Gothic Metal – Or Goth. Sonically speaking, goth is richly dark and Euro sounding, with much pilfering of classical music styles, sometimes orchestration, symphonic. Pioneered by Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Anathema. Today there are lots of popular chart-topping female fronted bands like Evanescence, Nightwish, Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, Tristania, Leaves Eyes, The Gathering etc. More rock metal or industrial based gothic bands such as Type O Negative, Danzig, Therion, Tiamat & Moonspell, expand this solemn landscape.