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Gothic Metal
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Primary Stylistic Influences: Doom Metal, Death Metal, Goth Rock, Alternative Metal Secondary Stylistic Influences: Alternative Rock, Post-Punk, Dark Wave, Nu Metal, Black Metal Gothic Metal is, naturally, a subgenre of Heavy Metal. It sounds dark, like Gothic Rock; it's got the sonic amplitude of Metal; and it's depressing, like Doom Metal. Many of the bands have female vocalists; many also use the classic Soprano and Gravel trick. There are few bands that have never used either, though there are some that have a male vocalist as the frontman. Gothic Metal has its roots in Death / Doom, which is, as the name implies, Death Metal mixed with Doom Metal. "The Peaceville Three," (Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, and Anathema) who served as the Trope Codifiers for Death / Doom, gradually incorporated several traits into their music (some traits being brought in from Goth Rock) that would shape the genre; keyboards, violins (in the case of My Dying Bride), female vocals, and deeper (often bass baritone) vocals. Around the same time as "The Peaceville Three," the American Type O Negative, coming from a slightly different musical background (i.e. not Death / Doom), started incorporating traits from Gothic Rock into their music also; to this day, it's unclear whether Type O Negative or "The Peaceville Three" did it first, but it's generally agreed to be one of those four bands that kickstarted the genre. Novembre also had some degree of early influence on the genre, but it can generally be agreed upon that their impact was minimal at best when compared to the bigger three. Lastly, Katatonia and Bethlehem's early work also had some minor influence, though they quickly moved away from the genre in favor of moody, prog-tinged alternative rock (Katatonia) and experimental rock (Bethlehem). It is hugely popular in Europe, especially Scandinavia, where many of the bands are from. Possibly as a result of its popularity, and the stigma brought on by the false idea that "Gothic Metal = Metal for Goths," many bands have fought against being categorised as Gothic Metal, though it doesn't have the same stigma as other names would — namely, Nu Metal, Metalcore, and Emo Music. In addition to this, there are also countless arguments as to which bands actually count as Gothic Metal, due to the rather vague definition of what Gothic Metal is. Expect there to be arguments should you refer to: Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Epica, or HIM as part of this genre. |
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Season of Ghosts - A bit upbeat for "Gothic", but some of their lyrics and their penchant for Industrial Metal and Symphonic Metal infusions make them quite fit. | |
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Tribulation (The Children of the Night onward, though they had some elements of this on The Formulas of Death) | |
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2007 - Dead Again | |
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Theatre of Tragedy - Trope Codifier, the ones who pioneered the Soprano and Gravel technique (Paradise Lost, Celtic Frost and The Gathering had all used it before, but Theatre of Tragedy were the ones who made it popular). If you encounter a gothic metal(-ish) band that has two vocalists, one male and one female, then they will be strongly influenced by Theatre of Tragedy. | |
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Tristania | |
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Stream of Passion: Arguably, maybe more Progressive Metal. | |
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A Pale Horse Named Death (features Type O Negative drummer Sal Abruscato on vocals) | |
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Leaves' Eyes - The former band of Theatre of Tragedy's ex-vocalist Liv Kristine. | |
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Novembers Doom (combines this with Death/Doom and Progressive Death Metal) | |
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Katatonia (early material was a Genre-Busting mix of Death Metal, Doom Metal, Black Metal, and Goth Rock somewhat akin to Bethlehem, while everything from Discouraged Ones onward was moody, gothic-tinged alternative rock) | |
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Anathema: Trope Makers, along with Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride. Later became a quiet Atmospheric / Progressive Rock band. | |
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Kuroyume | |
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Sentenced (their first three albums are Death Metal) | |
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Virgin Black (also Symphonic Metal) | |
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Nemesea - Their first album "Mana" can be considered gothic metal, but since then they've been moving more towards an alternative rock style. | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Danzig (overlaps with Alternative Metal, Doom Metal and Traditional Heavy Metal) | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Tarja Turunen | |
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Fallen (2003) | |
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Sirenia | |
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Woods of Ypres: Started as Black Metal and progressed to Doom Metal circa Woods III and IV before finally becoming Gothic Metal on Woods 5. | |
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1996 - October Rust | |
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Tiamat | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Lacuna Coil - Since around Karmacode they moved away from gothic metal to more of an Alternative Rock / Alternative Metal sound that divided the fanbase. | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Nightwish - Like Epica, they're often considered more of a symphonic power metal band; they started showing elements of gothic metal with Century Child, and have got slightly darker with each album since. Tarja Turunen |
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Gothic Metal | |
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ELYSION (overlaps with Alternative Metal) | |
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1999 - World Coming Down | |
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Epica - Some think of them more as Symphonic Metal or Power Metal, albeit darker than the norm and with added death growls. | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Dark Tranquillity (only on Projector, in which they combine the style with Melodic Death Metal) | |
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After Forever | |
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Rotting Christ (also Black Metal and Folk Metal) | |
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Kamelot - Always had significant elements of this, but Poetry for the Poisoned is where they really put those elements front and center. | |
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HIM - Another YMMV band, probably the second-most on this list next to Evanescence. They call themselves "love metal", which presumably means "stop asking us about our fucking genre", but overall it's unclear whether they're gothic metal or not. | |
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Dark Sarah | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Septicflesh (along with Symphonic Metal and Death Metal) | |
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1993 - Bloody Kisses | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Cradle of Filth (mixed with Black Metal) | |
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Gothic Metal | |
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Motionless in White (mixed with Metalcore and Industrial Metal) | |
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