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Gothic Metalheads?

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Other than the fact there's the entire sub-genre of Gothic Metal, which seems to be the trendy thing in the European metalscene (previously it was Power Metal, and before that Black Metal) and a label that's given too frequently to many bands that aren't.

Certainly back in the 80's the two subcultures didn't seem to have much in common.  But metal has gone a long way past the mullets and spandex days (in fact most metalheads these days wear almost all black).  Gothic metal is a sub-genre of metal that somehow appeared around the early 90's, some saying it came from the big three Doom-death bands Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema.  Even though the most infamous gothic metal band, Type O Negative was originally a thrash metal band.  Either way the gothic metal and doom metal (which it often gets grouped with) is a typically gloomy and melodramatic subgenre, and in many ways cliched.

What would be the ideal gothic metalhead though? 

Oh yes, i forgot, You Put it down too 2 category's *Doom and Gothic* Well, yes, alot of goth metalheads listen to doom and gothic, But keep in mind, That there is a huge variety of subgenres, I prefer Neo-thrash, Folkloric Metal, Avantgard, Horrorcore, and so on,and so on

Hmmm, well, I'de prefer Metal over Eletronic music anyday.. I don't think there is much a difference between goths from each Genre, Maybe metalhead goths are more aggressive, who knows lol, Someone should do a study on these things eh? ::)