Gothic Metal
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Beseech’s Erik Molarin Talks Reuniting on ‘Future. Present. Past.’
Vocalist Erik Molarin discusses reuniting with Lotta Höglin, the studio kinship behind the record, and returning to his Borås roots.
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Soulgrind Emerges from Tuonela in ‘Ad Pulchram Mortem’
Fifteen years after ‘The Tuoni Pathway,’ Soulgrind returns with a record steeped in Tuonela’s mythology, reaching beyond Finland’s gothic scene.
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M’era Luna Turns 26 on the Hildesheim Airfield
M’era Luna returns to the Hildesheim airfield for a twenty-sixth edition anchored by Lacrimosa, Within Temptation, and In Extremo.
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The Blood Divine and the Migration They Could Not Survive
Two records apart, a Colchester band tried to cross from gothic doom into progressive rock in a single leap, then…
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Amphi Festival Completes Two Decades on the Rhine
The Tanzbrunnen hosts a 20th Amphi Festival arranged around gothic rock, EBM, and darkwave veterans, from Clan of Xymox to…
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Sentenced and the Finnish Craft of a Chosen Farewell
The band from Muhos turned its own dissolution into a finished work, closing a sixteen-year account on melody, grief, and…
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Catalyst Crime Cross Borders on ‘Acquired Immunity’
A band with no single homeland, Catalyst Crime carry a Czech resistance story and a harder sound toward listeners who…
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Dominum Stage a Carnival of the Dead on ‘Night Is Calling’
German gothic power metal troupe Dominum bring their undead theatre to a third album, ‘Night Is Calling,’ carrying a homegrown…
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Beseech Complete a Thirty-Year Argument With ‘Hesitation’
The reunion of Erik Molarin and Lotta Höglin inside a Borås gothic metal band closes an interrupted arc that began…
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Paradise Lost Remaster the Album That Named ‘Gothic’ Doom
Thirty-five years after ‘Gothic’ gave gothic doom its name, Peaceville returns the record remastered — by an engineer born in…
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Godthrymm Seal Three Records of Grief on ‘Projections’
Halifax’s Godthrymm close the Visions Trilogy with their most expansive doom metal record yet, released May 29th, 2026, via Profound…
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Draconian Deny the Soul Its Peace on ‘In Somnolent Ruin’
Lisa Johansson’s return to Draconian creates more than a reunion — on ‘In Somnolent Ruin,’ two voices enact a Platonic…
