Bloodstock Festival Countdown : 30 Bands Not To Miss
28. High Parasite - Sophie stage - Early evening Friday
The thing about goth in the eighties is that it embraced pop. The Cure, The Mission and the Sisters of Mercy all made cracking pop songs that, were (whisper it) joyous and fun. When doom merged with pop to begot Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and a hundred copycats it forgot that need for unreserved joyfulness. This is a direct reaction to all that dour melancholy. This happy euphoric goth fronted by former My Dying Bride frontman Aaron Stainthorpe. It rejects the nihility and inside gives you doom that you can dance to. This is pop for the disenchanted and disenfranchised. Big, anthemic and delightfully melodic. Crack a smile and hit the dance floor, this is happy goth.
I just love Metal. I love it all. The bombastity of symphonic, the brutality of death, the rousing choruses of power, the nihilistic evil of black, the pounding atmospherics of doom, the whirling time changes of prog, the faithful familiarity of trad, the other worldlyness of post, the sheer unrefined power of thrash. I love it all!