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Rats from Art Gallery

My band released its first EP recently, hopefully its satisfactory

#goth #goth music #gothic rock #80s goth #post punk #Bandcamp

I'm actually really interested in when people say "Goth is about politics" but then never explain what said politics are and where you can source it in the 80s.

Like obviously the subcultures comes from sexual liberation and individual freedom, but could you show me an 80s goth band whos MO was specifically "leftist"? Because that's what people mean when they're saying "Goth has politics". Honestly I can see the opposite most the time with goth's political outlook, like as much as I love Rozz Williams, he straight up had a nazi phase.

I'd argue since the goth movement started is was veering away from the more DIY elements of punk and was in contrast to the highly political anarcho punk and its offshoots.

I wish people were more honest about goth instead of trying to whitewash it cuz theres a great conection to queer theory with how goth has historically existed but all people want to focus on is vague leftsit ideas that lack any substance or context in the subculture.

#goth #goth music #80s goth #trad goth

Every single time I do a gig most people who describe themselves as goth who show up look alot more like goths did in the 80s and 90s than the modern "trad goth" style. Most of the modern "trad goths" trend is just be influences whos main conection to the subculture is online.

I'd also argue even though a large amount are into the music, the visual media of tiktok leans into visual style rather then the actual music itself.

From my own experience young goths are just non existant at shows for smaller bands especially. I appreciate the middle aged and older audiences that do show up but I do wish more young people would come participate in the most important part of the subculture.

#goth #goth music #trad goth

possible-streetwear

#skinny puppy #industrial music #nivek ogre #EBM #80s music

fancynecr0mancy

#the cult #80s goth #goth #goth rock #post punk

studsandswords

Saw myself in the mirror and thought, "yea I would fuck me"

studsandswords

This is what I saw

batsandbroadswords

Really belongs on this blog

#goth #post punk #goth music #goth rock #Bandcamp

My gender? Whatever skinny puppy was doing

#industrial music #idm #skinny puppy

martine-dutot

#why he always gotta be looking like that?#goth #80s goth #goth music #post punk #bauhaus #goth rock #postpunk

twistedanddivine

ANOTHER collection of photographs of 80s’ goths. Enjoy!

#goth #80s goth #post punk #goth rock

The term waveslop is so real, more post punk please and less same sounding new/dark/cold wave by god

possible-streetwear

#skinny puppy #industrial music #industrial #nivek ogre #EBM #80s music

musicaltimemachine

Bauhaus, 1982

📸: Fin Costello

#bauhaus #peter murphy #post punk #gothic rock #goth rock #goth

moogmatriarch

my mom sold me to skinny puppy

possible-streetwear

#goth #goth music #80s goth #death rock #goth rock

eeeeeeeevae

Laurence Romanini, widely known as "Roma," is a foundational figure in the French gothic rock scene, best known as the drummer and a founding member of Corpus Delicti. Formed in Nice in 1992, the band became a legendary quartet in the darkwave and post-punk genres, with Romanini's driving, atmospheric percussion anchoring their most celebrated works: Twilight (1993), Sylphes (1994), and Obsessions (1995). Beyond her musical contributions, she remains an enduring icon of 1990s gothic aesthetics and subculture.