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I'll drink to that. Sorry I didn't call back. My friend from RI had a car accident. she's ok, broken arm, and bruised up a bit. She's scared because she's never broken a bone before.
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I like Lacuna Coil too. Does Dead Can Dance count as goth? I just want more music with men with deep dark voices and cool instruments that wear a lot of black.
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quote:Originally posted by Synesthesia: I like Lacuna Coil too. Does Dead Can Dance count as goth? I just want more music with men with deep dark voices and cool instruments that wear a lot of black.
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You've got your Korn, Def Tones, Him, sorta AFI, Disturbed, and Rammstein (i just don't understand what they're saying). I just scrolled through one of my angry playlists and that's what I got.
There are metal and punk Goth crossover bands, but I prefer the softer rock side of goth music. It's the vocals that do it for me too.
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quote:Originally posted by airmanfour: You've got your Korn, Def Tones, Him, sorta AFI, Disturbed, and Rammstein (i just don't understand what they're saying). I just scrolled through one of my angry playlists and that's what I got.
I don't know that I'd classify any of those as goth, really. "Goth" is really such a narrow genre. But the Deftones are awesome and just the sex. That song "Change (In the House of Flies)" is just...delicious. HIM are better live than on CD, I think.
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Nightwish is good metal band that I think can also be classified as goth. The dream Theater album As I Am has some pretty "goth" chord progression.
Side note: check out "Horse the Band" for absolute crazy. Once you get hooked nothing else will ever push those buttons in you again.
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Cradle of Filth (Metal Goth). Yes, Nightwish, Nemesea, and EdenBridge (Though, I would call them an emo goth band). The Cure, Gotterdammerung, Marilyn Manson (yes, I checked before entering this one), Narcissus Pool, Nosferatu, and Type O Negative.
Those are just some of them that I can think of. Although I would still want to classify HIM as goth, but it really isn't worth arguing over. Well, pH would kick my butt anyway.
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I hate to break this to you, pH, but Nattfödd beat you to the punch (Finnish metal band, of course).
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Goth is an outgrowth of post-punk. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the originals here -- Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Southern Death Cult (later just -- The Cult), Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Birthday Party (Nick Cave was in this one), Killing Joke. Then there are lesser-known early bands like Danse Society, the March Violets, Flesh for Lulu.
Most of these are British, of course, as was much of the post-punk movement. Goth arose in response to the modern tribalism* elements floating aroudn the post-punk scene with a reaction against the more dour, politicized aspects of early post-punk. It reclaimed the camp and glam of Bowie mixed with Rocky Horror, old horror flicks (one of Bauhaus's hits was "Bela Lugosi is Dead"), the neo-Victorian fashions of Vivienne Westwood, etc. etc.
Goth is interesting because it actually reclaimed some straight-up rock guitar sounds that the first post-punks had shyed away from. Later it and industrial music intertwined quite a bit as did, as others have mentioned, heavy metal and various non-industrial forms of electronica, and now there are several sub-genres of Goth.
*Believe it our not, although most Americans know Adam Ant as a kitschy New Wave artist, his earlier, post-punk incarnation with Adam and the Antz was a calculated experiment in modern tribalism that influenced quite a bit of the post-punk scene.
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quote:Originally posted by String: Side note: check out "Horse the Band" for absolute crazy. Once you get hooked nothing else will ever push those buttons in you again.
"Ten words: snapping bunnies twitching gurgling forget the bombs in your eyes." That band is so cool. Not sure they qualify as Goth though.
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That song "Change (In the House of Flies)" is just...delicious. HIM are better live than on CD, I think.![[Smile]](smile.gif)
