Gothic metal (or goth metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal that combines the heaviness of doom metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe originally as an outgrowth of death-doom a fusion of death metal and doom metal.
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