Powerful, haunting female vocals, subtle Gothic/electronic/darkwave programming. Ethnic dance rhythms.
comparisons: Anne Clark; Sarah Nox
Germany. Goth, electro? Electronic fetish dance music.
comparisons: Faithful Dawn
Ethereal female vocals, harsh male vocals.
Swedish? electronic future pop. Female vocals, powerful beats
Finnish, have worked with Jyrki and Nauku from Two Witches
comparisons: Two Witches
German electronic pop, 80s electronic sounds, romantic synth pop.
comparisons: Mesh
Swedish? classic-style gothic rock
comparisons: Sisters, Type O
Dark-techno, guitar-based industrial, dance beats, electronics. Goth-industrial psychos.
comparisons: Zoon; Funker Vogt.
East Coast, USA. Goth.
Romantic songs, neo-classical
comparisons: Sol Invictus; Black Tape; Stoa
Germany.
1985-1989?
Keyboardist from Black Tape for a Blue Girl and Projekt label boss, also has solo releases.
German (and German language) black metal, orchestral (no guitars)
Sheffield-based. Gothic rock.
Swedish Darkwave, male and female vocals, death industrial with crunchy distorted synths and orchestral strings.
comparisons: Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke)
Gothic, German language. Death rock, darkwave electronics, progressive gothic doom metal, classical influences. Amnesia produced by
Brunno Kramm of Das Ich.
comparisons: Lacrimosa
Active (2003-11).
German electronic darkwave. Electropop.
comparisons: Anne Clarke; Athamay
Presumably named after line from Sweet Tranvestite from Rocky Horror.
Dark ambient, clautrophobic, satanic
German? dark sample-driven experimental, tape manipulation, art-inspired, ambient.
Gothic vocals, rock. Connections with Das Ich.
comparisons: Love Like Blood; Dreadful Shadows.
Swedish German-style synth with Swedish-style electro pop, industrial Darkwave. Named after the British military port?
US? Sparse semi-experimental, guitar-based industrial, dark trance, dance beats.
Germany? Active (2003-late).
Experimental.
German? Ambient dub, trip hop. Dark, minimal, sparse atmospheric, samples.
View the entry for Screaming Banshee Aircrew in isolation.
UK, Yorkshire, York.
Punk, Goth-rock cabaret. Goth-rock, punk cabaret. Electronic deathrock. Perky, psychobilly.
Formed 2001. Male and female vocals. Played at Edinburgh Goth Festival and Beyond the Veil II, Leeds.
| release | label | catalogue | format | release date | notes | availability to buy |
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| release | label | catalogue | format | release date | notes | availability to buy |
| No Camping | ep | |||||
| Titanic Verses | cd | 2003 | ||||
| Titanic Verses | cd | 2004 | (compilation of first two albums and additional material, 2004) | |||
| Fishnet Messiah | Resurrection Records | ABCD34 | cd | 2004-10-02 | Released at a three-band album launch party. | Buy Fishnet Messiah by
Screaming Banshee Aircrew at amazon.co.uk |
UK-based US-style Death rock
comparisons: Inkubus Sukkubus
comparisons: Play Dead; Killing Joke
Electro-pop.
comparisons: Depeche Mode; VNV Nation
Dark Gothic metal
Germany. Dark Gothic wave, electronic pop, synth sound. Late 80s, early 90s, proto Darkwave. Goth, electro? Electropop. German language.
comparisons: Depeche Mode
German Industrial. Electronic distortion, samples, distorted.
US Goth, samples, occassional sequencers.
German darkwave, electronics. Deep male vocals, sparse instrumentation, samples
German, metal overtones in beginning, pure metal later on.
comparisons: Sisters; Nephilim
German, modern Darkwave, 80s futurism
comparisons: Depeche Mode; Blancmange
Industrial / powernoise / noise.
German electronic, purist progressive mixed genre. Gothic. German and English lyrics with vampire interest.
comparisons: Umbra
Presumably named after the Seely court?
Kraftwerk songs covered in Latin American style
Goth metal. Singer has a side project, Poisonblack.
comparisons: Megadeth.Swedish? Dark, intense, militaristic, claustrophobic and lush strings.
Greek black metal, gothic metal. Deep, dark vocals, guitars
comparisons: Lacrimosa
Berlin, Germany-based Gothic, heavy metal, Goth rockers. Have worked with Jyrki (Two Witches). Marty a new member (2003-late)
comparisons: Bauhaus; Dreadful Shadows; Metallica; Into the Abyss; Darkside Cowboys
Denver, Colorado, USA death-rock group. Occult imagery, industrial, Gothic melodies, pure metal guitars.
comparisons: Nephilim; Dreadful Shadows; Love Like Blood
comparisons: Elyzium-era Nephs.
Dirty electronics and art installation.
Polish? Totally influenced by Nick Cave.
comparisons: Nick Cave; the Birthday Party
German? dark electronic. Assumed to have been named after the film.
comparisons: Tangerine Dream
View the entry for Seventh Harmonic in isolation.
London.
Atmospheric trio, neo-classical. Ethereal, mediaeval music, dark ambient. Symphonic, atmospheric dreamscapes.
Formed Autumn 1999.
Guest vocals from Paul Nemeth (The Ascent).
2001-March - Arnold joined.
| release | label | catalogue | format | release date | notes | availability to buy |
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| release | label | catalogue | format | release date | notes | availability to buy |
| Adumbrations | cd | |||||
| The Awakening | tape | 2000-03 |
Buy The Awakening by Seventh Harmonic at amazon.co.uk | |||
| The Ascent | cd | 2001-07 | Debut release? | |||
| Seventh Harmonic vs. Interlock | cd | With Interlock | ||||
| Promise of Sacrifice | cd | 2003-01 |
Electro-industrial. Active (2003-11). BC, Canada.
German darkwave electro industrial
Australian electro avant-garde experimental. Dance beats, tuneful, short-wave radios, high-pitched vocals
View the entry for Sex Gang Children in isolation.
UK
Active (again) in the UK. Experimental dark punk.
releases: Shout and Scream (compilation); Medea; Deiche; Ecstasy & Vendetta over New York (NYC show, 1983/12/08); Play With Children (new (1992, Hollywood) recordings of old songs); Blind (1992/07/24); Pop Up (The Rare and Unreleased...)
Andi's had the nickname of Count Visigoth and fans of the band were termed 'Goths by Ian Astbury. One of the leaders of the first wave of Goth bands in the early eighties.
1982-10 appear on front cover of Noise! magazine.
US-based surf punk, Hollywood horror and Death Rock.
comparisons: The Cramps
Finnish commercial industrial pop, synth pop
comparisons: early Covenant
Commercial synthpop.
Greek symphonic black metal
Dark rock
comparisons: Dawn of Oblivion
Gothic, US-style Industrial, atmospheric
Formed by Eva O and Rozz Williams. Before his death in April, 1998, Rozz had just finished work on a new album.
Darkwave, classic/neo Goth with heavy Germanic feel and female vocals
Inactive Canadian surf-goth.
San Francisco-based industrial group who worked with The Smarter Half (who danced).
British, active
German? Experimental atmospheric, dark gothic
German? Guitar industrial
comparisons: NIN
Goth, Middle Eastern / Far Eastern.
German? Dark electro, romantic, darkwave, industrial, techno
Post-punk, alternative techno, pre-Goth-style.
Active, formed Hallowe'en 1991. Gothic, darkwave, ethereal with mystic, guitar-based melodies and strings. More ethereal, melodic lately, slight goth-hop elements.
Formed 1989, Buffalo, NY, moved to Pittsburgh, then solo project in Tampa, Florida, now Craig and Cole in Indiana.
comparisons: Deicide; Pantera
French? Gothic, drum machine, delayed guitars, deep male vocals
Progressive neo-folk
Electro-industrial side-project of Thomas (L'ame immortelle)
Dark electronic darkwave industrial. Produced by Carlos Peron (Yello)
Japanese thrash, punk orientated progressive black metal, strings
German? Electro darkwave.
Purist underground electronic industrial
Chaos-inspired dark dance, experimental, instrumental dance
Cyber-punk glam.
2003-08-21 Announcement that Degville has left the band.
Electro breakbeats, rock vocals
comparisons: Deine Lakain
Portugese? Delicate experimental acoustic
comparisons: Death In June; Goethes Erban
German. Bouncy romantic synth pop
Toronto. Dark, gothic, industrial. Active (2003).
German? Moody, dark electronic pop darkwave, techno.
comparisons: Pink Floyd
Brazilian electronic experimental German-style
Brazilian analogue-driven electronics
Polish experimental industrial, sparse, ambient, distorted male, female vocals
Side project of Bauhaus involving Alan Moore.
Finnish Gothic-industrial, metal. Members of Two Witches, Lacrimosa, Love Like Blood, Shade Factory.
Were based in or near Kingston Upon Thames, split up around 1991, though there was a SOTF 2 some time after. Chandler was later in Manuskript.
Back catologue possibly being re-released soon by a German label (2003-06).
Split some time around 1993/4. Released an album. Purity B now working under another name (Alice?) doing electronic soundscape / noise.
Norwegian Gothic/death-metal, black metal band, female vocals, gutteral male vocals, strings, cruncy guitars, violins.
View the entry for Siouxsie and the Banshees in isolation.
UK, London
Punk, art-punk, post-punk, proto-Gothic. Early punk, new wave, Goth.
Tribal drumming from Morris. Intense vocals. Thriller imagery.
Started out as primitive art-punk band formed from the so-called Bromley Contingent.
Name allegedly from Cry of the Banshee - a Hammer horror movie.
Sioux appeared in the infamous Grundy Sex Pistols interview, dressed like a character from Clockwork Orange.
Budgie and Sioux are married, living in the south of France.
Mentioned in 1987 song Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything) by The Dead Milkmen.
Al MacDowell, previously part of design team Da Gama around 1983/4 went on to be production designer on Minority Report and other films.
Played support on part of Bowie's Glass Spider tour.
Rudyard Kipling's The Cat that walked by Himself one of Sioux's favourite stories.
Referred to as Gothic since 1979, many female-fronted Goth bands would base their musical style on the Banshees.
1958-05-27 - Janet Susan Ballion born.
1975 - Siouxsie and Steven meet at a Roxy Music gig.
1976 Siouxsie and Steve, with Billy Idol on guitar record a cover of the Velvet Underground's What Goes On
1976-September - formed.
1976-09-20 - First gig at Malcolm McLaren's International Punk Rock Festival at the 100 Club, Oxford Street, London. Played The Lord's Prayer,
including lines from Knockin' on Heaven's Door; Smoke on the Water; Twist and Shout.
1976-late - Bromley Contingent.
Sioux wore bondage clothes, fetish wear and swastika armbands.
1976-12 - Sioux appeared on the infamous Bill Grundy / Sex Pistols interview, Grundy attempting to 'chat up' Sioux.
1977-02 - Banshees started to act like a band. Recruited Kenny Morris and Pete Fenton, start to gig regularly.
1977-06 - Peter Fenton left
1977-07 - John McKay joined
1977-07 - Fenton sacked, replaced by John McKay.
1978 - signed up with Polydor Records, released Hong Kong Garden.
1979 - Steve Severin describes Join Hands as Gothic
.
1979 - two days into Join Hands tour, Morris and McKay quit the band. Replaced by Robert Smith (The Cure were support band for the tour) and Budgie.
McGeoch joined as guitarist after the tour had ended, from Kaleidoscope until A Kiss in the Dream House.
McGeoch collapsed, taken to hospital during A Kiss in the Dreamhouse tour. Smith joins band as full member, but quits after Hyaena due to frontman
duties in The Cure.
Carruthers joins.
McCarrick joins.
2002 tour 'Seven Year Itch' included Chandler.
2004-03-04 - John McGeoch dies in his sleep.
2004-10? - Banshees / Creatures playing 100 Club.
| release | format | release date | notes | buy UK | buy USA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| release | format | release date | notes | UK | USA |
| Dreamshow | dvd | 2005-08-22 | amazon | ||
| Nocturne | vhs | 1983 | uk vhs, pal | ||
| Once Upon A Time | vhs | 1986 | uk vhs, pal | ||
| Twice Upon A Time | vhs | 1992 | uk vhs, pal | usa vhs, ntsc | |
| The Seven Year Itch - Live | vhs | 2002 | uk vhs, pal | ||
| The Seven Year Itch | dvd | 2003 | uk region 2 | usa region 1 | |
| book | amazon | ||||
| Entranced | book | amazon | |||
| Mark Paytress - Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Authorised Biography | book | 2003-07-25 | uk | ||
| The Scream (1978) | uk | usa | |||
| Join Hands (1979) | uk | usa | |||
| Kaleidoscope (1980) | uk | usa | |||
| Juju (1981) | uk | usa (1981-08) | |||
| Once Upon a Time: The Singles (1981, compilation; 1985, video) | uk | usa | |||
| Kiss in the Dream House (1982) | uk | usa (1992-08-25) | |||
| Nocturne (1983, live album, video) | uk | usa | |||
| The Thorn (1984 ep) | |||||
| Hyaena (1984) | uk | usa | |||
| Tinderbox (1986) | uk | usa | |||
| Through the Looking Glass (1987) | uk | usa | |||
| Peep Show (1988) | uk | usa (1988-09-06) | |||
| Superstition (1991) | uk | usa (1991-06-11) | |||
| Peel Sessions (1991, ep) | usa (1991-07-01) | ||||
| Kiss Them For Me (cd single) | uk | usa (1991-05-21) | |||
| Fear (Of the Unknown) / Spiral Twist (cd single) | usa (1991-11-26) | ||||
| Twice Upon a Time: The Singles (1992, compilation, video) | uk | usa (1992-10-13) | |||
| Rapture (1995) | uk | usa (1995-02-14) | |||
| Dizzy (le tour CD) | |||||
| The Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees (le) | uk (2002-09-30) | usa (2002-11-12) | |||
| The Best of Siouxsie and the Banshees | uk (2002-09-30) | usa (2002-11-12) | |||
| The Seven Year Itch | uk uk (vinyl, 2003-05-19) |
usa (2003-07-22) | |||
| Reflections in the Looking Glass: A Tribute to Siouxsie and the Banshees | usa (1996-10-01) |
Swedish neo synth pop
One-shot band created by Andrew Eldritch to stop Wayne Hussey from using the name.
As well as the English definition of 'gift' it means 'poisoned in German - a trans-lingual pun.
Hard guitar-based industrial rock
comparisons: Revco
View the entry for The Sisters Of Mercy in isolation.
Deep vocals, drum machine.
Emerged around 1980/1, not important in the early scene, despite later popularity. Very strong Joy Division influences in early days.
Gothic rock, rock, power pop, industrial (of late). Bruhn left in 1999. Were building a new studio in Adam Pearson's house in Leeds (1998). Adam Pearson and Starling have written some of the recent Sisters material (2003)
First of second wave of Goth bands to release a single.
Ambient
Germany.
Denver, Colorado, USA-based.
US-based. Guitar-based industrial metal
nearly neofolk
Finnish? Sleaze rock, glam metal, goth.
comparisons: Lords of the New Church; Type O Negative; early Mission; New York Dolls; Sonic Temple; Cult; Tiamat
Post-punk goth. First formed West Midlands, 1981 from The Elements, reformed 2002, comeback gig 2002.12.05 in Leeds. Named after a
David Bowie song. Co-produced (and roadied) by Ian 'Buzz' Burrows (Southern Death Cult) during the early-eighties and produced by
John Brand (who also produced Cult; Gene Loves Jezebel) during the mid-eighties.
Reformed 2003? with Katrina / Claire as vocalist?
comparisons: Death Cult; Theatre of Hate
Indie-influenced
comparisons: Bowie; Blur
Deep, distorted, harsh male vocals. Industrial, metal, electro, fast dance. Early, though not amongst the original, industrial pioneers, formed 1984?
USA guitar-based industrial programming
Metal industrial, darkwave
comparisons: Ministry; Leechwoman
Feedback, distortion, moaning vocals
comparisons: Quaalude; Jesus and Mary Chain; Pink Floyd
Folk, metal. Have recently (2003) worked with Edward Tudor-Pole (and the rest of Tenpole Tudor?)
comparisons: New Model Army; Judas Priest; Clannad; Testament; Levellers
German? Instrumental electronic, sampled vocals.
German? Guitar-based industrial
comparisons: NIN; Ministry
Ambient art experimental dark industrial, electro beats and rhythms, analogue synth instrumentals. Sexual, magical themes, male, female
vocals, dark ritualistic, fetish sex music.
comparisons: Depeche Mode
UK underground, male, female vocals, gothic electronic.
comparisons: 4AD
Swiss, danceable rhythms, strings, sequencers, techno
comparisons: YelworC; Amgod
German? Dance, trance, instrumental, synths, atmospheric
Active (2003-09-29). Played in Frankfurt.
Greek? Formed 1985, goth band, ethereal, screaming, opera, avant-garde, techno-ambient trance.
comparisons: Klaus Nomi
Metal industrial, electronic, post-Gothic, some guitar-based.
comparisons: Squid
Noise, industrial
View the entry for Snail in isolation.
Features ex-member of Siouxsie and the Banshees and Spear of Destiny.
Inactive / changed name to Goteki. Postmodern graveyard disco music for the insane. Bubblegum industrial, electronics, drum machines.
Darkwave, Largebeat pioneers. Lightsabre battles, laser fights, free aliens. Dancey music.
comparisons: Virgin Prunes; Alien Sex Fiend; Sex Gang Children
Industrial, trip hop, alternative post rock. Sequencing, digital, some acoustic guitars and instruments, samples, distorted vocals.
Anti-capitolist.
comparisons: Swans vocals
Fort Worth. Loud crunchy guitars, clear vocals.
comparisons: Lowsunday; My Bloody Valentine; Slowdive
Industrial / powernoise / noise.
Formed 1992 by Denny, based in New York. Psychedelic side of Goth, strings, acoustic, harsh, discordant. Early 80s feel.
1980s pop
Hawaii-based. Romantic, emotional electronic sounds, Gothic sensibilities.
comparisons: Depeche Mode; Tears For Fears; The Mission
Atmospheric, instrumental.
Mid eighties band.
Dark neo-folk
Dark electronics
Swedish
comparisons: Metallica; Black Sabbath
Swedish synth pop, gothic influences, pagan mediaeval.
German guitar-based experimental
Neo-classical experimental side project of Emperor
comparisons: Mortiis
Industrial repetitive rhythms, distorted sounds.
comparisons: The Severed Heads
Member from Nocturne from Invisible Records. Dallas, TX, USA. Industrial, digital hardcore/noise. Formed late 2003.
UK and USA band. Early gothic influences, latterly American guitar-based industrial.
comparisons: Ministry
Norway. Underground electronic.
Dark ambient Percussive spinoff of Arcana, without female vocals, and more percussive, classical. Early mediaeval militaristic, agressive
style.
comparisons: Dead Can Dance
Another band called Sophia
Post-gothic electronic, female lead vocals. Dark, mystical.
German Gothic band, mystical themes, growing mediaeval influences. Neo-classical, black ambient, neo folk. Released a number of tapes before the first CD album. Anna-Varney worked on the German translations for London After Midnight - Selected Songs From The End Of The World.
Norway. Underground electronic.
Swedish goth-metal duo, very guitar orientated.
German? Classical goth.
comparisons: Love is Colder Than Death; Dead Can Dance
Active, based in Midlands?
Male vocals, melodic lullabies, synthesiser, acoustic guitars, electronics at times, atmospheric strings.
View the entry for Southern Death Cult in isolation.
UK
Ian Astbury called Andi Sex Gang Count Visigoth and fans of his band Goths when Dave Dorrell from the NME heard him use the term. One of the leaders of the first wave of Goth bands in the early eighties.
1982-10 - appear on front cover of NME.
Later became Death Cult, then The Cult.
Dark, electronic dance.
Australian solo project
USA hard, dance industrial, some guitar samples
Started off performing between art films at the Scala Theatre? cinema
Very Stun-ish, indie influences, post-Goth.
