How Nightwish become the planet’s most epic symphonic metal band with Endless Forms Most ... (“My wife rides it, not me”) and, given his public persona as a kind of gothic Andrew ...

Within Temptation’s Enter, released in April, took obvious influence from gothic metal bands like Paradise Lost, but its grandiose, elegiac compositions and symphonic undertones hinted at the ...

Forged in the fire of excommunication, Texan transplants ‘Tulip’ deliver their own brand of symphonic metal, spearheaded by ex-professional opera vocalist Ashleigh Semkiw, and Colin Parrish on ...

From Crippling Alcoholism to Kælan Mikla, these goth metal up-and-comers show it’s hip to be sad. From Crippling Alcoholism to Kælan Mikla, ...

When Mark Jansen left the metal band After Forever in early 2002 and then formed the symphonic metal group Sahara Dust (which he then rechristened Epica), he initially asked then-girlfriend Simone ...

Formed in 1996, Nightwish gained instant popularity in its native Finland with the 1997 release of its first album, Angels Fall First. Eventually, Nightwish achieved international success with ...