Tag Goth
The Wraith’s debut Gloom Ballet (Southern Lord) was one the surprises of 2019 and a favourite with many a listener and reviewer who happened upon it. But the album had the bad luck of being released at the beginning of… Continue Reading →
What do we have here? A place, dimly lit, with plastic flowers, vacant, spiritual pictures on its walls, odd-coloured carpets and even odder personnel. An old-fashioned American funeral parlour. How did we get here? Well, the intro of the album… Continue Reading →
While they have have perhaps not reached the household name status of Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden, Paradise Lost are one of the most influential and important metal bands to hail from our shores, and in many ways can be held… Continue Reading →
Bristol’s Naut release their debut LP under the Season Of Mist label after a short series of single and EP releases that have done enough to garner the attention of the underground music world. Enveloped in post-punk and swathed in… Continue Reading →
The word “Goth” conjures up certain images for the rock community. Mopey, white faced corner dwellers. Glow stick wielding tubular hair arm dancers or Hot Topic adorned emo kids. What happened to the tongue in cheek, chicken dancing, dusty dancefloor hoofers? We are still… Continue Reading →
I have a soft spot for dark-tinged rock and punk and that’s why I picked the album at hand from our review basket without exploring much further. As is sometimes the case, it turned out not to be quite what… Continue Reading →
Billy Idol, Glenn Danzig, The Sisters of Mercy, Ghost and a huge offering of 80’s goth, punk and B-Movie horror. These things on their own are (mostly) great, so what happens when you mix them all together? You get The… Continue Reading →
Death Rock – does that name wind you up as it does me? I am just too long in the tooth and too scarred by crimpers to dig that kind of jive talking. However, our colonial friends over the Atlantic… Continue Reading →
Now I am a big fan of Crocodilians and also of wine. Quids in! Or so I thought…. Alligator Wine are a duo from the Black Forest with not a stringed instrument between them. Drums, synths, organs, percussion. No guitar… Continue Reading →
Nothing melts my frozen heart as much as the current resurgence of Post Punk sounds. (You say post punk I still like to say Goth). With bands like Beastmilk and Publicist UK coming out of the dry ice in the… Continue Reading →
We all like a “side project” don’t we? When a well-known musician from a biggish band decides to branch out and do something a bit different to their day job. Sometimes….very different, sometimes not so much but I find it… Continue Reading →
The holiday season is approaching, and The Wraith from Los Angeles with one Brit among them are evoking some ghosts of the past in good old British Christmas tradition fashion. Settled somewhere between goth rock, punk and post-punk Gloom Ballet… Continue Reading →