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Sinan Leong and Graeme Rivell, SPK, early '80s

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Recent Obsessions

Genres: aggrotech, neo-industrial rock, proto-industrial, electro-industrial, industrial rock

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oh to be a vampire's chosen in a club that only plays 2000's industrial and darkwave

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Roses are red, Violets are blue⋅⋅⋅a single soul, slashed in two

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Ad for the Body Bag from Coffin Case in Rue Morgue Issue 23 (September/October 2001)

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do u ever hear some lyrics and it feels like someone just stabbed you

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Marie Claire Japan, July 1998.

Ph. Toshitaka Niwa

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Sophie Lancaster has been on my mind as of late.

The reason why the popularization of goth culture has been so damaging and why it makes me so angry and upset, is because most of these people who do it for views/attention/money (Alt bop house, lol) do not understand the violence and unwarranted hate most of us had to face for being ourselves- and still do.

People fetishize and treat us like novelty online just for existing. And in real life, we still face the same kind of alienation we always did.

So when someone says that goth/alt culture becoming normalized is good for us- it really isn't. Because now, instead of just hatred and violence, we have a new layer we need to worry about, which is fetishization.

It's like we can never win.

(Sophie description source: Encyclopedia Gothica by Liisa Ladouceur)

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XtraX Underground Fashion Catalog

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Lacrimosa for the album Stille (1997)

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Club shots have been released 💿

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when the guitar solo comes in ruiner i do too

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Want to add: "No matter what you wear, you're still accepted by the subculture. Straight, gay, male, female, punk, industrial, even metal, one is always welcomed." - from the book Goth: Vamps and Dandies.

Being goth is about celebrating celebrating being free of societal rules and expectations.

Boot licking is probably the most antithetical thing you can do.

Homophobia and transphobia are not goth

Nazis are not goth

Racism is not goth

Misandrists and misogynists are not goth

Religious discrimination is not goth

Fatphobia is not goth

Fascism is not goth

Abliesm is not goth

Goth is a place for us to appreciate gothic music, interests and subculture but it should also be a place where all people are safe.

Goth is for everyone except bigots.

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Emmavblack

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The Downward Spiral CD