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, ...

“A lot of it is about vampires, or if Jesus Christ was a werewolf,” Lemke shares. “There are songs about conjuring demons, ...

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 ...

Exhausted though they may have been, Paradise Lost went into the studio in early 1995 and created what most fans believe to ...

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 ...

Finland’s approach to modern folk music is vastly different than the singer-songwriter-centric subgenre most Americans are familiar with. Over there, it’s not so much a harbinger of heartbreak or ...

Max Cavalera reflects on Sepultura's album ahead of the Dallas show. "For a lot of people, it changed the landscape of metal, ...

(Sputnik Music) "The Nephilim approached their second album with ... But to be honest, when I read the album description, there was a slight furrowing of the brow; “hmmm… goth metal? Never heard of ...

Funny thing about ghoulish, dour or depressed vocalists who front shadow-shrouded bands: They're never what they appear to be. Take Robert Smith of the Cure. Listening to his most wrenching songs or ...

“We are here to make coffee metal,” Nathan Explosion (Brendon Small) growls in the premiere of the mid-2000s’ Adult Swim series, Metalocalypse. “We will make everything metal. Blacker than the ...

The gothic hotspot, which opened in December, is celebrating Halloween with a Miss American Vampire of Philadelphia contest.