In a musical realm where scale of influence has little to do with commercial success, few originators of the extreme metal arts evoke as deep a sense of mystery, or incite such hushed, reverential tones of admiration, as Sweden's Bathory. Essentially a one-man operation helmed by the mysterious Quorthon, Bathory's development from the rawest... [+] Read More

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After bowing in 1992 with the straightforward death metal album An Evil Shade of Grey, the Swedish band Cemetary began tinkering with the genre on 1993's Goddess Beauty, incorporating both '70s rock and goth rock into the mix. Before recording 1994's Black Vanity, vocalist and guitarist Mathias Lodmalm dismissed the rest of the band, opting to... [+] Read More

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The saviour. Of course that's not me. Not even the most fanatical Green Peace member or a priest in suburbia. The saviour, which is not some financial expert or luna park fortune-teller in mottled dress. It is hopefully the one that will show us how to attenuate the scum of vaticanism, bushism, intolerance and related products of ignorance. The... [+] Read More

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While Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride got more attention from underground doom metal fans, Liverpool natives Anathema were just as important in creating a new strain of doom (sometimes referred to as doom/death) that drew heavily from atmospheric goth metal and, in the early days, featured gruff death-style vocals. Guitar-playing brothers... [+] Read More

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A full and engaging biography is forthcoming; however in the meantime all you need to know is that we are a United Kingdom based Gothic/Doom Metal or Dark Metal band... depending on your personal genre bias.
Our debut E.P is being finished as we speak and will soon be ready to be dispatched to journalists, magazines, webzines, DJs, internet... [+] Read More

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Swedish doom metal group Count Raven was formed in 1989 by vocalist Christian Linderson, guitarist Dan Fondelius, bassist Tommy Erikkson and drummer Christer Pettersson. A year later, the group released its first album, Storm Warning, for the Hellhound label. The album received great reviews from the European metal press, but Linderson left soon... [+] Read More

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Founded 1988 in Stockholm/Sweden, Dismember were among those responsible for Death Metals big breakthrough. Reaching even further back through the mists of time to bring you the ultimate in old school Death metal, Dismember has explored their underground roots and paid homage to their NWOBHM heroes to bring you the vicious breed of real Death... [+] Read More

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Melancholy was formed on the 12th of December in 1998. It's true to say that the sound of Melancholy was steering in such directions as Death, Gothic and Doom with elements of Nu-Metal. Their first release titled "The Fatal Deconstruction of The World", which was recorded on simple audio cassettes. In 2002 at Melancholy's studio Mindcrusher... [+] Read More

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After the release of their first two LPs Rhymes of Lunacy and Life Death and Other Morbid Tales, singer Messiah Marcolin and drummer Snowy Shaw exited the power doom metal band Memento Mori, leaving songwriter/guitarist Mike Wead to start the group over from scratch. La Danse Macabre, the third overall Memento Mori album and the first to feature... [+] Read More

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Hailing from the nation of Portugal, the doomy goth-metal quintet Moonspell consists of vocalist Fernando Ribeiro, guitarist Ricardo Amorim, keyboardist/programmer Pedro Paixão, bassist Sérgio Crestana, and drummer Mike Gaspar. After a poorly distributed 1994 album for the French Adipocere label, Moonspell debuted on Century Media in 1995 with... [+] Read More

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German rockers Pyogenesis began their career in the early '90s, making a gothic death metal hybrid that sounded much like Paradise Lost. They kept this style throughout their first two EPs, but started to tweak it on their first full-length album, 1995's Sweet X-Rated Nothings. The vocals were much clearer and the sound was a little less dark.... [+] Read More

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Requiem Laus

Starting in the early 90's with the name of “Requiem”, the choice of the name for this Portuguese metal band was in a way of respect towards their preferred composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
(Name, that later on was changed to “Requiem Laus”, for registering purposes and also, the ironical,... [+] Read More

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Sunseth Midnight came out in the town of Sao Paulo (Brasil) in May 2003 aiming to explore their own wide musical versatility as well the Gothic style. Acclaimed by the specialized press as one of the precursors of the Brazilian Glam Gothic Rock - such worldwide famous style lead by names as HIM and The 69 Eyes -, the band mixes Gothic with... [+] Read More

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Teardown was formed in the beginning of year 2001. Line-up of the band is still the same, excluding our former vocalist Make. First demo, entitled "Nothing should be wrong.." (2002) was made as a "home-recording". That demo was never published.

Then there was a sort of break in the bands activity. During that the singer Make left the... [+] Read More

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After graduating high school in San Diego, Robin Proper-Sheppard, Jimmy Fernandez, Ron Austin, and Albert Amman formed Society Line. They recorded a six-song demo and began playing locally, developing their rough sound into a bracing mix of metallics and atmospherics. Despite the musical progress, Proper-Sheppard became increasingly restless in... [+] Read More

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Hailing from Kalamazoo, MI, Thought Industry has established a reputation as one of the most daring and unpredictable exponents of progressive metal. A veritable stew of influences and styles which defies categorization, their music has remained highly original, staunchly non-commercial, and, by extension, has only been embraced by a very... [+] Read More

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Formed in Adelaide, Australia, in the early '90s, Virgin Black's lineup features Rowan London (vocals, piano, keyboards), Samantha Escarbe (lead guitar), Craig Edis (rhythm guitar), Ian Miller (bass), and Dino Cielo (drums). After a series of demo recordings in 1995/1996, the group began gaining international recognition with 1998's Trance EP,... [+] Read More

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http://myspace.com/dcy4

[decay] was formed by I. '411th' Agafonov at summer 2006
Originally genre was doom/gothic metal, but now it's more electronic music

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