Teen Gothic

Okay so maybe not always, but very often it seems you get band shirts that look like this – seemingly posterized to such an extent that you can barely tell who or what you're looking at unless you already know. And at least in some cases this seems to be an intentional choice rather than the result of limitations, since the same bands will have great album art, photos, or other designs that could likely be used instead or in addition, but aren't despite those same designs sometimes appearing on other items they mass-produce.

What is the reasoning here? Am I missing something? Do you enjoy how these kinds of designs look? Please let me know.

Ultimately taste is subjective and I'm not trying to insult anyone here. I love my favs and typically buy their merch no matter how I feel about how it looks; I just wish more of the designs were aligned with my tastes and am a bit confused as to why things are the way they are.

can anyone recommend some goth bands similar to theatres des vampires or just vampire goth in general? also bands similar to london after midnight that have that kind of industrial influence

Recently I’ve been listening to more Bloody Dead and Sexy, This Cold Night, The Naked and The Dead, and some Corpus Delicti. Amazing bands in my opinion but does anyone have any suggestions to broaden my horizon’s?

Their music is so good! It just makes me want to dance and jump around and sing. Their driving rhythms and drums and drum machines, their usage of emerging/ground breaking synths the insane and wonderful fiend/wade dynamic and the innovative sounds they make are just some of the most original and unique sounds this planet has ever heard!

I will forever love them!

My introduction, the band that made me fall in love with this music was Lebanon hanover when I was 19. I’m 21 now And didn’t start getting into “goth“ culture until I found Lebanon Hanover but since then I’ve became a big fan of bands like: the cure, joy division, black marble, motorama, siouxie, the sound, chameleons, molchat doma, she past away, human Tetris, bauhaus, Christian death….etc