IDLE HANDS
Mana
EISENWALD
Portland’s fast-rising metallers forge an unlikely 80s alliance
the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal and the gothic rock scene were emerging simultaneously, each offering exciting new takes on studios, but it took a while for these disparate youth tribes and sounds to really hook up. Sisters Of Mercy and Fields Of The Nephilim hardened and thickened goth’s guitar attack, while the likes of Paradise Lost, Type O Negative and Moonspell made a swooning beeline from gnarly extremity to goth’s cleaner textures and pop savvy, but this cross-fertilisation hasn’t always sat well with fans of either genre.
