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POCs in Goth/Punk/Alternative Music Masterpost

Updates! *01/15* I had originally intended on keeping it short, but due to reader enthusiasm, here is a master version. Each contribution was appreciated, you freaks rock.

As an addition to the goth/post-punk/alt band masterpost, here’s a list of bands featuring members of color. Most are influential, others new discoveries or future freak gods. Thanks to research and helpful readers, here’s a bit of sick sound suitable for all taste buds:

Goth, dark or industrial:

Punk or hardcore:

  • Bad Brains - why most of the bands on this list even exist.
  • Death - not to be confused with the metal band of the same way. Not that you could confuse the members in any way.
  • Rough Francis - founded by the sons of David Hackney of Death.
  • Pure Hell - afropunk taken literally.
  • X-Ray Spex - Poly Styrene was the energy and feel of the band. Actually, she was just energy and feel period. Fun fact: she was also bipolar.
  • Radkey - Rad.
  • TMGE - Japanese band named “Thee Michelle Gun Elephant” or as they prefer: JAPANESE BAND NAMED “THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT”.
  • Tamar Kali - powerful musician, especially known for “Boot”.
  • The Objex - Feloney Melony’s got a wicked hawk and voice.
  • Stiffed - Santi White now performs solo as Santigold.
  • Cerebral Ballzy
  • Suicidal Tendencies
  • Midori - great jazz-punk fusion band.
  • The Redscare
  • Le Butcherettes - Mexican garage punk band.
  • Atari Teenage Riot
  • NOFX
  • Stalin
  • The Bags
  • Dev Hynes - a British musician who started out in a punk band Test Icicles then went solo as a folk/indie musician as Lightspeed Champion and now is doing an electronic/R&B thing as Blood Orange.
  • L’Arc-en-Ciel - Okay, so these guys are Japan’s other most famous export. These guys got known outside of japan for doing some major anime theme songs (Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam 00, NANA live action movie, etc) and were the first Japanese act to headline Madison Square Garden (Japanese rock bands really like New York for some reason). Their bassist tetsuya (formally known as tetsu) gets bonus points for being one of Japan’s only out LGBT celebrities (he’s Bi).
  • Doll$Box
  • Letlive
  • The Chariot
  • Trashtalk
  • Gogol Bordello - self described as “gypsy punk”. Singer Eugene Hütz is Russian-Ukranian with Romani heritage and born with a ‘stache. Nearly crazier than Little Big and Korpiklaani combined.
  • Blackfire
  • The Bots - punk duo made of two brothers.
  • Bow Wow Wow - IIIIIII Waaaant Caaandy!!!
  • Love Equals Death
  • Ritualization - blackened death metal from Orléans, France
  • Teengenerate

Metal, funk/rap/reggae metal fusion or core:

  • Blasphemy - Black metal, the biggest irony on earth as Caller of the Storms remains one of the rare black musicians within the genre.
  • Babymetal - this Japanese trio is more metal than a viking woman on her period in the middle of a battlefield drinking the blood of her enemies to the sound of Immortal…for some at least.
  • Wicked Wisdom - Will Smith’s wife get a band?? Yes she Will.
  • Unlocking the Truth - these 13 year olds played in the streets of NYC before they opened for Living Colour.
  • Absolace - amazing metal from Dubai.
  • Living Colour - better than Dead Monochrome.
  • King’s X - more hard rock, but hey.
  • Bionic Jive - one of the better hip-hop/metal fusions.
  • Skindred - check out the album “Roots Rock Riot”.
  • Ego Fall - a Chinese folk metal band and also Corbac’s fave. Mixing tradition with heavier sounds.
  • Static X - Japanese guitarist Koichi Fukuda & Mexican-American bassist Tony Campos.
  • Sepultura - the founding members are all Brazilian, currently their lead singer (Derrick Green) is black. “Arise” is a massive album of pure metal awesomeness.
  • Straight Line Stitch
  • Blood Stain Child
  • Sasamaso
  • Tenger Cavalry -  a folk metal band based out of Bejing who describe their style as “Mongolian folk metal”. Like this and you’d probably enjoy Ego Fall.
  • Cthonic - Taiwanese metal band who’s lead singer is also the president for the Taiwanese branch of Amnesty International.Most of their music deals with their goal of an independent Taiwan and they’re really REALLY great.
  • Myrath
  • God Forbid
  • Invasion - a stoner/psych-metal band fronted by a valkyrie space wizard out of London.
  • Vodun - like invasion, marries punk, psychedelic, and doom metal influenced instrumentals with soul influenced vocals to create a unique and original takes on doom metal.
  • Sevendust
  • Animals as Leaders - most suggested band on this list and for good reason.
  • Veil of Maya
  • Oceano
  • Body Count - Ice T’s metal band rules. It would be a little tastier with ice cubes though.
  • Hirax - pioneering thrash/speed metal band (with hardcore influences). Katon De Pena is one of the most distinctive vocalists of the then-burgeoning California metal scene. Though they never achieved the success of some of their contemporaries like Metallica or Slayer, they have long been an insiders’ favorite and cited as an influence by bands ranging from Napalm Death to Cannibal Corpse to Darkthrone.
  • Infectious Grooves
  • Melechesh - an Assyrian black metal band originating from Jerusalem whose lyrical themes include Mesopotamian mythology and occultism.
  • Iron Man - American doom metal band with PoC members.
  • Sex Machineguns - Japanese speed metal band.
  • Hibria - Brazilian power metal band.
  • Metallica
  • Gevolt - Yiddish band from Israel.
  • The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza
  • Gridlink
  • X Japan - Probably Japan’s most famous metal export. These guys are the reason Visual Kei (basically Japan’s gothic metal scene) exists. All those flashy JRock bands wouldn’t exist without X Japan. They also recently just played a huge show at Madison Square Garden.
  • Maximum the Hormone - Also known as “the guys that did that weird opening and ending to death note”, MTH do a fantastic combination of metal, punk, and even pop. The best part about MTH is that their lyrics don’t make sense even when translated so you can just have mindless fun listening to them even if you understand Japanese.
  • Suffocation -  one of the most influential death metal acts of all time. Terrance Hobbs’ incredible mastery of the guitar allowed the band to blend complex technicality into the genre without sacrificing raw brutality.
  • Versailles Philharmonic Quintet
  • Suicide Silence
  • The Crimson Armada
  • For Today
  • Glass Cloud
  • Heaven in Her Arms
  • Here comes the Kraken
  • Issues
  • Periphery
  • Reflections
  • System of a Down
  • Fear Nuttin Band
  • Year of the Dragon - founder was a member of Fishbone.
  • Dir En Grey
  • Skyharbor
  • Spineshank
  • Coal Chamber
  • Ill Niño
  • Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in Dilapidation (FID) - Formed in Tokyo. Rad ladies playing some super hard grindcore.
  • Sarcofago - Brazilian band
  • Acrassicauda - Iraqi heavy metal. There is a film called “Heavy Metal in Baghdad”, about the band. Another documentary called Global Metal, which is by the same director as Heavy Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, is highly recommended.
  • Sigh - one of the first japanese black mack metal bands led by a fierce lady.
  • Sabbat - Japanese black/thrash.
  • Blood Stain Child - rather epic sounding Japanese metal band with contrasting vocals and instrumentals.
  • Gallhammer - female Japanese extreme metal band of doom. The wickedest chicks, definitely recommend.
  • Avulsed - Spanish death metal band.
  • Necramynth - Korean black metal.
  • Crossfaith - japanese metalcore.
  • Subrosa
  • As they Burn - deathcore band from Paris, France.
  • Wolves and Jackals - blackened thrash/death metal from Atlanta, GA.
  • Infernal Revulsion - brutal death metal from Tokyo, Japan
  • Orange Sky - from Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Monuments - it’s got saxophone and it’s awesome.
  • Ego Likeness
  • Peelander-Z - watch the videos, you’ll be happy you did.

Alternative or too cool to label:

Thank you thechampagnenigga for images/links and looselimbs for one more suggestion!

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prose advice from the pros

me: Oh, I can't take this roller coaster of having everything to say, thinking I'm writing the next Dracula, wanting to share it with everyone, doubting it, thinking its trash, fighting myself off with a knife so I don't delete everything, staring at the ceiling wondering what the hell my life even is, and then having everything to say again. I wish I had some great advice from one of the masters of writing...
Ray: Stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
me: Wow! The ghost of-
Earnest: AND BOOZE!
Ray: Hemmingway, no.
Earnest: Booze and pussy?
Ray: GO AWAY
Lord Byron: Pft, why stop there when there's cock, ass, drugs, wars, half-sisters-
Ray: Cool it, George! Really, I got this! You are NOT helping!
Marcel: wahwahamahnawahwah
Ray: Proust, no one can hear you through your cork lined room.
Marcel: /cracks door/ Has anyone seen my gallon of coffee?
Alexandre: Just have like fifteen underlings help you with the boring parts.
Ray: NO! Dumas- all of you, l don't-
Edgar: I was sober for brief periods, it was terrible.
me: Wait... that's not even your quote...
Edgar: Oh really? I JUST SAID IT!
Miguel: I helps to be a genius. Have you tried that?
me: um...
Gabriel: Worth it! High five, Miguel!
Emily: /whisper whisper/
Virginia: Emily says being a mad genius works as well. Have you ever struggled with crippling depression?
Edgar: Ruins everything else in your life, but you'll be rich, loved, and famous.
Emily: /whisper whisper/
Edgar: Oh, that's right, we didn't die rich, famous and loved, did we? No, no, we did not. Bunch of Goth kids love us now though, sooooo... there's always that.
Lady Murasaki: I could help you, but you spent all your time mulling over William S. Burroughs instead of reading one of the greatest epic novels civilization ever produced. It's cool though, it's fine. He wrote and English after all, and you learned so much about ass play, totally worth your time and effort.
Cao Xueqin: Preach!
Neil: Just write. Stop procrastinating and just write.
me: Thanks, you know what? I needed to hear that.
Ray: What the? Neil Gaiman, you're not dead!
Neil: Oh? *Aren't I?*
Ray: Check your pulse, Gaiman.
Neil:
Neil: Oh, right! Cheers!
Fyodor: Have you ever been in a mock execution? Ok, funny story-
me: GUYS! I'M WRITING! I SWEAR! WATCH ME WRITE ALL WRITEY LIKE!!!
#writer problems#writing#neil gaiman#ray bradbury#virginia woolf#earnest hemmingway#miguel de cervantes#edgar allan poe#too many to tag
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At a Nine Inch Nails Concert

Rivethead: Great show!
Elder: Yes, very cool I have to admit. Is that Trent Reznor on drums? Where's the drummer I thought Trent was singing?
Rivethead: Nah, look he's on keyboard.
Elder: Oh yeah, you're right. With the flashing lights, smoke, and whatnot it's hard to tell- wait THAT is Trent Reznor!
Rivethead: Yeah, we're at a NIN concert.
Elder: No! I mean up there fixing the lights and yelling at moths.
Rivethead: Moths were ruining the lighting.
Elder: Ok, it's just... does he have clones. Oh! I love this song.
Rivethead: Hot dog guy! Hot dog guy! Damn it! Over here!
Elder: Hot dogs at a concert?
Rivethead: What a piece of shit, he just walked right past me.
Elder: Ok NOW where did he go!
The Reznornator: Here's your hotdog sorry about that. Enjoy the show!
Rivethead: Thanks, Trent!
Elder:
#misadventures of eldergoth#Nine Inch Nails#NIN#Trent Reznor
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Posting a selfie or writing

Me: fuck you! I don’t even care! What do you know? Whatevs 5EVAH! Tell your opinions to your … ASS!!

::gets 3 likes::

Me: /frantic whispering/ Iloveyoupleasedontleaveme

#tumblr#selfie#selfies#gpoy#me
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How can you listen to that depressing music?

Elder: Thanks for driving me to pick up my car.
Perky: Sure, just remember to keep at least a quarter tank of gas in it. Running on fumes all the time will destroy your full pump.
Elder: What am I; a scientist?! I should have people under me handling these petty details.
Perky: Yes, dear.
Elder: What kind of music do you have here...? Wow, Perkolator, you have some great bands on here. I thought it would be too, you know, depressing for you.
Perky: Oh, that's a silly stereotype! Just hit random on my playlist and see.
Elder: Ok.
Playlist: children were running, water was running, you were running out of time-
Perky: Wait, alright, first one doesn't count.
Playlist: It all began when they took me from my home and put me on Death Row-
Perky: No, no, no- hold on...
Playlist: it seems three years, or maybe four, someone drops dead whom I adore// you want to know why I hate you'll try and explain// Sunday is gloomy, in shadows I've spent them all-
Perky: What? That last one shouldn't even be on here!
Playlist: what does it matter if we all die?// death is everywhere!// Enola Gay, you should've stayed at home yesterday...
Perky: THERE!! Enola Gay!That's a punchy little dance number!
Elder: ...
Perky: What?
Elder: I'm just going to sit here and let you google it later.
Perky: Oh, gods, it's 99 Luftballons all over isn't it?
Elder: Exactly.
#gothgoth#goth people problems#your music seems so depressing but people just don't it like you do#perky#Misadventures of Eldergoth#in-scene fighting
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Working on a new Dangerous Films post about Cult Classics (not covered in the horror post). Here's how some images are coming along so far.

Its an extremely brief selection of different genres like the Horror one, so I'm sure to miss a lot of great movies. Still, if there's one that really stands out to you let me know- especially terrible 80s post apocalyptic films.

I'd like to make a SciFi/Fantasy post so I'm not sure that I would put in, say, Blade Runner- but I want films like Mad Max, Escape from New York, A Boy and His Dog- see what I mean?

Any suggestions?

#wip#cult films#my stuff#david bowie#tank girl#velvet goldmine#john waters
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cinnamon-screams replied to your post “Confession: I will always hold a slight grudge against Boris Karloff for portraying such an inaccurate version of the creature, and for making said portrayal the image that pops into everyone's mind when they hear the name Frankenstein.”

BUT THE LEVEL OF NUANCE AND EMOTION HE WAS ABLE TO BRING TO THE ROLE WITHOUT EVEN SPEAKING! I'm sorry for yelling, but DAMN it KILLS me that people don't appreciate Boris Karloff like they do Bela Lugosi! Karloff forever.

I get that people who love the novel (which absolutely was beautiful, complex, and philosophical) hate how it's portrayed in popular culture. I really do.

 It did NOT stick to the novel AT ALL. I mean, did any one notice how much more likable Victor is? in that he's likable at all?

But the first two Karloff Frankenstein films were their own works of art. It's ok to make art inspired by another work of art... that's kind of how the whole thing works.

The people the nerdy book-fans are really mad at is the everyday schmuck who thinks the Scooby Doo version of Frankenstein is the novel. The only people who notice or get upset by their rants are other nerds who love the classic horror film.

So... it's gonna be ok, fellow nerds. We're all ok.

#cinnamon-screams#frankenstein#nerds#mary shelley#boris karloff
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Here's something I'm working on.

I've been asked to make a list of dangerous movies for Goth Triggers, and after trying for months I think I'm going to end up making shit like this and hosting in on my website. Yes, it's very blurry and not finished.

If I can make it work, I'd love to do more for other genres (like Cult Classics) and then maybe move onto music.

Because I hate myself.

I'm pretty... obsessive is a strong word... I get stuck on things like this. Well, I'm excited anyway.

So that's what I've been doing. :)

#WIP#horror#horror movies#rough draft#so to speak
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