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  1. Last few: Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence Dead Congregation - Promulgations of the Fall Nortt - Graven Nortt - Ligfærd Nortt - Galgenfrist Hell - Curse and Chapter
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  2. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth ...funny listening to this album again, it encapsulates everything I like and most of what I find annoying about BG at the same time.
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  3. King Diamond - House of God King Diamond - Abigail II: The Revenge
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  4. Great band. My favourites are also Wolfheart, Irreligious and Memorial.
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  5. People seem to have a tough time deciding what gothic metal is (NTNR included). As the label stands, gothic metal should be metal that is gothic. What would make metal gothic? One school of gothic metal is metal with lots of influence from gothic rock, or a metalized version of gothic rock in some cases. This school is represented by bands like Type O Negative, Moonspell (non-black metal periods), later Sentenced/Poisonblack, mid-late Paradise Lost, mid-late Tiamat, etc... The second variant is the one that seems to be more of the topic of discussion here, which is a sort of hybrid of where doom/death metal had evolved to by the mid 90's, with its more elegant and refined feel, classical/symphonic influences, and usually operatic female vocals to coincide with the classical sounds on display. This is metal that uses gothic lyrics, imagery, and creates a gothic atmosphere without using many elements borrowed directly from gothic rock, but the influence is certainly there. Now, what this does not mean is that every "metal band" with a clean female vocalist is gothic metal, the music is what makes that determination, and I think that is where most get hung up. Bands like Nightwish and After Forever are definitely power metal bands, as that is what the instrumentation is based in, and there isn't really anything gothic about their atmosphere or the feeling of the music they create. There is also a great deal of confusion because many bands have changed their sound a number of times and have jumped the gothic metal line, one of the worst offenders to muddle this for everyone is Paradise Lost. Their second album is named Gothic, but is a doom/death metal album. However, that album would introduce the template upon which one school of gothic metal was formed, with the female vocal accompaniments and less dirty/more exquisite feel of the music setting the stage for bands like Theatre of Tragedy and Tristania. To add to this confusion, they would later integrate more and more gothic rock techniques into a metal base, and were one of the frontrunners of the other side of gothic metal with albums like Draconian Times, after which they would become gothic rock entirely (until their self titled album). Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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