Teen Gothic

I'm creating a playlist for Pride Month. I'm looking for goth bands with LGBTQIA members. Queer and/or genderqueer (which includes trans, non-binary, and agender).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

hi! english isn't my first language so sorry for any mistakes! I love this etereal wave band called stare, they only have one album (haunted) and i'm totally obssesed with it! I've been searching non stop for the albums lyrics, but sadly i only have Bell, book & candle 's lyrics. I think they are in the physical album but I can' t get it since I'm not from the us, does anyone know the lyrics/have the album and could please send me pics of them? thanks!

NONE OF WHAT FOLLOWS IS INTENDED AS A COMPLAINT OR CRITICISM. I know some people will probably be a little sensitive about this stuff, so I think it's worth stating that from the outset. I don't think The Sisters of Mercy have to work harder or be better. I don't think they owe us anything. If Eldritch & Company are happy, that's good enough for me. I'm largely just curious about why they operate the way they do. I don't read interviews or articles about the band, so I'm not sure if any of this has ever been addressed.

That said, I went to the Boston and NYC shows last month, and I got into a discussion about the band with a friend who picked me up from the airport. He owned and enjoyed Floodland, but knew little else about The Sisters. For the life of me I couldn't really explain certain decisions they've made over the years, namely stuff like:

They have not released a studio album in almost 30 years. Clearly they've been writing new material all this time, and performing it live. Why aren't there studio tracks? Eldritch seemed pretty fed up with record labels in the 90's, so that was understandable at the time. But we now live in an era of self-published music. Surely they could record stuff and sell it digitally, or sell self-pressed CDs at live shows. I would love to hear what their new stuff sounds like with proper production. I think in interviews Eldritch has made excuses about the cost of making new recordings, but certainly far less notable acts have managed to release music despite the cost.

They have virtually no presence on the internet. There is no official account for the band on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. The Sisters' official web page was pretty clearly designed in 1999, and hasn't been significantly updated since. Visiting their site is like stepping into a time machine, in a pleasant way. I kind of like how weirdly sterile and threadbare it is. Their merchandise page only accepts payment in UK pounds sterling, which is going to inherently limit the number of people buying merch. I don't want or expect them to be crazed capitalists, but it'd be nice if I could buy stuff without jumping through hoops.

They stopped touring in America for 15 years. The Sisters used to swing through North America every 2-3 years in the 2000's. I went to a few shows at the House of Blues Orlando during this time, and admittedly each one had diminishing returns in terms of crowd size. The first show I went to was crazy-packed, and the last one had a pretty sparse crowd. Maybe they thought a hiatus was necessary, and that their American audience was dwindling? Maybe they just run a lean-and-mean operation, and doing the Europe/Latin America festival scene was easier or more profitable? The 2023 American tour seems to have gone pretty well, so I hope they will come back soon.

The "new" logo. Why was the fairly beloved old Merciful Release logo replaced with the weird alien design? Aliens were in vogue in the 90's so I kinda get it, but we're 20 years on now and the "new" design feels much more dated and passe than the old one. Why do they insist on the newer logo when the old one is much more beloved and recognizable?

Is there any rhyme or reason to all this? Or should I just chalk it up as "Andrew Eldritch is a weirdo with strong convictions we'll never understand"?

Edit 2: sorry for the redundancy, I should have dug further but I’m glad that there’s different band recs in my post than the others.

I’ve already made a Spotify playlist of everything I could find if I missed anything let me know! (Sorry there’s no Christian death I’m just not a huge fan)

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Hello happy pride month everyone.

There’s an old thread posted kind of about this already but it was limited to one category of LGBTQ so I was hoping to get some recommendations of music by queer musicians or queer songs. WLW, MLM, anything.

Maybe a bit too niche for such an already niche genre but here’s hoping xx

Here’s the link for reference:

https://www.reddit.com/r/goth/comments/sqn6hc/goth_music_byabout_gay_men/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

Edit: Found a couple other posts!

https://www.reddit.com/r/goth/comments/fko8pg/lgbtq_goth_music_artists/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

https://www.reddit.com/r/goth/comments/mosuic/favorite_lgbtq_goth_artist_or_song/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

I've been lookig to expand my music taste a bit and branch into different subgenres. What bands would you recommend to a complete newcomer to goth music?

I'm old!

Teach me please. There's a Spotify playlist they made called "Dark & Gothic" – it's basically a list of my favorite songs in the genre from when I was in my teens-20s (to be sure, they are definitely the "hits" of the genre).

What are some newer bands that echo these classic ones? I'm a big Cure type person but am open to any new stuff. Disintegration is an amazing novel of an album start to finish is where I'm sort of coming from.

Where should I start?

Thanks!!

Mine personally are Scarlet’s Remains, Dystopian Society, Mystic Priestess, Christian Death, Christ VS Warhol and Moral Hex, what about you?

I'm lucky enough to live in a big city with several goth shows every month and something I've noticed is that many bands are just not very good live.

Either the band members are too old and you can tell they are tired (i.e. Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus) or they are more recent but the performance is very lackluster. Some bands go on stage and play synths while standing still and it's kind of meh (for example: Lebanon Hanover. I thought the singer was super awkward).

What are some bands that have good live performances? In my experience, The Soft Moon and Patriarchy were amazing and Clan of Xymox and Corpus Delicti were still really good. And One (which is EBM, I know) was also very fun.

Edit: I've heard Boy Harsher and Sextile are also good but I haven't seen them.