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Here are the 5 goth metal bands who deserved to be bigger! Luckily… not all of them are six feet under, and, hopefully, their fanbases will continue to grow. Before exploring our main picks, however, ...

Though goth metal is a tiny niche in the U.S. ― easily topped by Evanescence, playing the Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater on Sept. 11 in Tuscaloosa ― there's more across the pond, especially in Scandanavia ...

Sonja aren’t a traditional supergroup—the members of this Philadelphia trio have all collaborated with one another elsewhere, most notably in beastly Philly black-metal band Woe. But these folks also ...

Orbit Culture is bringing Swedish death metal into the 21st century. The band from EksjÁ¶, a small city situated almost equidistant from Gothenburg and Stockholm, formed in 2013, a generation after ...

The drone-metal overlords in Sunn O))) aren’t interested in doing what other bands are doing, especially live. Concerts by the cloaked Seattle duo of Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley include amps as ...

A name change from Idle Hands didn’t stop the rise of Unto Others in trad and goth metal. The Portland band’s interest in somber gloom, electrifying hooks, and a dash of extremity help them stand out ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Note: The show is part of Luck You's So Below Showcase. The event is 21+ only. Cruel Velvet make “goth rock for metal heads,” says vocalist and bassist Taylor D. Waring. The band’s roster is filled ...

This 1996 track from October Rust leans more toward gothic metal than gothic rock, but it’s a classic (though notably explicit) piece of work that is more than worthy of a spot on our list. That ...

Gothic doom metal titans Paradise Lost have put out a new music video for “Salvation”, the latest track off their most recent album Ascension. Directed by Ash Pears, the video continues the band’s ...