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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....................Obel, Agnes
“Citizen’s of Glass,” is very atmospheric string lead melancholic dream pop released on Play it Again Sam. Not the usual late 80s Industrial we have come to expect. Some of the male vocals are almost monastic. Elements of Mazzy Star.
Octavia
Run of the mill Goth metal in the kind of Lacuna Coil vein but without the rapping and stuff.. USP is probably the fact that they are predominantly female which is quite unusual in music generally and Goth especially
Octolab
Swedish
duo that sound like the electronic end of Eurovision to me but their pr
approved narrative suggest something much more cutting edge
Ode Flipica
Portuguese this lot. Very atmospheric, military snarey and wailey. Has a kind atmposheric Sisters feel with a few eastern influences thrown in.
O, Eva
My immediate thoughts when listening to “Ride the Madness,” is that Eva O sounds rather like Shadow Project which turned out to be remarkably perceptive given I didn’t realise she was one half of them. This solo outing is more avant-garde and less structured reminiscent of some of Lydia Lunch’s forays and some of Diamanda de Galas more experimental moments.
…Of Skin and Saliva
My little boy described these as scarier (he was comparing them to this Gentle Flow at the time.)
They have a go at all the atmospheric staples, the chanting, the electro harpsichord with almost Enigma drums but coupled with growling Germanic vocals.
The more mainstream tracks have an almost Apoptygma feel whilst overall I am reminded of early Brother Orchid.
Of the Wand and Of the Moon
There are a set of bands that when I hear their names I know two things about them
1) What they are going to sound like
2) That I am going to like them
They all sound more or less like Ordo Equitum Solis
Of Unknown Origin
On “Suffering Clown,” distributed by World Serpent unsurprisingly, is there a genre that is crap jazz Goth? At least if there is these are its greatest exponents I have come across.
ohGr
This lot remind me and Mrs Goth of Fischerspooner to the point that this made her think there was a new album out. Within the sleeve notes at times they refer to themselves as ogre and someone/thing called Walk seems to be involved as well. I’d tend to go as far as skip their soundalikes second album and buy “SunnyPsyOp,” instead if you are hankering for a new “Emerge.” Goes a bit more up-tempo at times creating a more traditional industrial sound. Linked to Skinny Puppy apparently.
Oil Seed Rape
Kind of bridge the gap between
Therapy? And the American guitar industrial bands like Ministry. Come across as
very competent and possibly unrecognised geniuses ahead of their time.
Omala
This Swedish lot do quite competent ambient Darkwave.
Omega Lithium
Croatian Industrial/Goth metal apparently. Very good at it too. Very big and epic sounding with a typical track starting quite electro before rocking out.
Omewenne
Macabre with a slightly vaudeville field. A more avant garde Dresden Dolls meets a kind of less poppy Judith
One
Described to me once not entirely unreasonably as a gothic Iron Maiden but the tag would probably disappoint Maiden fans who would hope for more. A clear rock sound with catchy choruses but none of the depth and fullness of the typical IM arrangement.
I recall the band were released in the UK through Nightbreed as a result of a publishing and distribution deal originally originating from down under with the “Walk the mercy mile” album featuring stand out track “Mercy Mile” from whence it was named.
The almost title track cropped up on Nightbreed compilations although I’ve heard little of the band since.
One Lady Owner
During the 7 years of famine or there abouts which in my mind stretched from Rosetta Stone releasing Tyranny and Evanescence emerging triumphant when Goth went so far underground a heavy rain could have wiped the lot of us out we held on any glimmer of hope that a Goth band was breaking through. One of the handful I remember the NME championing whilst using the g word was One Lady Owner. They didn’t do a lot and apart from sounding a bit like the Mary Chain meet the Love Reaction weren’t that Goth but you hang onto what you can. 1999’s “there’s only we,” album is perfectly good and perhaps even invokes Nick Cave at times but lets face it Creation were never going to release a Goth album especially after Oasis, caught up in the whole shoegaze thing maybe.
Almost remind me of a sleazy guitar version of Sheep on Drugs and did have the interestingly titled single “Police Car Sex.” B side “world x,” is more like a sedated Zodiac Mindwarp
1:scintilla
One could describe these as an electro Evanescence or perhaps a heavy Ultravox depending on the particular track in question or your whims at that moment. The typography is such that I wasn’t entirely sure they weren’t called Escintilla to begin with but that would make no sense
Onethirtyeight
Bring out your living is a
weird little EP. They describe it themselves as dark ambient but it’s a bit more
formal than that. Drifts into apocalyptic folk territory
Oomph! Feat Nina Hagen
Perfectly
listenable but sounds awfully Eurovision song contest. Hagen is a bit
of a celeb famous for being famous along with her chum Lene Lovich
Opeth
“Harvest”
just sounds like that song Pulp did for the new Randal and Hopkirk
series but I know I’ve already said that about someone else on
here.(only with Eric Clapton on guitar)
Opfer Der Angst
Real
Sisters type vibe on the music and an almost spoken word poetic feel to
the vocals. There’s a Projekt act recommended elsewhere that are very
similar to these. Unfortunately at the moment I can’t recall the name.
I’m
never sure why but it seems as soon as you start singing about rain you
get drawn into some self generating cycle whereby you string Garbage,
J+MC, Genesis etc along one golden thread and these seem wobbling
worryingly close albeit in a Totenacht meets 4th sign of the
apocalypse/Backworld way
Ophelia’s Garden, the
These
have an almost apocalyptic folk feel albeit with more industrial
song structures. Not dissimilar to Lux Interna. Vocalist has a hint of
that distinct ALF twang.
Oppenheimer Mk II
“Nobody ever says thank you,” is very Midge Ure era Ultravox but a perfectly pleasant pastiche
Oral Constitution
Sound like Bill Bailey doing Backworld. Not seen one of his shows recently is this in his new show?
Orange Sector
One of the more mainstream of the early offerings from the Zoth Ommog stable. Bleepy but poppy rather than intimidating. Almost a touch of Falco.
Orchisa bit like Ataraxia and their neo-medieval wailings. (but not as good)
Order of Isaz
OOI set pretty high benchmark on their promo sticker on the front of “seven years of famine,” including suggesting they will appeal to fans of the Sisters and the Neff. They are perfectly good and probably more aligned to the floury ones than Von et al. Musically probably more Garden of Delight than the previously mentioned
Ordinary Psycho
Imagine
the New Cranes covered “No Rest,” but changed the lyrics and you would
have “…not without a fight” by Ordinary Psycho. Feeling like a host of
room 101 I’ll include them because of the NMA influences and they did
release and album called “the new Gothick lp.”
I
have now tracked down said album and the above still seems a fair
description. The album cover has a gargoyle/grotesque looking out over
a city. The album came out in 2000 and they may hail from Surrey. More
Blyth Power than the Sisters it is fair to say but that is not
necessarily a bad thing, after all we already had Rosetta Stone.
There are even touches of Nick Cave and the Dresden Dolls.
Ordo Equilibrio
“Watching
Lucifer Wander,” is a real Backworldesque bit of Apocalyptic Folk
whilst the photo they choose to illustrate “The Sonic Seducer,”
compilation appears to be influenced by slutty schoolgirl. Both have
their place I suppose.
Ordo Equitum
Solis
Italian duo who do
moody Goth folk
that bizarrely appeals to newly qualified
I
guess a name like this puts your credentials on your sleeve but in
actual fact ON are a rather good albeit slightly bleepy electro Cure
clone albeit one that can switch gear and go space rock at a moments
notice.
Orgy
“Vapor
Transmission,” starts off sounding like the incidental soundtrack of Red dwarf
before some fairly uninspired drums kick in followed by some fairly angry
loops. Rapidly morphs into more poppy DM fare. At times I am almost minded of
Daleks covering PWEI. As it settles into its groove though it is hard to think
of any description other than electro industrial blah.
Otep
Falco
meets Rage Against the Machine. Appear to be rather fond of Jesus.
Unusually for this kind of line up their female member joins in with
the grunty rapping rather than providing a counterbalance a la Lacuna
Coil
Other Voices, the
On anatomy of a pain, Other Voices sound like the Cure in exactly the sort of way that Tri-State Killing Spree (the ones that sound like the Cure rather than the hardcore punks- just to be absolutely clear) sound like the Cure only a little rougher around the edges. To be fair there are touches of Killing Joke and even at a stretch Bauhaus but really it’s the Cure.
“Anatomy of Pain,” came out in 2005 and features some artwork that looks like it could have been Joolz in a hurry. I would suggest they are probably Italian making them currently my favourite Italian Cure inspired band.
Having said that my previous view
based on presumably something off a compilation as I don’t recall ever owning a
whole CD was
sinister whispery stuff. Very atmospheric. I have lots
of CDs like this and this is as good as any of them. Lilith, Nosferatu and
Morpheus in the same line up might lead to fraught nights on the tour bus.
Another decent Italian blast of riffing Guitar Goth. I’m almost reminded of the Horatii in a way.
Otto Dix
One
of those operatic inspired sinister projects albeit with sudden bursts
of synths and drums thrown in which to be fair makes a change from big
metal guitars
Oxiplegatz
The artwork for “Worlds and Worlds,” features a lot of CGI images of a slutty Robocop whose assets make Lara Croft look like Kate Moss so I was rather intrigued when the sleeve notes thanked mainman Alf’s girlfriend for modelling the cover although in actual fact his girlfriend is rather more normally proportioned although with blue skin suggesting she is part smurf or if she is the other figure in the picture she is a multi-limbed robo insect with blood red finger nails.
Musically fairly industrial with a bit of the doom metal growly bloke pretty girly vocals thrown in .
Remind my wife of Metallica!
Famous poem, hardest
to find
Sisters b-side and some bloke with a piano.
Pleasant enough on
the ear but can’t
help thinking more likely to be found in the lobby of Selfridges than
in the