I have no idea how I stumbled across this album when I was 14 or so, but it was the first time I had really heard music like this, especially by such a raw female vocalist. I have to listen to it at least once a year, it still gives me chills.

Maybe it’s just the nostalgia talking, but I think this Otep record holds up incredibly well 15 years later.

Favorites: Ghostflowers, Milk of Regret, Perfectly Flawed

I honestly thought this was just going to be Rosegarden Funeral Party demos when I saw it on YouTube, but I’m delighted by the discovery of yet another obscure, short-lived 80s goth band. The YouTube channel In Depth Music is full of some hidden gems.

What dark magic do I have to invoke to get these boys to make a second album??? 😭

Favorite tracks: Wolf, Fleez, Burning

Amazing. Stunning. Beautiful. Gorgeous. Exquisite. don’t have enough words to convey how much joy this album is giving me 🖤🖤🖤

UM HEY WAS THAT A REFERENCE TO AFI’S “THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT” IN THE SONG “FULL BLOWN MELTDOWN”??!!!!!!

PLEASE INJECT IT STRAIGHT INTO MY SOUL MR PUGET, HOLY FUCK 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Absolutely sublime. Can’t wait to check out the rest of Echoberyl’s discography 🖤

Oh my god, I regret not paying more attention to Malice Mizer sooner! Their whole discography is a delight, but I think this album in particular is my favorite.

A completely benign album that I don’t mind, but also won’t be returning to. It’s quarantine bedroom covers, there wasn’t much to expect here.

I cannot explain why the British pronunciation of “again” fills me with such joy, but whenever I find a musical artist who isn’t a coward and will sing “agayne and agayne and agayne” my soul leaves my body and I am at peace

I saw this band open for Bitter Ruin and Jason Webley in a very tiny bar venue like, 12 years ago. Still have the CD of their 5-track demo EP from that show. I never kept up with them, but this is a fun album. Faves are On a 45 & Last Kiss.

Remembered having Stillness is the Move and Two Doves on my iPod in high school, thought I’d finally check out the rest of the album. Turns out those were the only two songs I really like...

Found a Reddit thread about Japanese goth rock-adjacent acts, and was absolutely delighted by this album. This band has a massive catalog and appears to have done a lot of experimentation, but I really enjoy this one for what it is.

A very cool and unexpected treat from Jade Puget without Mr. Havok by his side. This EP is a great love letter to the more twinkly side of the 90s.

It was an experience getting to be part of a (virtual) small room of people who got to freak out about this song's surprise appearance at the end of the Where We Used to Meet screening. We were all waiting impatiently for the rerun of the short film so we could snag a low quality rip to appease ourselves until the official version dropped, and more than one person had OBS open and ready to go xD

what is WRONG with this website sometimes!!! three ratings, 62 average? are you kidding me? this is such a masterwork of 80s/90s gothic post-punk and I can't believe I've never heard of them before?????

What an interesting piece of REPO! history, coming from someone who's seen the film at least two dozen times.

Back in 2011, an anon on Tumblr sent me a link to this with some cryptic-sounding related AFI lyrics, and let me tell you I did not expect to commit to a 53-minute long dirge, and I REALLY didn't expect the cassette recording to cut to a totally unrelated and jarring guitar 20-minutes in and scaring the absolute piss out of me. It was...an experience.