Re-Goth

Re-Goth is a growing aesthetic, fashion, and musical movement in the late 2000s due to a revitalized interest and popularity in the gothic subculture. Much like the the preliminary gothic movement, Re-Goth also strikes parallel tones of both the dark and melancholy, however, having been recycled by the fashion industry and independent music scene, this rebirth of the original genre is a more refined, minimal, and future-forward focused movement. Whereas the goth subculture is more influenced by the definition of nineteenth century gothic literature, romanticism, and theatricality, re-goth's aesthetics instead, are influenced by the objectives and fundamentals of the Bauhaus school, minimal brutality, technology, futurism, and the idea of post-civilization. Music within the re-goth movement meanwhile is mainly influenced by dark wave, no wave, post-punk, and shoegaze music that first grew to fame in the 1970s and gained peak notoriety in the 1980s represented by such bands as The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins, Suicide, Jesus and Mary Chain, Chameleons, and Bauhaus. In addition, Re-Goth is also influenced by alternative rock bands in the 1980s such as The Smiths and Marine Girls.

The pioneers of the Re-Goth movement include fashion designers include Rick Owens, Vena Cava, and Alexander Wang. From a musical perspective, Re-Goth may move over a graded spectrum influenced heavily by psychedelic rock. Notable bands in the Re-Goth movement are as Cold Cave, Tearist, Modern Witch, Silent Diane, Beta Evers, White Rings, and "oOoOoo". Re-Goth is represented by record labels Pendi, Disaro, Wierd Records, and Minimal Wave.