Encyclopedia Gothic Doom Metal. Grachev I.Yu.

This Encyclopedia includes information about performers (both foreign and Russian) working in the Gothic-Metal style, Dum-metal, Gothic-Dum-metall, stero-rock, Gothic rock, darkwave and others, so Or otherwise related to these concepts. The information is located in alphabetical order, and articles about several groups, the names of which begin with numbers, are placed according to the letter transcriptions of these numbers. The author did not try (yes, probably, it is impossible) to include all the information about all the groups related to Gothic-Duma-Metal or the Gothic Rock, and during the selection of the material was guided primarily by subjective considerations, as well as some objective factors (degree of fame, contribution to the development of the genre, etc.).

It should be noted that the range of musical directions in question includes quite diverse groups. The main emphasis was placed on the “metallic” component of these styles, although the book includes the biographies of the main performers standing at the very origins of the Gothic rock and the Duma and the distant from the “metal”, which would not include which would not be incorrect from the point of view of the author. So, along with articles about such representatives of modern Gothic-metal as Amorphis, Tiamat, Lacrimosa, etc., the reader will find information about the classics of Gothik, Bauhaus, Fields of the Nephilim, etc.), and Also, some modern representatives of this style, in the sound of which there is no “metallic” component (Abney Park, Aesma Daeva, etc.).

Together with the biographies of modern Apologists of the Duma-Meetal and the steron-rock (Candlemass, Troble, Queens of the Stone Age, etc.), you can read about the commands from which these areas began-Black Sabbath, Pentagram and other, speaking of Gothic Rock and Gothic-metal, the author made the main emphasis on the musical, and not the visual component, such performers as Rammstein, Laibach, Marilyn Manson, etc., whose work include certain ones, includes certain ones. Elements of the Gothic rock and often gravitates to the gothic rock in terms of the image, but from a musical point of view, as a rule, it is classified in another way.

Encyclopedia was created in the fall of 2005-in the spring of 2006, and therefore limited to “from above” by this period of time.

In some cases, the articles are given the names and tracklists of albums that are still planned for the exit.

similar names should be considered as workers, which means that they can change until the actual exit of the disk.