Different Types of Goth

According to Theme
1) Romantic Goth
Romantic Goths usually dress themselves with the Edwardian and Victorian Renaissance themes or anything with lace and frills. They usually have an outlook of being greater in their capacity for love than the normal people do.
2) Mopey Goth
Mopey Goths also dress just like Romantic Goths; however, most of them usually prefer to be in the modern apparel. They think that gentleness is effective just for sometime for gentle people always perish in the unkind world in their eyes.
3) Fetish Goth
Fetish Goths could be identified because they dress often in leather, PVC, chains, and fishnets. They are more of liberal Goths because they believe that gentle people are people who are just too prone to oppression.
4) Perky Goth
Perky Goths are “cool type” of Goths because they ride with the famous and usually go fetish, modern, and cyber.
5) Rave Goth
Rave Goths could be identified by their phat pants, t-shirts, tank tops, and glittery accessories. They usually believe in showing off what they have.
6) Geeky Goth
Geeky Goths act just like normal school people because they believe in the power of simplicity of a Goth.
7) Vampire Goth
Vampire Goths also love to show off, however, in the dark side. They usually dress in jet set, formal attire, and romantic themes.
8) Pagan Goth
Pagan Goths usually take some of the symbols and beliefs of occult of the old civilizations, such as Celts.
9) Renaissance Faire Goth
Renaissance Faire Goths usually come in fashion through their Renaissance, medieval, and Scottish attires and often use their skills according to the principles of humanist writers of Renaissance, such as Machiavelli.
10) Christian Goth
Christian Goths are just Goths who might also be in the scene, though they follow a certain religion under the cross.
According to Skill
1) Goth Writer
Goth Writers are skilled people who could compose different genres with topics of the Goth culture or anything which pertain to thriller. If not figuratively haunted, their writings might just give someone a psychological effect.
2) Goth Musician
Goth Musicians are skilled people also; however, they concentrate more on the combination of words, rhyme, and tone. Their lyrics often pertain to the occult or any other thing which seems to produce a feeling of darkness.
3) Goth Metal Head
Goth Metal Heads are also Goth Musicians; however, they concentrate more on the heavy tones of the simple band instruments.
4) Goth Death Rocker
Goth Death Rockers are also Goth Musicians; however, they concentrate on being behind the scenes even if they have a great musical talent.

A Brief Goth Timeline

1967: Hippie, as a counter-culture, saw the world was so exhausted with war and they promised to change everything with love.
1977: The punk culture saw that the world was still so exhausted and made a violent pessimistic reaction
1981: Goth was established because people under the culture saw the celebration of dark recesses of the human psyche, which includes the beauty of ones dark sensuality, sweeping sadness, morbid fascination, forbidden love, and enduring pain.

Vendetta

By Drake_Lestat1992

This serves as your bitter end, debonair
The wage of humiliation you gave me
Your burden and fury forever be
You punished your own self for what you dare
I make you suffer with my deadly stare
Such a living hell you will ever see
A worst feeling of insecurity
This is the feeling I would like to share
My blood of cold fire has just run too deep
For you killed me to break a holy creed
But then, I had no death or pain to feel
Now, I send you to your eternal sleep
You even wished to be finally freed
Then nightmare come and show you what is real

Nightfall in Avernus

By Drake_Lestat1992

The whole day was dull and dark
Though it had made a new remark
To let darkness sing like a lark
And start an eye-opening spark

Unto the blade of this evil hatchet
Are things that caused too much regret
Now, catch yourself in your own net
And accept the death you never bet

Now that I crossed the seventh sea
The pain is already gone from me
In your knees you will fall and see
The new supreme that is meant to be

Through great Marius' and Faustus' stand
Back from the great mage's land
I take the darkest strength on my hand
And hold this place unto my command

Scarlet

By Kah

Smile, sardonic, wicked but fleet
Vitriolic like the potent poison
Stealing fragments from inside of you
For a moment, just a moment
Smile bittersweet…let it linger
Then pull the dagger outPay no mind to the raw flesh
It may snatch on its way Nor the elixir of existence
Turning putrid, reeking death
Gushing from the crevice
It won’t be much longer now…
Surrender the light unclench it
From blood-stained weary hands
Embrace nothingness…it is time
Smile just for a little while
Then smile no more.

Excerpt from Nymphet in Red

By Janua Y

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I am the nymphet whose your heart did desire… I am aware of it but dare not to comprehend. I took a glimpse of your eyes… they speak your emotions… but I would rather go blind than clearly see it through… It is delusional – forget it!

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Come, you little hypocrite - submit yourself to me on this realm of darkness, to my cradle of filth and forget what your heart did contain.

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Now, slowly - crawl crawl crawl with the serpents.

The Widowed Night

By Fallen Angel Slave of Music

I dream of a valley made of gravewhom bodies are for those soul are trapped
Imagine the city filled with blood
The sky who murdered all the starsand the moon who once bold in nature
Now sorrowed, drowned and thorned
Those eyes i see every night
Makes me fell my knees and pray in peace
For those I saw was as dead a blackI wish I could draw his heart
So I would stitch the part where it was ripped apart
To the ripper been cursed for so long
You made already to much pain in the heart
Now its time for your burial , I'll mourn for you
Wear your bloody gown for its your end of time

Cunning

By Drake_Lestat1992

"I approached the expert and received a senseless allure
I even visited the doctor and found that there is no cure"
These are just the lines that denote you are not sure
Of all the things you say that I will not endure
Just beat the hell out of me and say I am not pure
And see you at the end to prove who is the one poor

Rapture and the Rhapsodist

by Karl R de Mesa
http://www.geocities.com/thelateisabel/

In the dreams of those she haunts, Isabel is always leaving. She has been sighted barefoot and pale, by various sleepers, at the doorstep of a familiar downtown cinema, the gates of a university building at closing time, departing a smoky club and exiting a convenience store at twilight. She vanishes when she steps to the curb, just as the high beams of an approaching car freeze her. Those who do wake, often wake in sweat.

“I was playing with a visual concept, a series of posters showing this half-familiar woman always in transit,” says Allan Hernandez, explaining the basis of the name and the band’s wraith-like, female persona.

The music of THE LATE ISABEL is the origin, product and nature of this haunting rolled into a single koan. It is music that makes of funerals and wakes a celebration -- a time to sing and a time to dance as tears run down your face. The character of Isabel, the vignettes and scenes of her life (and probably her demise) live on in the band’s songs. Aural creations that crest and break like a wave of grief to wash over both viscera and brain with the force of psychedelia, ambient, shoegazer, dark wave and goth.

The band started in 1998 as MADELINE USHER then renamed itself OLD WORLD CHARM in 1999, shedding and gaining a few members along the way. Earlier still it was a death metal outfit named THANATOPSY, and so on to THE LATE ISABEL DELGADO, now remembered even more easily -- and fondly -- without her surname. The band is currently composed of WAWI NAVARROZA (vocals), ALLAN HERNADEZ (guitars), JP AGCAOILI (drums), and ROVAL BACALE (bass), all veterans of the Manila goth-punk scene.

Coming of age in the post-punk era, the quartet grew up with a love for bands that eschewed the freewheeling go-go of ‘80s mainstream music, groups like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Clan of Xymox, Bauhaus, Joy Division and the gaggle of artists under the 4AD banner. With this came the intuitive understanding that music had to function on all to achieve a holistic effect.

“Art is not an isolated experience. It is deeply personal and deeply communal. I believe that the visual aspect of the band needs to be included in the package,” relates JP Agcaoili.

“If I could put music, painting, poetry, literature all in one package, then I would love to do that,” agrees Wawi Navarroza.

Their debut album, DOLL’S HEAD, is made up of eight exceptional tracks composed of equal parts lament, anguish, awe and snapshots of everyday tragedies. From the sinuous and seductive chant of the title track, the hungry eloquence of “Fingers Around the Wineglass,” the demented agitation of “Follow (The Mad March),” to the exploration of the urban abyss that is “Midnight City,” the record is indeed the culmination of two years’ labor in the subculture fringe.

Meanwhile, their live performance has been praised as a “tour through the dark corners of . . .dreams,” and that, “to watch The Late Isabel live is to be intrigued. . .and entranced.”

DOLL’S HEAD crystallizes the quartet’s skill for leading the listener to precision rapture via a swirling palette of textures and sonic landscapes that bring to fore the monsters, beautiful or otherwise, lurking in the depths. Proof that being haunted can be a ravishing, rhapsodic experience.

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The True Meaning of Goth

Light in the Dark Side: The Gothic Manifesto

Once they were just people from Germany; then after centuries, they were used to refer to a kind of literature which has certain elements of such thriller, until some say that they are now known for their thick make-ups, black apparel, weird thoughts of mysticism, among others which can be described dark. But just to make sure, what really is a Goth?

There are no exact origins; however it is said that the term “Gothic” was first used in the fields of arts and literature referring to works which have certain elements which give thriller, but in the modern age, it was said to be coined by Anthony H Wilson, the band manager of the punk band Joy Division during the late 80’s through the description “Gothic as compared to the pop mainstream”. It then continued to diversify until movies such as The Crow and other bands such as Bauhaus and The Cure adapted the subculture and then came the rise of Goth as a surviving subculture from punk.

Goth nowadays refers to people belonging to a subculture who claim that they feel comfortable within each others company. Regarding the “dark” stuff which was mentioned a while ago, they say that there is no such thing absolutely needed for someone to fit in the scene for they all have different musical tastes; follow different religions; and have different occupations, hobbies, and fashion sense.

Most of them claimed themselves as Goths because the way they want their lives to be are not fit to the taste of the “normal” society, enabling them to think free and reject the moral rules of the society because of hollow dogmatic reasons told to them, such as “that is just how it is” and “that is the will of the Lord”. To them, another big proof of that free thinking is their open-mindedness.

Nowadays, some Goths are stereotypical nowadays through different fields such as music, literature, or even any occupation. Some of those kinds of Goths express themselves mostly through the fashion which consisted up of traditional medieval, Elizabethan, and Victorian apparel to the studded and buckled up regalia; but the others pair it with the heavy metal fashion using the black trench coats and corpse paint.

To be exact, they themselves said that the determiner of Goths is their common attitude which consist of their highly developed satirical sense of humor (which they would not give up, though it leans satirical, because of enabling them to learn to laugh at themselves and see the society at a different kind of light), tolerance (shown by dropping all aspects of prejudice regarding their gender and religion), and weird thoughts (appearing through their own stereotypes); however Paul Hodkinson wrote a book titled Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture to the truth regarding Goths.

Because of these attitudes, some are prone to misinterpretation and abuse. The Red Lake High School and other more related incidents are to be taken as examples, wherein the meaning of Goth is misinterpreted as a racist Neo-Nazi thinking. It was also misinterpreted when the cartoonist Jhonen Vasquez satirized it in his work Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, where it showed self-mocking which lead to murder and depression.

On the other side, the Goth culture had already contributed much through different means such as music, arts, literature, among others, in which it gave a “darker shade” which gave the world a feeling of thriller. Good examples could be the bands Evanescence and Lacuna Coil, Wave-Gotik-Treffen photography in Germany, and Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles.

Here in the Philippines, we have our own Gothic band – The Late Isabel. This band, though not so famous, introduced a new type of rhapsody in the Gothic community of the Philippines through their debut album Doll’s Head. However, Filipinos seem so creative because their Wawi Navarroza, their vocalist, stated that she would love to do if she could only put music, painting, and poetry in one package.

The Goths are truly unbelievable people despite the way they look and the way they appear in our society. They do not mean to haunt everyone else instead they let the creativity out of them to let those sleeping nerves work to be able to let everyone see the light amidst the darkness in our lives nowadays. They are never that violent and are not that dark for they just want to do everything which would fill their lives to let the grandiose out of them before they disappear on earth.