My Top 10 Goth Bands

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Cool list. I've heard of some of the bands here others not as much. But I am always up to discover new music. When I'm here in YouTube I'm always going down musical rabbit holes sometimes it drives my wife crazy but she understands that I have eclectic music tastes. So thank you for posting the list of your fave top 10 goth bands and songs.

My goth / darkwave bands:

Witching hour: Ligea
Dark: Nyctophilia
Ghosting: Blood ocean
Two witches: Talvenaika
Pretentious moi: Witchhouse
Grey gallows: Garden of lies
Soulscape: Rise again
Rosetta stone: Leave me for dead
Drab majesty: Cold souls
Varjo
Clan of xymox

Mine number 1 : Siouxsie and the Banshees , Scarecrow .

What about All Gone Dead? or Cinema Strange?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOl1VAYYBn0

Finally! Someone acknowledging Frank the Baptist!❤️❤️❤️

No one ever mentions Children on Stun (I know, you'll say "it's MY list, MY choice so bugger off ! And you 'll be right ! ;)), they are very underrated. Pure goth with a much cheerier sound (their singer has an unusual, but extremely addictive high-pitched voice). Now they have transmogrified into Grooving in Green, which is quite good. Oh, and Rhombus might have invented the "pathetic goth" (like there was "pathetic punk", Toy Dolls, Ye Great Peter & the Test Tube Babies, Splodgenessabound, etc) with their warped sense of humour, mostly revolving around variations on pubs and drinking ! 😉

I can't believe the March Violets did not sue the bollocks off Valor's Christian Death (Or CINO : Christian Death In Name Only), considering that "Church of no return" is a blatant rip off "Snake dance"…

Would add 2 popular gothic metal bands: Lacuna Coil and Sirenia

Fear Cult remind me A LOT of Christian Death who'd be in my top 10. Also London After Midnight, Fileds of the Nephilim, Nosferatu, Bauhaus, Still Patient?, Sisters of Mercy and Type O Negative, whether they want to wear the label or not!! Goth is for life, not just for halloween 😉

Nice list and I'd never heard Golden Apes before. Def. 👍

The Sisters of Mercy is my FAVORITE Goth band

8 out of 10.
I first heard the cure in 1978,firmly in the post punk bracket,Robert smiths carefully crafted image notwithstanding,for every darkly themed songs,(100 years,lullaby) there were the light touches (love cats).
You also can't put siouxsie sue in there with an image,the discography doesn't bear it out,from the scream to a kiss in the dream house,it was ju ju that went really dark.(voodoo dolly,night shift).
As a genre,can't say I could pinpoint goth prior to 1983.

Asylum Party – Borderline
Cocteau Twins – Garlands
Dead Can Dance – Self Titled
Fields Of The Nephilim – Elizium
Play Dead – From The Promised Land

Goth , post punk, whatever. Same family of music.

An lot of great examples of Goth Rock bands here on this list.

Kiss the blade

Philip boa & voodoo club

The sisters,the cure,Siouxsie,the missión, the others

So i guess no one knows about the band The Birthday Massacre . Such a shame

Only just discovered your channel brother, love it, brings back some great memories

SHADOW PROJECT
NOSFERATU
TWO WITCHES
THE WAKE
SERAPHIN SHOCK
ATARAXIA
LYCIA
AURORA
MEPHISTO WALZ
LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH

Clan of Xymox

The Danse Society, someone?

American hmmm?

Good choice bands!

No Nico? Nico was goth before all these people, Nico was goth before it had a name. Also (after thought, Joy Division are not a goth band, or they weren't, I guess they are goth in the same way Public Image are, ie: they played a part in its formation…)