They are very underrated in my opinion.

i'm such a synth junkie recently...been listening to a lot of House of Harm. i'm understanding they can be considered post punk as well, but i digress. anyway, what are yalls recommendations? 🤔

In 2004, he released his first solo album, Ai no Wakusei (愛の惑星, Planet of Love). The album leaned into his own darker sensibilities and had some goth influence, and the lead single, "Sacrifice," was composed by Wayne Hussey of Sisters of Mercy.

Atsushi's solo live tour directly inspired Buck-Tick guitarist Hisashi Imai to go in a decadent, gothic direction for the 2005 Buck-Tick album, Juusankai wa Gekkou (十三階は月光, The Thirteenth Floor is Moonlight), which Atsushi in turn found easy to write for since he had strong interest in gothic themes and goth music.

I'd like to share some of his music today to remember him. He is greatly missed.

Hello! I'm a baby bat and was wondering where I'd be able to meet more goth people? I'm pretty new to the culture but I'd love to be around more people and learn more! I'm from NYC, however i just recently moved here so I still don't really know where to go both here and in general.

Any help at all would be appreciated!

This has been confirmed by the other sources on the Internet, so I feel this can be reposted. I've been obsessed with Collection d'Arnell-Andréa for these past 2 weeks and even posted a song of theirs here on r/goth. She was an extremely talented singer. I urge everyone to check out this band if you're into eclectic goth (they indeed have goth/post-punk elements, which is rare in neoclassical darkwave) music with classical themes.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP9Ux7LtdK3wy-MA3I7/

I found the song as a Tik Tok sound. It claims to be by an artist named Alex The Alchemist but Alex seems to be a rapper. I’m hoping it was mislabeled on TikTok and someone here can help me find the artist

Looking for music that‘s like Faith (both the album and song, especially the song) by The Cure. Can’t think of many other similar albums, but REDUCER by Casket Cassette comes to mind.

Some songs that have what I’m looking for:

• Severance by Harsh Symmetry
• Saddest Smile and Albatross by Lebanon Hanover
• Kurushimi by Omnihell
• Wasting by The Soft Moon

I'm relatively new to goth music I mainly joined because I discovered what is now one of my favorite bands called euroshima l, and I've been listening to many different bands of the genre,which I really enjoy, but I haven't found any that sound simmilar to euroshima,if you have any recommendations pls do tell me, preferably in Spanish, no worries if it isn't. Hope this doesn't count as low effort posting if it does sorry

Thx for reading :D

I am a goth since adolescence, i'll sound older than I am by saying this but back in my days, what I most desired was that goth, and other subcultures would begin to be more popular, because in my innocent mind I thought the more popularized something gets, the more respect it gains, I was deeply wrong and I regret this yearn. Since the chronic 2000's anemoia my generation has been suffering from due to the emo revival in mid 2022, the more every mainstream subculture (Keep that up) gets distorted by individuals who only want to look unique and different, chase trends.

Now, I am not a filthy gatekeeper, I despise any kind of this, I always tried to inform other people with politeness about such topics I am interested in and learn about it more and more as i'm still not informed enough, but some of these people do not want to learn, they think they know everything about goth and others just by watching short, brief Tik Tok videos. If you disagree with the so called "Vampire of the night" or any shit like that, you get bullied, mocked, treated like shit. Thats not what a so called anti-conformist should do, now should they? I am not perfect either, I am a moderate Tik Tok user like most teenagers of our lord 2026, but it has become impossible to interact with such people of my age inside the community.

Notice how they always base their entire personality in being alt, nuffin elz. But wait! Only mainstream shit like i mentioned before, there's not rude boys, no skinheads, no flappers, no ravers... And the answer for this is pretty obvious, because they dont take research on anywhere else that isnt Tik Tok. Their knowledge about alt ends when their phone battery ends too. If they think the same, talk the same, write the same, dress the same, and only listen to the same 3 popular songs of The Cure and Bauhaus and still have the sicking balls to mock and exclude, dont feel inferior to them. As one of the mods of this subreddit said some posts ago, do not listen to Tik Tok kids.

Dammit I'm late this week so no fanfare or BS let's get straight to the moaning and fuming.

came across this persons tiktok account and they’re claiming you can’t be goth if you don’t dress the part, even if you listen to the music ??? is this not nonsense? (Edit: I don’t use reddit often, so sorry that this was an annoying post. I wasn’t asking genuinely, more rehotorically because I’m in disbelief people like this exist haha.)

I've been collecting records for about 16 years and just this past couple years expanding my Goth selection. Bands in my selection so far: Deceits, Twin Tribes, Obskuros, Mouth Ulcers, Dark Chisme, She Past Away, TRAITRS, Ploho, The Kentucky Vampires, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Mochat Doma, The Cure, London After Midnight, HIM, The Sisters Of Mercy, and Elvira!

(Title unrelated to the songs but I stand by it)

Darkwave acts French Police (Post Punk, Chicago) & Social Order (Synthpop, Las Vegas) played live at Charlotte, NC’s Neighborhood Theater in September 2026. Ash Reminisce took photos and reviewed the show for Charlotte Dark Scene.

Next Sunday in Birmingham... and it's a matinee!

This post isn't blaming anyone, I just wrote it to put the bigot infiltration into perspective so that we can prevent it from getting worse now.

Please read before commenting and listen to the experiences of the people directly affected/concerned by these situations. Listening and understanding are the ingredients to create safe spaces, so please refrain from calling bigots "fake goths", because:

1. This doesn't solve the fact that they are still among us.
2. Not recognising the issue prevents us from enacting any positive change.
3. This argument inadvertedly shuts down POC speaking up about their experiences with racism in goth spaces.

That being said, I have never seen anyone talk about this and I think we are at a great moment to do some retrospection.

MAGA goths are a thing now, but the subculture has been infiltrated and INFLUENCED by white supremacists over the decades, and I refer to honest to god nazis.

"Parfrey was co-editing the art magazine EXIT with George Petros. (Petros would go on to co-edit the 1990s music magazine Seconds, and become a contributing editor at the art magazine Juxtapoz and senior editor at the goth magazine Propaganda.)"

EXIT was a nazi magazine and I am not linking it here to not make it available, but is incredibly easy to find online. Also, it is super easy to find nazi symbols in Propaganda magazine, like the Combat 18 logo (a Totenkopf) on the covers, which looks worse with this context.

I know that the awful iconography was pretty trendy in alternative circles as a shock marketing strategy, but hiring people with a history of working in explicitly racist media is at the very least suspicious. Not to mention how this kind of "satire" makes any non white person feel really unsafe in alternative spaces.

None of this is new