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Love Like Blood was a German gothic rock band. The band's name comes from the song of the same name by English post-punk band Killing Joke.
Its nucleus consists of the Eysel brothers Yorck (vocals, lyrics) and Gunnar (bass). The band was active from 1989 to 2001 and is now on (indefinite) hiatus.
Its early sound reminisces the style of Fields of the Nephilim. They made their breakthrough with the 1992 album An Irony of Fate, which marked the debut of English guitarist Mark Wheeler. This album showcased a transition to a more hard rock-influenced style.
In the mid-1990s, Love Like Blood turned to gothic metal with the album Exposure.
On their 2000 album, Enslaved + Condemned, Love Like Blood made a rendition of Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry's song "Seven Seconds", giving the pop song a more ragged, metal-oriented sound.
Cinema Strange ist eine 1994 gegründete Gothic-Punk-/Death-Rock-Band aus Kalifornien, gegründet von den Brüdern Daniel und Michael Ribiat. Ihre Wurzeln sehen sie im traditionellen Gothic Rock der 1980er Jahre, mit Bands wie den Virgin Prunes oder den Sex Gang Children. Zudem sieht sich die Band beeinflusst von London After Midnight und den klagenden Tönen von Sopor Aeternus.
Nach einigen Wechseln festigte sich 1998 das heutige Mitgliedergefüge, mit Lanthier als Sänger. Jahrelang galten sie, die in den USA keinen Plattenvertrag erhielten, als Geheimtipp der Gothic-Szene der amerikanischen Westküste, bis sie 2000 durch das deutsche Plattenlabel Trisol die Möglichkeit erhielten, ihre Scheiben in großer Auflage in der alten Welt zu veröffentlichen. Seither liegt das Hauptaugenmerk der Gruppe daher auf Europa. Im September 2000 bestritten Cinema Strange ihr erstes europäisches Konzert im Zwischenfall in Bochum.
The Merry Thoughts are a German Gothic rock band based in Neuss.
Christian Death is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles County, California, in 1979 by Rozz Williams. With major line-up changes over the years, Christian Death has retained "a relentlessly confrontational stand against organized religion and conventional morality".
Mephisto Walz are an American rock band formed in 1985. The band's discography includes many full-length albums spanning nearly three decades, through Cleopatra Records and other labels.
The Sisters of Mercy is an English rock band, formed in 1980 in Leeds. After achieving early underground fame there, the band had their commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output in protest against their record company WEA. Currently, the band are a touring outfit only.
The group has released three original studio albums: First and Last and Always (1985), Floodland (1987), and Vision Thing (1990). Each album was recorded by a different line-up; singer-songwriter Andrew Eldritch and the drum machine called Doktor Avalanche are the only points of continuity throughout. Eldritch and Avalanche were also involved in The Sisterhood, a side-project connected with Eldritch's dispute with former members.
The Sisterhood was a musical project led by Andrew Eldritch. With guest musicians, the Sisterhood recorded songs he had originally intended for a second album by the Sisters of Mercy.
Children on Stun is the name of an English gothic rock band. Formed in 1991, the original line-up consisted of Neil Ash, Simon Manning, Peter Finnemore and Simon Treen.
Formed in August 1991 and taking their name from a song by the band The March Violets, Children on Stun appeared to enjoy a relatively large amount of success in a short period of time. Treen left within a year of the band forming. The band's first gig took place at a club called "The Crypt" in Hastings. In the same year, the band also recorded their first demo, entitled "Elegance", and also made an appearance in Mick Mercer's second book on the gothic rock genre: this boosted the band's popularity and gained them publicity.
Big Electric Cat is a gothic rock group from Sydney, Australia, formed by musicians Paul Sadler and Deborah Denton, who had moved from London to Sydney in 1989. In 1991, inspired by Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the future noir movie Blade Runner, and inspired by the film's dark, futuristic, and other themes, they formed Big Electric Cat.
Clan of Xymox, also known as simply Xymox, are a Dutch rock band from Nijmegen formed in 1981 best known as pioneers of darkwave music. Clan of Xymox featured a trio of singers and songwriters – Ronny Moorings, Anka Wolbert, and Pieter Nooten – and gained success in the 1980s, releasing their first two albums on 4AD, before releasing their third and fourth albums on Wing Records and scoring a hit single in the United States. Their 1980s releases included synthpop/electronic dance music. The band is still active, continuing to tour and release records with Moorings as the sole remaining original songwriter and singer.
Clan of Xymox were formed in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in 1983 by Ronny Moorings (vocals, guitar) and Anka Wolbert (bass, vocals). A year later, Moorings and Wolbert moved to Amsterdam, releasing the mini-album Subsequent Pleasures as Xymox. The album was limited to 500 copies.
Skeletal Family are an English rock band formed in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in December 1982. The band was formed from the remaining members of an earlier group called the Elements, and took their name from the title of the song "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" from the 1974 David Bowie album, Diamond Dogs.
Rosetta Stone are an English gothic rock band formed in the 1980s by Porl King (guitar/vocals/keyboards) and Karl North (bass), plus their drum machine and synthesizer rack nicknamed "Madame Razor".
Suspiria were an English darkwave/gothic rock band. Formed in 1993, the line-up consisted of Matthew Carl Lucian and Mark Tansley.
Formed by Matthew Carl Lucian (vocals) and Mark Tansley (guitars/programming), Suspiria marked a decisive break in the UK goth music scene from the Sisters of Mercy-influenced guitar rock that had dominated the scene. Drawing on late 1970s techno experimentalists such as Cabaret Voltaire and The Human League, and the early 1980s synthesizer sound of artists such as Depeche Mode and Alphaville, Suspiria fused crisp electronics with heavily effected guitars to produce a much more dancefloor-orientated sonic backdrop to the melodramatic vocal stylings of frontman Lucian.
All Gone Dead is a deathrock/gothic/electropunk band formed in 2003 in London by Stich (previously of Tragic Black)
All Gone Dead is a deathrock/gothic/electropunk band formed in 2003 by Stich (Tragic Black). The band was formed by Stich in the fall 2003 while still living in Salt Lake City, Utah as a solo music experimentation. Stich moved to London UK in 2004 and turned his solo experimentation into a live band and soon evolved the music to fit in live musicians. When he moved the project to London he joined forces with Darlin Grave. Due to Stich and Grave’s popularity and connections in the deathrock and goth scene throughout the U.K, Europe and the U.S.A, the band began to grow more and more popular and renowned within various subcultures. The group's first home made demo, the three-track album “Conceiving The Subversion”. This demo earned them the awards of best unsigned goth band in Germany's Gothic Magazine. Their first album “Fallen & Forgotten”, produced by and with guitars by Joe Lonsdale at Joe Public Studios, was released in January 2006. Strobelight Records approached them with the offer for a record deal. In Russia they were also signed to Gavitator Records. By 2006 All Gone Dead were living steady on a European touring schedule and one of the most active bands in their culture. All Gone Dead appeared all over the world and in countess press articles with in the three years the project was active.
Diva Destruction is an American goth rock project. It was formed by singer-songwriter Debra Fogarty in 1998. Diva Destruction signed to German music label Alice In... of the Dark Dimensions label group. Diva Destruction is also signed to Metropolis Records in North America.
Specimen are a British band founded in the 1980s. Their music has been described as spanning many different genres of music, including glam, goth, punk and post-punk, and the band is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the goth subculture, both musically and stylistically.
