Teen Gothic

I tend to look for songs with either powerful vocals or powerful instrumentals. An immediate turn off for me is when the vocals are completely overshadowed by the instrumentals.

I know a lot of the music I will place here to show what I mean will likely not be goth, since I'm still learning about the Goth scene. But all suggestions are good suggestions imo. Also if any of them are Goth inform me. I want to make a goth playlist on my Spotify and knowing is half the battle. Plus I want to be able to learn to have a better ear to tell what genres are what.

Ice Queen – Within Temptation

Jazmine Bean – Piggie

Jack Off Jill – Vivica

Neoni (Ft. Savage Ga$ p) – Knives

Darling Violetta – A Smaller God

Pierce the Veil – Disasterology

Paramore – Ignorance

My Chemical Romance – I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

Chase Petra – Monet Issues

Tony22 – Earth Boy

Halsey – Control

AViVA – The Saint and The Sinner

I found them recently and I love them. They don't seem to have many monthly listeners on Spotify.

Mine would be Mask – Bauhaus, Goo – Sonic Youth, and Heaven or Las Vegas – Cocteau Twins <3

Usually good indicators for a good album, imo, is having un-skippable songs and being timeless (you can listen over and over without getting tired).

Interested to see everyone’s opinions here and low-key hoping for some good suggestions 🙂

For me it has probably been Belirdi Gece by She Past Away for a while, makes you lose the sense of time quite very nicely.

i personally try to look for recs (i find the masterlist too big and overwhelming) and then listen to every one of the bands albums if i like them. is that what most others do, or do you prefer playlists or just looking thru the goth band masterlist and listening to all of them?

E.g. Someone dressed/looking like trad goth but doesn’t identify as goth.

I hope this doesn’t count as inflammatory, I just genuinely need advice. I have a small friend group that I’ve developed this year. We kind of connected because we all dress edgy. My issues started at the beginning of the year when one of said friends would constantly refer to the both of us as “big tiddy goth girls”. At first I thought she was a goth and just wasn’t icked out by that phrase like me. I gently asked her about her music taste and it is pretty much exclusively like house rave wave and rap. I have no problem with either of those genres, and I’ll enjoy a song or two from time to time, but it did bug me her using the label without knowing the history or meaning of it. Especially because you could just google “Goth” and it would tell you it was a music based subculture. She is my friend so I didn’t bring it up but it erred me. The rest of the group(except one girl who listens to goth music but doesn’t dress the part or consider it her scene) says similar things, about us being “bad goth bitches” and when they’ll dress up they’ll be like, “I look so goth right now”. We were at a bar and I outright said, “sometimes the way you use the word goth confuses me” after some other “goth baddy” comment, and they got very mad at me. They said that, “the normies are going to call us goth so that is what we are! It’s basically just an umbrella term for edgy” to which I said, “it’s a music based subculture. Someone in jeans and a polo listening to goth music, is more goth than someone dressed in a trad goth uniform who doesn’t listen to the music.” One of them said, “well I’m going to call myself goth”. That was the end of the conversation but it keeps bugging me. It’s not that I care about keeping them out of the subculture, the more the merrier because more goth music enjoyers means more albums, shows, and bands for our community. It’s just that I feel like just using goth to mean “edgy” waters down the actual meaning and misses the point of the subculture

Ive been listening to post punk and death rock for maybe a few months and am looking for recommendations on new artists or lesser known artists.

Currently ive been really getting into Pink Turns Blue and Rozz William's side projects

So if you fellas have anything similar to recommend id love to hear it.

Thank you.

It was glorious and just wanted to share with y’all. Happy Gothing to everyone this holiday season! 💀