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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Gothic metal albums, Gothic metal musical groups, Lacrimosa, Celtic Frost, List of gothic metal bands, Creation's Tears, Malice Mizer, Rotting Christ, Moonspell, Deathstars, Elis, Moi dix Mois, Septic Flesh, Sorrowful Angels, Erben der Schopfung, Daedalean Complex, System Divide, Chalice, Anabantha, Nightfall, Stravaganzza, The Eternal, Alastis, On Thorns I Lay, Abonos, Ashes You Leave, Penumbra, Magica, RaHoWa, The Angel and the Rain, Omega Lithium, Estatic Fear, Black Winter, Valkyre, Black Infinity, Notre Dame, The Old Dead Tree, Dakrya, Soul Saliva, Angizia, NFD, Without Face, Divina Enema, Markize, Forever Slave, Darkwell, Ava Inferi, WeltenBrand, XIII. Stoleti, Grim, Vanitas, Malae Artes. Excerpt: Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe originally as an outgrowth of doom/death, a fusion of death metal and doom metal. Lyrics are generally melodramatic and mournful with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences. Pioneers of gothic metal (although the bands themselves never claim the title of gothic-metal) include Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema, all from the north of England. Other pioneers from the first half of the 1990s include Type O Negative from the United States, Tiamat from Sweden, and The Gathering from the Netherlands. Norwegian 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...
