Eben Der Schopfung

Very AOR aligned female fronted melodic Gothic Rock.

ECM

Sounds like the honey monster singing with Motorhead

Ecodalia
Certainly remind me of some other noisy female fronted bands albeit ones I can’t quite put my finger on but with some nice waily almost eastern tinges. Their label is Argentinian so I suspect they are too which might be a first for Gothapedia and as we don’t get caught up in international politics is not a problem. Although not mentioned on their fairly lengthy thank you list I suspect this lot owe something of debt to Christian Death. Not as bad as it could have been but not as good as it should have been either.

E-Craft

90s style dancey electronic industrial. Very strange acknowledgements that I am hoping are lost in the translation from the presumably German original

Eden

The label “Nightshift,” the year 1989.Triba drumming not unlike In the Nursery coupled with apocalyptic folk vocals that could give World Serpent a run for their money. Eden on 4 track EP “the Light between Worlds,” prove that Australians can produce anything to rival the Europeans.

Equally at home with Doors’y poetry and scary harpsichord, Eden show that melancholy is trans-global.

Edenbridge

On “What you leave behind,” Edenbridge sound like Steeleye Span on their Pratchett inspired album. None more Goth?

Eden House, the

Released on Jungle, features Queen Eve and unlike most of the flaking chancers on this website actually released an album in 2009.

Unsurprisingly quite AAE in feel particularly of the Ultraviolet era although some tracks would not feel out of place on Scarlet.

A strong Kate Bush circa Ariel vibe is also pulsing.

Eden Weint Im Grab

German Gothic metal but with the emphasis on  the Gothic rather than the metal at least in my opinion on their second long player “Trauermarsch nach Neotopia”  

Edgegod

Very jolly electro industrial with thrashing guitars, bleeps and growling vox like a pop Midnight. Veer off into a ZX spectrum direction at times

Ego Likeness

Quite dubby and trip hoppy (for what are obviously a Goth band. Catchy bleepy and female fronted.

Eien

Wolfsheime esque vocals but with a more classical instrumentation. Finnish (their nationality rather than my equivalent of stop at the end of a telegram)

Eighteen Nightmares at the Lux

A slightly Bad Seeds feel to Gothabilly

8khz Mono
“Weep4mw,” is quite high tempo German bleepy beaty stuff with the traditional guttural vocals “one” is more subdued, perhaps it’s the slow one they play at the end of German teen Goth discos so that people can try and get a snog but nice film (I presume) sample thrown in at the end for good measure

Einsturzende Neubauten

Full on 80s industrial initially known for playing power tools on stage but eventually acquired an ear for a tune with later releases being actually listenable to the point that Mrs G made me buy the album with Sabrina on it.

Eisbrecher

For a pair of geezers that look like dodgy second hand car salesmen Eisbrecher seem to knock out some pretty top notch poppy euro electro Goth although previously they have come across as mid-90s sounding guitar driven Goth with dual vocal choruses which makes me thing they might be a little shifty.

A couple of Eisbrechers albums appeared in a bundle of “EBM/Aggrotech/Industrial” CDs I won on ebay and I had forgotten it was they of the second hand car sales but actually it reinforces the fact they produce quality pounding electro.

Elane

“Crystal Clear Water,” is another creepy tune that sounds like it should be on Tarja’s Christmas album if it was about Santa or the Magi or something

Electric Hellfire Club

Quite sinister industrial lite with an almost Doorsy cum jazz organ driven sound

Electro Falco
You know the Ronseal catchphrase?
I could very easily stop there but won’t just in case you’re as bemused as me. “Das Ist Showbiz E.P.” is effectively 5 Falco covers in a slightly more electro than the original stylee but to be fair he was pretty electro to begin with. The only track that isn’t a complete cover is Tribute to Falco/Amadeus that starts as a bit of a rap telling the brief history of the great man in rhyme before morphing into his most famous track. There’s no reason to turn it off but if you buy a best of Falco you’ll get twice as many tunes

Elegant Machinery

Very Soft Cell and a little Human League

Element

At one level slightly electric slightly nu-metal meets British mid 90s Goth. At another sleezy electro punk.

Elend

Quite listenable apocalyptic folk

Elias, Hanin

Quite sinister and synthy.

I kind of imagine Georgio Moroder on crack might sound a bit like this. Catchy well produced electro but with a hard edge. Proper songs sung without a growl in sight. There’s even an unplugged version of lead track “untouchable,” that could have been “1959” in another lifetime.

Quite sinister and synthy.

Elis

Big and rocky with female vocals

Elkapath

A very British style of female fronted Gothic metal.; nice line in beanie hats too from what I recall

Elusive

Ubeat poppy rocky guitar Goth that could be All Living Fear or a band of that ilk.

Elysian Fields

Quality Gothic Metal with machine gun drums. The graphics of “Adelain,” are far more romantic than the music! and it does have an Anti-Goth catalogue number 

Emox

Rhymes with Ewoks apparently. Very deep very dark very post punk

Emperor

Exactly the sort of well arranged Gothic metal you would expect from Candlelight

Empyrean

Although their logo looked a bit metal I had high hopes for this lot as they were on the usually faultless Alice In... Quite stark musically with a fairly guttural Germanic vocal. Appear to be British though and looking at their photo want to be ENDG which perhaps explains where their vocal is aiming for. I think perhaps their illustrator is a bit too proggy/sci-fi for their own good.

Enchanted

Seem to get a major release through the back door on a classical offshoot but very much darkwave meets Gregorian chants with a bit of Jethro Tull thrown into the mix.

Enigma meets breakbeats

Endraum
The first band that I am immediately reminded of is this sites favourite sons Totenacht. According to Trev good for putting one’s partner in the mood but I suspect I won’t be confirming that any time soon. A bit of a world serpent edge as well actually- apocalyptic folk/Goth poetry anyone and some deep forest shenanigans in the background.

Energy Level Low

I really like these. They’ve got a real nice mellow electro vibe going on that really seems to work.

En Garde
Neo-classical. Bird with big sword. Quite Moonchild quite operatic. Some heavy guitars as well. They’re good at it.

Engelsstaub

Nice light electro. Apparently formed by Mark Hoffman as a follow up to his previous band Les Fleurs du Mal

Good atmospheric sinister electro

Engram
Engram are one of those acts that make you think of the Orb in eye liner. They seem very good at it though

Sinister dark ambient type stuff

E Nomine

Grimly fiendish meets the glitter stomp with a bit of chanting

Enrapture

A little bit Ghost Dance/Die Laughing with a hint of Julianne’s vocals. Quite busy guitar filled sound that also reminds me of faces of Sarah. Drifts into euro-disco but not in a bad way.

Enslaved

Quite a nice well structured guitar intro to “Allfoor Oonin,” I don’t have umlauts before going all growly, more black metal than Goth I suspect

Entwined

As I’ve said elsewhere on here although it is rather convenient to be able to search through “Gothic Rock” on Amazon and discover 2000 CDs the downside is that a few hundred of them aren’t actually Goth and its kind of hit or miss with some of the less well known acts. When this dropped through my door and turned out to be on Earache I thought bloody hell but when I read the sleevenotes and saw thanks to Danzig, Roz Williams and Fields of the Nefilim in amongst the more usual Megadeth, Maiden, Manowar etc I was slightly more optimistic. In actual fact these are very good Goth metal albeit a more British version with less of the operatics and overblown classical touches of mainland Europe. Hailing from Colchester they name check Southampton's, the Dungeon, where I seem to recall going to an Industrial night once

Envarla
It’s a long time since I’ve heard a band that instantly makes me think Floorshow era Sisters but “Hunting,” by this lot deserves to be on “Some Girls Wander,” if it wasn’t for the fact the vocalist sounds more suited to ENDG.

Epica

What do you imagine a band called Epica signed to Nuclear Blast sound like?  

Epilepsy

Dark brooding Industrial but pretty well done. Quite Ministry at times

Epoxies

Very new wave inspired electro  

Equinox

Holon is a high end electronic spin off of Frontline Asembly  

Ermeneuma

Mid 90s Italian take on Bauhaus meets the Chameleons. All slightly shouty vocals and bass.

Erotomechanics

Proper full on 80s style guitar Goth band with a little bit of the Damned and horror punk thrown in even a touch of the Chameleons and Blyth Power!

Esben and the Witch

certainly small “g” goth rather than Gothic you are never going to hear this lot covering Temple of Love. Beautiful packaging and a sound that is like Siouxsie playing shoegaze but not as you might presume Ultraviolet era AAE. Their recorded output is certainly better than live where sadly they disappointed a little but possibly because I had set my expectations so high.. Named after a Danish folk tale the world is certainly a better place for Esben and the Witch.

Escape, the

everything about the packaging of the Every Tear Dries album is fantastic. It looks like a mid 80s Play Dead album or perhaps a Sisters bootleg. They have a cool logo to rival the Mish or Rosetta Stone. You get a little catalogue covering bands like Love Like Blood and the Merry Thoughts and they look like Liberace crossed with John Wayne. Musically however I really want to like it and its not bad its just not quite inspirational. Despite their apparent image they are far more mid-80s synth (ie Depeche Mode or Ultravox) than they are proper Goth but actually I don’t care they’re still ace.

Escape With Romeo
A little bit Lloyd Cole. As I have only listened to one remix and one original track which was billed as unplugged it is hard to know where their traditional sound lies but unsurprisingly the remix is very produced and electronic the other very stripped back. Very listenable and poppy though.

Eskaton 14
World Serpent, Apocalyptic Folk, anything else to say? A bit of sampling that sounds like it might have come from an Ealing Comedy with a touch of the avant garde. Handy if you need a password with upper case, lower case and numbers.

Estampe

A Gothic Hildegard von Bingen

Etant Donnes (with Michael Gira)
Very World Serpenty noodling. Haunting

Eternal Fall, the

Another Tri-State Killing Spree type Cure like band albeit one that sounds a little heavier than their contempories. I have some kind of sampler thing covering excerpts of albums two through five, unfortunately as it has included a couple of video tracks it gives my stereo a hissy and I can only hear it through the tinny speakers in my laptop.

Eternalovers

Not sure whether this is a portmanteau or the side project of cricket obsessives. Weird and dungeony with lyrics almost narrated rather than sung

Eterne

Gothic metal with heavy Guitars but a definite Goth vocal

Eternia

Distorted guitars accompanying deep male vocals with female harmonies and atmospherics rather like a darker Ordo Octo Solis

Evanescence

Did the unthinkable and matched Dead or Alive’s record of getting to number one with a Goth single albeit with the advantage of a big hitting Hollywood blockbuster behind them.

First album excellent in the rock rap Goth crossover sense and candles and corsets will always help on MTV but by all accounts Sophomore set “the Open Door,” did significantly less trade.

Eve Black

A bit Type O a bit Nickelback

Evereve

The booklet to LP Tried and Failed shows the band gawping over scantily PVC clad ladies and frankly can you blame them. If someone said to you we need to take some photos for the LP what do you reckon? What would you suggest.

Definitely Rock but the sound was varied with strong hints of Ultravox and Prog Rock.

File next to Lacuna Coil, Evanescence and Gentle Giant

Every New Dead Ghost

Original outfit of Nightbreed’s Trev Ghost who through his constant re-packaging and re-merchandising has kept the Ghosties alive beyond what is perhaps natural.

Of the same vintage as Creaming Jesus, Screaming Marionettes etc. one gets the feeling ENDG never got over the (comparative) success of Rosetta stone.

Musically relatively traditional guitar Goth of the late 80s albeit with a fairly unique vocal style. Little evidence of the direction Trev would later take with Midnight!

Everything & Sincerity

Bleepy electro industrial and presumably EBM/Wave

Evils Toy
This sinister looking duo appear to produce an electro take on Derriere le Miroir

Proper full on bleepy stuff but more than capable of proper catchy pop choruses. “Lucifers Garden,” something of a standout.

Excession
Quite atmospheric in a Projekt band kind of way. Signed to Resurrection and appear to be mates with Killing Miranda. This duo are well worth a listen if you’re a fan of Love Lies Bleeding and the like., even a bit of Judith for good measure

Ex Nihilo
What I Am guessing is After the Chaos is pretty good poppy industrial. European and with my pidgin grasp of foreign languages I would put my money on French. Quite slow and relaxed for the genre.

Exu

Slightly Garden of Delight Germanic sound for an Italian band. Bit of Chameleons going on which seems to be a theme for the region in the mid 90s.

Ex-Voto

Considered by some to be the heirs to the Sisters sound EV are reminiscent of that glut of late 80s Sisters wannabes in the UK.

Whilst they may have been ahead in their use of that child’s bedtime prayer sadly Metallica did it infinitely better and as we all know history is written by the victor

One of those prominent bands I’ve heard very little of. Their contribution to Gothic part 35 is fairly standard Goth fare showing most similarities to the Merry Thoughts.

Eye

Very poppy political industrial from 90s Australia  

Eyes of Eden

Slightly eastern sounding female fronted Gothic metal, Nice flourishes of strings in places. Easily filed alongside Nightwish, Opeth et al. There are times on “Faith,” where you think this should be the soundtrack to the next Castlevania computer game.

Beginning like Geoff Wayne meets Raison D’Etre but with the Ben Liebrand mix never quite kicking in EOTNJ have clearly painted prog on their eyeliner smeared sleeves.

Sleevenotes on 1995’s innocence show a sensitive and thoughtful approach and at times the music strays into Garden of Delight territory.

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