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has anyone past the 90s been able to pull off anything even remotely "goth"?
Well, the Visigothic Kingdom lasted for 30 more years after 690, so I'm inclined to say yes.
Wednesday was incredibly popular and is probably why there's a bit of a goth revival going on.
Type O Negative had two albums in the 2000's, and they were only OK (especially compared to their 90's albums), but I'd say they still count as "pulling off something remotely 'goth'"
Plus, Nine Inch Nails has some good stuff in the aughts, and Trent Reznor's brand of industrial rock is definitely "goth-adjacent," as are My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade (2006, I think) and AFI's Sing the Sorrow (2003), which are both great albums.
And in more recent music, the band Creeper is really killing it. Their rock opera Sex, Death, and the Infinite Void is very goth and it's amazingly good (especially as someone who turned his nose up at pop-punk as a kid).
In non-music media, there have been some really good comics with goth aesthetics in the last 20 years, and I can give some good recs if anyone is interested.
Does The Batman count? Or is that emo? Please don't hate me, I'm an old man.
i was never goth, i don't know what the minimum brooding darkness threshold is, but i hung around goths enough in the 90s to be pretty sure batman would not be considered goth. anne rice crap = definitely goth. the crow remake = definitely NOT goth
Man the new Interview with a Vampire is definitely goth.
Goth generally doesn't have an uplifting single hero but a bunch of people all collectively wallowing in the mud of sorrow together vibe to it as someone that is basically pastel goth.
Wat, you mean music? Lots of good stuff. Check out:
for more look here: https://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/past.php?reqYear=2023