Goth Metal is a musical genre found at the crossroads of Doom-Death, Heavy Metal and Gothic music. It developed in the early 1990s in Europe and the United States. It should be noted that there is much confusion and amalgam about the definition of Gothic metal. Already it is very common that metal in general is confused with Gothic music in the minds of the general public. Music styles that are completely different.

Moreover, there is a lot of confusion about the stylistic definition of Gothic metal. Originally Gothic metal was defined as a form of Doom Metal borrowing certain aspects of Gothic music including the inclusion of feminine voices ethereal. These are avant-garde bands like Paradise Lost, Theater Of Tragedy or Type O Negative that were originally named as Gothic metal bands. Gothic metal has helped to popularize the use of female voices, so we sometimes mistakenly inferred that any metal band singer was "gothic".

The amalgam being generalized, the notion of Gothic metal has become over time a broad and indefinite term designating any group characterized by the presence of a singer and a certain melodicity. In fact, are sometimes classified as "gothic metal" groups of Symphonic Metal as Nightwish, After Forever or Epica or alternative rock like Evanescence, which nevertheless do not draw inspiration from the original gothic music. Some columnists have sometimes wanted to remember what it was supposed to be really Gothic metal. This is particularly the case of the article "Defining Gothic Metal: The Truth and Lies Of The Scene" which seeks to dispel misunderstandings and insists that only metal music really inspired by the original Gothic music could be qualified as Gothic metal.