Pretty loose criteria if what classifies a band as "gothic" is lyrical content. ?? What are you referring to? I've stated before in this thread that I'm not looking for bands with gothic horror lyrics, but rather early bands influenced by Gothic Rock and Post-punk. Anacrusis? I don't unde...

Avenger wrote:Pretty loose criteria if what classifies a band as "gothic" is lyrical content.

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What are you referring to? I've stated before in this thread that I'm not looking for bands with gothic horror lyrics, but rather early bands influenced by Gothic Rock and Post-punk.

If anybody's got any copies of the first few releases of Expiatoria from Italy I would love to hear them.
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Exp ... iscography

Still working on the project but slowly these days,

The Realm, Anacrusis and Voivod covers are up there for sure! Speaking of Eleanor Rigby,the awesome proto-Epic Metal band Thunderpussy did a cover of that in 1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KyUXV6ioho I have always adored Slough Feg's cover of Dearg Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n3oZy...

What an excellent suggestion Rumblefist! their 1988 demo fits perfectly into the project! And I have never come across them before, thank you!

My experience with this subgenre is next to none: I heard a Godflesh song in a radio many years ago and did not like it at all. I like Bloodstar, that is labelled as industrial, but I am not certain whether it actually belongs here. To me it sounds like if Hawkwind switched to playing speed/thrash,...

Paralysis - Arctic sleep
At the Gates -The Red in the Sky is Ours
Believer - Sanity Obscure
Riot - Thundersteel
Morbus Chron - Sweven

Heavy Load - Bleeding Streets Gotham City - Swords and Chains Manilla Road - Necropolis/Crystal Logic Angel Witch - Angel Witch Tokyo Blade - Night of The Blade Helloween - Victim of Fate Fates Warning - Night on Brocken/Apparition if you're going for best song Warlord - Deliver Us From Evil Manowar...

Slauter Xstroyes - Free The Beast
Moahni Moahna - Why?
Solstice - Lamentations
Soul Cages - Soul Cages
The 3rd and the Mortal - Tears Laid In Earth

Glacier - The Blind Leading The Blind

I'm blown away!

Queensryche - The Warning
Voivod - Killing Technology
Heir Apparent - One Small Voice
The Vision Bleak - Carpathia
Vauxdvihl – To Dimension Logic

Queensryche - NM 156

What a fanastic song, along with some of the more involved songs on Night on Bröcken Progressive Metal starts here. But thematically this is even more in line with was to come than Fates Warning were. Brilliant! PUNCH, PUNCH, PUNCH!

Jester's March - March of the Jester
Veni Domine - Spiritual Wasteland
Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
House of spirits - Turn of the Tide
Soul Cages - Soul Cages

What a great topic! I dig all the suggestions I didn't know and listened to. This genre is underrated, yet it has some powerful compositions to show, for sure. I think the following track by Agony Column bears the gothic aura of Fields of the Nephilim, hence it's definitely Gothic Metal. http://www...

Feels good to be back, while we were gone I was playing:
Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
Horrified - In the Garden of Unearthly Delights
Septic Flesh - Esoptron
Realm - Holy War
Pentagram - Be Forewarned