Gothic Death[PARADISE LOST, DARKSEED, SENTENCED, CEMETERY/SUN DOWN, LAKE OF TEARS, CREMATORY, PYOGENESIS, THERION, MOONSPELL, TYPE O NEGATIVE, THEATER OF TRAGEDY) PARADISE LOST has a very prominent position in the British death world. Starting from the "Gothic" album, they gradually developed into heavy melody doom, which was called Slow Death at the time. By the 1992 album Shades of God, a song with a simple rhythm , clear melody, using a semi-acapella rock singing style, and the doom-heavy "As I Die" gave the low-key death people at that time a refreshing feeling. "True Belief" and "Embers Fire" from the "Icon" album released by PARADISE LOST in 1993 showed the band's firm pace of development toward goth. At this time, the lead singer has completed the transformation from death to deep and bassy gothic singing. The band has since transformed into the most popular metal band in Europe since METALLICA and PANTERA. (In fact, it was the "Dragonian Time" album released around 1995 that established PARADISE LOST as the leader of gothic metal.) This was the beginning of the gothic metal era. Of course, in the era of SISTERS OF MERCY and LOVE LIKE BLOOD, some people had already tried to combine metal with goth. TYPE O NEGATIVE, who was born in New York hardcore, achieved great success ahead of PARADISE LOST by combining Black No.1 and Christian Woman with gothic and doom metal styles after the album "Bloody Kisses" was released. The reason I start with a death band is because most of the bands that dominated the gothic metal market in the mid-1990s were from the death scene. Among them, CEMETARY was the first band to follow the PARADISE LOST style. Similar styles include Swedish LAKE OF TEARS and German DARKSEED. SENTENCED has completely deviated from the black death line since "Amoke". The best performer in the market was THERION, who later became a solo artist. He combined gothic metal and (analog) symphony, and the album "Volvin" achieved great success. German CREAMTORY has gradually evolved from a small death band with keyboards into a big-name gothic metal band. There are also some bands like CEMETERY OF SCREAMS working hard for their own share of the gothic metal market. By the way, there is also a Portuguese black death band, MOONSPELL, which became really popular after changing their music. There was no movement after that, but it seems to have popped up again recently. In the late 1990s, gothic metal was almost replaced by black metal masters who were moving closer to goth. What about CRADLE OF FILTH, SIN OF THY BELOVED, TRISTINIA, and later there were folk singers who came to make fun of me. In any case, although gothic metal is not a branch of death, its early development has a lot to do with the death world. Black Metal (BAHTORY, DARK FUNERAL, MAYHEM, IMMORTAL, DARKTHRONE, INFERNAL MAJESTY, TORMENT, BELPHAGOR) Death metal and black metal are inherently intertwined, tolerating and opposing each other. Black metal was not an independent metal genre in the 1980s. Those bands that advocated black did not have such a separate name, but were collectively called death. Quite a few early enlightenment bands transitioned from death metal to black metal bands. Like death metal, their roots lie in the first wave of "extreme" elements in the early 1980s - "the same roots".

BATHORY, as the oldest representative, has repeatedly emphasized his early death metal identity. The ditties originally played by the founders of Norwegian black metal such as DARKTHRONE, EMPEROR, and IMMORTAL are still black metal in today's view of metal, but in the late 1980s, this kind of music was collectively called death. The great thing about MAYHEM is that he first proposed a break with death [see the related concepts of black metal below]. In 1992, the concept of Norwegian black metal became more clear, and these underground groups who were loyal to anti-Christ themes were broken down into black metal. and satanic/pagan death metal both.