Teen Gothic

Genuine Question – Cemeteries

Hi all, I’m getting back to my goth roots, and am a baby bat. I wanted to ask the community, what your thoughts are on cemetery walks/photo shoots?

I found a beautiful picture of an influencer on Instagram, that sparked this question. As you can see, it looks like she’s laying on top of the grave? Am I wrong for thinking that’s disrespectful – beautiful makeup & aesthetics aside. I genuinely am not trying to bash this person. Please let me know if I am violating rule #5. If I am I’m sorry.

This is such an incredible song, the instruments sound like they’re singing

So they post a list of bands they think that are goth. Except it is mostly wrong. They get one band right because it is the one band they always get right.

That one band is The Cure – the most well known and popular goth* band of all time. Everyone knows who they are. The most cookie cutter of the cookie cutter five. Cureheads were a thing for a reason.

So they have one goth band on the list and a bunch of non-goth bands. The non-goth bands sound nothing like The Cure yet they still think they are goth. Like… how?!? Why?!?

You get one right, you could have looked at similar from there. But no, easier to force a bunch of non-goth with dark themes in and call it a day. Then post that list in goth spaces and be all shocked when told most of it isn't goth.

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*The Cure released some goth albums and evolved away from the sound. But they still count. People count The Damned with only 1 goth album after all (that is mostly new wave) and The Cure made a lot more goth music than that. I don't get the recent trend of denying The Cure being goth at least at one point.

I’ve been really into cocteau twins, the cure (specifically disintegration), and labonen hanover the past month. I like the way Etherealwave sounds, but I want to discover more bands outside of that!! It would be nice if someone could link me up with a playlist. Also, where do you guys purchase your jewelry and clothes from? I can’t seem to find a place with affordable necklaces and decor 🙁 I’ve tried thrifting many times but haven’t found lots of goods, and I’m not good at DIY. I don’t even know how to sew or anything like that! I would like to dress up more, but it’s hard with said circumstances 😢 Thank you!

This is in Henrietta’s room in South Park, it is supposed to be a “goth” reference I believe. Does anyone recognize it? I see skinny puppy and Bauhaus references but don’t know what this one is, although it looks very familiar unless I’m just confusing it for something I’ve seen before.

Does anyone have any tips on how to get a good goth rock guitar tone in the same vein as Skeletal Family, March Violets or Love Like Blood? Be it recs for specific pedals or amps or whatever. Like could I get by with just a decent distortion and reverb pedal?

Hi! We're "Our Visit To The Moon", a really new and unknown gloomy post-punk band consisting of five members from near Giessen in Germany, north of Frankfurt/Main!

Our first single "Blurry" was released last Thursday (Aug. 31st) almost everywhere 😁! You can listen to it at https://linktr.ee/ov2tm

Feel free to blast it loud, share it and add it to your playlists! 😎

There you can also find social media, Bandcamp and mail links.

Here's footage from our first gig. The song is called "Definition of Fun": https://youtu.be/OdMUg2vFj9s?si=iQ4qoZN3mZe4bC_2

Our Visit To The Moon (short OV2TM) are: Karol Oskar (me) – vocals and bass, Consti – keys/synths and backing-vocals, Martin – rhythm-guitar and backing-vocals, Felix – Lead-guitar, Sebastian – Drums

Our biggest musical influences at this point are The Chameleons, Pink Turns Blue, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, as well as Iggy Pop and the Stooges, old-school punk, post-punk and new-wave/Neue Deutsche Welle (soundwise) in general, Interpol, The Editors and maybe bands you don't expect such as Queens of The Stone Age, Kyuss and Brant Bjork's projects.

At the moment we're working on our second single, planning concerts for the fall and winter in our Hesse region and a band photo-shoot 😂.

We're excited to read from you and maybe one day we'll meet at a show? That'd be awesome!

What really is the difference because I hear people saying that the cure she wants revenge and joy division are all not goth and post punk but then see them in goth playlists is there a difference?

LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT: "Sacrifice"