if you like ethel cain's album preachers daughter or natural born losers by nicole dollanganger i highly recommend giving "marked for death" by emma ruth rundle a listen ♡
don’t lift up your hands, it’s only a warning
like blood in the sand, a kiss is a bruise is endurance
for then felt the falling collapse and held in a small room of hell
don’t lift up your face, it’s all tangled in, it’s always unraveling
for control of, to control it, in controlling, to control it
in time growing tall, had outlined the realms left to seal them
we knocked back the gold, hoping another one could heal them
for when did the faulting collapse come back to just kiss your face
we raise up the glass, it’s only the Devil you know, it’s only the Spirit you taste
for control of, in controlling, to control it
a silver line, nobody born bad, no twin of mine left standing
take clear at dawn and dark into dusk, a habit formed in wandering
a pass, a turn, a season now lost, some badge to earn, some heavy cost
a horn, a tusk, an animal wild, no twin of mine still standing
could control it, in control of, for control of, to control it
My favorite niche of music is 90's gothic doom. I love how bands like The Gathering, Theatre of Tragedy, or The 3rd and the Mortal combined gloomy sounding doom metal riffs with beautiful lead vocals.
I think it's so cool that more recent artists like Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle have inspired a new wave of bands who mix doom and post-metal with ethereal vocals and haunting atmospheres. Bands like Frayle, Iress, and Shedfromthebody remind me a lot of those 90's gothic acts that I love so much.
Alongside Draconian and Lethian Dreams, it overall just feels like a sort of revival or resurgence of that style of music that I loved so much.
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