Origin: Northampton, Northamptonshire, En

Decades: 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's

Bauhaus are the founding fathers of goth rock, creating a minimalistic, overbearingly gloomy style of post-punk rock driven by jagged guitar chords and cold, distant synthesizers. Throughout their brief career, the band explored all the variations on their bleak musical ideas, adding elements of glam rock, experimental electronic rock, funk, and heavy metal. While their following has never expanded beyond a cult, they kept their cult alive well into the '90s, a full decade after they disbanded. The group f... Read More

Brian Eno, David Bowie, Roxy Music, T. Rex and The Velvet Underground

Faith and the Muse, Interpol, Christian Death, Jane's Addiction, Placebo, She Wants Revenge and Nitzer Ebb