Teen Gothic

Before I started listening to and became thoroughly familiar with Goth, I had zero clue what it sounded like and thought maybe it was either really loud and clangy almost similar to metal, or that it was still loud but quasi dancey like Industrial, and people danced to it at “dark raves” or underground nightclubs and such. And then I discovered it and I thought wow this is hella good music, no matter what subgenre it is. And that’s the other thing I like about goth, is that there’s quite the number of subgenres and they can sound very different from one another and yet we can still identify that minor chord or that distinct tone of dread that makes them all similar to each other. What about you guys? Did you already have an idea what goth music was like before you got to listen to it?

Does anyone remember the goth band The Shroud? Well before they were called that they called themselves The Shroudettes. They only released 2 albums as The Shroudettes. The live album they made called All Hallows Eve can be found on YouTube but there first album Victimized is extremely hard to find. Does anyone out there know where I can the album Victimized? If anyone wants to check out the live album you can find it here. All Hallows Eve

What would you consider your gateway into goth music wise?

They don't have to be 'actually goth' but just whatever gave you a taste of something Goth or Goth adjacent that lead to you eventually looking deeper.

For me I think it was HIM, Evanescece and The Rasmus which I first heard about when I was about 12/13 years old.