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Just found this thread. I have a music blog and have a ton of reviews of goth stuff that was actually made in 2016. Here, have a category. Dredging through blogs is a trivial inconvenience, and nobody can be bothered with that! So have some bands in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgpPsNnb3AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVDnVx81X9Y TETROLUGOSI: Tetrolugosi II — sp00py music for goths that isn’t at all goth rock, done on assorted keyboards, theremin and bass guitar. Cheesy as hell, but nevertheless pretty good and fun with it. Above: “All The Monsters” and “Under The Full Moon”, which are representative. BRANDY KILLS: The Blackest Black — goth rock, of the drum machine type, with synths and decent tunes, which has probably been the necessary missing element much of this time — poppy industrial keeps recolonising goth because it actually has good tunes and not just a style. This album seems to have noticed that and used it. Heavy on the goth clichés, I’d suggest on first listen you start at “Rock The Boat”, “Fallen Icon” and “Black Gold”. Full points for non-scene font choice too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChnyDYyGEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_MSqDCwkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ftmfXM0nA4 HANTE: No Hard Feelings (Synth Religion) — solo singer-songwriter-producer Hélène de Thoury brings the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMg31jZaRAk SE DELAN: Drifter (KScope) — The press release page (includes album stream) says “dark, alternative, new wave” and studiously avoids the word g*th, but OH COME ON. 1992 in black with songs; Curve doing early eighties Cure. ’80s goth rock of the sort with a drummer rather than a drum machine, with lots of goth rock female vocbal stylings you could probably pick the sources for with a little effort. The music is done by the guy from Crippled Black Phoenix, which this is nothing like and is way more interesting than. The singer’s previous was Killing Mood. Neither is particularly metal but both got attention from the metal world. They seem to have arrived at something indistinguishable from ’80s goth rock the long way around. that'll do for the moment. I find this stuff just camping out in the Bandcamp "new arrivals" listings for particular favourite tags. Maybe 1 in 40 is worth writing up, but that's a pretty good score. Always use Bandcamp "new arrivals" listings as your radio. Also, it's super-convenient that bands have mostly worked out that video is not optional in 2016, because nobody wants to read words.
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Another review! This is Rose and the Diamond Hand from Manchester, featuring Rose Niland. They're pretty good. Two EPs linked there.
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Two good ones came in: Hante: Between Hope & Danger - the excellent second album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gSb8byzT0U Dreams Are Like Water: A Sea Spell - a new goth rock band with Michel Rowland of Disjecta Membra, but the neofolk thread got closed These are both great and you should put them on in the background at your first opportunity
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Crashbee posted:Well they're giving away Saturn Return by Unto Ashes now instead. If you go to their front page https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/ there's a section for what's free this week
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LiBopuLwlg This is Frozen Autumn, who do "electro-darkwave", i.e. electronic goth from before that meant trance techno. This track represents what they do pretty well. This is from the album The Fellow Traveler, which is up on Echozone's Bandcamp. I reviewed it a few months ago.
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Mark E. Smith is dead. My inadequate obituary. Maybe it was only the Perth goths, I dunno.
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