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- Strawberry Switchblade. The Scottish duo Strawberry Switchblade were a glorious blur of ribbons and lace, frills and polka dots. Despite the sweet, cupcake-goth look of Rose McDowall and Jill Bryson, the duo were able to write sad songs under all that confection.
- AFI. What were you doing in the 2000s if you didn’t have a side lip ring? The Californian hardcore-punk turned gloomy-rockers AFI broke through the emo buzz and ricocheted into the mainstream with their 2003 album, Sing the Sorrow.
- Diamanda Galas. Terrifying is an accurate description of Diamanda Galas. Since the late 1970s, she has steadily released experimental work that can raise tortured souls from the caverns of Satan’s lair, her voice writhing with an evil found only in the possessed.
- She Wants Revenge. They say the best form of flattery is imitation. If so, She Wants Revenge’s self-titled LP from 2006 puckers right up to some 1980s goth ass.
Oct 25, 2017 · October 25, 2017. Graphic by Patrick Jenkins. After it blazed through England and New York in the 1970s, the first wave of punk rock left a whole lot of darkness in its wake. As the decade rolled ...
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May 22, 2019 · Unbelievably, Song To The Siren was originally released as a B-side to the Sixteen Days-Gathering Dust EP. Effectively a Cocteau Twins release (as it featured Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie only), the song took on a life of its own, became the A-side of the single, and gave legs to the goth supergroup concept.
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ADMIN MOD. Recent misinformation about goth music I’ve seen on TikTok/instagram. Discussion. This is in no way to get riled up, just to discuss. I’ve recently seen a lot of younger/baby bats saying things like “goth music is so scary” and then playing Rock Lobster as an example of non scary goth music. For some reason a lot of young ...
The boundaries is whether you can hear post-punk in it; if it doesn’t, it’s probably not goth. All goth has post-punk, but not all post-punk is goth. It’s not based on whether it’s dark or spooky in aesthetic, lyrical themes or if the band had played in goth clubs/has a large goth fan base.
6 days ago · From murky origins, goth music made its first stirrings in the late 70s and early 80s. Defining the essence of “goth” is notoriously tricky. Its detractors deride it as a doom-laden, fashion ...
"Goth" is a subculture often misunderstood by the public. From its humble beginnings on the heels of post punk through to the present, it has embraced several genres of music along the way, such as darkwave, industrial and gothic metal, but those have their own dedicated scenes as well. Gothic rock, on the other hand, practically created the gothic subculture singlehandedly and in turn, goths ...
