IT HASNT It just got a bit samey in the mid 90s when all the new gothic bands turned into metal, like when Fields of the Nephilim went all death metal-y for no particular reason, and then everyone started associating Goth with Nightwish. And then after the initial wave of Nightwish, Tristania, Within Temptation, Epica etc. every gothic band just tried to copy them and all of a sudden goth = gothic symphonic metal with growling vocals half the time, instead of a dark gloomy progression from post punk like what Bauhaus was like and the first Siouxsie & the Banshees album.