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Honestly, there are too many bands and genre types and sub-types for me to really explore very well on a single web-page. Maybe, someday, when SFGothic.net is all grown up, I'll have some sorry lackey build a huge database of bands.
But for now, you'll just have to put up with a list of the stuff I'm currently listening to. This will definitely change as time goes on and my base urges evolve ever downward.
But for now, you'll just have to put up with a list of the stuff I'm currently listening to. This will definitely change as time goes on and my base urges evolve ever downward.
Switchblade Symphony
San Francisco's own local goth-electronica starlets, we were all heartbroken when they decided to part ways.
Their music is pretty much what I would consider an ideal blending of late goth and mid-90s industrial sensibilities. Their tracks range from creepy, to fairy-tale-like, to just-plain-bizarre, but it all manages to hang together in lovely fashion. Albums:
Combichrist
Why wouldn't I listen to this guy? Rabid aggrotech (or TBM as they call it), disconcertingly funny lyrics, and sound samples from some fairly awesome movies? I'm in.
Frontman/sole-member Andy LaPlegua also fronts Panzer AG and Icon of Coil - so he gets around and infects everything he touches with awesome. Albums:
Ayria
So, Jennifer Parkin started with Epsilon Minus (back when they were good). Then she went on to do her own thing. Something she called Ayria.
And what a thing of beauty it is. I'm not a huge futurepop fan, generally speaking, but Ayria makes it sweet, sexy, and just a little bit aggressive. Also, she is awesome in-person. Albums:
Imperative Reaction
So, as you probably saw in my first Blog post, I took these guys to be fairly Emo at first look.
That was a mistake (and not only because they obviously work out considerably more than I do). Turns out that they play some fairly vicious electro-industrial. And they're excellent live. Albums:
Diary of Dreams
Finely aged German darkwave of the highest quality, Diary of Dreams will leave your brightest mood stained in a glorious and visceral black.
Also, I have to doubt the dedication of any so-called goth guy that doesn't want to look like Adrian Hates. Albums:
Panic Lift
They only have one album that I know of, but it's such a solid (and strangely elegant) piece of industrial intensity that they quickly became core to my music list.
I had the good fortune of seeing them open for Ayria and Imperative Reaction back in 2011 and was so impressed that I bought their album right then and there and have never looked back. Albums:
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Nachtmahr
A hard-hitting techno-industrial cross-breed (I'm sure I can come up with more hyphenated words to describe Nachtmahr, I just don't want to).
Also, album covers involving women in pseudo-SS uniforms doing naughty things to one another. It's like Rainer is selling me art and sleaze at the same time and it makes me really, really happy. Albums:
Sisters of Mercy
I don't care if Andrew Eldritch hates goths and claims that he isn't one - he helped found the look and the style and the sound whether he likes it or not.
If you're in the mood for old-school UK goth tunes, you can't go wrong with a little SoM. Albums:
VNV Nation
VNV Nation combines the best parts of industrial, synthpop, EBM, and orchestral music to satisfy my epic sensibilities while still giving me some pieces that I can dance to. Whether the songs are ones of mourning, empowerment, or critical defiance, they are all intense.
Even the most synthpop of pieces still leave me moved and my black heart soaring over grandiose vistas. Sometimes even with something akin to hope. Albums:
KMFDM
I'm kind of surprised I don't have these guys on the top of the screen. I mean, I'm not using placement to imply anything, so it shouldn't matter. But it's fucking KMFDM, dude. Seriously. What's wrong with me?
Heart-pounding and aggressive industrial metal of the most reprehensible sort, with the occasional female vocal track to really bring the edge home. They also refuse to take themselves the least bit seriously. Which makes them all the more awesome. Albums:
Panzer AG
All the things I like about Combichrist (including Andy LaPlegua), plus some really sweeping elements and epic scope combined with those brutal beats.
The only reason I don't listen to Panzer AG as much as I do Combichrist? They don't have as many albums worth of music to mash into my MP3 player. Albums:
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