Teen Gothic

I remember a member of Bauhaus mentioning reggae as on influence on Bela, and I was curious if any other bands in the genre have made similar statements.

any albums/bands with a similar sound to cinema strange?

It feels weird to call myself a ‘baby bat’ when I’m almost 30, and I don’t know if that’s even the proper term for a newbie? So let’s just go with: I’ve been in the fashion side of the punkesque subcultures since I was in highschool, I was all about pop-punk music as a kid as well as gothic metal. It was only recently that I’ve started to dip my toes into honest to goodness goth music. I figured if I wear the clothes I should probably listen to the music, or at least try it. I like it, it will probably have a hefty presence on my spotify wrapped this year. I just suck at finding music, and Spotify doesn’t know the difference between Goth and Gothic Metal. It keeps giving me Ghost and Evanescence, which while I love those bands, they are not quite the vibe!

A few recommendations were given to me a while ago when I really didn’t know anything, based on my preference for strong melody, and background with pop-punk and gothic metal, and one that really stuck to me was Inkubus Sukkubus. My first song from them was ‘Wytches’ which I’m sure is a surprise to absolutely no one, and I went from there. I’ve been going through their discography slowly. They have a lot of things I like in any genre: a strong melody, clear lyrics. I particularly love the album Belladona & Aconite because of the addition of symphonic elements, and sometimes what almost sounds like surf guitar in places?

Yeah I’d like to find more bands with similar sound. Or even just more bands that have a strong melodic component. I have a background in classical music as well (violin) so bands that add in symphonic elements and/or bowed strings are also welcome.

Or like idk, recommend to me your favourite band and tell me why it’s your favorite I’m here to learn new things.

I adore Scary Bitches! I love their unique sound. Are there any other songs and artists who sound similar?

Also, I wish Scary Bitches would make more music someday.

I think the vocals sound really pretty in this song and I like how “spooky” it sounds.

So I've been experimenting with this cool guitar effects pedal on garageband called "spin box". It's essentially made to emulate the sound of a Leslie rotor speaker cabinet. A lot of classic rock bands utilized this sound. TC Electronic makes a similar sounding one called the Vibraclone Rotary.

I'm just curious if anyone knows if Rikk used a similar pedal on Only Theatre of Pain. Many of the songs have that spinning, screeching, a demon is clawing it's way out of a fiery hole sound in the guitar.

Hear me out. Somebody Else by the 1975. I've been listening to it a lot recently and I feel like the lyrics and mood of the song would fit in with goth music if it were made into a goth cover.

Like this: https://youtu.be/Gz-Rh8lkRew

Some of the bands i like are: Corpus Delicti, Bauhaus, Requiem In White, and Mephisto Walz.

It doesn't have to be albums, individual track names that come to mind would be nice.