A deep dive into Projector, Dark Tranquillity’s boldest and most controversial album — gothic, melodic, experimental, and somehow exactly what I needed.
The album that made black metal bombastic — Enthrone Darkness Triumphant turned Dimmu Borgir into symphonic monsters, and I loved every melodramatic second of it.
My gateway into full corpse paint mode — Midian is Cradle of Filth at their dramatic, unhinged best. Gothic horror meets blastbeats, and I still haven’t recovered.