Teen Gothic

There's a gulf between Sisters of Mercy and something like Twin Tribes or Forever Grey, but we all intuit them as 'goth' and i'm just wondering how this developed, historically.

EDIT: Misspoke here, did not mean to imply that synth or darkwave is a modern thing, but more that it's far more prevalent now as a dominant goth sound and was curios as to how we still consider this music to be goth (not that i disagree with that at all).

Well I caught it, dropped it, and picked it up again.

This is kinda random but I Really love how bass guitar is more prominent in goth music. Just coming from metal, its refreshing lol.

I’ve been listening to goth music for years and can’t think of any …

Sorry for the quality lol

When I was new into goth, I noticed that I liked songs with those specific sounds, like Killing Joke – Love like Blood

then at some point I bought Diablo 2 and started a new game and heard that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-vG8oPhhM&t=13s (the mentioned sound is at 13-second mark)

and immediately thought it'd make a good riff in a goth rock song. Well, the rest of the music from Act 1 was also good and had many elements that could be incorporated into goth songs.

I'm wondering – are there some songs I'm unaware of, that incorporate those or similar sounds? Or maybe after so many decades someone actually made a goth cover of Diablo 2 music?

or basslines?

After my last post about newer gothbands with good bass I have a lot of good suggestions given to me, so I went ahead and made a spotify playlist out of them

Spotify playlist