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Goth Music
Overview
What kind of music do
Goths listen to? Gothic music encompasses a wide range of styles and sounds. It can
range from Gregorian chant and massive pipe organ sounds to modern guitar-based rock. It
may include classical orchestrations, baroque strings, and mid-eastern music. It is often
“ambient” (or hollow-sounding), especially in the vocals (“ethereal”). The most dance-able styles tend to be keyboard and synthesizer-based, but most early
gothic music was guitar-based and was originally called Death Rock. The line between Gothic and Industrial music is not always
well-defined, although Industrial tends to be  more aggressive, with less themes of
personal pain and more about social/political issues. Both styles depend on synthesized
and digital sounds. The following represents a list of bands that are likely to come up in
conversations with Goths: Pre-Goths and Proto-Goths (just for fun):