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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….
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…
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…
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…
First of all, the internet is packed with a huge amount of crap. Valueless tosh that clogs up the Web and wastes your time as you try and wade through it to find the good stuff. We know that frustration all too well, but we also know that there is plenty of great stuff out…
Today goths are a subculture and the term refers generally to those of us who choose to wear a certain kind of apparel and have a penchant for a certain kind of music, often accompanied by keen interest in horror movies, gothic literature and other forms of often somewhat macabre entertainment. Of course no one…
Avast! The most fearsome pirates of all time, FINALLY ranked in measurable terms of terror so you can battle it out! You remember Top Trumps right? It’s what people did before Playstation and binge drinking were invented. It was usually a game played in an uncomfortably small caravan on a rainy summer holiday in North…
May 22 is World Goth Day, an event that has been celebrated since 2009. We wanted to find out more about this alternative celebration so we interviewed co-founder DJ Cruel Britannia. How do you, as founders, celebrate World Goth Day? This year, DJ Martin Oldgoth likely spent his WGD abroad; he’s had a lot of DJ…
In the coming months in the UK there is to be a nationwide celebration of gothic film and TV. You can find out more about this at the British Film Institute, but in the meantime here are 10 of the best goth movies of all time. But are they the best? Let us know what…
A look at the 10 top pets for gothic guys and girls, from terrifying tarantulas to frankly odd poodles.
Out of all the bands keeping alive the ethereal cries of 80s doom and gloom, Arizonan darkwave band Bella Lune have managed to accomplish as much with a gentle and fragile finesse. Since 2007, songwriting duo Fuchsia Angel and Kal3id have crafted tunes welded with the spacious soundscapes of Cocteau Twins, the pouty post-punk of…
One of the most remarkable features of Android Lust’s career has always been the voice of its mastermind, Shikhee D’iordna. The manic and emotional stylistics of Shikhee’s vocals are a welcome reprieve from the homogenous cookie monster grunts of today’s popular oontz oontz. So when an album that enters the Android Lust catalogue is largely…
We thought we would share this with you. We even added this content to the Gothic Angel website. It was only after lunch that we came back and proof read the article again that we saw our glaring error. Its not just the title…. Who knew that a simple swap of an ‘i’ for…
Alternative people tend to be fairly alternative from day one – it’s something inside. I know that I was always getting in trouble even at pre-school right from the ages of two and three, and I wasn’t being obstructive, I just do things differently. As an adult, it’s a great skill! I heard a story…
A strange phenomenon that has been manifested by my most Gothic sister should be explored: weird diseases and accidents. We need a survey! Do people who let their inner lives play out publicly through costume or behaviour manifest or express more unusual physical phenomenon? My sister’s physical freak-outs include: most of the skin falling off…
