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It's no surprise that this is a very quiet thread, and it's even rare to find gothic metal threads on forums these days. Personally I love the best bands in this genre and I will to the day I die. There's obviously a bit of cross-over between gothic metal, doom metal, dark rock etc but some of my favourite bands and releases from the broader gothic metal genre: Paradise Lost - Draconian Times Type O Negative - October Rust Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the Sun Anathema - Alternative 4 Tristania - Widow's Weeds Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace Moonspell - Irreligious The 69 Eyes - Devils Sentenced - The Cold White Light To/Die/For - Epilogue The 1990s were in particular an amazing era for me, being in my teens and just being amazed by all this great music. They're still some of my favourite albums to this day.

I just bet you like Pantera in the shower... Been screaming my face off since yesterday evening, so now I don't have a face, but I think I'm psyched on the vocals for my new song. May need some brush-up but it's pretty much there.

I'm fine thanks, yourself? ...By the time you're reading this you won't remember posting, will you?

King Diamond- "Conspiracy"

Megadeth- "Dystopia"

Mayhem "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive" new live album. This kicks ass! Apognosis "Phase 6" - great BM from Greece that is not as warm sounding as you may expect, full of second wave influence. Temple of Evil "The 7th Awakening" Teitanblood "Accursed Skin"

Interesting topic. For me there is no doubt that music has a spiritual aspect to it. It's not just background noise or something to listen to in the car for me - like it is for a lot of other people. There is something transcendent about certain types of metal. Whether it's Dissections 'Storm of the Light's Bane' or Anathema's 'Alternative 4', music contains aspects of the luminous that I would describe as spiritual. I get this from classical music as well. Having said this, however, there is certainly a lot of metal that is less emotionally based and it doesn't really do a lot for me when it comes to spiritual responses etc.

Found a good Freezing Moon tab. Thy will be done, metal gods.

I've been playing The Haunting (Testament), trying to iron out some of my errors on Through the Fire and the Flames (Dragonforce) and I just roughly learned the solo in Bat Country (Avenged Sevenfold). I've also been working on a new solo (no particular song in mind for it at the moment but I might slip it into something in the future).

I've been working on a song of mine. All of the music and lyrics are done, save some bass parts. I've been drawing inspiration from Digiorgio's work on "Human".

I wish I could play something well.. I can knock out a lot of punk badly on bass but that's about it..I have been singing along to Darkthrone 'Quintessence' recently and I been getting it down ok. Surprised myself. Oh and Pantera in the shower is always good.

Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

Whoa, a group hug in bed with sausage rolls! What kind of thread is this anyway? I thought it was like Thanksgiving dinner, but now it's more like 3AM on New Year's...

*Group huggg* I appreciate tea, bed, sausage rolls and metal ...not necessarily in that order ..

Autopsy- "Severed Survival" Sepultura- "Morbid Visions" Perhaps my favorite two albums right now

Just getting my teeth into the new Teitanblood.

I was just thinking about this, I saw like 50 people in the list. Hey you guys watching! Introduce yourselves! It'd be nice to meet some new folks.