 They are also recognized as three of the major bands that pioneered the death/doom subgenre, showing why gothic metal originated from death/doom.All three bands were signed to Peaceville Records during the early 1990s and have since been known as the "Peaceville Three".They had roots in "frenetically abrasive death metal, but they were also influenced by what Paradise Lost vocalist, Nick Holmes, described as the 'really bleak, dark sound' of Dead Can Dance".