New York upstate band.
Originally San Francisco (left in 1997), now Austin, TX-based. Baroque trance, dark-wave gothic group, semi-ambient, romantic. Female lead vocals, electronics, occassional neo-classical.
comparisons: Projekt; Heavenly Voices
Death rock, goth.
comparisons: Rozz Williams
Polish and German dark rock, goth band. Samples of choirs, guitars.
comparisons: (Williams) Christian Death; Aleister Crowley
Based in Portugal.
Norwegian.
comparisons: Rose of Avalanche; Royksopp; Kings of Convenience; Iggy Pop; Nick Cave; Velvet Underground.
Norwegian? Antique, modern indie-inspired band, future pop. Electronic, guitar, drum loops, samples.
comparisons: Curve vocals; Portishead; Cranes
Electronic.
Experimental, industrial
Swedish electro-Goth, formed in 1989.
comparisons: Sisters of Mercy; Frontline Assembly; Merry Thoughts; Girls Under Glass; Mesh
French cold wave band, split in 1998, from which In Front was formed.
Mexico. Trad. Previously called Las Danzas, name changed around 1995. Alex the drummer has just quit (late 2002)
comparisons: Sisters; The Wake
Perugia, Italy. Goth, melodic metal.
Active (2003-late). Played part of USA tour with E-Craft. Side-project of Front 242.
Japan's biggest Goth/Visual/J-Rock band, formed around 1992.
Goth, orchestral, industrial.
Sydney, Australia-based. Experimental horror electronica.
West Midlands-based techno, trance, goth, industrial. Two drums sets on either side of the mic. Very heavy techno drum beat with synth overlay, sometimes quite ethereal. Industrial, goth, trance and breakbeat, melodic vocals, twisted synthesizers and industrial percussion.
UK atmospheric, dark gothic, indie, guitars.
comparisons: Heavenly Voices; Siouxsie; Stone 588
Darkwave, romantic goth. German lyrics.
comparisons: Wolfsheim
Influenced by 80's new-romantic and 90's darkwave, gothic pop, futurist, indie. Mike often guests on bass at Horatii gigs.
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Electronic.
1999-12-17 - yahoo elist founded
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status: inactive (1981 - 1987)
Were based in Leeds, UK
Dark punk, power-pop.
Cover of Grooving in Green designed by Andrew Eldritch, influenced by Joy Division's Closer.
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USA
Industrial-metal. Metal (with some goth imagery), (hard) glam rock.
Gein left fairly early on.
Trent Reznor produced some singles, albums.
Popular culture seems to have him tagged as being a Goth, and assumes that because it is aware of who Marilyn Manson is that they know something about the Gothic subculture. Actually more rooted in USA metal scene than the Goth scene.
He's got a girl's name and he wears makeup. That's original.
Names of band members originally taken from models / actresses and serial killers (Marilyn Monroe, Charles Manson).
Antichrist Superstar the most commercially successful industrial album.
1990 - Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids formed.
1996 - Antichrist Superstar - Reznor used John Lennon's mellotron on this album.
London-based gothic rock (until they went very commercial USA-style metal), post-punk more recently, neo-Darkwave.
comparisons: Pearl Jam
Australian band. Stark, violent.
comparisons: Joy Division; Helmet
British synth-pop
German 80s-style gothic, darkwave.
comparisons: The Cure; Banshees; Joy Division; Batcave; Bauhaus; Chameleons
Sampled drums, modern dance structures.
Belgian? Noise, primitive electronics, dark rock'n'roll
Metal, industrial, samples.
comparisons: NIN
Cleveland, OH, USA-based. Formerly Tampa-based, re-located 2000. Aaron DJ-ed around Florida as DJ Discordia.
Industrial / powernoise / noise.
Italian experimental.
comparisons: Christian Death; Death in June; Premature Ejaculation
French. 1980s? Goth (though labelled at the time 'Touching pop').
Germany.
Electronic.
comparisons: not-so-spacy Hawkwind
industrial dance music.
German? Commercial Darkwave, electronics, guitars
comparisons: Good Courage; Diary of Dreams
Ethereal, atmospheric, gothic, melotron, female vocals.
black metal
Techno.
British
Classical, features ex-members of Miranda Sex Garden
Swedish? Gothic rock, alternative.
comparisons: Sisters; Merry Thoughts
Ethno ambient
German electro.
active
Swedish, Italian? Dark atmospheric sounds, machine rhythms. Death ambient, death industrial, claustrophobic, electronic.
French? Classical, neo-classical, dark experimental ambient.
Industrial
Swedish? Death ambient, death industrial.
comparisons: Cold Meat
Dark electro, brothers, USA-based. Claustrophobic medium-paced industrial, underground electronic, deep, dark vocals. low-fi, analogue style for Algorythm. Have side-project, Benestrophe.
comparisons: early Cabaret Voltaire; V Sor X
USA. Mediaeval-influenced romantic Goth. Quartet, ethereal, 80s guitar.
comparisons: X-Mal; Siouxsie; 4AD; Heavenly Voices; Faith and the Muse
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Germany.
Occult electronic.
Realtime loops.
Solo project of Philip Albus, with other musicians drafted in for live performances. Has a side-project called Bannkreis.
Schneefeld
translates into English as snow field
.
2002-early - formed?
2004-early - Due to play Flammenzauber festival.
Australian trio formed 1994. Electronics, guitars
comparisons: ethnic Dead Can Dance
German? Mediaeval, female vocals, atmospheric.
German
comparisons: Sisters
Harsh experimental electronics
From Bristol, UK. Big in Germany and Scandinavia. Synth, drum beat, vocals. Synthpop, techno pop with an industrial bent.
comparisons: Depeche Mode
Malaysian? Neo-gothic rock, gothic metal.
Heavy guitars, dark classical, male vocals.
comparisons: Wagner; Into the Abyss
Merged with Reliquary to form Paris Burning.
Atmospheric.
Started in 1993 as solo studio project. Dark, doomy electro, darkwave, fetish imagery. First gig Carnival of Souls 1994.
comparisons: Killing Joke; Play Dead
Swedish act.
Dark, romantic, sinister, gothic horror film music, neo-classical, atmospheric. Keith Parkinson does album artwork.
Poland. Deathrock, goth-punk, horror-punk, psychobilly.
Germany. Ethereal.
Belgian industrial. 22 mics on stage, up to six scrap metal percussionists, woodwind, electronics, angle grinder, concrete mixer (full of chains).
Italian Gothic pop rock.
comparisons: Manuskript
Industrial band, East US-based.
Industrial metal fusion, but it all started out slightly differently :) Tucker now deceased.
Formed in 1993 by Leigh Bowery, who died on New Years' Eve, 1994. Names from the theatrical term for a very off-handed person. Part of The Offset collective, which also includes Add N to X
Edgy, discordant, nightmarish, comic and menacing. Harsh, tuneless, unmusical vocals.
Ethereal rock, melancholic indie Gothic. Shoegazing goth, ethereal, rich guitars.
comparisons: Heavenly Voices; Cocteau Twins; The Sundays; Starflyer 59; Liz Fraser; Harriet Wheeler
Side project formed around early/mid 2001. Music includes adapted mardrigals and classical pieces. Neo-classical, ethereal, darkwave, Gothic, mediaeval.
Name is latin for wonderful or extraordinary.
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Goth, doom, ambient.
Doom and swish.
2004-08-08 supported Faces of Sarah at The Bull & Gate, Kentish Town Road
German gothic, dark, German lyrics. Darkwave.
comparisons: Joy Division; Goethes Urban; Sopor Aeturnus
Rock, thrash, darkwave.
comparisons: Nirvana
Kentucky band. Formerly known as Children of the Love Machine.
Hard core horror punk.
Indie, Goth, jangly guitars, sombre vocals, indie drum beats.
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UK
Goth.
Active, UK. Goth in early years.
releases: God's Own Medicine (1986); Children (1988, produced by John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)); Carved in Sand (1990); Grains of Sand (1990); Masque (1992); Neverland (1995); Blue (1996); Aura (2001-11-26/12-03?); Aural Delights - the B-sides (2002); Salad Daze (BBC Radio 1 sessions); The First Chapter; Sum And Substance (1986-1993); Resurrection (re-recorded)
Russian underground band.
Swiss? Electronics.
USA-based ethereal gothic guitars, bass, female vocals.
comparisons: This Ascension; Strange Boutique; Dark Orange
Swedish goth metal, goth rock. Doom laden metal, death, black, thrash. Need a drummer (by own admission).
comparisons: The Mission; Nephilim
Formed 1996, four-piece. Vocals, keyboards, bass, guitar, drums.
Swiss underground band, active from 1981 to 1994, darkwave, dark electronic, Goth, German male vocalist. Name from John Heartfield artwork and Siouxsie and the Banshees song.
Industrial, techno.
Swedish horror punk.
80's
Liverpool group.
German? Electronic.
comparisons: Curve; Collide; Faithful Dawn
German? Electro industrial.
comparisons: techno Das Ich
Dark electronic.
German darkwave, german language. Cold male vocals, drum machine.
Germany.
Belgium.
Synth-pop
Something to do with martin, previously of man(i)kin?
Industrial.
Italian? Swirling synthesisers
comparisons: late Nephilim
German darkwave, Gothic rock.
comparisons: Comsat Angels; Fad Gadget; U2
German Goth, female vocalist. Guitars. Ethereal esoteric goth.
comparisons: not Nephs
; Banshees; Ghost Dance; Virgin PrunesArchangel, Russia based. Neo-classical Gothic ambient, atmospheric, epic.
Based in Portugal. Active Gothic metal (sin/pecado goth metal albums) with nu metal and electro touches. Choirs, strings, crunchy guitars.
comparisons: Dave Vanian; Love Like Blood; Secret Discovery; Lacrimosa; Wagner
Gothic guitars, darkwave, Gothic rock, melancholic.
Euro synth pop, semi-Goth, darkwave. Mid-range female vocals.
comparisons: Siouxsie (vocals)
Italian death-obsessed industrial music, violent obsessive power necrosounds, lifeless percussions, tortured vocals. Intense, insane stage actions.
comparisons: Cold Meat
Swiss? Dark, gothic, based on myths.
comparisons: Lacrimosa
Italian Gothic rock, acid rock.
comparisons: Cure
Norwegian, Oslo-based?
Las Vegas group.
Brazilian electro, darkwave, industrial electronics. Haunting, distorted vocals, harsh percussion, strings.
USA-based black metal.
USA-based Death rock, male vocals.
comparisons: Bauhaus (vocals)
USA-based death rock, neo-classical. Off-shoot of Requiem in White.
comparisons: Dead Can Dance; Christian Death; Banshees (guitars, bass)
Electronics
German darkwave.
comparisons: Project Pitchfork; Das Ich; Placebo Effect
French? Haunting, mediaeval, epic, religious.
comparisons: early Christian Death; Sopor Aeturnus
Swedish ambient, neo-death industrial.
comparisons: Black Sabbath
Dark ambient, mystic, quasi-classical. Goth-friendly electronic rock. Norwegian, played a few gigs with Christian Death in 1998/9?
Brooklyn, New York, USA. Formed 2000-summer. Features ex-members of Indecision. Haunting melodies, heavy riffs. 2003-early - Fusco joined on vocals.
comparisons: Sick of it All; Agnostic Front; Cro-Mags; Sisters of Mercy; The Cure; Bauhaus.
Cornish trio. Atmospheric, dynamic, melodic.
Finland melancholy, gothic metal band.
Magical, mystic ritualistic dance music, tribal. Drum loops, samples, rhythmic, electronic.
Swedish? Gothic, electro.
comparisons: Talk Talk; Gary Numan
Alternative-gothic rusty metal, dark blues, psycho-baroque.
South African?
comparisons: Mesh; Soil and Eclipse
German? Industrial noise
comparisons: Noisex
Industrial noise.
Italian? Experimental industrial noise.
Basically Killing Joke but with Chris Conolly instead of Jaz
Ethno-ambient, eastern-influenced experimental. Arabic samples, distortion.
Dark industrial. Distorted male vocals.
Alternative indie, dreamy.
comparisons: Lennon (vocals)
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Goth hardcore punk. Punk rock theatre.
2005-07? - played the (annual) Vans Warped Tour.
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UK. Doom metal, gothic rock. Deep guitars; synths, male vocals.
High/ distorted male vocals. Industrial, rock, electro, techno. Featured in 'The Crow'. Mann's real name is Frankie Nardiello. Mann and McCoy are the core members.
Dark atmospheric, industrial, rhythmic soundscapes.
comparisons: Laibach; Foetus
German? Death, Gothic metal.
Slow, sinister, experimental, deep vocals, Gothic metal.
comparisons: Type O Negative; Carl McCoy
Industrial, dance, electronics. Female vocals.
comparisons: Bjork; Faithful Dawn
Italian Goth, darkwave. Guitars.
comparisons: Cure; Joy Division
Germany.
Gothic metal.
comparisons: Marionettes; Screams for Tina
Gothic rock, violins, strings, neo-classical.
German? Neo-classical. Monastic chants, choruses, minimal drum machine, simple instrumentation.
Satanic, experimental, Swedish / Norwegian? black industrial. Death industrial, black ambient.
comparisons: Cold Meat
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