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Few things will raise a smile in the average Goth faster than the chance to go and drop some serious dollar in the cradle of Goth/Punk culture that is Camden. You can spot them every day, shuffling out of Camden Town station into the drizzling rain, and the recurrent theme that you will observe if…
Even though the vast majority of us are actually pretty friendly and personable underneath the make up and scowls, it is certainly fair to say that many people have a lot of preconceptions about Goth culture. This in turn can sometimes lead to prejudice and some pretty asshole-ish behaviour from some quarters in the wrong…
Hi everyone – I’m Steff from SteffMetal.com. The Gothic Angel team have asked me to pop in on the blog regularly and write a few articles about life, music, books, and alt. subcultures. I thought I’d kick things off with a little look at one of my favourite pastimes – throwing tea parties, gothic style….
The Gothic Bookshelf is a new, regular column here on the blog, where we take a look at excellent gothic books you should read. As lovers of all things dark and vampiric, we’ve all enjoyed Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the novel that started the modern gothic obsession with vampires. But what other stories about bloodsuckers should…
As numerous gothic films and books have demonstrated, gardens can be more than just pretty blooms. The garden can be a mysterious, romantic and sometimes terrifying place. Crumbling gothic mansions are always surrounded with extensive, labyrinthine spaces, where one might find a hidden grotto or a long-forgotten grave. Of course, you probably don’t have the…
Imagine this: You’re a priest in charge of an important church during a plague. All around you, people are dying in their thousands and their tens of thousands. Your duty is to give these poor souls a proper, Christian burial. But the churchyard is full, the catacombs under your church are full. What do you…
Hammer Films are infamous for producing some of the finest horror films of all time. It dominated the horror scene from the 50s till the 1970s, when a saturated market and loss of funding caused the studio to close shop in the 1980s. In 2007 under new ownership, Hammer Films started producing films again, and…
Ah, steampunk – the cultural phenomena currently sweeping through the alternative community like an elaborately clad Victorian forest fire. As a genre, steampunk combines aspects of Victorian adventure stories (in the vein of Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) with more modern science fiction, dystopian and even horror. There are steampunk books like S.M….
While I have a real bee in my bonnet about “what is normal” and personally don’t think that there is any such thing when it comes to people, it is certainly fair to say that in most people’s houses, goth style, interests and lifestyles are considered to be rather exotic or unusual. Sure enough, just…
If you are lucky enough to have found a mate who is just as enamoured with all things Goth as you are, congratulations! Keep hold of that one, he (or she) is a good’un. If you’ve really hit the jackpot and not managed to kill each other during the early stages of your relationship, have…
Every month we’re going to do a roundup of delightful, dark and interesting links from around the web. If you’re stuck for something to read this month, just click your way through this list and I guarantee you’ll be dragged down a rabbit hole of gothicky goodness. Onward, with the links: Gothic fashion blogger Sophistique…
Summer is coming, which means that the festival season is nearly upon us. For anyone who is a fan of music, wild costumes, and general shenanigans, the festival circuit is definitely the place to be. Where else can you see your favourite goth, rock, metal and alternative artists all in one weekend, while enjoying good…
The Gothic Angel team is very happy to welcome back US gothic blogger and creative, Emily Buresh, who we met back in March. Here she bursts the black bubble of goth and tells us: goths wear pink too! When most people think about goths, they think of these pale faces wearing all black clothing. Being a…
We at Gothic Angel love to explore the goth community and to meet like-minded people. We were therefore very happy to come across Emily Buresh, an American blogger and creative who was kind enough to write something for us. You can check out her site here. My name is Emily Buresh and I am more…
Nearly the entirety of aggrotech, futurepop, and all other forms of post-millennial EBM can be traced back to Claus Larsen of Leaether Strip. Having kickstarted the genre known as dark electro, he was among the first to merge vintage EBM rhythms with the melodies and hook sensibilities of synthpop. But the additional spice to Larsen’s…
Clan of Xymox’s discography ranges across all areas of the dark alternative underground, having begun in roots of deep, moody new wave with morose overtunes, lightening to a softer brand, returning to gothic rock, and seeming to settle in modern electro-rock darkwave tropes. The style has been their championing signature since 2003’s Farewell, and while…
Another entry in the Diary of Dreams. We all know the story by now: Adrian Hates’s forging in the darkwave frontier has helped in bridging the gap between goth and dance music, a happy (sad?) medium between the two as a miserably toe-tapping approach to the genre. A new album is not likely to break…
That seems to be the million-dollar question for goths, or at least for people who frequent goth clubs, wear the clothing, and listen to the music. There are a million different variations of multiple answers—the tendency to wear black and listen to bands who cultivated the goth subculture (Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure),…
Goth! Everyone has his or her own idea of what a goth looks like, whether it’s a pasty-faced vampire clad in leather pants, doc martens, and a torn vest under an umbrella of crazy hair, or a party goer dressed in red velvet, a ruffled shirt, and jewel-encrusted fingers. The diversity of the subculture reaches…
WHAT IS GOTH? How did goth begin? Goth is a subculture that began in the 80s as a spinoff of punk music and fashion. Ripped fishnets and leather jackets became intermixed with the color black and ghastly makeup. The edgy hairstyles were still intact, but with a more dramatic and outstanding look. The music slowed…
