Teutonic KnightA drawing of a Teutonic Knight based on a simple sketch of a figure in a book. I have given it texture and shadows.
The Teutonic Order was originally one of the three religious orders present in the Holy Land. By the thirteenth century, the order was settled in Northern Germany and with another religious order, the Sword Brothers, it launched a series of crusades against the pagan Prussians. The Teutonic Order and the Sword Brothers continued expanding into Livonia and Poland-Luthuania until 1410 at the Battle of Tannenberg.
'Angels with silver wings
Shouldn't know suffering
I wish I could take the pain for you
If God has a master plan
That only He understands
I hope it's your eyes
He's seeing through'
Depeche Mode 'Precious'
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What kind of music is that you listen to? I can't quite get the genre.
Hello Isa,
I listen to a variety. I don't know which CD you may be referring to.
Okay, just a sample here. I listen to the following (genres if you like):
New Romantics, Synthpop, Electro-Goth, Electro-Industrial or EBM (Electronic Body Music) or Futurepop, Classical, some trance/ambient, some Hi-NRG,
Eurodisco.
EBM, Electro-Industrial, Futurepop
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Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Dismantled, Neuroactive, [Active] Media Disease, Lost Signal, Flesh Field, The Azoic, Imperative Reaction, Haujobb, VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23, Cesium 137, In Strict Confidence, Colony 5, Covenant, X marks the Pedwalk, and many many more.
Electro-Goth and Goth
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Sisters of Mercy, Clan of Xymox, Frozen Autumn, Dead can Dance, Lisa Gerrard, Faith and the Muse, Faith and Disease, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Lycia, Love Spirals Downwards, Chandeen, Wolfsheim and more.
Classical
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Liszt, Satie, Faure, Debussy, Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakov and more.
New Romantics
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Duran Duran, John Foxx/Ultravox, Human League, Tubeway Army/Gary Numan, Tears for Fears, Arcadia, Soft Cell/Marc Almond, Bronski Beat, The Communards, ABC, Thompson Twins,
Synthpop
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Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Monaco,
Electronic, Revenge, Yazoo, Alphaville, De/Vision, KeiTheVez, Wave in Head, A-Ha, Information Society, Astrea Redux, Karl Bartos, Beborn Beton, The
Beloved, Boxcar, Book of Love, The Postal Service, Future Bible Heroes, Camouflage, Cause and Effect, Cetu Javu, Children Within, Count to Infinity,
Dead or Alive, Daybehavior, Hazell Dean, Bananarama, Kylie Minogue (only under SAW), Distain!, Diorama, and many many many more.
Electroclash
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Ladytron, The Faint, Fischerspooner
Trance/Ambient and what not
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Orbital, Underworld, Banco de Gaia, Leftfield (some of it), Chemical
Brothers (some), Air, and more.
Eurodisco and Italodisco (considered embarassing but hey!)
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Sandra, Modern Talking, C.C.Catch, Bad Boys Blue, Michael Fortunati, Gazebo
Shoegazing
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Slowdive, Mojave 3
Others
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Tangerine Dream, Bjork, Dot Allison, Apollo 440, Goldfrapp, Saint Etienne, Joy Division, Broadcast, Lightning Seeds, The Magnetic Fields/Stephen Merrit, The Cardigans, CCCP, Couteau Twins, Conjure One, Delerium, Lush, Hooverphonic
A very partial list. It's not possible to list them all.
My current faves, at least for the last five or so years, are electro-industrial (ebm) and electro-gothic. (Don't mistake them for metal-industrial and metal-gothic, those are very different. Don't mistake them for MTV goth like Evanescene and others. They wear heavy makeup but they aren't really goth...)
So, if you say genre, it would be ebm and electro-gothic. Those CDs on my favourites list in the blog are basically of that nature. I will be posting more on this towards the end of the month.
If you interested in trying them, I can direct you to a few websites.
o.o omg. that's a reallllllly looooonnnnnngggggg list.. industrial is nice. metal-goth is nice.
Yea, could you give me a few sites? I'm quite keen to explore other genres. Preferably, the ones from your recommended selection.
...and your list above - Wow!
Thanks for compiling the super long list.
I will reply sometime tomorrow. I have some links. The problem about samples is that they often fail to convey the intended feel. You lose the emotional impact, especially for goth tracks as there is a strong build-up of the atmosphere if you will.
Metal, not my cup of tea. Heh.
Okay, here we go. A long reply.
A note. These are electronic in nature and some of them feature heavy, harsh, processed and distorted vocals. Many industrial bands utilised heavy processing for vocals. Many would also feature anti-establishment themes. End of civilisation, the evils of religion (so, if you are easily offended by the images... steer clear), the coming of a dark future, totalitarian governments, state control, media control, dystopian futures, cybernetics, robotics, angels, demons, paganism, pseudo-medieval music, S&M, etc. Of course, these are themes and imagery. Nothing beyond that.
No industrial metal and gothic metal for me. Okay, maybe I do listen to a little NIN.
For the German group In Strict Confidence, try the following tracks:
Emergency
Engelsstaub
Babylon
Seven Lives
Herzattacke
Samples can be found at:
http://www.instrictconfidence.de/english/download/index.shtml
The website is at:
http://www.instrictconfidence.de
For Faith and the Muse, try:
Scars Flown Proud
Shattered In Aspect
Both tracks are found in 'Evidence of Heaven'. The live tracks are available too.
For Faith and the Muse, the website is at:
http://www.mercyground.com/
There are samples for every track in every album:
For Imperative Reaction, try:
Diminish me
The website is at:
http://www.imperativereaction.net/
And samples are at:
http://www.imperativereaction.net/discography.php
For the Azoic:
The website is at:
http://www.nilaihah.com/theazoic/
Complete CD quality tracks can be found at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005RUQP/ref=gw_disp_dwnld_3/002-5323667-3469632?v=glance&s=music&n=507846&st=digital-music
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005RUQQ/ref=gw_disp_dwnld_3/002-5323667-3469632?v=glance&s=music&n=507846&st=digital-music
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005RUQV/ref=gw_disp_dwnld_3/002-5323667-3469632?v=glance&s=music&n=507846&st=digital-music
These are great tracks from the first album.
For Flesh Field:
The website is at:
http://www.flesh-field.com/
The track to try is:
Conquer Me
Samples are at:
http://www.flesh-field.com/audio.htm
For Clan of Xymox, the Dutch Goth band, try:
Out of the Rain
Hypocrites
A Stranger
One Day
The website is at:
http://www.clanofxymox.com/
For Front Line Assembly try:
Fatalist
Predator
Everything must perish
Vanished
Prophecy
The website is at:
http://www.frontlineassembly.com or http://www.delerium.com
Choose Front Line Assembly.
There is really a lot more but I really can't go on and on and on and on and on...
Thanks. I enjoyed Faith And The Muse and The Azoic.
Faith and The Muse somehow reminded me of Enya and Enigma. The Burning Season was a little trance but it's quite ok.
Not a fan of trance and techno so I've never quite explored to electronics. Goth however is quite a change from the usual crap electronics you get from techno and trance.
Anyway, there is a wide variety of Goth. Metal goth, ethereal goth, industrial goth, pop goth, electro-goth, folk-goth, etc. There is no one sound for goth really.
If you like trance or techno, I can recommend quite a few. I don't know the latest developments but I have been to tremendously great concerts from Orbital, Banco de Garia, Underworld and a couple of others. I would recommend Orbital's first, second, third and fourth albums. For Banco de Gaia, I would recommend the first three. Underworld, only the third album. My friend, Eugene, would recommend the latest.
And no, I don't like Moby.
If you like Enigma, you could try Delerium's 'Semantic Spaces' and 'Karma' albums. They are pretty good. Deep Forest is a crap derivative of Enigma though.
Chuang, I couldnt help but notice you are a Singapore who loves EBM/Synthpop/Futurepop/industrial.
You have no idea how few of us there are. Why not take the red pill and join us?
I'm even thinking of bringing some acts of our genre over, do contact us
Saito
Singapore Dark Alternative Movement
saito@outbreed.org
Hello Saito,
I know of a few 'goth' groups in Singapore over the years. There was a group on the Meetup site and MSN Groups a few years back. There were two gatherings or so but somehow everything fizzled out.
Yes, you are right about the few who listen to EBM/Synthpop/Futurepop/industrial though there are actually quite a number of goths around from what I understand. Different breeds if you will, into different things like black metal, emo, poetry, piercings, etc.
I am actually surprised to hear from you as I thought the numbers listening to this sort of music is pretty much limited if not almost nonexistent.
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