bands you'd classify as "goth"

[perrenthezombie]

Siouxsie and the Banshees whee
Voltaire heart

Probably my two favorite artists.  

[Soviet Reunion]

Oh dear goth here comes a long tedious list of old-school bands:
bauhaus, 45 grave, Christian Death, peter murphy (he went solo if you haven't gotten past the 80's yet) Souixie & The Banshees, Depache mode, The Cure, Clan of Xymox, Feilds of the Nihiliphlim.  

[Fire Panther]

well I would tottaly say that Marilyn manson and Black Sabbath  

[GilAskan]

Fire Panther

well I would tottaly say that Marilyn manson and Black Sabbath

Neither Marilyn Manson nor Black Sabbath are goth musically, in any way or form.  

[Lesage]

What about The 69 Eyes. I really haven't figured out what they are... rofl  

[Exquisite Cadavre]

Well goth has come to include a lot of bands so it depends what genre exactly you are looking for. As the fashion and subculture now includes many forms of Industrialism, antiquity, ambience, the music can be generally categorized into that as well.

A few bands I tend to see as goth are:
London After Midnight
Bauhaus
Cure
Souxie and the Banshees
Joy Division
Birthday Massacre
Thoushaltnot
The Last Dance
Cruxshadows

But than, all of those can be divided into other types of "goth" as well  

[GilAskan]

Lesage

What about The 69 Eyes. I really haven't figured out what they are... rofl

Generally, the 69 Eyes would be called hard-rock, though, they do have some goth-rock and death-rock (not to be confused with death-metal) influences.  

[Radioactive Acid Fiend]

London After Midnight is a goth band. And Cradle Of Filth is sopposed to be extreme gothic metal or something like that.  

[MysteryCross]

H.I.M. definately counts. [ llmll ] <--- "rock on" ; index finger and pinky up, w/ middle and ring finger down. n_n

~Mystery_Cross~  

[GilAskan]

MysteryCross

H.I.M. definately counts. [ llmll ] <--- "rock on" ; index finger and pinky up, w/ middle and ring finger down. n_n

~Mystery_Cross~

There's a large amount of controversy surrounding HIM's genre.

HIM started out as a cover band of artists such as Type O Negative, KISS, Danzig, Black Sabbath and Depeche Mode; of those bands, none of them are goth-rock, save Depeche Mode who arguably had a few goth-rock albums.

They themselves have disputed being goth-rock, and claim to be "love metal". Generally speaking, while they have some similarities to goth rock, most of what they've released is far too abbrasive to be goth-rock, but instead, would be considered metal or hard-rock of some kind.  

[MortSanglant]

GilAskan

MysteryCross

H.I.M. definately counts. [ llmll ] <--- "rock on" ; index finger and pinky up, w/ middle and ring finger down. n_n

~Mystery_Cross~

There's a large amount of controversy surrounding HIM's genre.

HIM started out as a cover band of artists such as Type O Negative, KISS, Danzig, Black Sabbath and Depeche Mode; of those bands, none of them are goth-rock, save Depeche Mode who arguably had a few goth-rock albums.

They themselves have disputed being goth-rock, and claim to be "love metal". Generally speaking, while they have some similarities to goth rock, most of what they've released is far too abbrasive to be goth-rock, but instead, would be considered metal or hard-rock of some kind.

I personally like that they've given themselves their own genre.

And it fits.

Another band that's done that is Deadsy.

They didn't really fit into any genre so they call themselves "undercore".

 

[DaniDoom]

One thing I would like to bring up is, would the cure be classed as a goth band?

because althought Robert smith (God in my eyes) has from my knowledge been known to be a huge influence on the goth rock look, would you really consider the head on the door, greatest hits, kiss me kiss me kiss me and various other records gothic?

sure enough Pornography and seventeen seconds are my favorite cure albums and i personally would consider them goth, would that make the band itsself goth?

Darn Robert and his ability to stay within one genre, but also thank him for creating a beautiful and wide arrange of music! sweatdrop  

[GilAskan]

MortSanglant

GilAskan

MysteryCross

H.I.M. definately counts. [ llmll ] <--- "rock on" ; index finger and pinky up, w/ middle and ring finger down. n_n

~Mystery_Cross~

There's a large amount of controversy surrounding HIM's genre.

HIM started out as a cover band of artists such as Type O Negative, KISS, Danzig, Black Sabbath and Depeche Mode; of those bands, none of them are goth-rock, save Depeche Mode who arguably had a few goth-rock albums.

They themselves have disputed being goth-rock, and claim to be "love metal". Generally speaking, while they have some similarities to goth rock, most of what they've released is far too abbrasive to be goth-rock, but instead, would be considered metal or hard-rock of some kind.

I personally like that they've given themselves their own genre.

And it fits.

Another band that's done that is Deadsy.

They didn't really fit into any genre so they call themselves "undercore".

I too like when bands name their own music.

"Gay pirate, gypsy rock"

~Voltaire

"Industrial Jungle p***y Punk"

~MSI  

[GilAskan]

DaniDoom

One thing I would like to bring up is, would the cure be classed as a goth band?

because althought Robert smith (God in my eyes) has from my knowledge been known to be a huge influence on the goth rock look, would you really consider the head on the door, greatest hits, kiss me kiss me kiss me and various other records gothic?

sure enough Pornography and seventeen seconds are my favorite cure albums and i personally would consider them goth, would that make the band itsself goth?

Darn Robert and his ability to stay within one genre, but also thank him for creating a beautiful and wide arrange of music! sweatdrop

The Cure's "gothiness" has been long disputed. Many people consider them fundemental to the genre's aestheticism and poetic lyricism, others say that it was merely coincidental.

It's commonly agreed upon that Pornography, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers are all goth-rock albums, but it's never been singularly decided whether or not they are "a goth band". Lead singer Robert Smith and goth writer Mick Mercer would argue no, while goth writer/singer Voltaire and Siouxsie-bassisst Steve Severin would argue yes.  

[Kosova4Life]

Bauhaus
Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Sisters of Mercy
The Sisterhood
The Mission [UK]
[Clan of] Xymox
Dead Can Dance
London After Midnight
Switchblade Symphony
And Also The Trees
Fields of the Nephilim
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Tragic Black
Unto Ashes
Audra
Voltaire
Tones on Tail
Lycia
Autumn Tears
Autumns Grey Solace
Soul Whirling Somewhere
Lowsunday
Love Spirals Downwards
Lovespirals
This Ascension
Rajna
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Cruxshadows
Attrition
Mors Syphilitica
Thanatos
Human Drama
Mira
Bella Morte
Diary of Dreams
James Ray
The Cranes
Claire Voyant
Rhea's Obsession
The Machine in the Garden
Written in Ashes
Advent Sleep
Tracy Jill
Jennifer Hope
Sauce of the Future
The Azoic
Rosetta Stone
The Wake
Razed in Black
Playdead
Rose of Avalanche
Screams for Tina
All About Eve
Eva O
Gitane Demone
The Shroud
David E. Williams
Faith and Disease
Faith and the Muse
Nosferatu
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Cocteau Twins
The Creatures
The Cure
The Glove
Skeletal Family
Specimen
Christian Death
Alien Sex Fiend
Virgin Prunes
Sex Gang Children
Ausgang
Shadow Project
Phantom Limbs
13th Chime
Abney Park
Ataraxia
Cinema Strange
Danse Society
Girls Under Glass
Miranda Sex Garden

& of course many more