Teen Gothic

A question, thats been lingering for a awhile, popped up in my head here …

Any recommendations on newer generations of really good gothic rock guitarists / guitar playing in the style of Marx/Hussey/King etc?

To be more specific: What I’m looking for is not more too simple copies of Wayne Hussey or the 2020s school of minimalism and so on. I’m looking for players like Porl King (when Rosetta Stone was still active) and Mark Wheeler (Who played on Irony of fate with Love like blood ages ago before they turned into a different more metal influenced act) who in my opinion took the style of playing into new directions but still stood with both feet in Gothic rock if you know what I mean.

Many of the newer bands I’ve come across are aiming for something more simple and minimalistic: Say, Molchat Doma – they’re great but they’re a bit of a different thing to me than my fave guitar goth acts (who all seems to have popped up in the 80s and 90s) She passed away is well produced and has good intense energy and so on but the guitars are nowhere near what Porl King did and Wayne Hussey still does (at least live)

Are there any new players/bands that I have missed? Any recommendations?

PS: I am very impressed by some of Pre-Occupations material by the way, I can hear clearly they've been through the LedZep, Hussey/Marx/S.Kilbey/Swans/fieldsofthe/etc thing but they doesn't count as a gothic rock band DS

Lol that was funny. I had to explain myself to one of the staff. Luckily, they still allowed me to play music.

It’s pretty unfortunate that the album’s name is that haha. Still got to listen the album, I’m pretty sure some of the other staff thought I was listening to music because it would be strange if I was listening to porn

I go to goth concerts quite frequently, and something I noticed is I don’t recall ever hearing DJs playing songs by The Cure in between bands.

Obviously, there’s a massive selection of music to play from, so it could have just been my luck, but I was wondering, just in case, if it’s a thing to avoid playing them at goth clubs? I thought maybe it has to be due to their wide popularity, but I don’t know.

Also, is it inappropriate to ask DJs if they can play a certain song? I noticed a woman did that before, but it seems rare anyone approaches the DJ based on my experience, and I don’t know if she was successful.

The bass playing in the early ages of goth rock is the biggest reason I love the genre so much (being a bassist myself)

Are there any modern/newer goth rock band that anyone can suggest that has good bass (and/or guitar) playing that separates it from things like coldwave and other more electronic subgenres of goth?

Molchat Doma and Secret Shame are the only ones I can think of. Would love to hear more guitar/bass based goth rock from the past few years.