VNV Nation is coming, and even though we’ll have to endure endless bitching about how VNV Nation isn’t goth every single goth we know will be there. Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson put on fantastic ...

A teaming crowd had packed the floor of the The Gothic Theatre by the time Manchester Orchestra took the stage. No one seemed more surprised by this than the band’s frontman. “I did not expect this ...

Watching the Dead Superheroes Orchestra perform is a little like watching the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. That is, if the CSO had an electric guitar section, dressed in all black, and sang about death ...

Thanks to his vociferous admirers, Havergal Brian has been installed as the British archetype of the unjustly neglected composer, and his First Symphony, the Gothic, has become the symbol of that ...

It is incremental work as the musicians inch on, bar by bar, with an occasional gleam of sustained brilliance. "A nice shiny thing, that," the conductor says at one point. The music cascades from ...

Even though the band’s music videos reveal the guys as having a kind of goofy sense of humor, the live band has a raw but directed emotional character that gives its music a quality that transcends ...