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Ausgang

316,629 plays (32,633 listeners)

Ausgang was a unique batcave band that rose from Birmingham UK in 1983. They began as "Kabuki" with a single called "I Am A Horse". After a lineup change, they renamed to the outlaw-ish Ausgang, German for "The Way Out".

Bone Orchard

109,117 plays (18,367 listeners)

1) Bone Orchard was a batcave group from the UK, active during the early 80s. With their wild bass antics, offbeat tribal drums, shreds of shrieking rockabilly tinged guitar, and lurid, poetic lyrics sung with tortured, guttural female vocals, they (along with contemporaries like Ausgang, Inca Babies, Sunglasses After Dark, etc.

Kommunity FK

159,581 plays (15,191 listeners)

Patrik Mata formed the legendary American band Kommunity FK in Los Angeles in 1978. Mata is the sole founding visionary, composer, lyricist, musical arranger, vocalist/guitarist, and style chameleon.

13th Chime

56,337 plays (3,263 listeners)

The Chime formed in 1980 in the small London over-spill town of Haverhill in Suffolk. Born out of the British Punk scene: Vocalist Mick Hand, guitarist Gary O'Connor and drummer Ricki Cook were previously in The Antix while bass player Terry Taylor, played with the hard hitting three piece The Wynd-ups.

Play Dead

245,832 plays (34,147 listeners)

Play Dead were an English goth rock group from Oxford that grew out of the fading English punk scene in 1980. Though the band was identified with groups like UK Decay and Sex Gang Children, the band felt they didn't belong under the "Gothic" title.

Burning Image

68,079 plays (7,035 listeners)

Burning Image are an American post-punk band formed in Bakersfield, California in 1982. Burning Image first released a 7" single with the songs "The Final Conflict" and "Burning Image, Burning" in the summer of 1984. The compilation 1983-1987 in 2004 and album Fantasma (2009) were both released on Alternative Tentacles, the record label of former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra.

Twisted Nerve

36,075 plays (3,147 listeners)

Twisted Nerve from Edinburgh, Scotland are one of the most underrated but one of the best goth punk bands there were.

Sex Gang Children

781,809 plays (68,451 listeners)

Sex Gang Children is an early gothic rock group that formed in the early 1980s in Britain. They were a very dramatic band, relying on heavy bass, tribal drumming, sudden mood shifts, a woozy cabaret ready sound that influenced the rise of the later Dark Cabaret scene, and yet another in a long line of goth singers with an odd, highly dramatic voice.