Throughout the 1980s, metal and goth were two separate and distinct scenes, warily eyeing other through the dry ice of some dark provincial nightclub. But in the 1990s, these two outcast genres came together to create a grandiose new strain of music in the shape of goth metal.
Over the subsequent years and decades, goth metal grew in scope and ambition. It became an unlikely commercial powerhouse, thanks to the likes of Type O Negative and HIM. Its boundaries blurred with those of other genres, not least black and symphonic metal.
