#Southern deathrock

[nugothrhythms]

A cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" by Athens, Georgia-based deathrock act Tears for the Dying off of their 2024 album In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun. Apparently Adria Stembridge's uncle was the guitarist of the original "Jolene," which is a cool connection.

[mickmercer-goth]

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SOUTHERN DEATH CULT, 1982.

[kckatie]

Southern Gothic Music Festival

I spent last weekend in Athens, Georgia at the 2nd annual Southern Gothic Festival, where I saw ten bands in two nights. They sure were late nights for me. I'm still recovering from not getting enough sleep. But the bands were great!

Friday night's lineup was

Vincas

Panic Priest

House of Harm

The March Violets

Korine

Tears for the Dying

Saturday's was

Miss Cherry Delight

Deceits

The Chameleons

Vision Video

The rest of Saturday night was DJ'd by Dusty Gannon and Dan Geller.

My short descriptions are:

Vincas is a local Athens band with a swamp-rock psychedelic sound. They were alright, but not inspiring. I confess I like hearing the lyrics, and they seemed to be all drone.

Panic Priest is a post-punk darkwave synth-pop project of Jack Armondo, and was really excellent. He has a great sound, and a good stage presence.

I hadn't heard much House of Harm before the festival, but they are a Boston-based post-punk/synth-pop group. They seemed to want to play in darkness, yeah, it's goth, but still, really? I liked their sound, and I bought a CD.

The March Violets are one of the two reasons I went to the festival. They are a post-punk gothic rock band from the northern UK (Leeds). They started in 1981, and have taken some breaks. They used to be a four person band, and now they are three, but at least my favorite two original members are still with the band. Tom Ashton is an amazing guitarist. I spent a certain amount of their set just watching him play. Rosie Garland is a great singer, songwriter, and performer. She really commands the crowd when she's performing. And the new bass player, Mat Thorpe, was fun to watch, too, as he cranked out the bass along with delivering backing vocals.

I had a little chat after with Rosie, and we found we both like some of the same British electric folk. I mentioned Steeleye Span, and she mentioned June Tabor. We are of similar ages, and so have some similar musical influences. But the March Violets are my favorite Gothic Rock band.

Korine is an interesting electronic pop band. They were playing their guitars onstage, which was probably more visually interesting than playing their synths. I'd heard some of their music before, but hadn't really listened. They were good, and I bought a CD.

Tears for the Dying was the other reason I went to the festival. They are an Athens-based deathrock band, and I have really liked their sound for awhile. They don't tour that far from Athens, so when else was I going to see them? Adria, the singer and songwriter, is writing some of the best political deathrock today, especially focused on LGBTQ experience, and the current political climate.

Miss Cherry Delight is a shock rocker from New York. I'd seen some video and heard some music, so I wasn't shocked. I'll just say she's good at what she does, and she's not to my taste.

I'd heard of Deceits before, but hadn't listened to them. I really, really liked their instrumental sound, which is a very '80s style gothic sound, but was less fond of the lead's singing style. The lyrics were good, but he tends to deliver a line, play a bit, deliver the next line, play a bit, etc. Nothing wrong with that, and I suppose it might grow on me. Other things have, such as drum machines, which I used to hate.

The Chameleons are a post-punk band from the northern UK (Manchester). They delivered a great performance, and had the crowd in their hands. I wasn't going to buy vinyl and try to get it back home, but they had "Strange Times" on CD, and we bought one.

Vision Video played last, and they are the local big goth band. I've seen them several times when they've come through my area, and they're great people as well as being great musicians. Dusty is one of the few goth musicians writing current protest music, and he does it very well. Emily knocks out solid synth, and great backing vocals, and I always like it when she sings lead, whether on her song "Comfort in the Grave", or a cover.

We were pretty tired after two late nights, so we didn't stay long after Vision Video's set.

It was fun. I met a lot of people. I would consider going again!

[lokifreign]

Deathrock in the south in the 80s was its own universe, but it was tightly interwoven with all the other alty music scenes, all the way from squirrely Rush fans & lugnut metalheads to bliss hippies and just whatever. You could show up in a small southern town and have a place to stay by just hanging around the right bar and letting it be known you needed a place to park. Usually, people's parents would be completely cool with you, if you were cool. I was blown away to discover that my own mom was equally cool in that same way; she'd host out of towners or just pals of mine readily. Honestly, I think she liked most of my scene better than she liked me! Understandable. I had cool friends.

Deathrockers in the deep south were a solid sort, not exactly political but leaning hard toward ruthlessly moral communism as it overlaps with hard drug use. "Health food and heroin" ha, ha. I miss a lot of the people deeply, but looking back I can see how much I've changed in all that time, and how intolerable I'd find any of those scenes today.

I wouldn't mind it if elaborate head shaving and ruffles would come back. The looks were better before they got hard-categorized & resold. I liked the thing we used to do of turning random stuff into jewelry - faucet knobs, hardware junk drawer bits, weird doodads rammed through ears. I had a nice "ax embedded in my ear" piece for a few years. My thing was always nails. I still get the urge every now and then, to push rows of nails through something but… the energy goes elsewhere.

I was thinking earlier about how … the people I identified with the closest, the people I then thought of as being the most central to my understanding of self and the world … mostly died. If it wasn't AIDS it was heroin a/o booze. By the end of the nineties murder had ended a mind-shattering number of loved ones. Punks, hippies, goths, none were spared.

Tyger Tyger, burning bright

It surprises me, what did or didn't survive the millennium turn. It is fucked how angelic the dead seem now, how fucking sainted they feel in my head. I'm not eager to die, but damn… I'm not afraid of it either. I wasn't in my streetwise hard outer shell place when covid kicked in - I'd thought I was past the part of life where people are dying dying dying. It's been chill now for over a year, in my personal space -

a lot of that pressure is starting to escape

[ztremx]

Hell Comes to Your House is an American deathrock and punk compilation of Southern California bands. It is notable for releasing the first ever Christian Death song "Dogs", as well as including the first studio recordings of Social Distortion and one of the earliest performances of Redd Kross.

The album was originally released in 1981 but reissued in 1998.

Engineer Randy Burns went on to produce other punk, thrash and death metal bands including Suicidal Tendencies, Death, Possessed, the Fontanelles, and Megadeth.

The album credits the producer of "Dogs" as Mike Patton. This is not the Ipecac Recordings label head/Faith No More singer, Mike Patton. This Mike Patton was in the band Middle Class and he also produced The Blue Album by the influential Orange County band, Adolescents as well as the Danger Zone EP by China White. He was also the bass player with T.S.O.L.'s Jack Grisham's post TSOL Goth/Dance band, Cathedral of Tears and Trotsky Icepick.

[theparanoid]

The Southern Death Cult - The Southern Death Cult

(1983/1988, full album)

[Gothic Rock, Post-Punk, Deathrock]

[damedarcy]

Drew this #showflyer then took this pic of the #southernpinecompany #musicvenue on my way to my job #haunting the savannah theater during this #fullmoon 👻 Wednesdays Goth Karoke! Wednesday Addams Costume contest (and just best goth fashion in general ❤️🩸❤️) Videos to sing with PLUS! Live Music with 80's Clasix band: ⭐️Like A Version! ⭐️DJ Troy ⭐️#stabulous ! Dark Wave Disco With ⭐️Dame Darcy & ⭐️DJ Stigmata Wednesday Nov. 30th 7-11pm At Southern Pine Co. 616 E. 35th st $5 #damedarcyswednesdays #wednesdayaddams #goth #karoke @southernpinecompany @damedarcy @serialkillough @tronstones #darkwave #danceparty #deathrock #classic80s #siouxsieandthebanshees @siouxsieandthebanshees #thecure #robertsmith @thecure #likeaversion #gothgirlfriend #batty #childrenofthenight #eatyourheartout (at Savannah, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkyNYQuOeny/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tony-equis]

10 29, 2022

Mz. Eva O. will be having a party to celebrate the book release of

Maggie St. Thomas's Photography.

There will be Books, merchandise, and signing at midnight.

The date: October 29th.

location: Destiny Funeral Home & Cremation

5443 Long Beach Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90805, CA.

DJ Tony X, Bourbon Saints, and EVA O. will perform.

All ages - open 800 p ends 1230 A.

https://youtu.be/jH9ib0j_frg

[mania-d]

[cemeterywifi]

this week's lastfm grid

[shodwithbootsofether]

rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to! put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people. no skipping! 

I was kindly tagged by @passionate-reply to do this and it sounds like fun, so here are the 10 my playlist picked for me;

Overall I'd say its a pretty good overview of my taste and listening habits, although there are some favourites missing that I thought may be there but that's the luck of the shuffle after all! Thank you again for tagging me, I would tag others but I'm very new here and wouldn't quite know where to start so I'm gonna just throw this out there for anyone who feels like taking part.

What impression do you get of me purely from my music? I'd be very interested to know!

[nugothrhythms]

"Merula" by El Paso, Texas-based deathrock act Oración Fúnebre off of their self-titled 2024 debut EP

[lugosi-noir45]

[wedig45grave]

Ian Astbury, The Southern Death Cult

[squelettedelicieux]

@ Plastique Noir Dead Pop 10 years gig

[ericpoptone]

𝕷𝖔𝖘 𝕬𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖘 𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈, 𝖆 𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯í𝖆 𝖉𝖊 𝕸𝖚𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖔𝖘 𝕱𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖎𝖆

𝕷𝖔𝖘 𝕬𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖘 𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈, 𝖆 𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯í𝖆 𝖉𝖊 𝕸𝖚𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖔𝖘 𝕱𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖎𝖆

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