Gothic-Rock for worshippers:
Norway
ETERNAL JOY “Eternal joy†Cd (Skinny Records,2004) Originally only in MC-format. Released in March 1997. Remastered in november 2004 and released on CD the Eternal Joy's first studio-recordings.
Belgium
ERATO “III†Cd (Selfreleased,2002)
One of the best and unknown gothic-rock album of the 21° centuty.
Sweden
MEDICINE RAIN “Native†Cd (M&A MusicArt,1994)
With Funhouse and (the first) Into the Collonades, Medicine Rain are the godfathers of swedish gothic-rock
Greece/Germany
INTO THE ABYSS “The feathered snake†Cd (Glasnost, 1995)
If you think that gothic-rock is the same repetitive music you haven’t listened Into the Abyss; and in particular their grandiose second full-length.
Ireland
THIS BURNING EFFIGY “To bestial Gods†Cd
(Grave News, 1996)
The high quality of the songs and some “unorthodox recording techniques†made the debut album of TBE one of gothic-rock masterpiece of the ‘90.
Germany
CHORD OF SOULS
“Carneval of subcultures†Mcd (Selfrelease, 2001)
A jewel of “German Gothc-Waveâ€: you can seek also Irony of Fate, (Revenge of) Nephthys, Hall of Souls, the first two albums of The Escape etc…
Italy
ARTICA
“Ombra e luceâ€
Cd (Nyctalopia, 1995)
It’s still the masterpiece of the “Italian goth styleâ€
Austria
KISS THE BLADE
“Headcrash-A romance†Cd
(Hollenfeuer, 2000)
The manifesto of HardGoth with balls
Scotland
DREAM DISCIPLES
“Veil of tears†Mcd-Ep (Carrion Records, 1991)
Dream Disciples debut ep is, without doubt, “eternal like the memory, eternal like the sun"
Sweden
DARK SIDE COWBOYS
“Believeâ€
Cd (Nangijala, 2001)
“Believeâ€, the fifth album of DSC, or, the courage to change in gothic-rock
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Arts of Erebus, Advocatus Diaboli, The Awakening, Bay Laurel, Big Electric Cat, The Cascades, Buried Time, The Cold, Corrosion, Crudeness, Dead Souls Rising, Demon Bros., Descendants of Cain, Desire, Desert+Fortune, Disjecta Membra, Dr.Arthur Krause, Dreamtime, Elusive, Dryland, Ordeal By Fire, NFD, Erato, Last Rites, Eternal Joy, Faces of Sarah, Daughters of Bristol, Golden Apes, Floodland, Ghost of Lemora, Voices of Masada, Irony of Fate, Morbid Poetry, Dominion, Maldoror, Preachers of Neverland, Children of the Gun, Dorian (Gray) etc …
Gothic novelists from 1753 to 1850:
Tobias Smollet, Thomas Leland, Horace Walpole, Susan Gunning, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, William Beckford, Anna M. Mackenzie, Charlotte Smith, James White, Friedrich Shiller, Ann Radcliffe, Maria R. Roche, Lisa Parson, Robert Bage, George Walker, William Godwin, Mary Meeke, Matthew “Monk†Lewis, John Palmer, Francis Lathom, Walter Scott, Charlotte Dacre, Charles Maturin, August Lafontaine, Mary Shelley, E.T.A. Hoffman, Mary J. Porter, William Ainsworth, etc…
“Raymond! Raymond! Thou art mine!
Raymond! Raymond! I am thine!
In thy veins while blood shall roll,
I am thine!
Thou art mine!
Mine thy body! Mine thy soul!â€
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