>>450098Ah okay, that's interesting. When I think of 'gothic rock' I think of a totally different sound (something more like Siouxsie and the Banshees or Sisters of Mercy) but I'm sure it's a very broad term and the sound has evolved a lot over the years. I honestly think Fallen and The Open Door sound like metal, the song Whisper has a choir in it singing in latin (not that that makes it metal) but it definitely has a symphonic metal feel. Gonna be honest, I haven't listened to any of their music after that lol. I saw someone calling them nu-metal, I never thought of them as that, but now that I think about it they do have kind of a nu-metal sound I guess. I saw someone calling them post grunge the other day which makes 0 sense to me, I thought post grunge was like Bush/Creed/Nickelback, and Evanescence does not sound like that to me at all.
>I think the genre evolving and becoming ridiculously heavier with genres like technical death metal and deathcore made older bands sound softer in comparison and therefore perceived as "not metal"Yes that's definitely true, I've been listening to some NWOBHM bands and if I heard them without knowing they were classified as metal I wouldn't even think it was supposed to be. But then again the recording quality back then was much worse too.