Goth Music / Culture

[Vincent Valentine]

i love adema to and marilyn manson and alice cooper

I'm sorry to be so blunt about this dante, but none of the bands you've mentioned are goth bands.

I would suggest you do some research.

Goth is music based sub-culture, born out of the ashes of the punk movement in the late 1980's. It's a very specific style of music, based heavily (but not excluvisly) on elements from industrial, EBM and darkwave music.

Have you ever listened to any of the bands I listed in my first post? I would suggest you please do, and look up on the true definition of the culture (and not the modern media obsessed one), before you true the label around so frankly.

Yes, I like bands like Janus, Lacrimosa, Adversus, Samsas Traum, Umbra Et Imago, Eisheilig, Dorn, ASP and Letzte Instanz. Some of these are gothic rock, some are gothic metal. I'm not particulary fond of any of the bands you listed, so I suppose I'm not a true goth. Although I do live in the geographical area Gothland/Gothia.

Oh, the bands I listed were just the most obvious, generic examples, to help make the point of the thread clear. It wasn't my intention to make it a comprehensive list.

I'll admit that I haven't heard of most of the bands you've listened, but I would certainly be interested in doing so. Could you describe one or two of them for me, so I'll know what I'm listening to?

I didn't know Siouxsie would be classed as Goth, though.

Possibly not, but there are accepted as a "goth" band mainly because they were of the true forefathers (mothers?) of the culture. They helped start it all.