My Silent Wake's style could be described as gothic death doom, although it also includes more varied elements. Their influences are wide ranging but predominantly include early Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Trouble, Celtic Frost and Black Sabbath.
Fans of these bands as well as Ian Arkley's other projects and even early Anathema will find plenty to enjoy. More info at the band's website:
http://www.blackplanet0.freeserve.co.uk/mysilent.htm
The experimental doom death quintet DECEMBERANCE was formed in Athens, Greece, in September 1997. With some changes to the original line-up, their first demo, titled "Decemberance", came out in January 1998 and obtained some great reviews from the Greek media. Their second demo release, titled "Just a Blacklad...", came out in January 2001 with equivalent response by the press, giving them the opportunity to support such acts as Marduk (2001), Candlemass (2002) ,Kaamos (2003), Saturnus and Misanthrope (2008) as well as many Greek bands.
Melancholic Doom-metal in the vein of My Dying Bride. Combines a lot of different elements like violins, flute, female vocals and more. Very atmospheric but also still brutal and heavy - something for Death/Doom fans. Their 2002 release sees them moving more in the direction of pagan/dark metal, and most of the doom/death references of their past sound are lost.
There are at least ten artists with this name: 1) A Hungarian Black Metal band. This band described their own music style in the album Deathgate as True Carpathian Black Metal. The first release was 'Fight Of The Soul' in 1995. Lyrical themes are misanthropy, hatred, depths of human soul and satanism. Dusk dissociate the band from the clownish / funny / trendy hungarian "Black" Metal scene with the TCBM Circle (True Carpathian Black Metal circle). Releases: 1995 - Fight Of The Soul 'demo
1998 - Recognizing Ourselves 'demo (unreleased)
Bethlehem is a dark metal band from Grevenbroich, Germany, formed in 1991 by Jürgen Bartsch and Kläus Matton. Before begetting Bethlehem, Bartsch and Matton used to play in a German Thrash metal band called Morbid Vision. Much of the themes in their lyrics revolve around sickness, morbidity, suicide, death and madness that may to some extent be personal to the band, though they are very difficult to understand even for German speakers because they make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
The roots of Officium Triste go back to the early nineties when Martin and Johan decided to form a metal-band. The name of this band was Reïncremated. The last line-up of this band decided to quit and reform under a new moniker with a different musical approach; that was in the spring of 1994. The new moniker became Officium Triste and musically they started to compose heavy and melodic doom metal. The start of Officium Triste went pretty smooth and new songs were composed quite fast. This resulted in the decision to record a demo.
1) Eternal Sleep is an atmospheric death/doom band from Italy.
2) Eternal Sleep is a hardcore band from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
3) Eternal Sleep is a one-man black metal band from Portsmouth, NH by Matt Serven from Backstabbers Inc. 1.)Eternal Sleep was born in 1993 when Luca (male vocals & all the lirics), Filippo (guitar) and Francesco (guitar) had got the intention to play sad music following the inspiration of the European Doom-Dark-Death Scene (Anathema, My Dying Bride and Bathory).
Formed in the late 90s, Lycanthia are a 6 piece Gothic/Death-Doom Metal band from Sydney, Australia. Their music can be described as dark, aggressive and emotional soundscapes fused with classical and rock elements. Consisting of grim male and dual female vocals, violins, keyboards, guitars and drums, Lycanthia continues the sound found in the early "golden age" works of classic gothic doom bands Theatre of Tragedy, Tristania, My Dying Bride, and The Sins of thy Beloved, while also adding more aggressive and traditional-doom influences.
Originating from Bruneck, Italy, Graveworm are a melodic/symphonic black metal band with influence of gothic metal. They were formed in 1997, and are themed towards sadness, death, love and occult. Even before Graveworm released any demo they got signed by Serenades Records, who saw an incredible show of the band close to their hometown Brunico. A demo was produced straight after, featuring classic hymns like "Eternal Winds" or "When The Sky Turns Black", which were featured on their debut album "When Daylight’s Gone".
Blindead was founded in Gdynia, Poland in 1999 by Michal Zimorski (Zima) - bass and Mateusz Smierzchalski (Havoc) - guitar. Few months later, Marek Zielinski (Deadman) - guitar, Konrad Ciesielski - drums and Patryk Adamczyk - vocals, joined the band. It was a casual project made for pleasure rather than a professional band. Besides, in the same time, Havoc became the guitarist of Behemoth and it was his priority.