any great "Goth" band or song can be recommended?

anything by the birthday party is pretty decently gothic in my opinion.

m.

Don't laugh - it's ace

Went to a Christian Death gig in Cardiff once and had to seriously rethink my attitudes to all things 'Goth'.

jt money is so not goth.

No mentions of Soft Cell yet, but that and the first couple of Marc Almond albums are in many ways hypergoth without showing it. Oh yes. Arguably some songs from Dirk Wears White Sox-era Adam Ant too.

Everything on Projekt, natch. And yes, Mr. Darnielle, whenever you post here, the new Lycia is indeed quite grand!

*checks again* Wait, no Swans? Uh, almost everything. Special mountain for "The Golden Boy Swallowed By the Sea" for the sheer crushed grandeur of it all.

The Eagles--er, no I guess the bird theme doesn't always work

Did you mean Xmal Deuthland???

- For rage goths, the Apotheosis rmx of "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" from *Carmina Burana* - For creepy-graveyard-techno goths, Icon of Coil, "Floorkiller" - For thrash-out and bust-it-up goths, Rob Zombie's "Dragula"; for actual mosh-pit goths, almost any Rammstein, but especially "Engel" and "Du Hast"; Static-X, especially "Push It" - For goths who can cha-cha angrily: "Red Right Hand" - For decadent-sensual goths: Garbage, "Milk" or "Number One Crush"; Dead Can Dance, "Song of the Dispossessed" (though "Lovegrove" belongs here, too); some Portishead - For desperate goths: "Born Slippy" or Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" - Personal favorites, though not so danceable: "Cry, Little Sister", "Glass Spider", "Paper Doll"

The goth DJs in these parts spin lots of other stuff, too, much of which straddles generic lines. Just for reference: 'round here, we get a lot of cruxshadows, noisex, einsturzende neubaten, neuroactive, theatre of tragedy, paralysed age, project pitchfork, carfax abbey, die krupps, sunshine blind, seraphim shock, marilyn manson, e nomine, london after midnight, tapping the vein, the cure, front 242, ministry, the smiths, type o negative, star industry, apoptygma berzerk, lords of acid, wolfsheim, fictional, rosetta stone, kraftwerk, endanger, the dreamside, vnv nation, kmfdm, behind the scenes, skinny puppy, fleshfield, neuroticfish, thrill kill kult, iris, feindflug, nine inch nails, :wumpscut:, merry thoughts, misfits, juno reactor, haujobb, LOTS of bauhaus, funker vogt, camouflage, suspiria, mesh, a perfect circle, cradle of filth, covenant, siouxsie, alphaville, joy division, klf, and jesus & mary chain. And we consider it all more or less goth.

*shrug*

(For the record: We do have bona fide red-wine-and-lace goths, but usually they're identifiable more by their dizzying heels or, on occasion, their characteristic single tear.)

Hope this helps --

Re: Tapping the Vein... also of note from the same musical scene: Carfax Abbey. Tracks to download from this band: "Crooked", "Breath of Reptile", "Ketamine"

Hi, we're Close Italic and this song is about how death is all beautiful and stuff.

I couldn't find a rolling Goth thread for 2017 (and the 2016 version has, like, eight posts) so I'll tack this new (to me) discovery here.

I saw a band named Bestial Mouths was playing Philly so I checked it out. After listening to half of their last album Heartless, which came out last year on the ubiquitous Cleopatra label, I am going to the show.

The singer, Lynette Cerezo, gets compared a lot to Diamanda Galas and Siouxsie Sioux which is a little lazy (and not entirely accurate as she is not nearly the vocal lunatic that Galas is) but fine, it's still dark, occasionally twisted and very classic synth-propelled Gothic music that will make my wife dance and me do what metalheads do approximating dancing. They apparently hail from Los Angeles.

http://bestialmouths.bandcamp.com/album/heartless
http://open.spotify.com/album/6lDn5UbUPtbkchSrSh7rPg

I still wouldn't call Front 242 goths.

This is some proper goth stuff right here...

https://youtu.be/niIFIsqGq_8

Although I hear the Diamanda Galas reference much more prominently with this very strange video.

Just got back from the Philly show for Bestial Mouths. Strange show, a Monday night, kinda early as far as these things goes (the venue has an Indie Dance thing on Mondays that was going on after the show), sparsely attended by people who would not dance. If I, the aging metalhead, is dancing more than anyone else in the room, there's a problem.

The singer, Lynette Cerezo, was great though I would have preferred she didn't use as many effects on her voice live. Spoke with her briefly after the show, she was very nice, seemed appreciative of us being there. When I told her I was an old metal guy who still picked up on Diamanda Galas and The Banshees, she gave me a big hug. Picked up the last CD from last year (they just did a remix album which is only available digitally for $5 at BandCamp - I may pick it up). It was nice to see a band perform as they had a live drummer (who was quite good) and a guy playing synths.

http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17426165_10158392412610597_87703655585724304_n.jpg?oh=0fa9a37920d5737ce1135d413f0a89b7&oe=59551E9B http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17425952_10158392412615597_4338204759924528137_n.jpg?oh=359637a11aa2db53c32e403d924f9512&oe=595751F6
http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/17358934_10158392412620597_8059909975145400235_o.jpg?oh=324a7053b65d53b91a7a91e34c8a767f&oe=59662A10

The remix album can be found here: http://bestialmouths.bandcamp.com/album/still-heartless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSkktZL7zk