Artists like Zetra

Unto Others is an American gothic rock/heavy metal band from Portland, Oregon. They formed in 2017 as Idle Hands but changed their name in 2020. The band has released three studio albums so far.

Heretoir is a band formed in Augsburg in 2006 that combines post-rock and shoegazing influences with modern metal.

"Love Is Noise" is a song by English alternative rock band the Verve, the second track on their fourth album, Forth (2008). It was released as the first single from the album on 3 August 2008 as a digital download, with the physical release following on 11 August 2008 in the United Kingdom. The song received its first airplay by Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 on 23 June 2008.

Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band formed in 1989. The group released their first EP, Under the Moonspell, in 1994 and followed up with their debut album, Wolfheart, a year later. They quickly became the most recognizable metal band from Portugal and a key figure in gothic metal.

Astronoid is an American post-metal band from Lowell, Massachusetts, formed in 2012. Started by vocalist Brett Boland and bassist Daniel Schwartz, the current lineup includes Boland, Schwartz, guitarist Casey Aylward, and drummer Matt St. Jean. They have released two extended plays, November (2012) and Stargazer (2013), and four studio albums, Air (2016), the eponymous Astronoid (2019), Radiant Bloom (2022) and Stargod (2025).

King Woman is an American doom metal band from San Francisco, California, formed by singer/guitarist Kristina Esfandiari. The band's lyrics largely address Esfandiari's childhood years in a cult-like charismatic Christian community in Northern California. The band has released two albums in between several of Esfandiari's other projects in disparate genres.

Entwine was a Finnish gothic metal band from Lahti, formed in 1995. They released seven studio albums before disbanding in 2019.

Tiamat is a Swedish metal band founded near Stockholm in 1990 and led by Johan Edlund. To date they have released ten studio albums. The band went through a number of stylistic changes in their earlier releases before settling on gothic metal. Under Edlund's leadership, the band would modify their style with influences ranging from Black Sabbath, Mercyful Fate, Candlemass, Pink Floyd and King Crimson combined with Sumerian lyrical themes. H. P. Lovecraft's writings also appear to have influenced Tiamat's thematology, a development consistent with a broader trend in death metal culture.

French duo who invented blackgaze — post-black metal in soft focus.

Vein.fm side-project pulling nu-metal into shoegaze light.

Cloakroom is an American rock band from Chesterton, Indiana. Formed in 2012, by members of various emo revival bands, they released their debut EP Infinity through Run for Cover Records in 2013. The label soon released the band's debut album Further Out (2015), which helped to broaden the emo revival's sonic landscape, by incorporating elements of shoegaze, grunge and slowcore. Their following two albums Time Well (2017) and Dissolution Wave (2022), were released through Relapse Records, and saw the band shift their sound closer to metal. Their fourth album Last Leg of the Human Table (2025) was released by Closed Casket Activities.

Philly post-hardcore expats who traded blast beats for wall-of-fuzz.