fredag 23 Maj 2008, 18:50

Below are top 100 artists tagged as gothic metal.

I've already struck out one band, so help me out determining which are gothic metal and which aren't, won't Ya?

Which are gothic metal, and which aren't (Yes and No)

001 Within Temptation (Enter only)
002 Lacuna Coil
003 Nightwish (symphonic metal/power metal)
004 Tristania
005 Moonspell
006 Theatre of Tragedy (earlier works)
007 Paradise Lost
008 Epica
009 Sirenia
010 After Forever (1st & 2nd album)
011 Type O Negative
012 Cradle of Filth (2000 onwards)
013 Tiamat
014 Leaves' Eyes (symphonic folk metal)
015 The Gathering (earlier works, now trip rock)
016 Evanescence (alternative rock)
017 Sentenced
018 Therion (symphonic metal)
019 Lacrimosa (darkwave)
020 Xandria
021 Crematory
022 Draconian (gothic doom metal)
023 Katatonia
024 Charon
025 Entwine
026 Trail of Tears
027 To/Die/For
028 Poisonblack
029 The Sins of Thy Beloved (gothic doom metal)
030 Beseech
031 Lake of Tears
032 The 69 Eyes
033 My Dying Bride
034 Theatres des Vampires
035 Elis
036 Lacrimas Profundere
037 Penumbra
038 HIM (alternative rock)
039 For My Pain...
040 Delain
041 Nemesea
042 Deathstars (industrial metal)
043 Flowing Tears
044 Virgin Black (gothic doom metal)
045 The Vision Bleak
046 Midnattsol (nordic folk metal)
047 Macbeth
048 Darkseed
049 Silentium
050 Mortal Love
051 Darkwell
052 Lunatica (lunatic metal)
053 Artrosis
054 Autumn (Russian & Dutch Autumns)
055 Edenbridge
056 Samsas Traum
057 Nessie & Her Beard
058 Krypteria
059 Graveworm
060 Moonlight
061 Stream of Passion (progressive metal)
062 Visions of Atlantis (atlantic metal)
063 Anathema
064 Haggard
065 Moi dix Mois
066 EverEve
067 Angtoria
068 Lullacry
069 Delight
070 L'Âme Immortelle
071 Mandragora Scream
072 Forever Slave
073 Dreams of Sanity
074 Marilyn Manson (only his dress is gothic :p)
075 Novembre
076 Aesma Daeva
077 Imperia
078 Letzte Instanz
079 The Old Dead Tree
080 Liv Kristine (not even metal)
081 Apocalyptica (cello rock)
082 Closterkeller
083 Rotting Christ
084 Amorphis
085 On Thorns I Lay
086 Bloodflowerz
087 Asrai
088 Darzamat
089 Catafalque
090 Atrocity
091 Madder Mortem
092 Tarja Turunen (Marcelo Cabuli is more gothic)
093 Eternal Tears of Sorrow
094 Via Mistica
095 Agathodaimon
096 Umbra et Imago
097 Before the Dawn
098 Ambeon (progressive metal)
099 Reflexion
100 Gothminister

P.S.:
1) Thanks to Notepad++ which helped importing and listing all these artists into the journal easily and quickly. :)

2) This isn't an I-wrote-journal-because-of-boredom-type journal, Your contribution will help us creating a good wiki for gothic metal (for those who don't know, the new http://beta.last.fm site introduces wiki and shoutbox for tags, so we could write a collaborative description of gothic metal tag, on the tag page we'll be able to write something like these: "Gothic metal is a …", "Bands that are considered gothic metal, but actually not gothic metal are…")

3) If You're interested in writing the wiki/description of gothic metal or any other Last.fm tag, consider joining The Wiki Improvement Clan.

4) "Who cares about genre, I listen to the music, not genre!"-type people aren't allowed to comment here, You aren't better than those people who tagged Evanescence as gothic metal at all.

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