Goth metal

Gothic metal or Goth metal is a musical genre that began taking inspiration from both the blues music y Doom Metal (which was born of Heavy Metal) and the gothic rock of the Gothic subculture. It usually deals with topics related to love, passion, loneliness, sadness, blood, existentialism or darkness, added to the voice of a soprano singer, and takes influence from poetry, vampirism, literature, philosophy and Gothic art. This suggests that this music is a metal inclination with a tendency from the Gothic movement and vice versa. However, there is no verifiable data to know if this is officially correct, in the same way that there is no verifiable data that states otherwise.

This music consists simply of the heaviness of metal (more specifically Doom Metal) with the dark atmospheres of Gothic rock and some of its musical characteristics, together with other atmospheric and musical elements typical of Gothic Metal, that is, original elements created through of the fusion of Gothic Rock and Doom Metal.

You can start talking about Gothic Metal from the nineties, it was during that time in which the first bands were born and with it the musical genre. During that time there was a decline of the Gothic music scene in terms of the impact of the genre in the media, but still continued to be born groups of undoubted importance. The new subgenres that were appearing disqualified some fans who until then had qualified their groups or as Rock Gothic, Darkwave, Industrial etc, depending on the music practiced by these same. In this way and thanks to the new tendencies that created musical combinations or hybrids, new subgenres would appear that would help to rekindle the flame of the scene. One of the subgenres that appeared and that had greater urderground or commercial relevance (depending on the band and its location) at the time was Gothic Metal in the mid-90s.