Gothic

Gothic metal or Goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music sometimes gothic metal combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The Genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe as a result of the death/doom, a fusion of death metal and gothic metal Music mixed with bands known to adopt a different style from gothic heavy metalLyrics generally melodramatic and mournful with inspiration from gothic fiction, as well as personal experience.

Pioneers of gothic metal include Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema, all from the United Kingdom. other Pioneers from the first half of the 1990s include Type O Negative from United States, Tiamat from Sweden, and The Gathering of the Netherlands. Norway band Theatre of Tragedy developed the "beauty and the beast" aesthetic of combining aggressive male vocals with clean female vocals, a contrast that has since been adopted by many gothic metal groups. During the mid-1990s, Moonspell, theatres des vampires and Cradle of Filth brought the gothic approach to black metal. At the end of the Decade, a symphonic metal variant of gothic metal had been developed by Tristania and Within Temptation.

In the 21st century, gothic metal has moved towards the mainstream in Europe, particularly in Finland where groups such as The 69 Eyes, wring, HIM, Lullacry, Poisonblack and sentenced have released hit singles or albums chart-topping. In the us, however, only a few bands such as Lacuna Coil and Evanescence have found commercial success.

Etymology

Gothic is a term that is "difficult to pin down". Some commentators have suggested that there is an underlying Goth ideology, mindset or a set of common values but there is "little agreement about precisely what this might involve". The author Gavin Baddeley describes the Gothic aesthetic in the following way.

The term gothic entered heavy metal music with the release of Paradise Lost's Gothic album in 1991. Since then, fans were often at odds with each other to "this band, or at least clear, authentic gothic". Some musicians have disputed the gothic label associated with their bands, including Rozz Williams of Christian Death and Andrew eldritch of The Sisters of Mercy. In the gothic metal subgenre, members from groups such as After Forever, HIM and Nightwish have similarly downplayed or rejected the gothic label from their music.

The Characteristics Of The

The music of gothic metal is generally characterised by the dark atmosphere of the adjective "dark" is commonly used to describe gothic music in General while other terms that are less frequently used include deep, depressing, romantic, passionate and intense. Gothic metal has also been described as "a combination of the darkness and melancholy of goth rock with heavy metal". Allmusic defines the genre as a fusion of "the bleak, icy atmospherics of goth rock with the loud guitars and aggression of heavy metal" and further notes that "true goth metal is always directly influenced by Goth rock-Ethereal synths and spooky textures are just as important as guitar riffs, if not more than that".

Gothic metal is a varied genre with bands pursuing many different directions, from "slow and crushing variations" to "orchestral and bombastic doom metal pioneers early background like Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride has been taken up by groups like Artrosis, Ava Inferi and Draconia. The black metal approach of Cradle of Filth, theatres des Vampires and early Moonspell can be found in such subsequent bands as Graveworm, Drastique and Samsas Traum while the symphonic metal approach of Tristania and Within Temptation can be found in other groups like Epica and After Forever. Other variations include the death metal of Trail of Tears, the folk metal of Midnattsol and the alternative metal of Katatonia.

The Lead vocalist was the presence of women in the gothic metal genre. One of the earliest was Anneke van Giersbergen of The Gathering, which is described above.

There are also a variety of vocal styles in gothic metal. Male singers in the genre range from raucous and snarling black metal screamed Dani Filth and Morten Veland to the clean counter-tenor, tenor vocals of Osten Bergøy and the bass range of Peter Steele. For the female singers, the different vocal styles includes the screams and growls of Cadaveria, the "poppy" vocals of Tanja Lainio from Lullacry and the operatic soprano style of Vibeke Stene from Tristania. There are more female singers gothic metal than there are in any other heavy metal subgenres but female vocals are not necessary and are not synonymous with genreLiv Kristine of Theatre of Tragedy and leaves ' eyes notes that the gothic tag is often misinterpreted and points out that "not every band with female vocals is a gothic band". The genre is also known to attract more female fans relative to other subgenres of heavy metal music

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