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I can’t thank you enough for this video! Been a fan of gothic country for the last 15 years, and still listening to it often. The band that got me into it was 16HP. Dee is a monolith of this genre for sure. I’d kindly recommend the other bands that were not mentioned in this video, but do deserve attention: - Palodine (cinematic and grande sound) - Headstone Brigade (more neo-folk leaning) - Snakes (Slim Cessna’s son George plays in it) And also JB Nelson (aka Sleepy Eyes Nelson) - although from the UK, it’s a haunting low-fi dark country that worth a listen! His recent album Body Bags Clapping is one of my favs of 2024.

Too many girl singers. This must be a beta male list!

The White Buffalo is another one.

Really dont enjoy the generic distilled product for mass consumption that is contemporary country. On the other hand, there are some fantastic gothic and bluegrass records that are being made that truly capture the essence of less palatable aspects of the human experience and really hit hard.

Awesome video! I'm curious where you might place Murder by Death and A Whisper in the Noise on the spectrum of Gothic country?

May i do a contribution.? The Coffinshakers it’s a Must! Sons of Perdition * is Bloody awesome ! I’ll add King Dude * and : Me And That Man * …… you need to lisent Both!¡!!

Let me help you out since you seem a bit young to have been there at the time. Those bands weren't overlooked, they just weren't any good and were rejected. In the case of Lowlife, they were way too late to the game and a pop band posing as alt.

Fun little fact Lupercalia is an ancient ancestor worship holiday where you commune with the dead. So I'm guessing the "fictional towns" those albums are talking about are from beyond the grave. Fitting of the Gothic Country umbrella.

Great video! I have listened to 16 Horsepower before and they are a pretty cool band. If you want to hear David Eugene Edwards dive into the world of neofolk, his 2023 solo album is excellent.

I guess post punk is the music that wouldn't have happened if not for punk. We had disco, reggae and soft rock dominating the music scene in the late 70s. But punk disrupted that and paved the way for Joy Division, Cure, Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen and Siouxsie. In the USA there was Talking Heads and Television. I remember most of those bands. Even the German ones. Not the last two though. Pretty obscure. Check out The Dancing Did.

I think you forgot about Hank 3

Thanks for the dive, obviously you could probably do hours on this stuff and I'd probably still watch. For me, I love several of the artists mentioned but I just can't get past 16 Horsepower. Literally everything they recorded is gold. I also love Wovenhand but I ADORE 16 HP. I also believe the Live album holds the best recordings of several of their songs. Not to mention the absolutely stunning covers of Leonard Cohen's Partisan and Joy Division's 24 Hours. The 16 Horsepower live album is one of the greatest live albums ever released.

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Great video ! Very interesting ! Fetisch by Xmal was released in 1983, not 1988 but I prefer Tocsin from 1984. In 1988 they already made bland popmusic to end their 10 year career around 1990. Going to see Anja Huwe play Xmal live next year though !

Ain’t this just outlaw country?

This video goes really well with a black coffee and the grim southern (England) dawn. Kudos Michael!

“ Down the River “ by Chris Knight is dark AF! Chris has a real feel for the southern gothic ideal.

I’ll have to shoutout my two favorites; Drab Majesty and Leathers. Some of it’s a little more on the Synthwave side, which is what I’m into.

As a Texan, let me say, it's way too hot to "go outside and enjoy ourselves" 😂 11:39

If you don't immediately start with Unknown Hinson. Then it's not real.

This was really interesting. I learned about some more artists I need to check out. Have you checked out bands like Amigo the Devil and Bridge City Sinners? I would put them more as dark folk/country, but I've definitely used "murder ballads" to describe at least half of Amigo's songs 😂 They're worth checking out, though they're perhaps another related sub-genre to Gothic country.

Where’s the Joy Division?! Haha! I’m kidding! EXCELLENT video, sir! It is incredible to see this being covered and shown some great artists that I haven’t come across yet. I can’t praise your research enough. Great job.

Great informative video! Nailed it on many artists that I’m shocked most people have come to know. Definitely many of my favorites on here. Awesome job!

i know they arnt from seattle but bro, silverchair is such a great band. do yourself a favor and check them out!

I'm surprised you didn't mention SWANS, with albums like Children Of God, A Burning World, White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity, The Great Annihilator, them with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds where the reason why this genre grew so much in the late 80s to 90s, but if anyone is interested check them out they are one of the most, if not the most uncompromising bands of all time in these albums I've mentioned, they have a blend of Dark Gothic Americana with Folk, and their own brand of Noise Rock, it's the best!

Thanks for making this video. It was really informative and between it and the comments, there's a mountain of music for me to explore. I have one nitpick though. Neurosis and Isis are not black metal. They're post-metal. Its an entirely different sound, although there's a newer subgenre of blackened post-metal as well (of course, because metal needs more subgenres).

Currently my favourite 'grunge' band is Orotoro. They have the early Soundgarden and Bleach era Nirvana but heavy and muddy. They're underrated as all hell.

Ironically, two of the most 'country' feeling bands that I love are All them Witches and Clutch. Both are rock bands that dabble in blues and sometimes tip toe into metal, but they both play music that makes me think of a big plain of wheat, a single dude in a thresher, and mountains on the horizon. More modern Clutch writes more grooving and Sci-fi referential songs, while All them Witches tend to do some bluesy philosophical songs about religious ideas, self inspection, and the odd punky jams about a sandwich, some blue collar working stuff, and feeling alienated in more metropolitan environments. Good shit.

Goth isn't goth anyway

yall need to listen to steve von till and Townes Van Zandt also did you just call isis or neurosis experimental black metal? thats funny.

Would you say that jason molinas and will oldhams music could be called gothic country or gothic folk?

Hello, thanks to your video. I am German and widh to fund more thrilling country artists as i do not like mainstream country music. Thank you again

Very cool. Thanks for making the video. I think this Jesus thing is so removed from modern man that it acts more as a mirror then as moral lesson. If one is a happy person, they bond with the happy Jesus. If one is a sad person they relate to the sad Jesus, and yes, in our modern days, there are more than a fare share of people that find harmony with the angry Jesus. If this Jesus really did exist, I think it would be shocking for both sides to actually meet each other. Thanks again for making this video sir.

Might be worth a shout out to Osi and the Jupiter as well, Appalachian neo folk.

So, here's some of my recommendations. They're dark but idk if they're officially gothic country lol. Shovels & Rope, and Brown Bird, and Scott H. Biram.

I'd also recommend Uncaught In Promise for anyone more into doomgaze and gothic metal type stuff

David Allan Coe is one of the greatest country singer songwriters to ever live. 'Revenge' and 'Living on the Run' would fit in fine here. 'Psycho' by Eddie Noack, the Hank Snow album 'Songs Of Tragedy', and lots of Bob Dylan, especially 'Ballad of Hollis Brown'. None in this paragraph would necessarily be called 'gothic country' because its older classic stuff, but its dark.

What song is playing during the first part of the Cessna section?

Pretty sure I just discovered like a dozen of my new favorite artists thanks to you.

Digging it! Grew up a southern Baptist/Catholic! Yes I’m drinking right now. Been looking for a genre to evoke the fire and brimstone revival feel from my youth. Now be got some research to do. Cheers!

Just came across Your channel and I subscribed after watching this video, great work. I would love to get your opinion on the rise of "Dark Country" as a genre, bands artists like blues saraceno, North Country Gentlemen and War Hippies have all been labeled as "dark country".

Whispering Sons from Belgium. Very intense singer with a very proficient band High Vis from the UK - perhaps not overtly goth in terms of aesthetic or even vocals - but check the guitars, which are straight out of Killing Joke, Joy Division and the Banshees. IF you like Chain Cult - you'll probably like them too. Was lucky enough to see both bands over the last couple of months and both were awesome live too.

It should be of little surprise, but you are a very capable interviewer as well. Your knowledge, appreciation and sedate manner( the kids would say chill), put you a cut above.

Danish band called Moral who invented dream pop before the Cocteaus had even put an album out.

Hey man,I suggest you check out Primeval Well, Crestfallen Dusk, and the other works of Ryan Clackner (released under Moonlight Cypress Archetypes) if you've gotten into Wayfarer. Very similar blends of southern gothic and atmoblack. Talkin in Tongues With Mountain Spirits is a high water mark in his discography.

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For sure though Giles Corey would've been on here

What a wonderful video. Thank you for your hard work. I have a lot of recommendations to follow up on.

Nick Shoulders: Turn on the Darkness. Gothic country rules

just listen to jesse sykes