Teen Gothic

I’ve had MANY people ask me “what type of music is considered goth” I always explain it to them of course because I don’t want to be a mean weirdo. But I find it odd. It would be like if someone asked “what type of music is rap? Or punk?” Like… punk music, punk music is punk. I just think it’s strange how many people don’t know that goth is a music genre.

Article from the Guardian on the recent rise in popularity of darkwave, including interviews with several artists like Ronny Moorings (Clan of Xymox), Gudrun Gut (Malaria! and Einstürzende Neubauten) and Raman Kamahortsau (Molchat Doma)

For me, I believe it was the album Medusa by Clan of Xymox. That album has some of my favourite tracks; "Agonized by Love", "Back Door", "Masquerade". What was that one song or album that was a gateway for you into the genre?

I'll start, the live version of joy division covering sister ray.

To distinguish from what may be "neoclassical darkwave", I'm thinking of a sound that's more like goth rock (with rock music elements) but with classical components (such as piano and strings), rather than being more ethereal/ambient and not much rock.

Are there any songs of this description/combination? Does this have a specific name as its own genre, or is it just a variation of "goth rock" (so it would still be primarily labelled as that)?

Genuinely asking. I follow this page on instagram and I really like them because they share lots of new goth/post punk etc bands but this reply took me out. Last time I checked goth is considered as genre in it’s own.

Lookin for some new stuff, let ‘em rip spooky babes 🖤🖤🖤

Hi everyone, hope your Sunday is well. Any goth bands that have any concept albums? ( an example of a concept album is The Wall by PF, basically when the album tells a story or has a very distinct theme) So my band (we play death rock) is currently writing a 15 song debut concept album and I wanted to know if the Goth genre has a plethora of concept albums or are there rather few ? Any direction would help, thanks 🙂