Johdanto
Termiä "goottirock" (eng. gothic rock, käytetään myös muotoa goth rock) käytettiin alunperin kuvaamaan muutaman punk rock / post-punk-bändin musiikkia 1970-luvun lopulla. Monissa tietolähteissä ensimmäiseksi goottirock-leiman saaneeksi yhtyeeksi mainitaan englantilainen Joy Division, mutta todellisuudessa Joy Divisionin musiikki on luokiteltu goottirockiin kuuluvaksi useimmiten vasta myöhemmin, kun koko genre on syntynyt.
Goottirockista kasvoi oma genrensä 1980-luvun alkupuolella. Suuntauksen lyriikat käsittelevät usein synkkiä asioita, kuten kuolemaa, ja se on ottanut vaikutteita goottilaisesta kirjallisuudesta ja varhaisista mustavalkoisista kauhuelokuvista. Synkkyys ei ole kuitenkaan välttämätön pakko goottilyriikoissa, usein löytyy myös sanoituksia rakkaudesta ja muista "iloisemmista" asioista.
Lista goottirock-bändeistä (under construction)
- 9xdead
- 13 Candles
- 13 Tears
- 13th Sky
- 1919
- Adoration
- Advent Sleep
- After Dusk
- Agatha Christie
- Age Of Heaven
- All About Eve
- All Living Fear
- All That You Are
- Altered States
- Alvaréz Peréz
- Ancestry
- Angina Pectoris
- Another Tale
- Apocalypse Theatre
- Apostates
- Artica
- Asmodi Bizarr
- Audra
- Autumn Cathedral
- Autumn Clan
- Avaritia
- Awakening
- Babylonian Tiles
- Balaam & the Angel
- Bal Onirique
- Bauhaus
- Beautiful Deadly Children
- Behind The Scenes
- Belfegore
- Belisha
- Bell
- Beyond The Void
- Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
- Bitter Grace
- Big Electric Cat
- Blooding Mask
- Bloody Mary
- Blue Sky Theory
- Breath Of Life
- Brotherhood of Pagans
- Brother Orchid
- Burning Gates
- Cadra Ash
- Caelum Bliss
- Calling Dead Red Roses
- Canis Lupus
- Cassiopeia
- Catastrophe Ballet
- Catherines Cathedral
- Cauda Pavonis
- Cell Division
- Chants Of Maldoror
- Children of the Gun
- Children On Stun
- Closterkeller
- Clouds by Night
- Cold
- Creaming Jesus
- Cries Of Tammuz
- Crucifix Nocturnal Christians
- Cruelty Pageant
- Cult
- Culture Reverse
- Daddy's Dolls
- Daimonion
- Damned
- Danse Society
- Darkness Visible
- Dark Side Cowboys
- Daughters of Bristol
- Dawn of Oblivion
- Death Cult
- Descendants of Cain
- Despairation
- De Volanges
- Die Laughing
- Dingenskirchen
- Dominion
- Dr. Arthur Krause
- Dreadful Shadows
- Dream Disciples
- Dronning Maud Land
- Dryland
- Earth Calling Angela
- Ecodalia
- Elusive
- Emma Conquest
- Endless
- Escape With Romeo
- Esenia
- Every New Dead Ghost
- Excession
- Executive Slacks
- Exedra
- Ex-Voto
- Eyes of the Nightmare Jungle
- Fahrenheit 451
- Faith & the Muse
- Fallen Apart
- Fear of Dolls
- Fields of Aplomb
- Fields Of The Nephilim
- Flowers for Luci
- Flowers Of Romance
- Frank the Baptist
- Funhouse
- Fur Bible
- Furyo
- Gargoyle Sox
- Galaxy Chamber
- Garden of Delight
- Gary Marx
- Gene Loves Jezebel
- Ghost Dance
- Ghosting
- Ghost of Lemora
- Giants Causeway
- Gitane Demone
- Golden Apes
- Gorgonas
- Horatii
- Human Drama
- House of Usher
- Hysteric Helen
- Ikon
- Il Giardino Violetto
- Imaginary Walls
- In Excelsis
- Inkubus Sukkubus
- In mitra medusa inri
- Interzone
- Keep the Faith
- Killing Miranda
- Kill Sister Kill
- Kindred Spirits
- Kiss the Blade
- Last Dance
- Last Rites
- Lady Besery's Garden
- Leather Nun
- LeichenLiebe
- LeStat
- Libitina
- Look Back in Anger
- London After Midnight
- Lorien
- Love Infernal
- Love Like Blood
- Lucie Cries
- Lucyfire
- Madre Del Vizio
- Malaise
- Mano Juodoji Sesuo
- Mantus
- Marbre Noir
- March Violets
- Marionettes
- Martyr Whore
- Marquee Moon
- Masochistic Religion
- Medicine Rain
- Melusina
- Mephisto Walz
- Meridian
- Merry Thoughts
- Midnight Configuration
- Mighty Sphincter
- Mind Drop
- Miranda Sex Garden
- Mission
- Missionaries From Outside
- Mist of Avalon
- Moonchild
- Morbid Poetry
- Morendoes
- Morticia
- Mors Syphilitica
- Murder at the Registry
- Mute Angst Envy
- Naked and the Dead
- Necromantik Sunshine
- New Breed
- Nightmoves
- NFD
- Nosferatu
- Nova et Vetera
- Of a Mesh
- On the Floor
- Ochrana
- Opened Paradise
- Ordeal By Fire
- Para Bellvm
- Paralysed Age
- Passion Play
- Phantom Vision
- Pink Turns Blue
- Pins and Needles
- Play Dead
- Preachers Of Neverland
- Pretentious, moi
- Pronoian Made
- Prophetess
- Psi-com
- The Pussybats
- Psycho Luna
- Redemption
- Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
- Red Scare
- Red Temple Spirits
- Reptyle
- Requiem in White
- Restoration
- Return To Khafji
- Revolution By Night
- Rhombus
- Rome Burns
- Rose of Avalanche
- Rosetta Stone
- Rozencrantz
- Rubicon
- Salvation
- Sanguis Et Cinis
- Screaming Dead
- Screaming For Emily
- Screams For Tina
- Scream Silence
- Screem Wipers
- Second Skin
- Secret Discovery
- Secret Disease
- Seduced by Suicide
- Sensorium
- Sepulcrum Mentis
- Seraphin Twin
- Seres Vacios
- Shadow of Fear
- Shroud
- Siela
- Siglo XX
- Silvery
- Sins
- Sisters Of Mercy
- Sisters of Murphy
- Sisterhood
- Sister Zaus
- The Sleep Of Reason
- Snake Corps
- Solarice
- Solemn Novena
- Soul in Isolation
- Soulscape
- Southern Death Cult
- Spares
- Spiritual Bats
- Stale Bread
- Star Industry
- Staubkind
- Stiff Kittens
- Still Patient
- Stone 588
- Stun Gun
- Strange Boutique
- Subterfuge
- Sunshine Blind
- Sweet William
- Tears for the Dying
- Tears of Passion
- Tenebre
- That Backdoor Man
- Thatch Noir
- This Ascension
- This Burning Effigy
- This Vale Of Tears
- Tors Of Dartmoor
- Twelfth of Never
- Twisted Nerve
- UK Decay
- Undying Legacy
- Untoten
- Usherhouse
- Veil
- Vendemmian
- Voices of Masada
- Voltaire
- Voodoo Church
- Wake
- Wasteland
- Way of all Flesh
- Whispers in the Shadow
- Winter Chapter
- Witching Hour UK
- Wreckage
- XIII. Stoletì
- Your Funeral
- Zeraphine
- Zero le Creche
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