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UK Decay

  • UK.

    Punk, then proto-Goth.

    Early UK punk/Goth band. Developed Gothic sound around time that Bauhaus emerged.

    Abbo credited with terming movement Gothic though Bauhaus considered the first Goth band (UK Decay were more punk at the time).

    1979 -
    1980 -

  • influences: Velvet Underground; David Bowie
    1. ukdecay.co.uk (I think this is unofficial - shall have a more extensive poke around at some point.
    2. Deathrock (retrospective)
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entry created: 2005-01-23 19:20:37 last updated: 2005-01-26
Ultracherry Violet

  • USA? Gentle female vocals. Shimmering backbeat.

    comparisons: Strange Boutique; This Ascension

  • releases: I Fall to Pieces
Ultralust

  • Organic drums, electronic beats, guitar, bass and samples.

  1. number 1*
Ultra Milkmaids

  • German? Minimal ambient industrial.

  • releases: Peps
Ultraviolence
  • Jonny / Johnny Violent

  • Gabba, cyber-goth, industrial, techno-metal. Dark, nihilistic, disturbing.

  • releases: Life of Destructor (debut); Killing God; Psycho Drama (concept album); Paranoid (single); I Destructor (single); Heaven is Oblivion (single)
Ultra Vivid Scene

Ultravox
  • John Foxx; Midge Ure (Ultravox)

  • Ultravox formed in 1974 by John Foxx, who left in 1978. Temporarily disbanded.  Keyboardist in Visage (where he met Midge Ure).  Shortly after keyboardist reformed Ultravox with Midge Ure in it.

  1. number 1
Ulver

  • Industrial-ambient, avant-metal.

  • releases: The Marriage of Heav'n and Hell (William Blake soundtrack)
Umbra et Imago

  • German darkwave, dark electronic Goth, fetish, metal. Vampire, sexual and barbarian imagery. Guitars started to come to the fore around Mystic Sexualis. German language.

    comparisons: Spinal Tap (!)

  • releases: Traume Sex und Tod; Infantile Spiele (second album); Remember Dito (dedicated to a dead friend); Kein Gott Und Keine Liebe (single); The Hard Years (live); Machina Mundi; Mea Culpa (Peter Heppner (Wolfsheim) and Tanzwut guest ); Mea Culpa (ltd ed, boxed, extra track, syringe-pen, signed postcards, poster); Gedanken Eines Vampirs; Mystic Sexualis
  1. official*
Underflowers

  • Cajun depressives.

    comparisons: Mephisto Waltz; Cocteau Twins

  • releases: Underflowers
Undergod

  • active

Underground Lovers

Under the Noise

  • USA or German? Guitar industrial with gospel elements.

  • releases: Of Generation and Corruption; Future Automatic; Regeneration (remixes from Of Generation...)
Underworld
  1. dirty.org
Unfragment

  • France. Old school death metal.

  1. interview
Unheilig

  • Electro, darkwave. German.

    comparisons: Rammstein (but lighter)

  • labels: Bloodline
  • releases: Phosphor (debut); Frohes Fest (2002); Sage Ja! (remix single)
  1. official*
The Unholy Guests

  • Gothic / death rock band from Moscow, Russia.
    Comparisons: Eldritch vocals.

  1. official*
U-N-I

Unit 187

  • Guitar industrial.

  • label: Off Beat
  • releases: Loaded (features Rhys Fulber (FLA); Jed Simon (FLA), produced by Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad)); Dead Dog (remix CD)
Universal Black

  • USA / Polish? Gothic electronic, female vocals.

    comparisons: Die Laughing; Inkubus Sukkubus

  • releases: Left... Right
Universal Love

  • Toronto. Dark, gothic, industrial. Active (2003).

Univers Zero

Unnecessary Revolution

  • Goth band

  1. number 1*
The Unquiet Void

  • USA? Gothic, cosmic. Ambient

  • label: Middle Pillar Distribution
  • releases: Between the Twilights; Scorpio
Unto Ashes
  • Ericah Hagle - vocals; Michael Laird - composition; Natalia Lincoln - vocals; Mariko - vocals; Katherine Burker

  • Atmospheric, arabesque vocals, persian melodies.

  • label: Projekt Records (USA); Middle Pillar; Kalinkaland Records (Germany)
  • releases: I Cover You With Blood (maxi-cd, 2003-12-31); Empty Into White (due 2004-02-16)
Untoten

  • Dark, Gothic, romantic darkwave, experimental. Fetish imagery. Female vocals. Darkwave, electro.

    comparisons: Heavenly Voices; early Christian Death; Ghosting; Paralysed Age

  • label: Sonic Malade
  • releases: Nekropolis; Schwarze Messe; Vampire Book
    number 1
Unveiled

  • Dark ambient

  • label: World Serpent Distribution
  • releases: Silver
Upanishad

Urania

  • German / USA? Distorted / female vocals, bouncy drums, trancy electro industrial, samples.

  • releases: Initiation; Aquarius
Uranium 235

  • Industrial metal. Commercial

    comparisons: NIN / Manson

  • releases: Cultural Minority
  1. official*
Ursa

Urn
  1. official*
Usherhouse

  • Originally Atlanta, relocated to Chicago, disappeared. Industrial, early eighties influences. Powerful, commercial.

    comparisons: Ministry; Killing Joke; Xmal, Play Dead.

  • label: Cleopatra.
  • releases: Flux; Melting (debut)
U-Tek
  • Sevren Ni-Arb

  • Germany. Goth, electro? Industrial dancefloor.

    comparisons: X Marks the Pedwalk; Zoth Ommog (label); Off Beat (label)

  • releases: Goldene Zeit 1989-1993
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