Gothic Metal

Gothic Metal: Gothic metal (also called Goth Metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal music. It is characterised as a combination of the dark and often melancholy atmospheres of doom metal with the aggression of the extreme metal subgenres, placing heavy emphasis on a beauty and the beast vocal style. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe originally as an outgrowth of doom/death, a fusion of death metal and doom metal. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: For My Pain...

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Nov 27 Friday 27 November 2009 Today
Katalyst of Disaster & RUYN Live @ the Dawg Pound at The Dawg Pound Katalyst of Disaster, Ruyn	The Dawg Pound Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 40.694056 -111.888656	Add shout
Dec 4 Friday 4 December 2009
Leaves' Eyes	Knitting Factory Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles CA, United States 34.102123 -118.342765	7 people attending Add shout
Dec 5 Saturday 5 December 2009
"The Chaise" Album Release Party at Prog Palace Radio Fateless Tears	Prog Palace Radio giathersburg MD, United States	1 person attending Add shout
NEA Foodbank Benefit Show at Moose Lodge Thirty 2 Life	Moose Lodge Jonesboro, AR, United States	1 person attending Add shout
Dec 12 Saturday 12 December 2009
SoB @ YOTI at Ye Olde Town Inn Something Beautiful, The Swan king	Ye Olde Town Inn Mount Prospect, IL, Chicago, United States 42.064521 -87.937303	1 person attending Add shout
Jan 23 Saturday 23 January 2010
The Kandy Festival at The Hudson Theatre T.B.A., multiple talent TBA	The Hudson Theatre San Bernardino, Los Angeles, United States 34.061472 -117.278866	5 people attending 2 shouts

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nDroae wrote:
Saturday afternoon

i´m the best and thats all [2]

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theblackdog33 wrote:
Friday afternoon

i´m the best and thats all

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Ronaldo_Beat_It wrote:
last week

Nightwish IS NOT gothic metal, stop with these tags. Tuomas said "we're not a gothic metal band". Watch this at the final video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-WTuOQr-1k

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nDroae wrote:
last week

THIS SHOUTBOX IS ATROCIOUS

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igorthe_killers wrote:
12 days ago

NOT GOTH Only type O Negative < was Goth-Rock/Darkwave, Now IS Industrial so not goth. ._. All in tag is Metal

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StatelyLover wrote:
14 days ago

What about Lacrimosa? They should obviously be first.

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Drostanxxx wrote:
16 days ago

damn .... I love the gothic too .... Hey, Heathenlegions, why don't you say what you REALLY mean?

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y0xe wrote:
17 days ago

maldita sea.... amo el gothic....

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Heathenlegions wrote:
18 days ago

fuck within temptation and lacuna

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SaberX wrote:
21 days ago

@ Drostanxxx you got a point there, mainstream doesn't mean it's not always gothic. But calling Nightwish gothic metal goes really, really far. Epica, ok. But Nightwish...? Isn't The Dance an EP? I just meant studio albums from WT, Enter is probably only gothic metal then.

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Lost_Souls_UK wrote:
21 days ago

You're an angel witch

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Drostanxxx wrote:
22 days ago

2nd WT cd's the dance, isn't it? it's got a lot of gothic. NW has occasional gothic overtones. people tag bands like NW, WT and Epica gothic/GM, they're popular and end up top of the top GM artists. social tagging's not an exact science; get over it (at least ToT's there)

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SaberX wrote:
22 days ago

Within Temptation's first cd maybe a bit. But certainly not the rest.

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el_rzulffio wrote:
22 days ago

Why Nightwish, Epica and Within Temptation are there?! These bands aren't gothic!

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Kevoriun wrote:
25 days ago

Both genres are win.

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NicEBoY_fReAk wrote:
last month

gothic metal is fail. gothic rock is win.

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Tanuki-Enot_DK wrote:
last month

первыйнах

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Carnassial1 wrote:
last month

Cheers everyone! You can vote for "Gothic metal" in "Favorite Heavy metal Sub-genre Poll" on my profile page Carnassial1 It's over 2000 votes now. I'll be glad if you take a shot.

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cognitive21st wrote:
last month

Nightwish itself classifies their music as symphonic power metal NOT gothic metal!!!

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Kokkone wrote:
last month

Wtf? Nightwish and Lacuna Coil?

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