Teen Gothic

this band is from Adelaide Australia in the early 80s. Rique Humour Live recording from 1984. Features members who went on to popular local grunge band The Lizard Train.

Want some recs for 80s goth that isn’t just sisters of mercy,bauhaus,siouxsie, the cure

Especially stuff on the expiermental side

There's more goth bands out there than you can shake a stick at and a vast number of them were small outfits with few releases and next to no presence online. There's something special and enchanting about the obscure goth band. The band that never really went anywhere, the band that could have been great but never got there and faded away into a murky obscurity. Especially since in the current online landscape it's much harder than ever before to be obscure. Many, many of these small goth bands struggled uphill and it did not pay off for them. Most of them simply broke apart.

I find that sort of melancholy, that sense of unfulfilled dreams and sense of loss to be fitting! I often find myself pondering, yearning and thinking about the obscure bands that I've listened to that now exist only as cult, underground stuff to be appreciated by a small circle of people, or sometimes not even that. Sometimes they exist only as a memory, a band someone once saw back in the late 80's and early 90's, someone may have their original tape or vinyl stashed away somewhere.

I feel like we often focus on just a rotating cast of well known bands, so it'd be sweet for everyone to have a chance to throw out a really obscure band that is your personal obsession. They deserve it.

My personal pick is Shamefaces. Active for only a few months from 1992 to 1993 and with only two cassette releases, and only two songs available on YouTube, A Tale of Two Men and Shadowboy. Very little info on them online besides the band member names, most of whom have moved on from the goth scene it seems, but some are still active musicians.

Previously, they were a different obscure band, Dëx Cröix. They released one (REALLY good) EP and have a YouTube account that's over 15 years old and only has some really poor quality recordings of them in a Battle of the Bands tournament in 1988.

So, what's yours?

The title basically, can be death rock, dark wave or gothic rock

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! 😄

Cockatoo

My Mannequin

La Procesión de lo Infinito

Luna Reign

Moira Scar

FLOORSHOW

Virgine Dramatica

Frozen Charlottes

Maldigo.

Purr Machine

Darkly Dreaming

Noctivagus

Stare

Witch Will Die

Brotherhood of Pagans

Desire

Brother Orchid

it's almost always listed by people when listing goth rock subgenres, but i can't think of many classic bands in the genre, other than little nemo, coldreams, and lost desert (and maybe modern eon? idk). i can think of more modern coldwave bands than old school ones despite the subgenre seemingly being a cornerstone of goth rock. it's definiitely less obscure than say grey rock or grave wave, but still

feel free to leave coldwave recs for me, i feel like i need more to listen to

Hello. I'm neither a babybat, nor an elder goth, should I say, something in between. I myself know some obscure bands, but I like discovering new ones and I've recently been stuck finding either bands that sound exactly the same like the ones I know, or boring ones. Asking for gothic rock, post punk, darkwave and industruial (ik industrial isn't goth, but if someone knows some obscure industrial artists lemme know :>