Wednesday was incredibly popular and probably a big part of why there’s a bit of a goth revival going on.
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solsangraal@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
has anyone past the 90s been able to pull off anything even remotely “goth”?
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Type O Negative had two albums in the 2000’s, and they were only OK (especially compared to their 90’s albums), but it’s say they still count as “pulling of something remotely ‘goth’”
Plus, Nine Inch Nails has some good stuff in the aughts, and Trent Reznor’s brand of industrial rock is definitely “goth-adjacent,” as are My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade (2006, I think) and AFI’s Sing the Sorrow (2003), which are both great albums.
And in more recent music, the band Creeper is really killing it. Their rock opera Sex, Death, and the Infinite Void is very goth and it’s amazingly good (especially as someone who turned his nose up at pop-punk as a kid).
In non-music media, there have been some really good comics with goth aesthetics in the last 20 years, and I can give since good recs if anyone is interested.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Does The Batman count? Or is that emo? Please don’t hate me, I’m an old man.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
i was never goth, i don’t know what the minimum brooding darkness threshold is, but i hung around goths enough in the 90s to be pretty sure batman would not be considered goth
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Man the new Interview with a Vampire is definitely goth.
Goth generally doesn’t have an uplifting single hero but a bunch of people all collectively wallowing in the mud of sorrow together vibe to it as someone that is basically pastel goth.
Rolando@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wat, you mean music? Lots of good stuff. Check out:
- She Past Away, Sanrı (2012): shepastawayofficial.bandcamp.com/track/sanr
- Molchat Doma, Sudno (2018): domamolchat.bandcamp.com/track/sudno-boris-ryzhy
- Twin Tribes, Monolith (2024): twintribes.bandcamp.com/track/monolith
for more look here: www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/past.php?reqYea…
deus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, the Visigothic Kingdom lasted for 30 more years after 690, so I’m inclined to say yes.