 Guitarist Valor Kand took over the reins and, under his leadership, Christian Death subsequently pursued a more metal-oriented direction.In particular, their 1988 album "Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ" has been described by critic Steve Huey as "heavy goth-rock bordering on metal".As a musical style, gothic metal "truly began in the early 1990s in the north of England" with the three bands Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema representing "the core of the movement".