The scale and grace that they used to craft three master class records, those being Serenades, The Silent Enigma and Eternity, would bleed down to the rest of the underground as groups like Katatonia, Celestial Season, Tiamat and even pioneering funeral doom acts like Skepticism, Esoteric and Evoken could draw inspirational water from this well of atmospheric grandeur. While they did take influence from many goth and new wave acts, they also took inspiration from old school prog. Anathema very much set themselves apart from Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride as the more adventurous of the three. But the black sheep of the Peaceville Three trafficked in something much more esoteric. Bands like the former would flirt with influences ranging from The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Swans, Clan of Xymox and Mortiis to create a grounded yet moving experience to doom metal that brought images of medieval glory and gothic romance. Groups like Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema were channeling a new and ferocious strain of extremity that would in time give way to experimentation from outside the metal sphere. As the 1980s bled into the 1990s, the bastard marriage of death metal and doom metal was reaching new heights.
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