Top 100 Gothic Metal Records

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Top 100 Gothic Metal Records

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Gothic Metalhead
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Yes, I decided to do another gothic metal list because it been rapidly changing since my last two lists. I love revisiting this kind of list because of how different my tastes have changed withing this genre of music I'm passionate about.
100.
1.
Anathema - Eternity
1996
100.
2.
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
2005
100.
3.
The Foreshadowing - Days Of Nothing
2007
100.
4.
Monumentum - In Absentia Christi
1995
100.
5.
Tiamat - Wildhoney
1994
100.
6.
Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale
2016
100.
7.
Anathema - Alternative 4
1998
100.
8.
Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn
1999
100.
9.
The Gathering - Mandylion
1995
100.
10.
Mortal Love - I Have Lost...
2005
100.
11.
Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
2006
100.
12.
Type O Negative - October Rust
1996
100.
13.
Angellore - La Litanie Des Cendres
2013
100.
14.
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
1993
100.
15.
Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
2012
100.
16.
HIM - Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666
1997
100.
17.
Mortal Love - Forever Will Be Gone
2006
100.
18.
Idle Hands - Mana
2019
100.
19.
For My Pain - Fallen
2003
100.
20.
The 3rd And The Mortal - Tears Laid In Earth
1994
100.
21.
Draconian - Under A Godless Veil
2020
100.
22.
Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance
1999
100.
23.
Varaha - A Passage For Lost Years
2019
100.
24.
Tristania - Widow's Weeds
1997
100.
25.
Entwine - Gone
2001
100.
26.
Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum
1999
100.
27.
Paradise Lost - Obsidian
2020
100.
28.
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
2001
100.
29.
Artrosis - Hidden Dimension
1998
100.
30.
SpiRitual - Pulse
2003
100.
31.
Moonspell - Irreligious
1996
100.
32.
Catafalque - Unique
2005
100.
33.
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
1993
100.
34.
HIM - Love Metal
2003
100.
35.
Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy
1995
100.
36.
Dimlight - Psychosynthesis
2012
100.
37.
Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You
1997
100.
38.
Unto Others - Strength
2021
100.
39.
Crown Of Autumn - Splendours From The Dark
2011
100.
40.
Satyrian - Eternitas
2006
100.
41.
Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine I
1993
100.
42.
Anathema - The Silent Enigma
1995
100.
43.
Scream Silence - Aphelia
2007
100.
44.
Type O Negative - World Coming Down
1999
100.
45.
Poisonblack - Escapexstacy
2003
100.
46.
The Wounded - Atlantic
2004
100.
47.
Flowing Tears - Jade
2000
100.
48.
Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
2021
100.
49.
Thorns Of The Carrion - The Scarlet Tapestry
1997
100.
50.
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
2002
100.
51.
Soulgrind - The Tuoni Pathway
2010
100.
52.
Lacuna Coil - Comalies
2002
100.
53.
Paradise Lost - Gothic
1991
100.
54.
My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River
1995
100.
55.
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
1995
100.
56.
Tiamat - Clouds
1992
100.
57.
Tristania - Beyond The Veil
1999
100.
58.
Yearning - Evershade
2003
100.
59.
The Blood Divine - Awaken
1996
100.
60.
Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
2003
100.
61.
The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
1997
100.
62.
Diabolique - Wedding The Grotesque
1997
100.
63.
Decoryah - Fall-Dark Waters
1996
100.
64.
Graveworm - Engraved In Black
2003
100.
65.
Enshine - Origin
2013
100.
66.
The Foreshadowing - Second World
2012
100.
67.
Anathema - Judgement
1999
100.
68.
Celestial Season - Solar Lovers
1995
100.
69.
Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
2001
100.
70.
The Gathering - Always...
1992
100.
71.
Evereve - Stormbirds
1998
100.
72.
Anabantha - Llanto De Libertad
2006
100.
73.
Lacrimas Profundere - Burning: A Wish
2001
100.
74.
On Thorns I Lay - Crystal Tears
1999
100.
75.
Light Field Reverie - Another World
2020
100.
76.
Rotting Christ - Triarchy Of The Lost Lovers
1996
100.
77.
Type O Negative - Slow, Deep And Hard
1991
100.
78.
Blackthorn - Codex Archaos
2011
100.
79.
Siebenbürgen - Delictum
2000
100.
80.
The Blood Divine - Mystica
1997
100.
81.
HIM - Venus Doom
2007
100.
82.
Theatre Of Tragedy - Aégis
1999
100.
83.
Yearning - Plaintive Scenes
1999
100.
84.
Anabantha - Sin Decir Adios (Without Saying Goodbye)
2006
100.
85.
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
2001
100.
86.
Antichrisis - A Legacy Of Love
1998
100.
87.
Eternal Oath - Wither
2005
100.
88.
Draconian - The Burning Halo
2006
100.
89.
Lacrimas Profundere - Bleeding The Stars
2019
100.
90.
Lacuna Coil - Broken Crown Halo
2014
100.
91.
Nicumo - Inertia
2020
100.
92.
Diabolique - The Black Flower
1999
100.
93.
Edenfall - Forever Fallen
2011
100.
94.
On Thorns I Lay - Threnos
2020
100.
95.
Moonspell - Extinct
2015
100.
96.
Lake Of Tears - A Crimson Cosmos
1997
100.
97.
My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World
1999
100.
98.
Scream Silence - Saviourine
2006
100.
99.
Moonspell - Hermitage
2021
100.
100.
Angellore - Rien Ne Devait Mourir
2020
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29.08.2020 - 12:32

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Evereve's first two albums are must listen, especially Seasons.

I also enjoy Dreadful Shadows. Again, first two albums are must listens.
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29.08.2020 - 23:25
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Nice to see many of these 90s albums that I like quite a lot.
Anathema's Eternity is such a wonderful album, I have fallen in love with it back at its release.
Still adore it a lot, though I dont come back to it often nowadays.

To my understanding, many of the albums you listed are not really gothic metal (Anathema, Tiamat, The 3rd and the Mortal,...), but hey, I have never been a genre nerd (plus I am really not particularly clear about the borderlines either, and here we are probably close to borderline territory).
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Written by Redel on 29.08.2020 at 23:25

To my understanding, many of the albums you listed are not really gothic metal (Anathema, Tiamat, The 3rd and the Mortal,...), but hey, I have never been a genre nerd (plus I am really not particularly clear about the borderlines either, and here we are probably close to borderline territory).

I can understand the 3rd and the Mortal not being gothic metal considering the instrumentation of the first album. As for Anathema, I say they're gothic because both alternative 4, and eternity showed elements that came from Gothic rock such as keyboards, lyrics are pretty melodramatic and gloomy to me, Vincent's vocal apporach and Duncan Patterson's chorus effect bass playing. Even without the chorus, Duncan has some unique bass lines that again sounds similar to a few gothic rock bands. I respect your opinion though, they do get overlooked as doom or death-doom or other but it's definitely good to hear another person's input.
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03.08.2021 - 19:15
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Some great albums listed here, I must check a load of the one's I've yet to listen to out, as I suspect there's a lot I'll like, then add them to my gothic/doom collection.
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04.08.2024 - 10:43

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Fantastic list & albums!!! Check the "Dark - Seduction". Amazing gothic album
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