Goth music gave rise to a subculture: goth. The traditional goth image includes black or purple clothes, tons of black eyeliner and dark make-up. Some goths dress in lavish faux-Victorian clothes ...

A key moment occurred in 1979 with Bauhaus's seminal single “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” often considered the starting point of gothic subculture. Visually, goth fashion drew influence from ...

Thick white candles were the only source of light at the entrance to Club Nova, where a special party dubbed 'Heart of Darkness' was in full swing. Thick white candles were the only source of ...

A celebration of the romantically macabre, gothic subculture has its roots in Romantic literature, Victorian death rituals and subversive feminist movements of the 60s and 70s. But it’s also ...

During the 1980s, punk and goth subculture spread to the United States and Europe, where it found solid roots. From Los Angeles to New York to Berlin, the cultures branched out, creating ...

Although you may not know it, the goth scene is as diverse and varied as the music at its center. Although the goth subculture began in the early 1980s with the gloomy post-punk of British bands like ...