Teen Gothic

Hello! I'm quite new to the goth community. I've been listening to some bands like London After Midnight, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Depeche Mode.

I wanted to ask if the following bands could be considered goth:

• Sidewalks and Skeletons • Ludovico Technique • Night Club

All of them seem to have darkwave as one of their genres (going by google) but I'm not quite sure.

I was wondering if you guys had or remembered any nicknames for different bands, from what I know it was fairly common to have gag names or nicknames for bands, I know of a few- Rosetta Clone instead of stone because they sounded exactly like SoM, KMFDM standing for Kill motherfucking Depeche Mode, and London After Midnight being dubbed London After Hairspray. I was wondering if you guys have more or had similar nicknames for bands?

I might be going to a concert soon. It's not like a huge band so the members will probably hang out around the merch table like last time I saw them and I'd like to give them a little gift but I have no idea. Maybe some pins, patches? I will message the venue or the band before to make sure they can actually take gifts of course.

Yes I know they aren’t actual/proper/true goth and more like goth metal but whatever. Looking for either more specifically like that or “actual” goth with similar sound. Specifically the super dark and heavy bass and the super deep almost droning male lead vocals. And the low key auto tune shit TO- does with the vocals in some songs

I’m not really a goth or at least I don’t think of myself as one but I will say this stuff is my jam once November swings around. It’s so fitting for when all the green turns to brown and it gets dark earlier. And smoking a cigarette to this music in the depths of winter on a full moon? The world lit up by the moonlight off snow as the world is like frozen in glass? Chills

I’ve been into goth music for a few years, but I’m not as familiar with the genre as I am with something like post-hardcore, and I’d like some new groups to check out!

I like heavier stuff, so bands that don’t fit perfectly into the goth subgenre but still have elements of goth music are fine with me, too.

My favorite goth/goth adjacent groups are: – The Cure (mostly the Disintegration album) – Darling Violetta – Cocteau Twins – Lacuna Coil

Thank you!

This is generally subjective but I always feel like Im not doing enough to truly emerse myself into a newly discovered band. I listen to a few albums and love what I hear but then feel as if there is something more that is needed to be considered a fan. Ive taken an effort to research origins and band members past and future projects but eventually I move onto a different band and some of the details fog away with another band taking its place. Real goths who have emersed themselves in the subculture for much longer then I always seems to just have this encyclopedia in the back of their minds and I listen with so much awe, Im frankly jealous of how natural it all sounds. I want that but dont know what Im doing wrong