Teen Gothic

Hey. I'm looking for albums or tracks with specific guitar sound. My absolute benchmarks are Cocteau Twins — "Shallow Then Hallo" and The Cure — "One Hundred Years". I need the guitar to be the absolute main focus of the mix. It must play a primitive, bleak, minimalistic riff with a heavy, "rusty", "wet" flanger or chorus drowned in a massive, cavernous studio reverb. Please avoid dry, angular post-punk and any boring, uninspired goth rock. I do not want theatrical, high-pitched, or shrieky vocals that ruin the atmosphere. I just want that heavy, massive, wet guitar wall of sound in an empty room with buried, dark, or detached vocals. Can be 80s, 90s, or modern coldwave/darkwave/shoegaze. Any hidden gems?

I've recently absolutely fallen in love with Sweetest Chill, by Siouxsie and the Banshees, and so my friend and I are trying to learn it on guitar. Problem is tabs/chords for this song are so incredibly illusive and nothing seems to be entirely accurate.

We've searched the obvious places like Ultimate guitar and Google, but a lot of the chords are very wrong, and we're not good enough at guitar yet to be able to figure it out all by ear.

Does anyone have the correct, chords/tabs for this song?

Ps. Sorry if I put the wrong flair, let me know and I'll change it. Thanks!

My guitar strap. Studded. Then decided i wanted it neon pink… distressed it a bit after spray painting it. Then i sealed it w a spray gloss varnish 🙂

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?