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Largely inspired simply by the task of Scandinavian bands like Tiamat and Crematory, in addition to homegrown heroes Moonspell, Portugal’s Heavenwood released a set of portentous goth metal albums within the mid-’90s. However, 1996’s debut work, Diva, unintentionally garnered more interest (and laughter) for having perhaps one of the most …

German rockers Pyogenesis began their profession in the first ’90s, creating a gothic loss of life metallic cross that sounded similar to Paradise Shed. They held this design throughout their 1st two EPs, but began to tweak it on the first full-length recording, 1995’s Nice X-Rated Nothings. The vocals had …

Swiss extreme metallic group Samael quickly evolved from a run-of-the-mill dark metal music group into perhaps one of the most daring and eclectic sonic explorers of the generation; wanting to tamper making use of their audio by introducing commercial, digital, and gothic music components to their formative dark and death …

Initially going from the name Mystery Tribe, the band of Norwegian sonic experimentalists Madder Mortem was formed in 1993 simply by singer Agnet M. Kirkevaag, guitarists B.P.M. Kirkevaag and Christian Rudd, bassist Boye Nyberg, and drummer Sigurd Nielsen. Since virtually all were involved with other band tasks, the group’s lineup …

Unleashed have already been stalwarts from the Swedish death metal scene because the early ’90s, with plentiful album produces showcasing a simple loud-fast-rules death metal style which has remained largely unchanged, but always potent. The group includes bassist/vocalist Johnny Hedlund, guitarists Tomas and Fredrik, and drummer Anders; they debuted in …

In Ruins began as some basement demos documented by founder/mastermind J. Michael in 1994, as the Reading, PA, indigenous was still fronting the neighborhood metal outfit Internal Sanctum. Focusing on his personal having a sequencer, Michael laid the sonic foundations for In Ruins with an EP of textural, gothic dark …

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, …

Shaped by founding Entombed member Lars-Göwent Petrov, Entombed A.D. views the band’s punishing function released under a somewhat different moniker. Using the courts determining which the band’s primary name belonged to the band’s four founding associates, Petrov struck from his have, recruiting guitarist Nico Elgstrand, bassist Victor Brandt, and drummer …

Founded this year 2010 being a side task/bereavement vehicle for Paradise Shed mastermind Gregor Mackintosh following the death of his father, punishing English severe steel supergroup Vallenfyre (Outdated English for “solid flame”), which also contains Hamish Glencross (My Dying Bride), Adrian Erlandsson (On the Gates, Paradise Shed), and Scoot (Doom, …