Teen Gothic

Some notable ones i already have are lesbian bed death, siouxsie and the banshees, Cocteau twins, mystic priestess, molchat doma, cemetery sex and scary bitches. It's also a plus if the group happens to be female led or lesbian.

Hi everyone! I’m a newer goth (only a couple years have I been TRULY listening to goth music and partaking in the sub culture) and I have developed a very specific taste that I can’t quite figure out how to pinpoint. I really love goth music that has quieter, muffled vocals and is more focused on the instrumentals. Obviously I HAVE found music that fits that taste profile, but I struggle to find more/new music that fits it for my playlists. Song or band recommendations are highly welcome! On that same note, how does one tell if a band is actually goth or not? May be a dumb question, but I find it hard to discern between goth and non goth when such similar themes are used and I don’t want to be offensive to any old head goths that have curated the sub culture we enjoy today. Thanks, any answers or recs are much appreciated <3

Everywhere I go on there you're either wading through AI generated album covers that instantly makes me not want to ever listen to your music, or it's tagged so poorly that I often find rap or just pop music being labeled as 'goth'. Bandcamp was and continues to be the easiest way to find goth music for me and have found some great bands on there that are still some of my favorites, but in recent months it's become a minefield to peruse anything there and a stroke of luck to find anything that hits.

The AI generated images just feel like a betrayal of the DIY ethos that should be integral to goth and deathrock and no goth musician should ever succumb to the diminishing and quick returns you get from them.

Just needed to vent. This shit is demoralizing.

What’s up everyone I’m somewhat new to the goth community. I need more bands to listen to like

Sanguis et cinis: preferably like their album Wie der unberurte Traum Jungfrau even though I can’t really understand what they’re saying.

Elysium: not the metal band. look up Soledad by them and you’ll see what I’m talking about

Lycia: specifically their album Ionia. I like it because of how processed and dark it sounds and maybe I might find another band like this album.

I was so nervous writing this

Gethsemane were formed by Katie Helsby and Ian Palmer. After some lineup changes vocalist Porl Morgan is recruited and the lineup is complete, they released only two eps (dark hour, watch and pray) and two singles (here and now, switch) between '92 and '95. I'm curious about this band since I heard they had a very similar sound to rosetta stone and they were called "rosetta clone" because of the similarity they had. There are only 3 songs uploaded and I tried to get the tapes but there is nothing avaible on discogs

hey yall ! im poe and im a baby bat, i joined the subculture recently, around october (thats a fun month to start), and ive been obsessed with so much music, but i figured maybe i could see what music im missing out on, or things i havent listened to yet !!
I have listened to the more common and iconic ones, The cure, siouxsie & the banshees, bauhaus, the march violets, sisters of mercy, ghosting, etc and i just want to add music into my playlist !
so im open to take any suggestions because im literally so invested ! <3
you could even share your playlists in the comments, ill check them all out
(i hope i used the right flair)

Hi all, I am an old punk but I was around a lot of Goths around probably 1993 '94. From what I remember it was kind of the very beginning of a scene that got bigger later on in the '90s.

I'm writing a country album about my experiences and couple of the characters are goth kids. The setting is a small town, the type of place where weirdos who grew up in the surrounding rural counties would have congregated. Think college towns or tourist towns that ended up with like an LGBT community or other weirdos. I was personally in Asheville at the time but that was not at all like Asheville is today. At the time there were a very small number of weirdos/artsy types in small towns, as it was a lot harder to find subculture since there wasn't really an internet.

The folks I actually knew back in the mid '90s are no longer reachable.

Help me out with some memories: What did you do that was part of Goth subculture when you were being romantic, flirty, mysterious seductive with your significant other "back in the day"?

Was your significant other also part of the that scene? What would date night have looked like? What about if you lived together and had a date night at your place?

I dated one of these pagan goth folks for a while and we were part of a scene that was into the occult. Kinda remember a lot of tarot cards and candles and red wine but I wasn't very serious about the occult part which makes my memories kind of hazy about what my significant other was doing much of the time when we were hanging out.

We and lots of other weirdos used to go to an old cemetery, not that all surprisingly. There was some hanging out on rooftops downtown and a little bit of 'by the railroad tracks' stuff but I'm really looking for suggestions on what to make my characters do indoors on date night because it's relevant to a song. Right now I have a couple of different songs where people are messing around with tarot cards in the candle light but I can't reuse that same image for multiple songs

I don’t know if anybody else does this, but sometimes when the usual gothic rock bands from the US and the UK isn’t doing it for me, I’ll look up gothic bands from other countries. Mexico, Japan, France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Germany to name a few. In fact I’m currently trying to familiarize myself with the gothic bands of Mexico. I love trying to find new bands and artists in the genre that I haven’t heard of.