Female and male fronted Goth rock band. Live, play classic covers and original material.
comparisons: Mission; Incubus Succubus; All About Eve; Evanescence
Solo project of Scott-David Allen since 1993. Samples and real instruments.
comparisons: Type O Negative; Therapy?; Enya
Inactive, UK-based.
Leeds-based industrial art-terrorists. Started as a duo. Have been remixed by Libitina.
Industrial, EBM, electro, darkwave, crossover. Hard, dark, accessible. Lots of guitars. Electro/death rock, distorted vocals, guitar riff, melancholic.
View the entry for Adam and the Ants in isolation.
Art-school punk.
Sparse guitar and tribal drums in early years.
Started off as art-school punk, using fetish imagery, and some sounds similar to the early Goth bands.
Emerged from the 1970s punk scene, The Ants had 7 singles in the Top 40 at one time in 1981, and have sold approximately 16,000,000 records. Adam Ant appeared in Derek Jarman's Jubilee in 1977 before forming the Ants.
Malcolm McLaren managed for a while, taking much of the band with him. Car Trouble (which was produced by Chris Hughes (Under the Gun, Temple of Love 1992)) came out in early 1980 to free the Ants from a record deal.
Adam became a solo artist in 1981, then went to US to pursue acting career in 1984. Returned to north London in 1987.More recently Adam has been sectioned at the Royal Free Hospital, north London, following an incident in January, 2002.
releases: Kings of the Wild Frontier; Prince Charming
Goddard thought his muscular body looked like that of Michaelangello's Adam and added ant because they were natural survivors.
1978 wearing whiteface makeup and distinctive eyeshadow at Moonlight club and the Marquee.
Central Pennsylvanian Goths (close to Three Mile Island). Danceable industrial, dark-gothic, dark, sinister, romantic, powerful, atmospheric, sensuous with throaty vocals. Sound imagery, dark, romantically sinister, intelligent programming, hybrid of sounds. Anti-religious sentiment. Keyboards, guitars.
Based in Portugal.
Synth-goth, ethereal rock, darkwave, gothic rock.
comparisons: This Ascension; Prikosnoverie label; The Gathering; Cocteau Twins; Cure; Mission.
Industrial, underground electronic. Synthesizer, tape, guitars, operatic female vocals.
comparisons: Skinny Puppy
status: active
formed: 1991
location: Leipzig, former East Germany
genres: Gothic Rock; Gothic metal; Wave; 1980s
1991-Spring: met in Leipzig.
1991-Whitsun: opened the first WGT.
Crunchy power industrial, harsh EBM, dark trip hop, future pop. Harsh male growly vocals, sensual female vocals.
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UK, Wales, Bridgend (near Cardiff).
Batcave band. Goth, punk, industrial, experimental, dance, psychobilly, synthpop, glam, techno, but always fun and light-hearted. Trippy dark techno.
Nik provides ghoulish vocals, Mrs Fiend provides trippy drum machines and electronic stuff. Post-punk guitars, electro synths.
For ten years Nik Fiend and Mrs. Fiend wrote, recorded, toured, made videos, did artwork and edited the Fiendzine. After taking a break from touring they returned, Nik had learnt sound engineering and they were more computer literate. Eventually this would lead to the two of them setting up their own record company, in preparation for their next album.
At one point (early on) called the Alien Sex Fiend (emphasis on the the). Commonly referred to as ASF.
It has been said that David Bowie is a fan. All the ASF record covers have been created by Nik, whose art has been exhibited in Edinburgh, Burnley, London, Brighton, NYC and Boston. The video to Now I'm Feeling Zombified has appeared on Beavis and Butthead. The Fiends have at one point lived in Brixton (possibly still do?) - one of many places where Nik has painted on the walls. Garbage a track called Alien Sex Fiend on the B-side of Stupid Girl, prompting ASF to pen a track called Garbage.
1982 - formed in London, UK.
1986-11/12 - ASF replaced Zodiac Mindwarp playing support on Alice Cooper's
Nightmare Returns UK tour after Zodiac falls ill. Dr and the Medics support Alice in London.
1992 - took a break from touring, filled time with a live album, original demos and compilation albums.
1994 - the 'Inferno' computer game soundtrack (instrumental), which led to them becoming a lot more computer literate.
1995/6 - 13th Moon Records created.
1990-01-19 - Ground Zero, Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Nik's (first) solo art exhibition.
1990-07-23 - London, PowerHaus - live art show - painting with an audience. (Diary of a Lunatic?)
1997-12 - Electric Ballroom gig.
1998-10/11 - Halloween Blitz (USA tour - last gigs for five years).
2004-07-17 - live - Zillo Festival (first gig in over five years?)
release | format | release date | notes | UK | USA |
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release | format | release date | notes | UK | USA |
Ignore the Machine | single | 1983 | Produced by Youth. Debut single. | ||
Who's Been Sleeping in my Brain? | album | 1983 | Debut album. Released by Relativity. | ||
Acid Bath | 1984 | Second studio album. Epitaph. A T-shirt of the cover of this album appears throughout the 1997 Tim Burton film Mars Attacks. | |||
Maximum Security | album | 1985 | Released by Anagram in the UK. | amazon | |
Liquid Head in Tokyo | 1985 | UK Anagram | |||
Liquid Head in Tokyo | vhs | amazon | |||
"It" the Album | album | 1986 | Plague / Anagram in the UK. | amazon | |
"It" the Album/Maximum Security | tape | 1986 | UK Plague/Anagram | ||
I Walk the Line | ep | 1986 | UK Flicknife | ||
The Impossible Mission Mini lp | album | 1987 | PVC | ||
The First A.S.F. CD | cd | 1987 | UK Plague/Anagram | ||
Here Cum Germs | album | 1987 | Was advertised in 2000ad. PVC. | ||
Another Planet | 1988 | Caroline | |||
All Our Yesterdays | 1988 | compilationUK Plague/Anagram | |||
Too Much Acid? | 1989 | UK Plague/Anagram | |||
Curse | 1990 | Sinclair. | |||
A.S.F. Box | 1990 | UK Plague/Anagram/Windsong | |||
Open Head Surgery | 1992 | ||||
Inferno | 1994 | Cleopatra. Computer game soundtrack. | amazon | ||
The Single 1983-1995 | Anagram Records, compilation. | ||||
Evolution | 12" | 1996-02 | 13th Moon | ||
Evolution | cd single | 1996-10 | 13th Moon | ||
Evolution remixes | 12" | 1996-10 | 13th Moon | ||
Nocturnal Emissions | cd / double lp | 1997-03 | 13th Moon | ||
On a Mission remixes | 12" | 1997-08 | 13th Moon | ||
Tarot remixes | 12" | 1998-10 | 13th Moon | ||
The Very Best of Alien Sex Fiend | 2001-03-05 | Anagram | amazon | ||
A Purple Glistener | video / dvd? | ||||
Edit | vhs | amazon | |||
Edit / Overdose | dvd (region 1) | amazon | |||
Information Overload | amazon | ||||
Overdose | vhs | amazon | |||
Blood on the Cats | vhs | amazon | |||
Revelations: The Video Sampler | vhs | (features ASF) | amazon | ||
Re-Animated - The Promo Collection | vhs | amazon | |||
Wardance of the... | double cd | Recall. | amazon | ||
The Making Of Inferno - The Odyssey Continues | vhs | amazon | |||
Zillo Festival Sampler CD 2004 | cd | 2004 | features Alien Sex Fiend - Gotta Have It (Sliced and Diced mix) |
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Goth in early years. Ethereal.
Guitar, female vocals. 21st century work is a little more raw, throbbing bass lines, crunchy guitar.
Active.
release | label | catalogue | format | release date | notes | availability to buy |
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release | label | catalogue | format | release date | notes | availability to buy |
Fairy Light Nights | label | catalogue | cd | release date | Live, acoustic. | |
Let Me Go Home | Jam Tart | AAEVP10CD1 | cd | 2004-05-24 | Single. | Buy Let Me Go Home by All About Eve at amazon.co.uk |
Based in Devon, they were the first band to play at the first Whitby Goth Festival. Alternative / Goth band, more recently they have tended towards rock quitar.
They played their first gig (comprising mostly of Sisters tracks and other covers) at The Parrot in Torquay in September 1992, a few months after
forming. Richard joined soon after, though the band broke up not long after.
Matthew wrote a few new songs before the band returned, with Webb, who left shortly afterwards and was replaced by Jago. Racher joined in early 1994,
taking over vocal duties from Matt.
The band took off in 1995, and Tackle was replaced by Heard, as Tackle didn't have enough time to commit to the band. Heard later left for the same
reason, leaving the band as a duo.
Whitehouse joined in October 1997, in time for a new ep and a small tour, before Racher quit in December 1997, tired of
touring. Roe (a bandmate of Whitehouse from the Gypsy Dogs (a local rock band)) joined as a stand-in until a new vocalist could be found, but ended
up staying.
Whitehouse had to leave due to ill health around September, 1998, though he did return to play a gig at the Borderline and remains a friend to the
band.
Following falling audiences and a changing sound the band split up, Matt and Paul forming a new band,
Corrosion.
North and Racher the reformed the band in 2001, following interest from a Polish record label (with Roe's approval), playing a few gigs in December.
2002 saw more gigs and 2003 should see a new album, to be released at the 10th anniversary Whitby Gothic Weekend, and a tour in December.
The website also gives information on The Crazy World of Arthur Wilton Brown.
comparisons: Danse Society.
Side-project of O Yuki Conjugate.
Ethereal duo from Florida. Did the soundtrack for a film called Creep. Organs, synthesizers, dark vocals, trancy drums, atmospheric.
Classical, ethereal melancholic, dreamy, experimental, surreal. Neoclassical electronica. Largely instrumental, violin, acoustic guitar, keyboards, accordian sometimes female vocals.
Austrian goth-metal, dark-electro. Thomas and Hannes have roots in black metal and synth-pop. Techno sounding songs, classical, distorted male vocals. Based on 'feelings adn momentary sensations'. Symphonic electro, melodies, aggressive electronics.
Ambient, semi-experimental.
comparisons: Cold Meat
Formed 1997, Anaheim, CA, USA as American Vampire. Took a break in 1998-1999, changing name to AmVamp in October, 2001.
British. Misanthropic? Named after Charm from Excalibur?
Ethnic drones, arabic percussion. Formed as solo studio project of Mykel Boyd in late 1989.
Electro, future pop.
comparisons: VNV Nation.
Country-ish elements in How I Loved You
UK-based.
Formerly known as Nightshade.
Norwegian. Goth, industrial, techno, dance, electro, EBM, future pop. Scandinavian. Attention grabbing synths. Keyboard instrumentals, '80s synthpop to electro industrial. Played Infest 99.
Mid eighties band.
Now (early/mid 2003) managed by Glenn Psychosis.
comparisons: Iggy Pop; Marilyn Manson; Orb
Atmospheric, disjointed sound fractures, altered tempos, hazy feedback, industrial, ethereal. Raw guitars, chant-like vocals, buried melodies.
Italian darkwave. impassioned vocals, keyboards
Experimental industrial
Italian ambient, atmospheric. Mediæval, classical, baroque, folk, neo-folk, ritual, ethereal, romantic, mystical, '80s/'90s gothic influences. Electronic based with classical and spanish guitar, synthesizers, samples and piano. Lyrics in Latin, German and French.
South African Siouxsie-ish. Successful but short-lived.
Active since 1982, UK, from Coventry industrial scene, founded by Martin Bowes. Electro-Goth, neo-classical, minimalist electro,
gloomy, gothic, dramatic, experimental, melodramatic with violin, viola, percussion. Electronic atmospherics, acoustics, male,
female vocals. Industrial dance EBM rhythms, avante garde, latest stuff is a lot more dancey, trancey, trippy? Big following in USA.
Alex Novak was with them for one tour. Studio techno-pop, industrial, Gothic chamber music. More successful in Europe than the UK,
have toured Holland (where Martin lived for a while in 1988/9), Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Northern America, Czech Republic,
Switzerland, Poland, Denmark. Founded The Cage in 1992 (their own recording studio, also used for outside productions).
Collaborated with Franck Dematteis (of the Paris opera). Appeared on soundtrack to 'Shower of Blood' (vampire film).
Christine once appeared on Blind Date (March 2001).
comparisons: Snog
Ethereal, soft, haunting, sometimes driving. Whispered vocals, layered keyboards.
Most of the people from German electro-goth Project Pitchfork, but more goth ambient/ethereal rather than industrial. Quirky electronics, atmospheric.
Atmospheric, mystical stage presence.
Inactive (now Terminal 46). Industrial rock/metal.
Another band called Autumn
New England-based, formed September 1995. Dark romantic atmospheric neo-classical gothic music. Dark, slow repetitive piano, tympan
percussion and organ chords throughout, with a little acoustic guitar. Singing duo (and thus duets). Sung poetry, dark atmosphere. Rich melodies,
tragic themes, neoclassical ensemble, dark symphonic, ethereal, mediaeval, operatic, chants, baroque, orchestral atmosphere. Erika left to write
a novel, after which she returned. Appearances from members of December Wolves. Have worked with the
poet Claudia Lingstädt-Kukulka.
comparisons: Dead Can Dance; Stoa; Arcana; Third & The Mortal; Arcana; Enya; classical.
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South Africa.
Gothic-rock, darkwave band.
2004 - Darker Than Silence released.
release | label | catalogue | format | release date | notes | availability to buy |
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release | label | catalogue | format | release date | notes | availability to buy |
The Fourth Seal of Zeen | Intervention Arts / Intervention Music | INT010 | cd | 2000-10 | Album created at NytesounD, Auckland Park, 2000, South Africa. | |
Darker Than Silence | label | catalogue | cd | 2004 | notes | |
Mirage | P-Vine | cd | Reissue. | Buy Mirage by The Awakening at amazon.co.uk | ||
Hear, Sense and Feel | P-Vine | cd | Paper sleeve, remastered. | Buy Hear, Sense and Feel by The Awakening at amazon.co.uk |
Batcave band?
Columbus, Ohio industrial with deep, screaming, distorted deep male vocals and many samples, waves of keyboards. Gothic industrial, electro-gothic, ethereal, atmospheric, darkwave, dark ambient sounds in places.