What was the first Gothic metal song/band?

Question

I mean this from 1972 is like Nightwish or one of the many female fronted GM bands:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TFlj1i9LuxE

But I was told they were prog, not gothic.

So which is it then?

Answer 1

Bauhaus I think (: and btw mikeydre.. Black Sabbath weren't Goth, they were heavey metal :\ xx

Answer 2

GOTHIC METAL

My Dying Bride-Towards the Sinister demo 1990

even though paradise lost album Gothic is considered as pioneer in defining Gothic metal but the 1st real record came from My dying bride

Answer 3

http://info.means.it

you can get much information in this website, If you will check anyone blue link in website.

Answer 4

Coven,

Black Widow

Answer 5

Joy Division (formed in 1977)inspired the whole thing,with their post punk revolution and their gloomy melodies,but Bauhaus(1978) was the first "legitimate" gothic rock band,with their Bela Lugosi's Dead single,setting the aesthetics of the genre as well.The gothic rock wave back in the 80s included bands like Sisters of Mercy,Alien s*x Fiend,The Cure,Siouxsie And The Banshees,Christian Death.

Nightwish,Lacuna Coil etc are gothic influenced symphonic metal bands with female vocals; that has to be a genre of its own.

Answer 6

Black Sabbath, Black Widow and Atomic Rooster had a lot of Goth elements in their music , refined by the likes of Sisters of Merch , Bauhaus , Cure etc

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?ie=UTF...

Answer 7

wow, i enjoyed your link! they are kinda similar to Coven... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven_(band...

this song is from 1969... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZlgRf4ec...

Answer 8

Bauhaus?

Answer 9

Gothic metal is highly different from gothic rock, as any fan of either genre would be able to tell you. GM came from GR, obviously. GR came about around the time period in your link. GM came about around the 90s.

Among the first GM bands were Paradise Lost, Anathema, My Dying Bride, etc.

Bands like Bauhaus, The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy, and The Mission, etc. are gothic ROCK, not metal.

People often mislabel a band, such as Nightwish or Within Temptation, as being gothic metal, but they are not. Great bands of course, but not GM.