A podcast and video perspective on the works of goth music and culture.
We decided to honor the late great David Bowie by taking a look at three movies starring the Thin White Duke. Two of these films have strong connections to the gothic subculture and the third is a slightly obscure yet highly stylized film about an alien. If you’ve been waiting for us to discuss the Labyrinth, then this is your chance to hear us ramble about our love of Jim Henson’s masterpiece. Hopefully you find our opinions interesting and you might find a new movie worth checking out.
This time Dr.Sanders and Robbie Gore take a close look at one of the most influential bands in industrial music with Skinny Puppy. Their aggressive sound has connected with many people in the goth subculture although their music is not reminiscent of gothic rock or post-punk groups. We hope you enjoy this conversation about industrial music’s relation to goth and the first four albums that Skinny Puppy produced.
This week we’re discussing yet another classic gothic rock band, Fields of the Nephilim. The band has definitely had an interesting career and have had their ups and downs with members leaving, interesting side-projects and record label interference. Dr.Sanders and Robbie Gore take a look at their first four official albums Dawnrazor, The Nephilim, Elizium, and Mourning Sun while also mentioning some of the behind the scenes obstacles faced by the band.
In this week’s news segment we briefly discuss the death of legend David Bowie and our experience at a 45 Grave show.
This is our fourth and final part of our discussion about The Cure’s career and it covers their (as of 2016) most current album 4:13 Dream, oddities, and all of their official Live Albums. This particular episode is full of mostly lesser known albums, but many of them come highly recommended.
This week we’re taking a look at a lesser known band called Rosetta Stone. They were active from the mid-eighties until around the year 2000 and were definitely influenced by the evolving industrial scene during the recording of their later albums. Early in the band’s career they had a very gothic rock sound that produced some very catchy and unique tracks, but does their catalog of albums include a plethora of hidden gems or merely a collection of average songs? Listen and find out what we think of the albums An Eye For the Main Chance, Adrenaline, Chemical Emissions, Unerotica and the live release Under the Rose.
Note: On this episode’s news segment we discuss and wish David Bowie a Happy 69th Birthday. The day after recording the episode, David Bowie unfortunately passed away due to complications from cancer.
As some of you may have noticed, we didn’t release a new episode last week. Unfortunately, we were just swamped between between the holidays and getting sick so we made the decision to take the week off.
However, we are back in full swing with a brand new episode. We thought it would be a great way to start the new year with another movie episode so this week we review three movies that are currently streaming on Netlfix (At least currently in America), and they are Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Legend of Hell House. So if you’re looking to add a little darkness to you’re new year, these are some excellent choices whether your looking for an obscure horror film, a classic film, or a new perspective on a great artist you will find something among this list. We hope everyone enjoyed their holidays and enjoy this episode. Stay Spooky!
This week we take a look at Siouxsie and the Banshees’ career through the mid to late eighties, starting with A Kiss in the Dreamhouse and ending with Through the Looking Glass. This is where most people feel the band honed their sound into the distinct Banshees sound that we all know and love. Plenty of hits came from these releases, but do these albums hold up in modern times?
This time on GothCast we discuss a band that many people may have heard of, but most have never taken the time to listen to. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry are a band that are most well known for their album Talk About The Weather, but released a number of albums throughout the eighties and even one in the nineties. Does their work hold up as well as classics like In The Flat Field and Disintegration? That’s what we try to figure out on this episode.
As a note, our news segment this time is dedicated to suggestions for holidays gifts for the spooky person in your life. Hopefully it helps some of you out there who are stumped on what to pick up for the grimly fiendish ones you’ve become acquainted with.
This week’s podcast is our third part in our ongoing discussion about The Cure’s expansive career. This time we take a look at the albums Wish, Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, and The Cure (2004). This was the most difficult episode so far because of the nature of these albums. There is experimentation, critical success and a dramatic changes in the band during this time and it really helped shaped their sound for this era.
I also want to mention that this episode does have a slightly heavier subject for our news segment where we give our thoughts about the Sophie Lancaster murder and its effect on the subculture.
As always, we’d love to hear your feedback and opinions on any of the albums we discuss on this episode and of course, stay spooky.
This week’s episode of GothCast is another movie one, and it is specifically about vampire movies. With all the saturation of Christmas movies that comes right after the Thanksgiving holiday, we felt like everyone could use little vampire lore to lift their spirits. Consequently, we chose to discuss three vampire movies which are very famous in the gothic subculture, and those movies are The Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, and Queen of the Damned. Hopefully this gives you a lot to sink your teeth into while listening.
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