in recent years the word goth has often been used to describe a wider social group of youths these might include people with a tendency to wear black clothes listen to death metal or wear goth style make up often those labelled as goths lack many of the characteristics historically associated with the subculture and are sometimes called mallgoths the major social group of goths or mallgoths are usually linked with nu metal not death metal explain where this proof of gothic like youths listening to death metal comes from thanks ryan