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Lake of Tears initial came together in 1992 when Daniel Brennare, Jonas Eriksson, and Michael Larsson still left the death steel band these were using in and installed with Johan Oudhuis. They documented a demonstration in early 1993 which captured the eye of Black Tag Productions, who agreed upon the …

An innovative, classy, and highly enhanced “symphonic metallic” outfit from Holland, the Gathering debuted with 1993’s Constantly, a fairly simple death metallic album with vocals by Marike Groot, although heavy usage of keyboards managed to get stand out a little from additional such albums at that time. The follow-up, 1994’s …

Progressive metallic outfit Ayreon is actually only Dutch multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Arjen Anthony Lucassen (formerly from the even more mainstream metallic band Vengeance), and also a revolving-door cast of collaborators and guest musicians that changes from task to task. Ayreon albums are often large-scale idea epics and occasionally rock operas, …

The German group Blutengel (Blood Angel) were founded by singer Chris Pohl, after contractual and legal problems forced him to exit the favorite German band Seelenkrank. An electronica pop group with goth overtones, the music group has truly gone through several member adjustments while sticking with a configuration of 1 …

Originally begun like a side project simply by B-Thong singer/guitarist Tony Jelencovich by using bassist Johan Reivén and drummer Lars Häglund, Transport League quickly became a full-time concern for all those involved once the band recorded 1995’s Stallion Showcase album. Sketching its audio from affects as varied as Kyuss, Fu …

In some way, leading Norway’s Tristania to the very best from the goth metallic heap wasn’t plenty of for vocalist/guitarist Morten Veland, who unilaterally seceded from your union in the entire year 2000 to found out a brand-spanking-new though similar-sounding music group named Sirenia. Picking right up just about where …

Founded in 2014 by Queensrÿche vocalist Geoff Tate, Operation: Mindcrime focus on melodic, narrative-driven progressive steel. Acquiring their name from Queensrÿche’s landmark 1988 idea album from the same name, the music group formed as the consequence of Tate’s acrimonious divide from his previous group in 2012. After a tense two-year …

Greek choice/progressive rock device Phase shaped in the town of Larissa in 2003 throughout the abilities of Thanos Grigoriou, Damos Harharidis, Vasilis Liapis, and Marios Papakostas. Having a sound which has attracted comparisons to rings like Anathema, Porcupine Tree, the Tea Party, and Alice in Stores, the quartet spent its …

Sweden’s Amaranthe is usually a metalcore music group known because of its mixture of melodic pop and loss of life metal. Created in 2008, Amaranthe features many vocalists, with Elize Ryd and Jake E managing a lot of the soaring, clean vocals and Andreas Solveström caring for the harsher, throatier …

Produced in 2008 by previous members of the favorite goth steel/pop outfit Evanescence, We Will be the Fallen (a name produced from Evanescence’s 2003 album, Fallen) used their predecessor’s penchant for melodrama and brooding theatricality having a newfound focus on the strap all together. Rocky Grey, John LeCompt, and Ben …