Teen Gothic

So im new to gothic music i'm baby bat or whatever you call it lol but i already can see the diffrent in gothic rock songs some more upbeat some more dark in their sound.

Honestly i never thought this is how gothic music is gonna sound i thought it will be more dark in the lyrics and more heavy but i like it anyway and i like to discover.

Please list the most obscure or underground gothic rock band you know of (whether you enjoy their music or not). Perhaps even suggest your own music if you have made some! 😄

I geeked out on this. I opted to have my name printed on Black Angel's newest record Lascivious.

Also, been wishing and hoping for these two excellent Rosetta Stone albums to be printed on vinyl, and they finally arrived!!!!

fisrt time was ab a year ago and i dodnt have any white foundation, most recent was like a week ago (i have white foundation now)

also sorry if the format is weird i dont want ppl seeing the first time i did goth makeup and not the most recent if they jus scrolled past 😭

on the spotify wrapped it said people who also like the music i listen to (mainly goth music) was in berkeley california, what is the most active goth community

Related to the never-ending discussion about "what is goth", what would you say is the most Goth song ever? I suggest that it is "Marian" by Sisters of Mercy. It has it all: romanticised death, doomed love, alienation, hints of the supernatural, and the music is marvellously downbeat yet catchy, with a suggestion of Transylvania in its cimbalom-like guitar part in the chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVPx4zalkiM

I'm on a Bauhaus spree, and I've been listening the album In The Flat Field almost daily.

Also goth rock bands like The Mission and The Bolshoi

Recently I discovered a subgenre called minimal synth which catch my attention. Example.

Finally, newer stuff such modern coldwave like this album

Wow, seeing that old Siouxsie & the Banshees on YouTube started giving me memories on how grateful I am to Robert Smith. I don't think he would ever realize just how much he has changed my life. I literally would be so lost in life without his influence.

I first picked up the guitar because of Robert Smith. I was so inspired by how he is able to turn such deep, profound and sometimes even dark feelings into a beautiful canvas of lush symphonies of ethereal tone that is so extraordinarily beautiful to listen to. I wanted to reproduce that art for myself, also so he inspired me to learn the guitar.

Fast forward about 3 years and I got heavy into the classical guitar because of the same thirst to seek beauty in tone. What got me heavy into it was when I bought a cheap 3$ classical guitar album with someone playing the Six Suites for Unaccompanied Violincello transcribed onto guitar. I was like, what the heck, it's only 3$ and I do need to listen to as many types of guitar music if I am ever going to master this instrument. I swear they actually sound better on the guitar then it does on the cello as if it was meant to be composed for the instrument. Bach is known to be so mathematically precise his melodies and harmonies. I listened to it stoned once and I swear I heard 5 different melodies I didn't hear before and a very complicated bass line to go with it. I swore that I would one day be able to play that entire album, which consists of Suite I and III BWV1007 and BWV1009 if you are ever curious on listening or learning it, and I learned both suites within a year because I was so motivated and practiced 12 hours a day to learn it!

Anyone else had his/her life changed and defined by listening to a similar artist?

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An old postcard that I saved! Sweet, beautiful guitar that he probably painted himself.

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I would have never intimately known the beauty of Clarita, my guitar, if it wasn't for the extraordinary man above.