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MDL
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2022 7:30 pm 
 

Just like the title implies, I'm looking for gothic metal bands or songs that have this spooky, scary or unsettling feeling. Something like Mandragora Scream or Virgin Black:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVUF6f89Aq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLYyLYt1BH0

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TheUnhinged
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 25, 2022 11:33 pm 
 

Assuming you're already familiar with Type O Negative, I'll hold off on the obligatory Bloody Kisses rec. There is plenty of good horror/spooky gothic metal out there. Here is a decent handful of albums that I enjoy.

Diabolique - Wedding the Grotesque
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Tristania - Beyond the Veil (I find this album pretty similar to that Virgin Black album you listed. There are some lighter and more melodic passages, but a lot of the album has some pretty creepy sounding atmosphere and sporadic bits of some ugly, blackish sounding riffage)
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Moonspell - Wolfheart
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The Vision Bleak - The Deathship Has a New Captain
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Theatres des Vampires - Pleasure and Pain (very similar to Mandragora Scream)
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Cultus Sanguine - Shadows' Blood
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Monumentum - In Absentia Christi
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Sadness - Danteferno
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The Nefilim - Zoon
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CrushedRevelation
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 10:51 pm 
 

Going to add Light of the Morningstar to this request. If spooky you're after this band delivers. Love it. Both full length albums and the debut EP are excellent gothic metal.

There Are Many Shadows

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An Empty Hearse
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LilTito
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 6:11 pm 
 

Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane

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Planetary_Misfortune
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 23, 2023 6:37 am 
 

Notre Dame?
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Disembodied
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Joined: Sat Jun 22, 2019 4:29 am
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:56 pm 
 

MDL wrote:
Just like the title implies, I'm looking for gothic metal bands or songs that have this spooky, scary or unsettling feeling. Something like Mandragora Scream or Virgin Black:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVUF6f89Aq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLYyLYt1BH0



Those two tracks are quite different so it's hard to know what exactly you're after. One band I'd label as this kind of spooky gothic is Darkwell, who put out one fantastic album in the early 00s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEq4ZKHu3g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go61w3WLvgs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnmDepRXtS8

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