Goth music was as much a product of English subcultures in the late ’70s as it was a reaction to statis within rock music. Taking cues from David Bowie, New York Dolls, and the Damned, a new ...

This 1996 track from October Rust leans more toward gothic metal than gothic rock, but it’s a classic (though notably explicit) piece of work that is more than worthy of a spot on our list. That ...

Let’s face it: For most of 2024, for most of recent memory, rock music has been dead. But just as the Day of the Dead is upon us, the Cure has brought the genre back to life. The goth gods — who had ...

About five years ago, in the dark depths of the pandemic, TikTok users suddenly became enamored of a video of dancing bats. The bats weren’t really dancing, just hanging upside down, but the black-and ...

A decade before Oasis’s Liam and Noel Gallagher made headlines with their brotherly feuds, gorgeous fey twins Michael and Jay Aston tore through the British goth-rock scene with their own legendary ...