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Artistes.S - Version 0.2
Entries: 529 Last Updated: 16.04.2002
Saber Wraith
  • Powerful, haunting female vocals, subtle Gothic/electronic/darkwave programming.  Ethnic dance rhythms.
    comparisons: Anne Clark; Sarah Nox

  • releases: Something in the Blood; Egypt (single)
Sabot
  • {Monika Baenninger (Flunky, sax); Christine Zufferey (January)};
    Glenn Hughes; Shawn Marquis
  • Eclectic avant-garde instumentation, strong precise female vocals and dark ethereal aural landscapes, originally a duo of Baenninger and Zufferey.  Pronounced Sabo.
    comparisons: Faith and the Muse
  • releases: Sabot?
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Sabotage Qu'est Que C'est?
  • Electronic fetish dance music.
    comparisons: Faithful Dawn

  • releases: Goddess (single)
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Sad Lovers and Giants
Sadness
The Sadness of Things
Sadovaja
  • Swedish? electronic future pop.  Female vocals, powerful beats

  • label: Memento Materia?
  • releases: Kill Your Darlings
Sad Parade
  • Finnish, have worked with Jyrki and Nauku from Two Witches
    comparisons: Two Witches

  • releases: Immortal Illusion
Saft
  • German electronic pop, 80s electronic sounds, romantic synth pop.
    comparisons: Mesh

  • releases: Paranoia Erotica; Underground (single)
Saint Etienne
Saint Eve
  • Managed by the co-owner of Slimlight NY.
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Saints in Hell
  • Swedish? classic-style gothic rock
    comparisons: Sisters, Type O

  • releases: Forever False (single)
Saints of Eden
  • Cian Houchin (Nefilim) - bass.
  • Dark-techno, guitar-based industrial, dance beats, electronics.
    releases: Zoon; Funker Vogt.

  • releases: The Other Side; Proteus (to be released).
Salamandra Glass
Sally Doherty and the Sumacs
  • Romantic songs, neo-classical
    comparisons: Sol Invictus; Black Tape; Stoa

  • releases: Sleepy Memory
Salvation
  • 1985-1989?

  • releases: Hunger Days (compilation)
Samael
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Samsas Traum
  • German (and German language) black metal, orchestral (no guitars)

  • releases: Oh Luna Main
Sanctum
  • Swedish Darkwave, male and female vocals, death industrial with crunchy distorted synths and orchestral strings.
    comparisons: Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke)

  • releases: Lupus In Fabula; New York City Bluster (live album, recorded at CBGBs)
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Sandra
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Sanguis et Cinis
  • Death rock, darkwave electronics, progressive gothic doom metal, classical influences.  Amnesia produced by Brunno Kramm of Das Ich.
    comparisons: Lacrimosa

  • label: Trisol; Sad Eyes
  • releases: Amnesia; Schicksal; Unfreiwillig Abstrakt (single); Madrigal Box (LE); Tragic Years
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Sara Noxx
  • German electronic darkwave
    comparisons: Anne Clarke; Athamay

  • releases: Society (produced by Winus Rilinger and features Darrin Huss (Psyche)); Noxious; Paradoxx
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Sarband
  • Medieaval
  • label: Jaro.
Satisfact
Sator Absentia
  • Dark ambient, clautrophobic, satanic

  • label: Dark vinyl
  • releases: Mercurian Orgasms
Satori
  • German? dark sample-driven experimental, tape manipulation, art-inspired, ambient.

  • releases: Infect
Savage Republic
Saviour Machine
  • Gothic vocals, rock.  Connections with Das Ich.
    comparisons: Love Like Blood; Dreadful Shadows.

  • releases: Behold a Pale Horse
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Scanda
Scapa Flow
  • Swedish German-style synth with Swedish-style electro pop, industrial Darkwave.  Named after the British military port?

  • releases: Heads Off To Freedom; Chased By Sunset
Scarlet
The Scarlet Fix
  • Gothic rock
Scar Tissue
  • US? Sparse semi-experimental, guitar-based industrial, dark trance, dance beats.

  • releases: TMOTD; Rebuild (remix album)
Scenic
Schattentantz
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Schloss Tegal
  • Experimental.

  • releases: Black Static Transmission
Scöhne Maschine
  • Nate Lambdin - guitarist; Tim Bowman - bassist; Kent Miller (Advent Sleep) - live drums
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Schwartau
Schwarzwald
Scissor Pretty
  • Australian acoustic quartet.
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Scivias
  • Dark folk
  • label: Eis & Licht
  • releases: ...And You Will Fear Death Not.
Scorn
  • German?  Ambient trip hop, minimal, sparse atmospheric.

  • releases: Greetings From Birmingham
Screaming Dead
  • UK-based US-style Death rock
    comparisons: Inkubus Sukkubus

  • releases: Death Rides Out
Screams for Tina
  • comparisons: Play Dead; Killing Joke

  • label: Cleopatra
  • releases: Screams for Tina
Seabound
  • comparisons: Depeche Mode; VNV Nation
  • label: same as VNV Nation's German label
  • releases: No Sleep Demon
Sea of Tranquility
Season's End
  • Becki - vocals & keys; Tim - vocals & guitars; David - guitars; Matt - bass; Paul - drums; Dean
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The Seasons of Wither
  • Dark Gothic metal

  • releases: Under the Spell Of A Sting Moon
Second Decay
  • German dark Gothic wave, electronic pop, synth sound.  Late 80s, early 90s, proto Darkwave.
    comparisons: Depeche Mode

  • releases: Der Nerv; De Luxe (compilation, bonus remix CD); La Decadence Electronique; Hinter Glas; Hotels; Taste.
Second Disease
  • German Industrial.  Electronic distortion, samples, distorted.

  • releases: Flame the Dark True; Dogma
Second Skin
  • US Goth, samples, occassional sequencers.

  • releases: Choir Invisible
Second Voice
  • German darkwave, electronics.  Deep male vocals, sparse instrumentation, samples

  • releases: Approaching Luna
Secret Discovery
  • German, metal overtones in beginning, pure metal later on.
    comparisons: Sisters; Nephilim

  • releases: Dark Line; Wasted Dreams; Into the Void; A Question of Time; Philharmonic Diseases (partnership with full chamber orchestra); Slave; Follow Me; Slave to the Rhythm; The Final Chapter (compilation).
Secret Hope
  • German, modern Darkwave, 80s futurism
    comparisons: Depeche Mode; Blancmange

  • releases: A Journey Through the Land of Hope
Secret Secret
  • San Francisco, USA-based gothic synth-pop.
Section 25
Section 37
  • releases: Dark experimental industrial ambient
    comparisons: Delerium.
  • releases: Critical Mass - the Order of Confirmation
Secular
Seda E Marg
  • French rhythmic machine noise.
Seelenkrank
  • German electronic, purist progressive mixed genre.  German and English lyrics with vampire interest.
    comparisons: Umbra

  • releases: Engelsschrei
Seely
  • Presumably named after the Seely court?

Seigmen
Seize
  • label: Infinity Records
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Senor Coconut Y Su Conjunto
  • Kraftwerk songs covered in Latin American style

  • releases: El Baile Aleman
Sensorium
  • Peter 'Bob' White - vocals; Simon Rippin (Nefilim) - drums.
  • The Nefilim sans Carl McCoy, plus Bob, and in a similar vein to the Nefilim.  Gothic rock.  New album in late Spring?
    comparisons: Nefilim; Salvation
  • label: Resurrection Records (currently label-less).
  • releases: Jahazralah (Yahazralah?)
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The Sensualists
Sentenced
The Sepia
  • Three keyboard players and a guitarist.

  • Swedish?  Dark, intense, militaristic, claustrophobic and lush strings.

Septic Flesh
  • Greek black metal, gothic metal.  Deep, dark vocals, guitars
    comparisons: Lacrimosa

  • releases: A Fallen Temple
Sepulcrum Mentis
  • Berlin, Germany-based Gothic, heavy metal.  Have worked with Jyrki (Two Witches)
    comparisons: Bauhaus; Dreadful Shadows; Metallica; Into the Abyss; Darkside Cowboys

  • releases: Sepulcrum Mentis; Burning An Effigy (album)
Sequentia
The Seraphim
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Seraphim Gothique
Seraphim Shock
  • Denver, Colorado death-rock group.  Occult imagery, industrial, Gothic melodies, pure metal guitars.
    comparisons: Nephilim; Dreadful Shadows; Love Like Blood

  • releases: Red Silk Vow; Nightmares for the Banished
  • contact: Seraphim Shock
    6669 Xenon Dr.
    Arvada
    CO 80004
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Serpent Beat
  • Polish?  Totally influenced by Nick Cave.
    comparisons: Nick Cave; the Birthday Party

  • releases: Serpent Beat
Serpentine
Seven
  • German? dark electronic.  Assumed to have been named after the film.
    comparisons: Tangerine Dream

  • releases: Seven
Sevendust
  • Metal, hardcore
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Seven Eyes
The Seventh Dawn
  • Darkwave
  • labels: Apollyon; 4th Dimension
Seventh Harmonic
  • Caroline Jago - vocals
  • Atmospheric trio, neo-classical
    comparisons: Heavenly Voices

  • releases: The Awakening; Seventh Harmonic Vs Interlock (with Interlock)
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Seven Trees
  • German darkwave electro industrial

  • labels: Zoth Ommog
  • releases: Embracing the Unknown
Severed Heads
  • Australian electro avant-garde experimental.  Dance beats, tuneful, short-wave radios, high-pitched vocals

  • releases: Gigapus
Sex Gang Children
  • Andi Sex Gang - guitar, vocals, mixing; Simon Boswell - guitar, piano, producer, mixing; John Fryer - mixing; Kevin Matthews - drums; Ed Alleyne-Johnson - strings, vioins; Dave Roberts - bass; Cam Campbell - bass, guitar; Terry MacLeary - guitar.
  • Active (again) in the UK.

  • releases: Shout and Scream (compilation); Medea; Deiche; Ecstasy & Vendetta over New York (NYC show, 1983/12/08); Play With Children (new (1992, Hollywood) recordings of old songs); Blind (1992/07/24); Pop Up (The Rare and Unreleased...)
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Sex With Lurch
  • US-based surf punk, Hollywood horror and Death Rock.
    comparisons: The Cramps

  • releases: Sex With Lurch
Sex Without Souls
Shade Factory
  • Finnish commercial industrial pop, synth pop
    comparisons: early Covenant

  • releases: Angel (single)
Shades of Grey
Shadow Cafe
Shadowcaster
  • Greek symphonic black metal

  • releases: Abandonment
Shadowcraft
The Shadow Dance
  • Ani Marttiini - vocals, guitar, programming; Kari Tammi - synths; Juha Juntenen - bass.
  • Formed 1994 in Helsinki, Finland.  Trio with gloomy style, classical.
    comparisons: Die Laughing

  • releases: Temple
  • contact: The Shadow Dance
    Box 1215 00101
    Helsinki
    FINLAND
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Shadow Dancers
Shadow House
  • Dark rock
    comparisons: Dawn of Oblivion

  • releases: Nursery Crimes (single); Through the Shattered Glass
Shadow Light
  • Gothic, US-style Industrial, atmospheric

  • releases: Within the Shadow Light...
Shadow Project
  • {Rozz Williams (ex-Christian Death) - vocals; Eva O (Superheroines) - guitar, vocals}
    Nathan Van Hala (Electra).
  • Formed by Eva O and Rozz Williams.  Before his death in April, 1998, Rozz had just finished work on a new album.

  • releases: Shadow Project; Dreams For The Dying; In Tuned Out (live, 1993)
Shadowpuppet
Shadows of Doubt
Shadowsphere
  • Darkwave, classic/neo Goth with heavy Germanic feel and female vocals

  • comparisons: This Ascension; Strange Boutique
  • releases: Temple Songs
Shadows to Ashes
  • Nostalgic gothic rock with Victorian theme.
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Shai No Shai
Shallow
Shanon
Sharashka
Shelleyan Orpan
Shellyz Raven
  • Presumably named after the characters from The Crow
Sheep On Drugs
  • releases: Never Mind the Methadone (remixes)
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Shimmer3 / Shimmer 3
  • California-based gloomy, dreamy band.
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Shine
  • German?  Experimental atmospheric, dark gothic

  • releases: inthecentre
Shining
  • German?  Guitar industrial
    comparisons: NIN

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Shinjuku Thief
Shock of Reality
  • German?  Dark electro, romantic, darkwave, industrial, techno

  • label: Zoth Ammog
  • releases: Abysmal Devotion
Shock Therapy
  • Post-punk, alternative techno, pre-Goth-style.

  • releases: Santa's Little Helpers; The Past Life (out-takes)
Shriekback
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Shrinking Violet
The Shroud
  • Lydia Fortner - alto (high, female vocals).
  • Active, formed Hallowe'en 1991.  Gothic, darkwave, ethereal with mystic, guitar-based melodies and strings.

  • releases: Long Ago and Far Away (debut); A Dark Moon Night
  • contact: shroud@psnw.com
    The Shroud
    P.O. Box 25112
    Fresno,
    CA 93729
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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Shroud of Cyanide
  • French?  Gothic, drum machine, delayed guitars, deep male vocals

  • releases: Early Projects
Siddal
Siechtum
  • Electro-industrial side-project of Thomas (L'ame immortelle)

  • labels: Matrix Cube; Trisol.
  • releases: Gesellschaft: Mord
Siela
Sielwolf
  • Dark electronic darkwave industrial.  Produced by Carlos Peron (Yello)

  • releases: Nachstrom
Sigh
  • Japanese thrash, punk orientated progressive black metal, strings

  • releases: Infidel Art; Scenario 1V: Dread Dreams
Siglo XX
Signal Aout 42
  • German?  Electro darkwave.

  • releases: Immortal Collection 1983-1995 (compilation)
Signal to Noise and Epoch
  • Purist underground electronic industrial

  • releases: Construction No 008
Signs Ov Chaos
  • Chaos-inspired dark dance, experimental, instrumental dance

  • releases: Frankenscience (Urban Cyberpunk)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
  • Cyber-punk glam

  • releases: First Generation/Second Edition (early demos); Flaunt It (debut album)
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Silence
  • Electro breakbeats, rock vocals
    comparisons: Deine Lakain

  • releases: Unlike A Virgin
Silence Gift
Silencio
  • Portugese?  Delicate experimental acoustic
    comparisons: Death In June; Goethes Erban

  • releases: Para 4. Numen
Silent Promises
  • German?  Bouncy romantic synth pop

  • releases: Resolution
Silent Voices
Silke Bischoff
  • German?  Moody, dark electronic pop darkwave

  • releases: The Man on the Wooden Cross; Waste of Time; Northern Lights; Silke Bischoff (debut)
Silvania
Silverblood
  • Brazilian electronic experimental German-style

  • releases: Imperfection
Simbolo
  • Brazilian analogue-driven electronics

  • releases: In The Danger Zone
Simon Dreams in Violet
Simply Dead
  • Polish experimental industrial, sparse, ambient, distorted male, female vocals

  • releases: Structure Of Minds
Single Gun Theory
Sing Sing Dead Man
Sinister Sirens
Sinister Undertones
  • Mozart Rottweiler - poet. Goth-rock ensemble.
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Sin Masters
  • Finnish Gothic-industrial, metal.  Members of Two Witches, Lacrimosa, Love Like Blood, Shade Factory.

  • releases: Seducer (single)
The Sins
  • Rogek
  • Seattle-based darkwave band

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Sins of Lust
  • Atlanta gothic-industrial band.
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The Sins Of Thy Beloved
  • Norwegian Gothic/death-metal, black metal band, female vocals, gutteral male vocals, strings, cruncy guitars, violins.

  • releases: Lake of Sorrow; Perpetual Desolation
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Siouxsie & The Banshees
  • {Siouxsie Sioux (The Creatures) - vocals; Steve Havoc/Severin/Two-tone Steve (The Glove) - bass; Marco Pirroni (Adam and the Ants, The Models) - guitar; John Simon Ritchie (Sid Vicious, Sex Pistols) - drums};
    John McKay (1978?) - guitar; Kenny Morris(1978?) - drums; Peter Fenton - guitar; John Carruthers; John McGeoch; Robert Smith (The Glove); Jon Klein; Budgie (The Creatures)
  • Formed London, England September 1976 - 1996, first gig in late 1976.  Started out as primitive art-punk band formed from the so-called Bromley Contingent (Janet Susan Ballion (born 1958/05/27) appeared in the infamous Grundy interview).  Peter Fenton left in June 1977, John McKay joined in July 1977.  Punk, proto-Gothic.

  • labels: Polydor (UK); Geffen (USA); Alex; Warner Brothers
  • releases: The Scream (1978); Join Hands (1979); Kaleidoscope (1980); Juju (1981); Once Upon a Time: The Singles (1981, compilation; 1985, video); Kiss in the Dream House (1982); Nocturne (1983, live album, video); Dazzle (1984); The Thorn (1984 ep); Hyaena (1984); Tinderbox (1986); This Wheel's On Fire (1987); Through the Looking Glass (1987); Peep Show (1988); Superstition (1991); Peel Sessions (1991, ep); Twice Upon a Time: The Singles (1992, compilation, video); Rapture (1995)
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Sirensong
Sista Mannen Pa Jorden
  • Swedish neo synth pop

  • releases: Ligg tyst ett tag med
The Sisterhood
Sister Kill Cycle
  • Raven Chain - vocals.
  • Erotic, intriguing, mellow Industrial
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Sister Machine Gun
  • Hard guitar-based industrial rock
    comparisons: Revco

  • label: Wax Trax
  • releases: The Torture Technique
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The Sisters Of Mercy
  • Andrew Eldritch - deep male vocals; Doktor Avalanche - drum machine.
  • Gothic rock, rock, industrial (of late).  Were building a new studio in Adam Pearson's house in Leeds (1998).

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The Sisters of Murphy
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Sisyphus
  • Ambient

  • releases: Greetings From Burkittsville (inspired by Blair Witch Project)
Six Minutes of Static
16 Horsepower
Sixteen Volt
  • US-based.  Guitar-based industrial metal

  • releases: Skin; Wisdom; Supercoolnothing
SixthComm/MotherDestruction
  • Patrick Okill (Death In June)
  • nearly neofolk

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The 69 Eyes
  • Finnish?  Sleaze rock, glam metal, goth.
    comparisons: Lords of the New Church; Type O Negative; early Mission; New York Dolls; Sonic Temple; Cult; Tiamat

  • releases: Savage Garden; Bump And Grind (1992); Wasting the Dawn; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams; Gothic Girl
Skeletal Family
  • Anne Marie - vocals
  • Post-punk goth
    comparisons: Death Cult; Theatre of Hate

  • releases: Burning Oil (1984); Futile Combat (1985); Burning Oil/Futile Combat (on one CD)
  • contact: Skeletal Family c/o Cherry Red Records,
    Bishops Park House
    25-29 Fulham High Street
    London SW6 3JH
    UNITED KINGDOM
Skin
Skinflowers
  • Indie-influenced
    comparisons: Bowie; Blur

  • label: Wasp Factory
  • releases: Punk Elvis (ep); Data In A Hurry (due Summer 2002)
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Skinner box
Skinny
Skinny Puppy
  • Deep, distorted, harsh male vocals.  Industrial, metal, electro, fast dance.  Early, though not amongst the original, industrial pioneers, formed 1984?

  • releases: Brap (compilation); Last Rights; Too Dark Park; Spasmolytic; Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
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Skold
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Skrew
  • USA guitar-based industrial programming

  • releases: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
Skullbone
  • Metal industrial, darkwave
    comparisons: Ministry; Leechwoman

  • releases: Transdaemonium
Skullflower
  • Feedback, distortion, moaning vocals
    comparisons: Quaalude; Jesus and Mary Chain; Pink Floyd

  • releases: Infinityland
Skull Flux
Sky Cries Mary
Sky High
Skylash
  • German?  Instrumental electronic, sampled vocals.

  • releases: Empyreal Day Dreams
Slap
Slave Cave
Slave Cradle
Slave Unit
  • German?  Guitar-based industrial
    comparisons: NIN; Ministry

  • releases: Slave Unit
Sleep Chamber
  • Ambient art experimental dark industrial, electro beats and rhythms, analogue synth instrumentals.  Sexual, magical themes, male, female vocals, dark ritualistic, fetish sex music.
    comparisons: Depeche Mode

  • releases: Sexmagik Ritual (recorded 1984-1986); Seduction Through The Past Darkly (live and studio); Sirkus; Sirkle Zero; Some Godz Die Young; Sleep Or Forever Hold your Piece; Symphony Sexualis; Siamese Succubi; Sacred And Surreal (1983-1987); Spellbound Submission; Sopor (reworked and new tracks); Sentinel Serenade (collection of highlights, includes booklet of live (S&M) shows)
Sleeping Dogs Wake
  • UK underground, male, female vocals, gothic electronic.
    comparisons: 4AD

  • releases: Sugar Kisses; Spider Billy and Snake Dance; Hold Me/Under The Stars (single); Under The Stars; Walk On
The Sleep of Reason
Sleepwalk
  • Swiss, danceable rhythms, strings, sequencers, techno
    comparisons: YelworC; Amgod

  • labels: Khazad Dum?
  • releases: Door To Insomnia; Hypnotize
Slogun
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S.L.O.T.
  • German?  Dance, trance, instrumental, synths, atmospheric

  • releases: The Seven Seasons
Slowdive
Slow Motion
  • Greek?  Formed 1985, goth band, ethereal, screaming, opera, avant-garde, techno-ambient trance.
    comparisons: Klaus Nomi

  • releases: Blind Transmissions (1990-1997 projects)
Smallcreep
  • Metal industrial, electronic, post-Gothic, some guitar-based.
    comparisons: Squid

  • releases: Melt
Smell and Quim
  • Noise, industrial

Smitten
Sneaky Bat Machine
  • Inactive / changed name to Goteki.  Postmodern graveyard disco music for the insane.  Bubblegum industrial, electronics, drum machines.  Darkwave, Largebeat pioneers.  Lightsabre battles, laser fights, free aliens.  Dancey music.
    comparisons: Virgin Prunes; Alien Sex Fiend; Sex Gang Children

  • releases: Boneshaker (single); Disco 4 The Dead
  • SBM
    Sneaky Bat
    R. Tregenza, Sneaky Bat Machine c/o The Spooky Corporation,
    40 Ponsford Road,
    Knowle,
    Bristol
    BS4 2UR.
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Snog
  • Industrial, trip hop, alternative post rock.  Sequencing, digital, some acoustic guitars and instruments, samples, distorted vocals.  Anti-capitolist.
    comparisons: Swans vocals

  • releases: Remote Control; The Future; Buy Me... I'll Change Your Life; Third Mall From the Sun; I Snog Therefore I Am; Dear Valued Customer; Lies Inc; Hooray; The Human Germ
Snowblind
Snowblind Waltz
Snowpony
  • Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine); (Bows)
Soda Ash
  • Missouri gothic guitar band.
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Sofia Run
  • Denny - vocalist.
  • Formed 1992 by Denny, based in New York.  Psychedelic side of Goth, strings, acoustic, harsh, discordant.  Early 80s feel.

  • comparisons: echoes of Nico/Velvet Underground; Death In June; Joy Division
  • labels: Sudden Times Music
  • releases: The Dignity of Folly; Intimacy
  • contact: Sofia Run,
    P.O. Box 656625
    Fresh Meadows,
    NY 11365
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Soft Cell
  • 1980s pop

  • releases: The Art of Falling Apart; Non Stop Erotic Cabaret; Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing (remix album); Soft Cell (1981-1984 singles); The Singles (compilation); This Last Night in Sodom
Soil and Eclipse
  • Hawaii-based.  Romantic, emotional electronic sounds, Gothic sensibilities.
    comparisons: Depeche Mode; Tears For Fears; The Mission

  • releases: Meridian; Necromancy; Archetype
The Soil Bleeds Black
  • Gothic ensemble with neo-mediaeval alchemy, antique influence and 90s Gothic sound.

  • releases: March of the Infidels; May the Blood of Many a Valiant Knight Be Avenged; Alchemie
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Solanacae Tau
Solar Lodge
  • Atmospheric, instrumental.

  • releases: Eternity Into Stillness
Sol Invictus
  • Tony Wakeford
  • Dark neo-folk

  • releases: All Things Strange and Rare
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Solitaire
Solitary Experiments
  • Dark electronics

  • releases: Final Approach (composed 1996-1999)
La Solitude
  • Swedish

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Solstice
  • comparisons: Metallica; Black Sabbath

  • releases: Lamentations
Sombre View
  • Swedish synth pop, gothic influences, pagan mediaeval.

  • releases: As It Fades; nvocation
Some More Crime
  • German guitar-based experimental

  • releases: Another Domestic Drama
Somnium
  • Neo-classical experimental side project of Emperor
    comparisons: Mortiis

  • releases: Thou Shalt Suffer
Sona Eact
  • Industrial repetitive rhythms, distorted sounds.
    comparisons: The Severed Heads

  • releases: Hard Industrial Loop Check; Engine Works Inc
Sonar
  • Belgian?  Power noise

  • releases: Remote Assault
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Sons of Neverland
Sons of William
  • UK and USA band.  Early gothic influences, latterly American guitar-based industrial.
    comparisons: Ministry

  • releases: Husk
Sophia
  • Dark ambient  Percussive spinoff of Arcana, without female vocals, and more percussive, classical.  Early mediaeval militaristic, agressive style.
    comparisons: Dead Can Dance

  • label: Cold Meat Industry
  • releases: Sigillum Militum (debut album); Herbstwerk (second album); Sophia
Sophya
  • Post-gothic electronic, female lead vocals.  Dark, mystical.

  • releases: The Age Of Sophya
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
  • Anna-Varney Cantodea - vocals, etc.
  • German Gothic band, mystical themes, growing mediaeval influences.  Neo-classical, black ambient, neo folk.  Released a number of tapes before the first CD album.  Anna-Varney worked on the German translations for London After Midnight - Selected Songs From The End Of The World.

  • label: Apocalyptic Vision
  • releases: Sopor Aeternus (later re-mastered, with additional tracks); Todeswunch (second album); The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller; Dead Lovers Sarabande; Dead Lovers Sarabande (Face Two)
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Sorrow
  • Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade, Psychic TV, Current 93, Death In June)
  • Atmospheric
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Soul Brothers
Soulgrinder
  • Swedish goth-metal duo, very guitar orientated.

  • releases: Enter
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Soul in Isolation
  • German?  Classical goth.
    comparisons: Love is Colder Than Death; Dead Can Dance

  • releases: On Stranger Tides
Soul Whirling Somewhere
  • Male vocals, melodic lullabies, synthesiser, acoustic guitars, electronics at times, atmospheric strings.

  • releases: Eating the Sea; Everyone Will Eventually...; Pyewackit; Hope Was
Sounds from Sound
Southern Death Cult
  • Ian Astbury - vocals, founder; Aky; Barry; Buzz.
  • Later became Death Cult, then The Cult.

Space Remains
  • Australian solo project

  • releases: Telepath EP.
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Spahn Ranch
  • USA hard, dance industrial, some guitar samples

  • releases: Collateral; The Coiled One; In Parts Assembled Solely; Breath and Taxes (remixes from Collateral); Retrofit (ep, remixes); The Blackmail Starters Kit (mixes, remixes, demos); Anthology 1992-1994
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Spandau Ballet
  • Gary Kemp
  • Started off performing between art films at the Scala Theatre? cinema

The Spares
  • Simon Manning (Children on Stun)
  • Very Stun-ish, indie influences, post-Goth.

  • releases: Tired and Bizarre (features contributions from all previous Stun members)
Spasmodique
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Spatium Saevus Sonitus
  • Dark experimental minimal music.
    comparisons: Tomb of Time; Cpinalonga; Cold Meat

  • releases: The Ritual of the Black Sun
Speaking Silence
  • French?  Romantic female lead vocals, post-gothic guitar wave, neo-classical, darkwave.

  • releases: Insides
Specimen
  • Jonny Slut - keyboards; (Siouxsie and the Banshees) - guitarist.
  • releases: Azoic; Wet Warm Cling Film Red Velvet (US version of Azoic)
Spell
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Sperm Whale
  • Steve; Sandrine
  • Side project of Seize. Darker, harsher sounding EBM

Sphere Lazza
  • German?  Electronic industrial and commercial sounds

  • releases: The Enemy Within
Spindle Shanks
  • Jeanne Fahey - vocals
  • Atmospheric, darkly romantic.

  • releases: Spindle Shanks
Spine of God
  • ND (Still Patient?)
  • Electro, industrial, darkwave side project of ND.

  • releases: Slavery
Spiral
Spiral Dance
Spiral Of Silence
  • Italian?
    comparisons: Bauhaus; Joy Division; Ikon

  • releases: Leap
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Spiral Realms
  • Simon House (Hawkwind)
  • Ambient, violins.

  • releases: Crystal Jungles of Eos; Trip to G9
Spirea X
Spiritual Bats
  • Italian?  Gothic rock, post-punk, atmospheric, Death Rock
    comparisons: Christian Death; batcave; Blood and Roses; Ausgang; Danse Societyz

  • releases: Confession; Sacrament
Spiritual Cramp
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Spiritualized
Spiritual Reality
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Spiritus Mundi
Spizzenergi
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SPK
  • Amongst the original inustrial pioneers.  SPK stands for System Programming Korporation.

  • releases: SePpuKu; Dies Irae; Auto Da Fe; Leichenshrei (Shriek of the Corpse)
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Splashdown
Splatter Squall
  • German?  Industrial, distorted vocals, electronic.
    comparisons: Skinny Puppy; Delirium

  • releases: Suspiria (LE, 1,000); The Spell
S.P.O.C.K.
  • Swedish synth pop (unsurprisingly with a Star Trek focus), electro.

  • label: Bloodline
  • releases: Alien Worlds; A Piece of the Action (singles collection); Five Year Mission; Speed of Light (single); 1999; Astro Girl; Earth Orbit:Live (1997); Klingon 2000
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Spümco
Squid
  • Lorraine - "fretless boom boom & 666 string"; Dominic - "pistol whipping"; jaSon Dalton (Swamp City Trailer Trash) - "programanslaughter & guitar - filth"
  • Gothic dark Industrial.
    comparisons: Marilyn Manson; Korn

  • releases: Prophetism; The Bitter Saints Abortion
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Squonk Opera
Sri Lanka
SSV
  • Full name SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW allegedly stands for Screw Shareholder Values, the Andrew Eldritch 'album' he recorded to escape his WEA/East West contract.  Mumbly.

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Stagefright
  • Gothic and reggae fused.
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Stages of Cruelty
  • Sam - strong female vocalist; four others.
  • Robust guitar and real drums, Uncle Nemesis.

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Stalker
  • UK power electronics.
Stare
Star 80
  • Jude (Sins of the Flesh); Tim (Manuskript); Mike (Nervosa).
  • First London gig was 24.07.1999.
Star Industry
  • Belgian Goth, power rock
    The Merry Thoughts; Sisters of Mercy; Suspiria

  • releases: Iron Dust Crush; New Millenium (single)
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Starseeds
Statemachine
  • Swedish?  Indie, goth, futurist, electronic, synth pop
    comparisons: Inaura; Curve

  • releases: Breakdown; Thermal Noise; Negative Feedback; Happy Endings (singles); Battered and Bruised
State of Being
  • Cleveland Goth band.
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State of Grace
Static Movement
  • Italian?  Ex-members of Frozen Autumn, female and male vocals.  Synth-pop, darkwave.

  • releases: Visionary Landscapes
Static X
  • Wayne - vocals
Stay Frightened
  • Italian?  Spiritual, swirling, atmospheric
    comparisons: Project (the label)

  • releases: Still
Steeple of Fyre
Stellamara
Stendal Blast
  • German electronic music, German vocals, electro darkwave, synth pop
    comparisons: DAF

  • labels: Gymnastic Records
  • releases: Was Verdorrt; Morgenrot
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Steril
  • German dancefloor industrial, breakbeat-electro.
    comparisons: NIN

  • releases: Transmission Pervious; Egoist (remixes); Egoism; Venus Trap; Deep (remixes)
St. Eve
  • NYC-based
Steve Pittis
  • Dark ambient, soundtrack
  • label: Cold Spring
  • releases: Sacred Flesh OST
Steve Roach
  • Ethno ambient
  • label: Projekt
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Steve Severin
  • Part of the 'Bromley Contingent' which included Billy ido and Siouxsie Sioux. Involved with Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1977 to 1996. Composed the soundtrack for Nigel Windgrove's banned Visions of Ecstasy, 1989. Has released a solo album or two since the Banshees split up.

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Stiff Miners
  • German?  Dark electronic, deep vocals.

  • releases: G-selle
Stigma
  • Belgian?  Oppressive soundscape, electronic ambience, post futurist, modern German darkwave influences.

  • releases: Putrefaction; Deadline Album
Stillife
  • Darkwave
Still Patient?
  • Trad goth, guitars, male vocals, German-style darkwave, UK-style Gothic rock.
    comparisons: Nephilim; Sisters; Love Like Blood; Play Dead; The Merry Thoughts

  • releases: Salamand; Cataclysm; Chameleon (LE 777); Nightmare Arrival (LE 500); Salamand and Cataclysm (first two albums); Demondive
Still Silent
  • Mindi Com Ballack (Goethes Erban); Peter Spilles (Project Pitchfork); Rodney Orpheus (Cassandra Complex); Eric Burton (Catastrophe Ballet)
  • Goth

  • releases: Sick World
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Stillste Stund
  • German language minimalist darkwave.
    comparisons: Goethes Erban

  • releases: Ein Mensch, Ein Ding, Ein Traum
Stin Scatzor
  • Heavy industrial, distorted vocals.

  • releases: Industronic; Industrology
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Stirr
Stoa / STOA
  • German goth group.  Neo-classical, operatic, mediaeval, neo-folk.
    comparisons: Wagner

  • releases: Porta V111; Unthona
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Stoic Statuary
Stone Breath
Stone 588
  • West Coast USA post-punk group, brooding tribal sound, female vocals.
    X-mal Deutschland; Siouxsie and the Banshees

  • releases: Door in the Dragons
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Stoneflow
  • Swedish?  Very heavy
    comparisons: Ministry (without the samples)

  • releases: Sculpture
Strange Boutique
  • USA-based swirly gothic.

  • releases: The Kindest Words; Charm
Strange Desire
Strategy
  • Canadian industrial, electro, deep male vocals, keyboards.
    comparisons: Front Line Assembly

  • releases: Intense; Assignment
Stratvm Terror
  • Claustrophobic soundscapes
    comparisons: Lustmord; Throbbing Gristle

  • releases: Pain Implantations; Genetic Implosion
Strawberry Switchblade
  • Rose McDowell (Current 93, Sorrow, Psychic TV, Death in June) - vocals
Strength Through Joy
  • Ireland-based?

Stribog
  • Italian bleak, melancholic apocalyptic neo-folk.

  • releases: Daily War (with Futhark)
Strife
  • Metal, hardcore.
Stromkern
  • US / German?  Dark, romantic orchestral electro, Darkwave.

  • releases: Flicker Like A Candle; Dammerung Im Traum; Night Riders (remix)
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Struggler
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Stun
Styx
  • 80's
Submerge
  • Paul Miles
Submersible
  • San Fransisco goth band.
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Subspecies
Substance of Dream
  • Guitar-based gothic, alternative band

  • releases: The Fall of Laura
Substanz T
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Sub Version
  • John K.
  • LA-based moody, dark electro-goth solo project.

  • releases: The Winds of War
Such Beautiful Sin
  • Marcus G. Jervis - vocals; Danny J. Finch - guitars; Paul 'PJ' Jensen - bass; Emma Hanid - keyboards; Dan Theobald - drums.
  • Such Beautiful Sin,
    10 Green Drive,
    Lowestoft,
    Suffolk
    NR33 7RJ
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Suede
  • UK indie pop

  • releases: Nude; Dog Man Star
Sueno de Luna
  • Ethereal, darkwave.
Suicide Commando
  • Belgian / German?  ebm hardcore electro-industrial.  Sparse, cold, modernistic, intense.  Dark electronics, distorted vocals, power noise.
    comparisons: Skinny Puppy; YelworC; CCP

  • releases: Contamination; Stored Images; Critical Stage; Construct X Destruct; Comatose Delusion; Hellraiser (single); Mindstrip
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Suicide Sanctum
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Sully
Sulpher
  • Kev
Sunday Grey
Sunday Munich
  • USA?  Complex sounds with gothic emphasis.
    comparisons: Portishead; The Cranes; Switchblade Symphony

  • releases: Pneuma; Vinculum
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Sundown
  • Spanish?  Gothic rock, guitar-based and keyboards.
    comparisons: Dreadful Shadows; Love Like Blood; Medicine Rain

  • releases: Design
The Sunflower Conspiracy
Sun God
  • Rodney Orpheous (Cassandra Complex); Patricia Nigiani (Aurora; Project Pitchfork)
  • Uses Voudoun imagery

  • releases: Sun God
Sunless
The Sunless Lands
Sunset Yellow
  • Danish project, trance, dub, samba
Sunshine
  • Czech new wave/punk band
  • comparisons: Joy Division
Sunshine Blind
  • Caroline Blind - female midrange vocalist, guitarist; CWHK - guitarist; Geoff - drummer; Mark 27 - keyboard; Cousin Al (left when the rest moved to SF from New Jersey).
  • Active since 1991, CWHK and Caroline founded the band in San Francisco and have a son called Skye Strummer (1999).  Goth, industrial, death rock, dark electro/dance, harsh power noise.  Distorted tones.
    comparisons: X-Mal Deutschland; Siouxsie and the Banshees; Ghost Dance

  • releases: Love the Sky to Death; Liquid
  • contact: Sunshine Blind
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Superheroines
  • Eva O (Christian Death; Shadow Project) - lead singer?
  • US all-girl group, punk, metal, glam, Goth

  • releases: Love And Pain (80s recordings)
Surreality
Survival Unit
  • Swedish power electronics.
Suspicion Breeds Confidence
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Suspiria
  • Mark Tansey (Intra Venus, works for Nightbreed).
  • Modern dancefloor, gothic aesthetics.  Split up in late 1997 (announced at DBM).

  • label: Nightbreed.
  • releases: Drama; The Great and Secret Show; Primitive Attentions (Remastered from Tragedy and The Great and Secret Show); Dancefloor Tragedy (The Best of Suspiria) (US release)
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Susurrus Inanis
Sutcliffe Jugend
  • Experimental noise, death industrial.

  • releases: When Pornography Is No Longer Enough; The Victim As Beauty
Svasti-Ayanam
  • Dark ambient, claustrophobic.

  • releases: Sanklesa
Swallow
Swamp Terrorists
  • Metal, guitar-based dancy industrial

  • releases: Five In Japan (live, 1996 Japan tour); Grim-Stroke-Disease; Combat Shock; Wreck; Pale Torment EP (not an EP, remix album); Rare and Unreleased
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Swan Death
  • Belgian Gothic, atmospheric, experimental.  Strings, bass lines.
    comparisons: Wagner; Cure; Joy Division.

  • releases: Black Wolf; Darkness, Prodigy and Virtuousity; Endless
Swans
  • Michael Giras (The Angels of Light); Jarboe
  • Jarboe joined around the time of Children of God (the most 'Goth' of their albums).  Dark sinister sounds, well-thought out guitar riffs, twisted backing vocals, dead pan vocals.  Great Annihilator is mellow / punishing industrial...

  • label: MCA
  • releases: Children of God (1987); The Burning World (1989); White Light from the Mouth of Infinity (1991); Love of Live (1992); The Great Annihilator (1994); Celebrity Lifestyle (single)
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Swans of Avon
  • (Secret Discovery)
  • German 90s Gothic, ex-Secret Discovery members.  Guitar-based Gothic Rock.
    comparisons: Mission; early Sisters; Emma Conquest; Pink Floyd

  • releases: Trust the Angels; When Heaven Falls
Swarf
  • {Andrew Stock - programming, live synth, sequencing, founder; Liz 'Lowlife' Green - vocals, founder};
    [Andrew Stock; Liz Green; Chris Kiefer (Chaosphere) - programming, live 'squelches and rushes']
  • Brighton-based, originally a duo, soaring female vocals, melancholic orchestral atmospheres, beats, electro rushes.  Name from curly strips of metal waste from a lathe (small, cute and shiny, but still hard as nails)

  • comparisons: Cocteau-techno
  • label: Wasp Factory Recordings
  • releases: Fall (ep)(due Summer 2002)
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Swartalf
  • Darkwave, death metal, tribal magikal semi-ritualistic music.  Named after the Swart Alfar (Dark Elves) from Norse mythology.
    comparisons: Aleister Crowley; Lord Byron; De Sade.

  • label: Memento Mori
  • releases: Candles Burning Blue; The Golden Section
Sweep
  • (Apoptygma Berzerk)
  • Modern synth pop from ex-Apop members.

  • releases: Sweepeepee
Sweet William
  • Amongst early German goth bands.
    comparisons: Nephilim; Hawkwind; the Doors

  • releases: Show
The Swelling Soul
Swirl Happy
Switchblade Symphony
  • Tina Root - classically trained high-pitched female vocals; Susan Wallace - composer, keyboards, programming; Robin Jacobs - guitars; George Earth (Candy Machine) - guitarist.
  • Formed 1990/1991 in San Francisco, by Susan Wallace and Tina Root, split up around 2000/1?  Gothic, electro, celtic, dance with diverse influences. Combination of dark, classical, electronic, jazz, trip hop.  Name from cutting up elements and forming symphony of beauty and nastiness.  Classical music, hard guitar, hard drums, nasty vocals.  Drummer is also the trombone player.  Harp, strings, bells, opera singing.  Signed to Cleopatra in 1994.  Into nursery rhymes, children fairy tales, fantasy...  Heavy beat industrial, electronica and classical/theatrical styles of music.  TheBladies.com
    Rumoured to have recently split up, Tina now in band called Tre'Lux?
    comparisons: Siouxsie Sioux; Dead Can Dance.

  • labels: Cleopatra Records.
  • releases: Serpentine Gallery; Clown (single); Bread and Jam For Francis; Drool (single); The Three Calamities; The Three Calamities and More.
  • contact: Switchblade Symphony
    P.O. Box 170443
    San Francisco
    CA 94117
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    Cleopatra Records,
    8726 S. Sepulveda Blvd,
    Ste D-82
    CA 90045
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Swoon 19
Sylvias Ghost
Symptom
  • Florida-based solo 'gothic vision'.
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Synaesthesia
  • Bill Leeb (Frontline Assembly; Delerium); Rhys Fulber (Frontline Assembly; Delerium)
  • Side Project of Leeb and Fulber.  Harsh dance, trance, atmospheric, ambient, dreamscape electronic music.

  • releases: Desideratum (double CD); Ephemeral; Embody; So What
Synapscape
Synthetic
  • Gothic commercial Darkwave, Darkbeat.
    comparisons: Sneaky Bat Machine; Narcissus Pool; Nekromantik; Faithful Dawn.

  • releases: Midi Slave
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Syrens of Titan
  • Pagan female duo.

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Syria
  • Christian Dorge - vocals
  • German Gothic 70s-rock-influenced, mournful, sparse at times.  Gothic, fetish art imagery.  Record at Dorge's Black October studios.
    comparisons: Sisters; Pink Floyd

  • releases: Voodoo Highway (ep); A Gift From Culture; Metroland (1997-1998 recordings)
Syrian
  • Gothic rock

System der Dinge
  • German harsh electro industrial.

  • Fear Forms Function
Systems of Romance
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