r/GothicMetal

Man.. ive never heard of them. Just listened to aegis, what an album. Her voice is so haunting and beautiful and their musicianship is crazy. So pretty and soothing and dark. Venus and Siren are some of the mose beautiful songs ive ever listened to.
I need more, can you recommend some gotic metal albums with a female voice that sound like this??
(Im not a fan of his voice so much)
Google told me nightwish.. its not the same, way more grand and arena like, im looking for the subtle beauty of aegis

Today is a beautiful spring day in the San Francisco bay area. The kind of day you throw open the winds and play some records while you do some house chores before going out with some friends to enjoy the sunshine (that's what I'm doing today). For those of you who have seasonal listening habits or associate albums so strongly with seasons of the year, what are your go-to gothic metal spring listens, and why?

Some records I associate with spring are:

1. Chalice - Augmented (2003), hyper-melodic gothic doom metal with tons of flute to add airiness. It's so listenable!

2. Within Temptation - Mother Earth (2000), for obvious reasons: magical sounding symphonic gothic metal with a lot of folk influences.

3. Tristania - Illumination (2007), No frills gothic metal, it's actually a pretty cold sounding record for spring, but it's so hooky. It's probably because I got it for my 11th birthday (my birthday is in May... next week actually), but I usually find myself spinning it around this time of year.

4. Evanescence - The Open Door (2006), the orchestra presence is so organic and lush, it just has a bright spring vibe despite being so dark.

5. Lacuna Coil - Comalies (2002), high energy, so catchy, is another one that I got around my birthday, but to me the production is still very spring-y.

6. Dreams of Sanity - The Game (2000), flighty and atmospherically very bright and airy symphonic gothic metal. It's a great record to "live in" on repeat.

7. Amaran - A World Depraved (2002), Pristine in Bondage (2004), yes, both records. This is more of a bonus, because they're not gothic metal albums. They're proggy melodic metal, but I feel like this subreddit would appreciate them. I don't know how to describe it, but they're such May releases to me.

When I think of spring albums, I usually think lighter in tone, easy-breezy feel-good albums, I guess.

Like the cult albums-bands

I like to sing in the 2nd and 3rd octaves, for the most part. I love hearing solid E2, D2s and C2s.

Wait, so not only do we get a new Draconian album this month, but Heike just dropped new LOR3L3I album?

Draconian released the 3rd single off their new album. This track features Daniel Anghede who also did Rivers Between Us which is one of Draconian's most popular tracks.

The clean vocals this time are pretty different from last time but still really good.

I especially love the guitar riffs and the solo in the 2nd half of the song. 2 days till album release!