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It's a Goth thing!

By goths for goths from goths to goths! You love, Goth, EBM, Industrial, Electro & 80's music scenes? So do we!

Welcome to the digital home of meltdown, the magazine for goth and alternative lifestyles!

This is the website for meltdown magazine is the UK's biggest selling magazine for goths. It features articles on everything for the gothic lifestyle - goth fashion, gothic beauty, goth music, goth clubs, goth shopping, dark alternative culture and plenty more.!

Goth

We cover all genres of goth music, from the classic gothic to the cutting edge, bands like bauhaus, sisters of mercy, fields of the nephilim, alien sex feind, the mission, siouxsie and the banshees, the cure and modern goth bands like, diva destruction, crux shadows, ghost of lemora etc as well as modern goth metal and gothic rock like evanescence, afi, him, type o negative and murderdolls.

EBM

We cover ebm ( the EBM term coined by the once great front 242 ) and futurepop bands from around the globe. e.b.m. Bands such as apoptygma bezerk, covenant, vnv nation, funker vogt, icon of coil, suicide commando etc

Industrial

Industrial music and noise bands get just as much colomn space, with older industrial artists like skinny puppy, nin, ministry, throbing gristle, nitzer ebb rubbing lines with newer acts such as noizex, sulpher, leach woman and the more industrial metal likes of rammstein, marilyn manson, rob zombie, and static-x.

80's

Goths have and always love the 80's and at Meltdown we keep them alive just for you. Articles and retrospectives on those great 80's acts from the decade taste forgot. synth-pop ( synth pop ) legends like depeche mode, soft cell, john foxx, gary numan, yazoo, and 80's glam pop prince charmings like adam and the ants, duran duran and spandau ballet.

Other Goth and alternative acts covered include...

Goth Comics

goth or gothic comics have really become popular in the last few years the likes of jhonen vasquez and roman dirge have brought us classics like j.t.h.m. (johnny the homicidal maniac), squee, lenore, gloom cookie, oh my goth, noodle boy, nail bunny and even animated series(s) like invader zim and courage the cowardly dog.

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