Title: What is Goth?
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Steampunk / Neo-Victorian
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Emo or Emotional Hardcore
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What does Punk have to do with it and where did the term Goth come from?
How did the Goth subculture get its name?
Who were the first Gothic bands?
The Batcave Nightclub - The Womb for the Gothic Subculture
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Content: Nico's 1969 album The Marble Index is sometimes described as "the first Goth album". With its stark sound, somber lyrics, and Nico's deliberate change in her look, the album became a crucial music and visual prototype for the gothic rock movement. Black Sabbath's 1969 debut album created a dark sound different from other bands at the time and has been called the first ever "Goth-rock" record (Baddeley 2002: 264). In the late 1970s, the word "gothic" was used to describe the atmosphere of post-punk bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magazine and Joy Division. In a live review about a Siouxsie and the Banshees' concert in July 1978, critic Nick Kent wrote that concerning their performance, "parallels and comparisons can now be drawn with gothic rock architects like the Doors and, certainly, early Velvet Underground". With the birth of this new music came the birth of a new fashion that was borrowed from the punk look and given a darker edge. But Goth fashion hasn't just borrowed from the Punks. There are many different styles influenced by fashions of earlier eras...but you can read more about that on the fashion page. But this was just the birth of modern Goth music and fashion and not what Goth is.