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Goth/ Post Punk/Alternative Bands of Color
As an addition to the goth/post-punk/alt band masterpost, here’s a list of bands featuring members of color. Most are influential, others new discoveries or future freak gods. Thanks to research and helpful readers, here’s a bit of sick sounds suitable for all taste buds:
Goth, dark or industrial:
- Creature Feature
- Plastique Noir
- O. Children
- Thrill Kill Kult
- Glorious Din
- Android Lust
- She Past Away
- 13th Moon
- Malice Mizer and Moi Dix Mois
- Phaidia
- Corrupted
- Light Asylum
- Plastic Zooms
- Hocico
- Crowd Pleaser
- Angelspit
Punk, hardcore or post-hardcore:
- Bad Brains
- Death
- Rough Francis
- Pure Hell
- X-Ray Spex
- Radkey
- TMGE
- Tamar Kali
- The Objex
- Stiffed
- Cerebral Ballzy
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Midori
- The Redscare
- Le Butcherettes
- Atari Teenage Riot
- NOFX
- Stalin
- The Bags
- Dev Hynes
- L’Arc-en-Ciel
- Doll$Box
- Letlive
- The Chariot
- Trashtalk
- Gogol Bordello
- Blackfire
- The Bots
- Bow Wow Wow
- Love Equals Death
- Ritualization
- Teengenerate
- Ten Grand
- Letlive
- Martin Sorrondeguy
- Ghost Town
Metal, funk/rap/reggae metal fusion or core:
- Blasphemy
- Babymetal
- Wicked Wisdom
- Unlocking the Truth
- Absolace
- Living Colour
- King’s X
- Bionic Jive
- Skindred
- Ego Fall
- Static X
- Sepultura
- Straight Line Stitch
- Blood Stain Child
- Sasamaso
- Tenger Cavalry
- Cthonic
- Myrath
- God Forbid
- Invasion
- Vodun l.
- Sevendust
- Animals as Leaders
- Veil of Maya
- Oceano
- Body Count
- Hirax
- Infectious Grooves
- Melechesh
- Iron Man
- Sex Machineguns
- Hibria
- Metallica
- Gevolt
- The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza
- Gridlink
- X Japan
- Maximum the Hormone
- Suffocation
- Versailles Philharmonic Quintet
- Suicide Silence
- The Crimson Armada
- For Today
- Glass Cloud
- Heaven in Her Arms
- Here comes the Kraken
- Issues
- Periphery
- Reflections
- System of a Down
- Fear Nuttin Band
- Year of the Dragon
- Dir En Grey
- Skyharbor
- Spineshank
- Coal Chamber
- Ill Niño
- Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in Dilapidation (FID)
- Sarcofago
- Acrassicauda
- Sigh
- Sabbat
- Blood Stain Child
- Gallhammer
- Avulsed
- Necramynth
- Crossfaith
- Subrosa
- As they Burn
- Wolves and Jackals
- Infernal Revulsion
- Orange Sky
- Monuments
- Ego Likeness
- Peelander-Z
- For Today
- Dream Theater
Alternative or too cool to label:
- Bat for Lashes
- Skunk Anansie
- Fishbone
- Dub War
- The Slack Republic
- Pierce the Veil
- Coheed and Cambria
- Alice in Chains
- Boris
- Bleed the Pigs
- Motherjane
- Jimi Hendrix
- Asian Dub Foundation
- BIS (Brand-New Idol Society)
- Go Betty Go
- Melt-Banana
- Deftones
- Rage Against the Machine
- TV on the Radio
- Rain Machine
- Bloc Party
- Little Dragon
- Asobi Seksu
- Blonde Redhead
- The Go! Team
- CSS
- The English Beat
- Kenna
- Mono
- One Ok Rock
- ELLEGARDEN
- The Hiatus
- Nothing’s Carved in Stone
- Shonen Knife
- O’Brother
- The Pillows
- Set it Off
- The Novembers
- Shiva En Exil
- Guns N’ Roses
- (Hed) PE
- Soundgarden
- She Wants Revenge
- Skip the Use
- Elsiane
- Sonic Boom Six
- Cibo Matto
- My Vitriol
- Buck Tick
- Wormrot
- Toe
- Guitar Wolf
- Gazette
- Kanon Wakeshima
- The Coup
- Street Sweeper Social Club
- Merchant Ships
- The Skints
- White Town – bzangy
- The Mars Volta
- Drill Queen
- Death Grips
- Grateful Dead
- Suffrajett