Extreme Gothic Metal is a genre of metal music generally fusing gothic themes with brutal forms of metal. It is a label not commonly used though it has been applied to many bands such as Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir. A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Metal is a genre of music that derives from rock and electric blues, with great use of wah-wah, distorted guitars and loudbass. ... (left to right) Adrian Erlandsson, Dave Pybus, Dani Filth, Martin Powell, Paul Allender. ... Dimmu Borgir Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian melodic black metal band whose music has been in the charts in several Scandinavian countries and Germany. ...
Gothicmetal is a genre of heavy metal music that originated during the early 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of doom-death, a subgenre of doom metal.
Gothicmetal is sometimes considered a loose genre in the way it sounds because the genre is defined by its composition of the music and its aesthetics, leaving individual bands to provide their own interpretations.
Gothicmetal tends to take influence from the doom metal, fl metal, and death metal subgenres of Heavy metal for its composition, heavily synthesizing the styles of their melody and rhythm ideas in its guitar work, causing the music to be aggressive and fast paced.