LP so it’s thrillingly topped and tailed by towering goth anthems Christian Woman and Black No 1 (Little Miss Scare-All).
- Paradise Lost – Draconian Times (1995) Paradise Lost’s second album, Gothic, blazed new trails for death and doom metal, but it was with this 1995’s breakthrough that they firmly planted their flag into the equidistant sweet spot between goth rock and heavy metal.
- My Dying Bride – Like Gods Of The Sun (1996) My Dying Bride’s doom always had a powerfully gothic sensibility, but this was where the Bradford sextet most fully, and seductively, embraced the form.
- Sisters of Mercy - Floorshow. "I’m sure that for many metalheads, this Leeds band needs little to no introduction as they are so synonymous with the goth movement (despite never referring to themselves as the ‘g’ word) but if you’ve ever been heckled walking down the road because you have long hair and wear black by someone who doesn’t know the difference between thrash and goth, then the Sisters are partly to blame.
- Ghost Dance - Deeper Blue. A neat segway from the Sisters brings us nicely onto another Leeds band but this time one that is possibly less renowned outside of the scene.
- Pink Turns Blue - I Coldly Stare Out. We had the pleasure of supporting these underground post-punk legends at a show in Bristol a few years ago. I’d been desperate to see them live for a while, so sharing the stage was a bit of an honour for me.
- Bauhaus - Double Dare. Another band that I’m sure even diehard metal fans will have heard of but maybe haven’t deigned to listen to is Bauhaus, perhaps because of an aversion to the band’s arguably overplayed, near 10-minute long dancefloor-filler Bela Lugosi’s Dead.
Nov 4, 2021 · Features. Metal Hammer. The 10 records that saw goth go metal – and vice versa. By Rich Hobson. ( Metal Hammer ) published 4 November 2021. Paradise Lost guitarist Gregor Mackintosh talks goth metal's evolution from The Cult and Celtic Frost to Type O Negative and Tribulation. (Image credit: Anne Swallow)
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Oct 21, 2021 · The dark lyrical content of gothic rock and the thundering sound of heavy metal come together in a hybrid genre known as gothic metal.
