OG Goth here - I saw all the original bands when I was a teen in the early to mid 80s. I am up to date on Goth bands up to around the early 2000s, but haven’t been looking hard for newer bands lately. This is a great list. I’m going to dive into some of these newer ones (I just made a giant playlist), and come back to look at the comments, too.

Very cool!

Enjoyed this a lot since this was one of the scenes I grew up with. How about 80"s Death Rock bands like 45 Grave, Christian Death

I saw this page on my feed so I decided to drop by & OMG...I'm glad I did! I'm now a suscriber & I'm now exploring all bands on this list (especially Anja Huwe). THANK YOU! I thoroughly enjoyed the content.

Some weird likes: Polyrock, Vivabeat, Lets Active, Bush Tetras, The Plastics,

FYI; It's pronounced MOHG, not MOOG. Like the word "mow" with a "g" at the end.

Thanks for your intro to the Chameleons! You have opened a can of worms…. Great channel 👍

Rip, Rig & Panic! “God” is a great album. Neneh Cherry was one of the singers.

Anje Huwe just released an excellent solo album. Check it out.

The Sound!!!!🖤🖤🖤🖤

This is very nostalgic. I miss the John Peel show.

A very difficult topic as there were so many of these bands/artists who deserved so much more! Regardless, job well done and have to agree with Jim….The Comsat Angels would have fit nicely into your set!

Great job having The Sound and The Chameleons... though you inexplicably left out the Comsat Angels

Section 25 - Always Now

What no The Birthday Massacre?

Saw Xmal Deutschland around 84 and they were superb. I was pleasantly surprised to see Lowlife featured. I was in a band in the 80s on the same label as them (Nightshift).😊

I recommend Play Dead (the First Flower and From The Promised Land), The Passions, Modern Eon, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Theatre Of Hate, Crispy Ambulance, Southern Death Cult, and early Parade Ground falls under post-punk and their later 1980's stuff combined post-punk with EBM. Parade Ground around 1988-89 sounded like Echo & The Bunnymen meets Front 242.

You're not pronouncing Molchat Doma right. Here's how it's pronounced: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4C3d62smtqhn7M

This is one of the best music posts I've read. Punk is my specialty. If you care to see my article on punk, simply google The 15 Best Punk Albums .....published on the Analog Planet audiophile site

Thank you for this ❤❤

Check out The Birthday Party! Nick Cave’s first band formally known as The boys Next Door.

Great video and really well researched. Will be giving some of these a listen, particularly The Sound. I can appreciate the early days for the influence and tailwinds, but generally like those bands/projects who were influenced by them, sometimes more than 2 generations distant. Another band that contributed early on, but ended up going in different directions, was The Cult / Southern Death Cult. They had a lot of influence on both the postpunk and big arena rock phenomena.

Im gonna check various of these bands thank you!

Also check out Soviet post punk band "Kino" with their lead singer Viktor Tsoi.

I JUST found Lowlife on Spotify a few weeks ago. I don't know how I missed this band. They are great.

Virgin Prunes comes to mind...

Thanks for this list. Definitely agree with Boy Harsher at #1, just an amazing band over all. Also love Twins Tribes, Molchat Dolma, Vision Video, & Kaelan Mikla. I'm a little surprised that neither Lebanon Hanover nor She Past Away were on here as they seem to be two of the bigger modern goth bands, but I do think they both formed in 2012 so maybe they just miss your cut-off date. Creeper I had never heard of, but they sounded good in the clip so definitely gonna go check them out.

Another rabbit hole would be American 80’s experimental electronic underground music, such as the Nightcrawlers. A lot of the artists only recorded on tapes, and they were prolific. Awesome stuff that you can find on KZbin. Cheers!

How about Dark and Doom Jazz? Brace yourself for a rabbit hole if it’s new to you. Cheers!

May I suggest Per Ubu

Turkey Bones and Wild Dogs is very much in this vein, with Raymond and Goldfish singles.

Jeopardy is a brilliant lp

Thank you that serendipity coalesced with KZbin yet again to broaden my interest and research. Subscribed off the journalistic integrity of this one video. Listed some of these bands for necessary research amd inspiration for my artistic endeavors in Hip Hop. Intend to immerse in further videos at my leisure. Furtherance of prosperity to you.

Fra Lippo Lippi - In Silence, Middle Class - Homeland, Medium Medium - The Glitterhouse

Kate Bush, The Chameleons UK, The Sound and Siouxsie and the Banshees on the shelve :)

Thanks for the recognition that it wasn't purely an English scene. Honorable mentions: Dif Juz, The Associates, Asylum Party (France), BÖHM (Japan)

Play Dead, Belgians: TC Matic, Swedish bands: Commando M Pigg, Reeperbahn, lustans Lakejer Finnish: Sielun Veljet

Brilliant viddi mate. Hadn't heard of a single one of them. Love that you have that Belarus band, their sound really is classic and sharp. As an old school goth/punk alt nerd, I often wonder what's going on currently, but rarely find anything. This collection is more than I have found in the last ten years and then some. Absolutely love it and will be snapping up a bunch of stuff now.

Thanks so much for all the great comments and recommendations! Obviously, no list of 10 underrated post-punk bands will even cover the really, really good ones, and I have every intention of doing a "Part II"... not right away, but in a bit! When I watch this one, I remember how sick I was while writing, recording, and editing it, and I see all the spots I could've made better, so I appreciate the positive feedback it's gotten. Usually, I use this spot to mention any corrections to the content. I wish I'd mentioned Neue Deutsche Welle when I brought up Fehlfarben, since they were certainly part of a German wave that was sonically connected to post-punk but had its own identity as well. That's the only correction so far. Also, for those of you who don't think of U2 as a post-punk band... go listen to "Boy" and "October". I'm not sharing a hot take, this is a fact!

How the hell U2 are post-punk? They are as pop as it gets before you turn into Madonna and their sound is as light as late disco.

I love your channel. Great research and information. I am a DJ at a rather popular local Goth club and I'm always looking for new bands to share with our rather large audience.

Glad to see the Chameleons on this list! Was a big fan in the 80s, but was then bewildered by the fact that I seemed to be the only one who knew about them. Saw them last year in Ardmore, PA: I was absolutely ecstatic to hear them live and they did not disappoint!

Check out the Shop Assistants. They were a punk band but perhaps 5 years too late. Their lead singer sadly died and only 10 years later did the music world find out. Safety Net and Somewhere in China are 2 great singles. Another great band was the Young Marble Giants - very distinctive sound.

Late 80's thru early 90's Nashville band "Jet Black Factory" was one of my favorite local bands back in the day. The 80's/ early 90's Nashville non-country music scene was great.

Every list like this is incomplete if you don't include And Also The Trees, who started in the early 80s, became associated with Cure, but always flew under the radar. They never stopped making great music, have always had a distinct style and are one of the best live bands around. Definitely worth checking out!

From Fehlfarben there are two more Longplayers from the 80’s I enjoy much more: 33 Tage in Ketten Glut und Asche

Where's Theatre of Hate?

Anyone who mentions The Sound and The Chameleons gets a Sub!, I wanna hear more about what you have to say. I have been singing the praises of The Sound for years. Highly underrated!

I forgot one of my all time favourite bands, Corpus Delicti.

I’d add Psyche and UK Decay to this too. I’ll definitely be checking out some of the bands listed. I already love The Chameleons and know a few others but not well so will go back to listen more.