List of gothic rock artists
Primary
Well-known, historical, and influential core bands to the Gothic genre.
- 45 Grave
- Alien Sex Fiend
- Ausgang
- Bauhaus
- The Birthday Party
- Children on Stun
- Christian Death (while fronted by Rozz Williams)
- Cinema Strange
- Clan of Xymox
- Corpus Delicti
- Creaming Jesus
- The Cure
- The Damned
- Danse Society
- Dreamtime (finnish band)
- Ex-Voto
- Faith and the Muse
- Fields of the Nephilim
- Flesh for Lulu
- Gene Loves Jezebel
- Ikon
- Joy Division
- Kommunity FK
- The Legendary Pink Dots
- The Lords of the New Church
- March Violets
- The Mission (UK)
- Play Dead
- Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
- Rosetta Stone
- Sex Gang Children
- Siouxsie & the Banshees
- The Sisters of Mercy
- Specimen
- Skeletal Family
- Southern Death Cult
- Theatre of Hate
- Tones on Tail
- UK Decay
- Voltaire
- The Virgin Prunes
- Xmal Deutschland
Secondary
Less known, historically ephemeral, upcoming, or predominantly regional bands related to the gothic rock genre.
- Big Electric Cat
- Black Ice
- Chadwick
- Frank the Baptist
- Submarine Fleet
- D'espairs Ray
- Exovedate (Canada)
- The Ghost of Lemora
- Larnax
- Leicohtica (Australia)
- Lacrimosa
- Love Is Colder Than Death
- Mistle Thrush (Band)
- Red Scare
- Rentrer en Soi
- Theatres des Vampires
- The Trespass
- Saviour Machine
- Soulscape
- Véronique Diabolique
- This Vale of Tears
- The Way Of All Flesh