I was looking at my music the other day and I realized that most of my gothic music is getting to be quite old. Most of the stuff I have is 80s to 90s era. I'm trying to find a couple songs for me to do as performance pieces. I figure that if I do older music it will turn people off since they've heard it and seen it so many times.
The new music that I've been getting is mainly symphonic metal (Nightwish, Within Temptation, Epica), Electronica (Maduro, Solace), indie (Cruxshadows, Lacuna Coil), Industial (Skinny Puppy, Apoptygma Berzerk), and traditional belly dance music (Hossam Ramzy, Hakim).
There really isn't much of a scene where I live so I haven't been to the clubs or really had a chance to talk to people about what they're listening to these days.
I used to be involved in the scene in Manhattan (that's Kansas not NY) before it collapsed about 8 years ago. I recently learned that there's a small group of very young goths (teens with a couple of college agers) that are trying to get the scene started again and went to one of their gatherings. When I talked music I was pretty shocked with what I heard is considered gothic music these days. I said that I mainly listened to Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie, Switchblade Symphony, and Dead Can Dance. The repsonse that I got tended to be "how can you listen to that emo poser s**t". Is it true that those groups and that type of sound is considered emo and not gothic these days? They said that groups like Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, and Taylor Swift are what are reaaly big in the scene these days. Is this true?
If that's what's considered goth then I'll take my emo poser stuff and if not could all of you give me the names of some new goth groups?
Thanks,
Frank