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What Are Modern Goths Into?

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  1. mechapop

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    I know WGT caters half its massive event to the goth subculture, and not just the "cybergoth" stuff.

    But I've been curious what goths currently listen to? I don't mean the 42 year old stuck listening to old 80's goth. But is there modern bands? Or are they more electronic like Cruxshadows?

    I really think goths would like new stuff like Of Wand and the Moon, Crystal Castles, Zola Jesus, oOoOO, White ring, Austra, Bat For Lashes, etc

    I was huge into Christian Death, Bauhaus, Siouxsie, Sisters of Mercy, Switchblade Symphony, London After Midnight, etc some time ago. But I haven't been made aware of too much newer stuff.

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  2. mechapop

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    I'd flip if I heard this at a goth club

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    Hell I could easily see CocoRosie being played

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  3. djkrat

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    new stuff like Of the wand and the moon? That band has been around for about 10 years now, maybe even longer. I even set up shows for them in the Netherlands on three occassions. They do reasonably well in Europe.

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  4. SinDelleMorte

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    According to Side-Line, modern goths are currently in trees. :)

    Lol. Sorry, I had to.

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  5. Cult of the Bleeding Toe

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    Americans can't be goths. They have no gothic history. And their accent is very ungoth.

    So modern goths dont listen to American bands.

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  6. Cult of the Bleeding Toe

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    Switchblade symphony is the only exception :D

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  7. TSDF

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    I can't say for sure, as I'm certainly not one who pays attention to "scene" any more, but I imagine it would mostly be goth/symphonic metal bands like Nightwish, Within Temptation, etc.

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  8. xeno

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    Is there modern goths?

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  9. mechapop

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    Apologies! In looking for neo folk type stuff over the years I never had heard of Of Wand and the Moon.

    And @TSDF: It certainly seems that the symphonic euro goth metal since the early 2000's has really become such a phenomenon. There's a few death rock homage type bands, but it seems more tribute than doing anything new. Still I love that whole tones on tail/specimen/virgin prunes/christian death sound

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  10. Cult of the Bleeding Toe

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    They should listen to this.

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    I'm really digging this aussie band. They are like a mix of yeah yeah yeahs, siouxsie and the banshees and something else. She has a really great voice, and I like the song compositions. Nice and dark too.

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    I fucking love reverb.

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  12. Sanfox69

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    All the gothy goths I ever met liked 80s synthpop, gloomy-doomy goth rock, a tinge of black metal and female fronted gloomy metal bands, like the aforementioned nightwish.
    some liked the odd industrial track, usually the stuff with light ebm electronics, basslines etc with monotone, earnest vocals. Usually a pretentious lot, prone to over analysing trivial matters, self obsessed dispostions and a penchant for pretentious poetry. They also liked some god awfull comic strips too.

    Not enough oontz in their diet.

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  13. soillodge

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    "Americans can't be goths."

    Apparently you never heard of Christian Death.

    `michael

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  14. The Black Oil

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    What is this, a Flucleus thread?

    I thought modern hoths were all into moving to Wyominf.

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  15. wtiidavid

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    I think that TDSF pretty much nailed it and the shift has been to more symphonic metal bands like Nightwish, Within Temptation, Epica, Lacuna Coil, Sirenia etc etc but if I can take a second and throw some love out to the Baltimore based "Goth" band, The Drowning Season

    http://www.thedrowningseason.net/

    They are one of the last U.S. based "goth" bands that really still embrace the Sisters/Fields sound. I've booked them 3 times now in chicago and had them perform at the 4 day WTII Records minifest this past June. In addition to performing at that festival they have played at several other fests including the Southern Gothic fest last year and are headlining Dracula's Ball in 2012. Good guys who really deserve to be much bigger in the US than they currently are. If you are an "old school goth" they are worth checking out.

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  16. mechapop

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    @wtiidavid: Well, had Drowning Season been around in the 90's they'd probably be bigger. There was a HUGE healthy appetite for American goth and dark wave bands in the 90's. I dare say, at times it felt like the love for goth bands(both 80s and 90s) was bigger than industrial at the time. I mean in America, it truly was the "goth industrial" scene. I almost took a 3 day busride to get to the Philly Sisters show event in 1997.
    I remember literally hundreds of US and non US modern gothy type bands of the time, some I remember being absolutely outstanding.

    @cult: thanks for the recommendation. Thus my point, most the stuff goths should love is now considered under the "indie umbrella". When the goth and industrial scene simply became the EBM scene, I feel it became the death of diversity.

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  17. Cult of the Bleeding Toe

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    Yeah. witchouse and other fun electonic stuff too.

    Did you like the jezabels?
    welcome.

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  18. Cult of the Bleeding Toe

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    It would be cool if some actual goths on here said what they like...instead of people saying what they should like or think they like... :)

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