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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > No Music Discussion > Music for Goth Kids: Vampires and/or Masquerades
Favorite dark and brooding mythical creature?
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Stalins Moustache
Dec 31, 2012

~~**I'm Italian!**~~

HotCanadianChick posted:

Really surprised nobody's mentioned The Birthday Massacre yet. As far as I'm concerned, they're really the only really good original* 'goth' band to come along so far in the 21st century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLOfluH8mgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrmChd_8PfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmDgtJyc1U

Their sound definitely has a lot of crossover with Industrial Metal in a lot of their songs, but a lot of their songs are sublimely melodic and beautiful too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E3MlpKqVOk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdYkaaOsgM4

I know a lot of people are into VNV Nation as far as the newer bands go, but they've always come across to me as a (not-quite-as-good-as-the-original) modernized imitation of Depeche Mode - a niche which, for me, has always been filled by the (in my opinion) much better Melotron.

*(i.e. not just a tribute band who happens to write new material in the same style as the band they're a tribute to, like the many TSoM-alikes out there)

gently caress yeah! I'm a huge fan of the Birthday Massacre. Their new song "Beyond" is beautiful. I can't wait for their new album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3vi2Fsqlpg

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Stalins Moustache
Dec 31, 2012

~~**I'm Italian!**~~
So I listened to the new Birthday Massacre album, and.. :smith: I really, really want to like it but it just didn't click for me at all. This album and the previous album just feels so incredibly uninspired, and the "omph" and the magical sense in their music is just gone. Violet, Walking With Straners and Pins & Needles were all incredible in their own way, but the last two albums just feels off.

Any recommendations for bands similar to Birthday Massacre? I really love the heavy synths and Chibi's voice creating something similar to a creepy fantasy adventure.

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