Goth Essentials

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With its gloomy lyrics and gray-scale tones, goth is as much an aesthetic as it is a musical approach. That’s largely because late-’70s genre originators The Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees, and Bauhaus leaned into post-punk’s darkest tendencies without sugarcoating the bleakness. However, goth has never been cloistered from trends—fashionable fans and bands alike soaked up inspiration at London’s Batcave club night in the early ’80s—and its black moods aren’t monolithic. Grinding noise rock, pulsating synth-pop, operatic vocals, haunting world music, and even greasy blues riffs—they’re all considered goth in the right hands.
Killing Joke
Love Like Blood
Killing Joke
Night Time
London After Midnight
Kiss (Club Mix) [Club Edit]
London After Midnight
Psycho Magnet
Christian Death
Spiritual Cramp (Extended Version)
Christian Death
Skeleton Kiss
The Sisters of Mercy
Marian (Version)
The Sisters of Mercy
First and Last and Always
The Cure
One Hundred Years
The Cure
Pornography (Deluxe Edition)
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Happy House
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Kaleidoscope (Remastered & Expanded)
Bauhaus
Dark Entries
Bauhaus
In the Flat Field
Ministry
Revenge
Ministry
With Sympathy
The Wake
Nazarene
The Wake
Masked
Xmal Deutschland
Incubus Succubus II
Xmal Deutschland
Tocsin
Clan of Xymox
A Day
Clan of Xymox
Clan of Xymox
Project Pitchfork
Souls
Project Pitchfork
Entities
Joy Division
Transmission
Joy Division
Substance 1977-1980
Peter Murphy
Cuts You Up
Peter Murphy
Deep
Kirlian Camera
Eclipse
Kirlian Camera
Eclipse - Das schwarze Denkmal
Dead Can Dance
The Arcane
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance (Remastered)
Die Laughing
Glamour And Suicide
Die Laughing
Incarnations: A Retrospective
The Mission
Deliverance
The Mission
The Best of the Mission UK
Skeletal Family
Promised Land (12" Version)
Skeletal Family
Eternal: Singles, Albums, Rarities, BBC Sessions, Live, Demos (1982-2015)
The Sisters of Mercy
Lucretia My Reflection (2018 Remastered Version)
The Sisters of Mercy
Greatest Hits, Vol. One: A Slight Case of Overbombing (2018 Remaster)
Wolfsheim
The Sparrows and the Nightingales
Wolfsheim
The Sparrows and the Nightingales - Single
The Cure
A Forest
The Cure
Seventeen Seconds (Deluxe Edition)
The Soft Moon
Zeros
The Soft Moon
Zeros
Skinny Puppy
Assimilate
Skinny Puppy
Bites
DAF
Der Mussolini (feat. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft)
DAF
Alles ist Gut (feat. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft)
Xmal Deutschland
Qual (12" Remix)
Xmal Deutschland
Fetisch
Clock DVA
The Hacker
Clock DVA
Buried Dreams
Rosetta Stone
Adrenaline
Rosetta Stone
Adrenaline
The Bolshoi
Away
The Bolshoi
Friends
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Head On
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Automatic
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Israel
Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Best Of...
Cocteau Twins
Blood Bitch
Cocteau Twins
Garlands
Fields of the Nephilim
Moonchild
Fields of the Nephilim
The Nephilim
Cranes
Thursday
Cranes
Wings of Joy
The Legendary Pink Dots
Just a Lifetime
The Legendary Pink Dots
Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
Bauhaus
Bela Lugosi Is Dead
Bauhaus
Bauhaus - 1979-1983 Volume One
Theatre of Hate
Original Sin
Theatre of Hate
The Singles Collection
The Birthday Party
Release the Bats
The Birthday Party
Live 1981-82
Virgin Prunes
Pagan Lovesong (2022 Digital Remaster)
Virgin Prunes
Pagan Lovesong (40th Anniversary Edition) [2022 Digital Remaster] - Single
Sex Gang Children
Sebastiane
Sex Gang Children
Song and Legend
Alien Sex Fiend
Now I'm Feeling Zombiefied
Alien Sex Fiend
The Best of Alien Sex Fiend
Christian Death
Romeo's Distress
Christian Death
Only Theatre of Pain
Specimen
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Specimen
Azoic
Screams For Tina
Eleven Eleven
Screams For Tina
Screams for Tina
The Merry Thoughts
Low Violet
The Merry Thoughts
Angel Child III (Belief In Angels)
Death Cult
God's Zoo
Death Cult
Ghost Dance
The Cult
Rain
The Cult
Love
Type O Negative
Love You to Death
Type O Negative
October Rust (Bonus Track Version)
The Southern Death Cult
Fatman
The Southern Death Cult
The Southern Death Cult
Usherhouse
Permanent Red
Usherhouse
Molting
Chelsea Wolfe
Vex
Chelsea Wolfe
Hiss Spun
Drab Majesty
39 by Design
Drab Majesty
The Demonstration
Modern English
Move In Light
Modern English
Mesh & Lace
Kælan Mikla
Hvernig kemst ég upp?
Kælan Mikla
Nott eftir nott
Sextile
One of These
Sextile
Albeit Living
Snowy Red
Never Alive
Snowy Red
The Right To Die
Lebanon Hanover
Gallowdance
Lebanon Hanover
Tomb for Two
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Spellbound
Siouxsie & The Banshees
80s Throwbacks
The Cure
The Hanging Garden
The Cure
Pornography (Deluxe Edition)
Zanias
Follow the Body
Zanias
To the Core - EP
Cocteau Twins
Alas Dies Laughing
Cocteau Twins
Lullabies - EP
Poetry Of Shadows
Lady Winter
Poetry Of Shadows
Goth's Undead
Danse Society
All I Want
Danse Society
Looking Through
London After Midnight and Sean Brennan
Demon
London After Midnight and Sean Brennan
Selected Scenes from the End of the World
Selofan
The Wheels of Love
Selofan
Sto Skotadi
Joy Division
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division
Total
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Killing Moon
Echo & The Bunnymen
Ocean Rain
Boy Harsher
Face the Fire
Boy Harsher
Careful
Cold Cave
A Little Death to Laugh
Cold Cave
Full Cold Moon
Xeno & Oaklander
Blue Flower
Xeno & Oaklander
Vigils
DAF
Der Mussolini (feat. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft)
DAF
Alles ist Gut (feat. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft)
Love Is Colder Than Death
Down and Out
Love Is Colder Than Death
Mental Traveller
Cult Club
Play with Lies
Cult Club
Play with Lies
Sally Dige
Be Gone
Sally Dige
Holding On
TR/ST
Shoom
TR/ST
Trst
:Wumpscut:
Wreath of Barbs (Album Mix)
:Wumpscut:
Wreath of Barbs
Inkubus Sukkubus
Vampyre Erotica
Inkubus Sukkubus
Vampyre Erotica
Body of Light
How Do I Know?
Body of Light
Let Me Go
Schwefelgelb
Im Wasser
Schwefelgelb
Den Umgekehrten Atem - EP
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid and Flowers Mix)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
Industrial Accident: Wax Trax! Sampler
Coil
The A**l Staircase
Coil
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Deine Lakaien
Reincarnation
Deine Lakaien
Dark Star & 2nd Star
The Heavens
Birth of the Vampire
The Heavens
Dream Reaper
Clan of Xymox
Jasmine & Rose
Clan of Xymox
Creatures
Them Are Us Too
Eudaemonia
Them Are Us Too
Part Time Punks
The Sisters of Mercy
This Corrosion (12'' Version)
The Sisters of Mercy
This Corrosion - Single
Susperia and Suspiria
Allegedly, Dancefloor Tragedy
Susperia and Suspiria
The Gothic Sounds of Nightbreed
The Crüxshadows
Marilyn, My Bitterness
The Crüxshadows
Telemetry of a Fallen Angel (2004 Edition)
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Redefine Pure Faith
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Remnants of a Deeper Purity (2014 Remastered Deluxe Edition)
The March Violets
Snake Dance
The March Violets
The Botanics Verses
Play Dead
This Side of Heaven
Play Dead
Company of Justice
Swans
Failure
Swans
White Light from the Mouth of Infinity
Dead Can Dance
The Host of Seraphim (Remastered)
Dead Can Dance
The Serpent’s Egg (Remastered)
Zola Jesus
Night
Zola Jesus
Stridulum
This Mortal Coil
Song to the Siren
This Mortal Coil
It'll End in Tears (Remastered)
SALEM
King Night
SALEM
King Night - Single
Lycia
In Flickers
Lycia
In Flickers
The Damned
Shadow of Love
The Damned
Fiendish Shadows
Switchblade Symphony
Witches
Switchblade Symphony
Bread and Jam for Frances
99 Songs, 7 Hours, 54 Minutes

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