Goth rock

Goth rock (sometimes called gothic rock) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970’s. Originally bands from the genre had strong ties to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk styles. The genre itself was defined as a separate movement from punk rock during the early 1980’s. Gothic rock artists deal with dark themes and intellectual movements such as gothic horror, Romanticism, existential philosophy, and nihilism. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: The Screaming Banshee Aircrew

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Grave Babies Sunday 18 March 2012	Skrappy's (Tucson Youth Collective) Tucson, AZ, United States 32.224829 -110.969184	Add shout

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thetrogg wrote:
Monday afternoon

I would

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SmilelimS wrote:
last month

I wouldn't call Sisters of Mercy Goth.

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chouchter wrote:
last month

"Type O Negative is the closest Metal Has ever come to being "Goth Metal" as they actually had some post-punk influence." There are more bands, especially within doom and gothic metal genres. Paradise Lost did a nice cover of a Sisters of Mercy song, Katatonia has stated that the Cure and Fields of the Nephilim are among their main influences, and Agalloch was influenced in part by Fields of the Nephilim and Joy Division. Also the albums Aégis by Theatre of Tragedy and Illumination by Tristania sound heavily influenced by gothic rock. I think there's more gothic rock/post-punk influence in metal than people realise (or are willing to admit).

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Timppa2000 wrote:
last month

The Cure? anyone?

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starxnoxstar wrote:
November 2011

Type O Negative is the closest Metal Has ever come to being "Goth Metal" as they actually had some post-punk influence. [3]

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BoomImDead wrote:
November 2011

Type O Negative is the closest Metal Has ever come to being "Goth Metal" as they actually had some post-punk influence. [2]

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DeafAmbitions wrote:
July 2011

Tribal, psychedelic post-punk. These Patterns sound like Joy Division at a prehistoric rave-party.. In slow-motion! In case you couldn't translate, they sound freaking' AMAZING! http://deafambitions.blogspot.com/2011/07/these-patterns.html

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SmilelimS wrote:
July 2011

Type O Negative is the closest Metal Has ever come to being "Goth Metal" as they actually had some post-punk influence.

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shadowtone6 wrote:
June 2011

13th Sky has a new EP set to be released later this year. check us out!

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Son-Of-Satan wrote:
June 2011

http://www.last.fm/group/Hard+Gothic+Rock

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TeRRaZLO wrote:
June 2011

The 69 Eyes never claimed to be a goth rock band, and yet they are here :)

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clytie_hizashi wrote:
April 2011

As I type this, the header image is of a Visual Kei band. Haha, oh lord. -_-"

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Alexey_Gabriel wrote:
March 2011

The 69 Eyes - recent albums have been weak, but voice is fairly good, like the first albums. At least that's my opinion.

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Jerzy180 wrote:
March 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOLykyKF0E

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Mr_Hmpft wrote:
October 2010

I have listened to some 69 eyes stuff recently. It's true, some of their songs obviously have some gothic influence. Most of their music is shit though :D

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ultravox82 wrote:
October 2010

Bueno, solo puedo decir que agrupaciones como Evanescence o With Temptation no se les puede catalogar como rock gotico...eso me da mucha pena

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varnavix wrote:
October 2010

Is it necessary to have more than three tags for the same thing?

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trad-goth wrote:
August 2010

check out the trad goth tag

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EternitysSun wrote:
August 2010

Mmm...I've got issues with some of the artists tagged with this, but it's still a hell of a lot better than the gothic rock tag.

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trad-goth wrote:
August 2010

http://www.last.fm/tag/trad%20goth

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