Gothic metal
Also called goth metal
Kind of Heavy metal
The early-1990s metal style that takes death-doom’s slow weight and adds clean or dual vocals, minor-key melody, and a romantic or morbid lyric world (Paradise Lost’s Gothic, 1991; My Dying Bride; later Theatre of Tragedy and Within Temptation’s first records). It is a style of heavy metal, not a kind of Gothic rock and not an alias of Symphonic metal. Death and doom are the musical donors. Gothic rock is aesthetic incoming (mood, vocal, look), not a parent genre.
Listen
- Gothic Paradise Lost (1991) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
- The Painless Paradise Lost (1991) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
- The Forever People My Dying Bride (1993) YouTube · Spotify
- The Cry of Mankind My Dying Bride (1995) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
- Silent Angel The Gathering (1995)
- Strange Machines The Gathering (1995) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
- The Beauty of Suffering Theatre of Tragedy (1995) YouTube
- A Hamlet for a Slothful Vassal Theatre of Tragedy (1996) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
- Restless Within Temptation (1997) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
- The Promise Within Temptation (1998) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon