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/dark/
This thread is for the discussion of post-punk, goth rock, darkwave, coldwave, and minimal synth. Here are some discussion questions to get the thread off the ground.
>what have you been listening to lately?
>what is your favorite /dark/ album or artist?
>who is your favorite modern /dark/ artist?
>have you made any recent purchases?

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>>what have you been listening to lately?
Mask by Bauhaus

I've been cranking "Dancing" in the car. Man that bassline and the crazy saxophone

>what are you listening to?

A shit ton of Chelsea Wolfe. Apokalypsis is her best IMO. I hope she goes back to that sound and really sharpens it.

I'm fucking hooked on Siouxsie & The Banshees. I can't stop listening to them, and its getting to the point where I feel like I'm annoying my friends and co-workers because I play them so much.

been listening to a lot of The Cure lately, particularly Pornography
favourite /dark/ artist is post-punk era Swans
as for modern stuff I quite liked the Algiers album from last year
I haven't bought music in over a year

which albums are good?

>what have you been listening to lately?
Atrium Carceri, Mentallo & The Fixer...etc
good stuff

Also curious. I pretty only know of Cities in Dust which I really like.

She's got a black shirt, black skirt...

I've only listened to The Scream, will check out Cities thx

These are my favorites:
>Juju
>The Scream
>A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
>Tinderbox

These are not really good albums, but they all have a few great songs:
>Join Hands
>Hyaena
>Kaleidescope

The rest are pretty bad.

I've been listening to a lot of modern stuff actually. Here's some great modern stuff.
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>mfw Cities In Dust comes on at the club

>WWWWHOOOOOAH OH
>YOUR CITIES LIE IN DUST

just snagged the Bauhaus 1979-1983 Volume One compilation for $5.99, feels pretty damn good

>THE VIRGINAL BRIIIIIDES FILE PAST HIS TOMB
>STREWN WITH TIME'S DEAD FLOOOOOWERS
>BEREFT IN DEATHLY BLOOOOOOM

Everyone needs to check out Clan of Xymox. Their first two albums are incredible. They're such an underrated band, and it's such a shame that they didn't become more well known in the states. Seriously, just listen to Medusa, it's one of the best goth albums ever.

Just their first two? Don't you mean almost all of them? ... Except the three between Twist of Shadows and Hidden Faces I guess. Those were weird times.

If /dark/ would like to read things about this album, then I will tell you things about this album. Just give me a (You) or two, let me know.

Does anyone else here fucking LOVE /dark/ music, but think the Sisters Of Mercy suck? Like, really bad? They sound like a parody of goth.

THIS album. Not the Bauhaus album/track, bleah.

Most of their stuff is good, but the first two albums are definitely the best in my opinion. I love the atmosphere and the songwriting is top notch.

Yes. They are so cheesy

Whats wrong with Bauhaus

and wtf is wrong with the captcha? why is it telling me im wrong when im not?

Yeah I'd like to know more. Nurse with Wound is definitely interesting, I need to become more familiar with their discography. I bought Iron Soul of Nothing (their collaboration with Sunn O)), listened to it a few times then traded it in at my local record store. It wasn't bad but I knew I wouldn't listen to it very often.

Medusa is for sure a top fave, but I bounce around from smashing repeat on several of their albums too much to say I prefer one more than the others. The older stuff is obviously their best, but Loneliness from Days of Black is catchy as fuck. Ronny still has it. I kind of wish they made another album that was like Farewell though...

Yes but I also think literally anything after about 1983-1984 got really cheesy. too much "ethereal" nonsense creeped in until everything sounded like a smear of reverb

Oh you mean like Cocteau twins

I'm actually getting really tired of the incessant memes and hip-hop shitting up this board. I'm really interested in discussing /dark/ as well as shoegaze, black metal, and ambient music. Would tumblr be a better alternative to this place, if I can steer clear of porn and political shit? What's the /dark/ music scene like over there? I could lurk for hours on Discogs, but I enjoy sharing/discussing my findings with other humans.

cocteau twins are O.K. because I think they sound more like dream pop; they aren't super goth relative to other bands they get lumped in with

I'd classify their early stuff as goth, at least a little bit
What ethereal nonsense were you referring to? just curious

it's basically husbandofagging and SJW shit. there are some good blogs for rare images etc but theyre dying out. unless you're really into the latter i don't advise it

garlands is a good album because it's not so over-the-top

I would say pretty much anything from the 4AD catalogue after about 1985, dead can dance got really bad, so did death in june, so did clan of xymox in the late 80s and 90s idk why it became popular for goth bands to x-over into weird new age sounding music

Nothing's wrong with Bauhaus apart from that one guy converting to Islam, I was just pooh-poohing that I hadn't attached the image.

"Homotopy to Marie" is Nurse With Wound's fifth album. If you haven't heard it, then it's best described as a scary noise album, with long sections of relative quiet versus very loud, abrasive parts. Here is the opening cut (with a few seconds missing):

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Notice the guttaral, non-singing, non-lyrical vocalizations throughout the track. When you listen carefully, they start up for the first time right around the one-minute mark, underneath the noise. So for several minutes, we get human vocalizations, but no clear speech, singing, or lyrical language.

The extremely abrasive clattering noise which opens the album, cuts out just-about-exactly at the album's three-minute mark.

When you listen to the album properly, the first clearly spoken words occur EXACTLY at the 12-minute mark. It's my believe that these minute-marks are all by design.

The album is credited as having been inspired by Franz Kamin, an avant-garde American composer about whom I know almost nothing, except that he died in a car crash about eight years ago. After some detective work I believe I've identified the tree that his car crashed into, and visited it (there is no marker except that the tree is scarred at its base).

>apart from that one guy converting to Islam
Wow I didn't know this

Hope it wasn't David J or peter murphy

"real" goths are fucking retarded manchildren. Nobody cares about your irrelevant shite genre

OMG DONT BECOME RELIGION I DONT LIKE ;___:;

Peter Murphy is a sufi and lives in Turkey now.

I bet you wouldn't pick anyone in this thread as a 'real goth' if you saw them on the street you ignoramus

Does anybody else find /dark/ album art extremely lacking, especially when compared to the fashion? Goth people are /effay/ as fuck, but with the exception of a few really great album covers like Unknown Pleasures, In The Flat Field, Pornography, and A Kiss In The Dreamhouse, the album art is always lame as fuck. Sometimes its outright atrocious.

no

For every decent cover, there's at least 10 that look like Juju or Three Imaginary Boys.

the cover for juju is a brilliant piece of art you tasteless cantaloupe

It's one of my favorite albums of all time. I love the music to death, but the cover is pretty lame. It's just lines of sheet music over some weird statue face?

he's right you know

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Hello there, I'll describe how my interests have grown and changed over the past five years or so, because I think I might give you some welcome food for thought.

Ever since I first heard Homotopy to Marie by Nurse With Wound (I started talking about it earlier ITT) back in 2005, I "got" it. I liked it. Okay, surreal, creepy, etc. Then life happened and I did other things. At that time, youtube was in its infancy.

2007-ish, Sup Forums puts me onto "City Slab Horror", an album by Severed Heads. The album is not nearly so edgy as it sounds, and is good 80s post-punk-ish with synth elements. But it's def. weird, which goes well with /dark/ at any rate. One very sublime track is "guests". Quasi-dark, and I let it sit, again...

Years later, 2013-14, I started looking up NWW content on youtube again. Naturally it was much better to search. This led shortly to recs to general /dark/, ritual content, and I learned about Nekrophile rekords. A very kind, based user linked me their entire discography on here once. Nekrophile Rekords is an old obscure kvlt Austrian cassette label which put out early stuff by Coil and some other very nice 80s /dark/ cassette music.

Ritual groups I started hearing once down this rabbit hole were Metgumbnerbone, Arktau Eos, the great Halo Manash, and others. Haxan Cloak is also very good despite being well-produced. Something I've realized about my own preferences with this type of music is that I don't like it when the material sounds too-well-produced. It then sounds "try-hard" to me, somehow, and "inauthentic". This is probably because I associate what I like so strongly with crappy old lo-fi cassette recordings, it's more fun to imagine it being some obscure session. Halo Manash doesn't fall into this trap.

Along with this of course there's the inevitable TG/Coil exposure in my case (entry level /dark/ as I soon realized). I started to understand how they move in the same circles as the acts I like.

juju
>It's just lines of sheet music over some weird statue face
unknown pleasures
>It's just lines

Yeah, but its cool and it fits the music. Its bleak, dark, and minimal. Juju is a loud and bombastic album, and I remember reading somewhere that it was written for the stage. Meant to be played live in its entirety. The cover doesn't reflect that sound.

>implying this isn't one of the best covers ever

goth renaissance when.

also i feel like nobody else is noticing that goth influence is creeping back into modern music, or am i just crazy.

just started the album pictured, pretty noice so far

kekleberg'd

i noticed

This one is a great darkwave track

Every morning when I get up, I listen to Bela Lugosi's Dead while eating my breakfast.

By the way, have you folks heard of Meltdown festival? It's a festival in London in June, and this year the lineup is being curated by Robert Smith. Could be interesting perhaps?

How do I be goth when I'm not effeminate looking? I feel like you have to be a little metrosexual to be goth but I can't, I look like a bloke

guy said that was an exception

just listen to the music dude you don't have to invest in the whole image

Can someone post a /essential/ dark-chart?

Not perfect but I hope this helps a bit

reccs based on this?

I've listened to the main coldwave albums and industrial albums, but I haven't heard much mixing outside of Numan's late stuff

thx

Is Echo and the Bunnymen gothic/dark?

not really, but it does have inflections of darkness (esp. with the fashion) and they do have a big influence on the goth scene

Thoughts on this lineup? I'm going

Bump

I've been listening to Type O recently.

youtube.com/watch?v=j091P14NOGg

It's "Type O negative" you fucking moron

Why are you so angry? Their mistake doesn't hurt anyone.

Probably a virgin

They are cheesy as fuck but they're a good time. check out some of their peel sessions if you haven't.
youtube.com/watch?v=YkA5RSGW3W4

So who is in the band that Robert has put together for this show?
I'd totally go if Simon Gallup is in the band.

>tfw found out my city has a very atmospheric, underground /dark/ bar where they play patrician ass music and have live performances
For once it feels good to be alive.

I want to like her but I thought Apokalipsis was dull. Will give more listens.
Welcome brother. Top 3 bands.

What city? There seems to be nowhere like that in mine, except for some BYOB dump where they play Evanescence-tier "goth."

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Buenos Aires, Argentina. That sounds fucking terrible, sorry user.

What's some more shoegazey goth stuff? Preferably something majestic like Lycia except more noise

While I was reading your post, I was thinking if you were talking about Ana's bar.
I haven't frequented these places in a long while though. Is Ana still alive?

I think he's still in the band, and can't imagine him leaving before such a big show. I honestly can't wait for it but I'm going on my own which is rather depressing

kek, the closest thing in my city is an" emo club" where they play my chemical romance or something and literally everyone is fat for some reason

Thoughts?

this kind of ambient tech has got my attention lately

lmao where is this?
i'd love to go back to 2007

Kansas City MO

What some good new synth-pop/goth albums that you like?

A shitload of T.S.O.L. and Voodoo Church.

Big Xymox fan here, they're great but people really overhype the self-titled and "Medusa." Those are good and all, but I see the merit in "Subsequent Pleasures," "Creatures" and the recent release is pretty good too.

Your feelings are wrong nigger, Goth is Androgynous leaning towards feminine but androgynous regardless. Just go Deathrocker, you'll look like a Punk spat out from the shadows.

Yes but androgynous basically means somewhere in the middle, but there's no doubting that I'm a man.

I wouldn't be that bothered but I want to fuck goth chicks

>probably
were all chads here on mu my friend

goth girls quite often like rugged dudes with a lot of tattoos and shaven heads so I dont think you have too much to worry about unless you want an emo chick

Oh that's pretty good then. Problem is trying to find a balance between that look and professional look. I actually want to have a job