(en) Eduardo Rivadavia, « Biography of Insomnium », ...links to other, neighboring metallic subgenres like doom, melancholy, and dark metal.
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Chuck Eddy, Rock and Roll Always Forgets : A Quarter Century of Music Criticism, Duke University Press, , 335 p. (ISBN978-0-8223-5010-1, lire en ligne), p. 86 |passage=...by the late '90s and early '00s, goth-oriented 'dark metal' bands like The Gathering and Tiamat had turned in another direction, incorporating morose beauty learned from Kate Bush, Swans, Enigma, and Joy Division.
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Mike Rimmer, « Paradox - Through Pain There Is Joy », Cross Rhythms Magazine, Cross Rhythms, no CR Mag 62, (lire en ligne, consulté le ).
(en) Ian Webber, « Kekal - 8 », CrossRhythms, (consulté le ).
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Tom Pendergast et Sara Pendergast, St. James encyclopedia of popular culture, St James Press, (lire en ligne), ...gloomy dark metal bands, a subgenre of throwbacks to the early days....
Richard D. Barnet et LarryL. Burriss, Controversies of the Music Industry, GreenwoodPublishing Group, , 270 p. (ISBN978-0-313-31094-2, lire en ligne), p. 86.
Jeffrey Kaplan et Heléne Lööw, The Cultic Milieu : Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization, Rowman Altamira, , 353 p. (ISBN978-0-7591-0204-0, lire en ligne), p. 143.
Jeff Wagner et Steven Wilson, Mean Deviation : Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal, Bazillion Points, , 364 p. (ISBN978-0-9796163-3-4, lire en ligne), Tracks such as "Weeper on the Shore" and "Song of the Troubled One" unified an earthy '70s vibe with the broody dark metal so popular in Europe in the mid '90s..
Ian Christe, « Metal », CMJ New Music Monthly, , the five lads in ORPHANED LAND weave beautiful, romantic dark metal on Sahara(Holy) (lire en ligne).
Natalie J. Purcell, Death Metal Music : The Passion and Politics of a Subculture, McFarland, , 242 p. (ISBN978-0-7864-1585-4, lire en ligne), Bands like Celtic Frost, My Dying Bride, Cathedral and Anathema offered slow, deep metal with a haunting and sorrowful tone. These British bands added melody and instrumental sections to their dark metal music.
Robert Walser, Running with the Devil : Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, Wesleyan University Press, , 222 p. (ISBN978-0-8195-6260-9, lire en ligne), p. 16.
(en) Jim Sullivan, « Heavy metal tour sends a message -- loud and clear », The Boston Globe via HighBeam Research (subscription required), , It was Metallica that opened the floodgates to this latest heavy metal subgenre, generally termed thrash metal, dark metal or death metal: fast, bone-crunching, hard rock played with ferocity, strewn with violent, bloody imagery.
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(en) Robert Palmer, « POP VIEW; Dark Metal: Not Just Smash And Thrash », New York Times, , The horrific imagery so central to the lyrics of dark metal permeates popular culture, from horror films to illustrated "graphic" novels to the visceral new fiction of "splatter punks"....