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gothic country

Last updated: Sat Oct 25 2025 16:54:01 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Gothic country blends traditional country, folk, and Americana with dark, brooding atmospheres drawn from gothic rock and alternative music. The genre explores themes of death, isolation, religion, and the American West through haunting vocals, minor-key melodies, and sparse instrumentation. It emerged in the 1990s as artists began merging country's storytelling traditions with punk, industrial, and darker sonic textures.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
8		1982	The Gun Club	Miami	post-punk	garage punk # 22
81		1988-09-19	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Tender Prey (2010 - Remaster)	dark cabaret gothic country gothic rock singer-songwriter	dark cabaret # 57
88		1995	16 Horsepower	Sackcloth 'N' Ashes	alt-country americana	alternative country # 18 alt-country # 63
29		1995-11-07	16 Horsepower	16 Horsepower
89		1996-07-15	16 Horsepower	Sackcloth -N- Ashes	alt-country americana	alternative country # 19 alt-country # 64
57		1997	Jay Munly	De Dar He	alt-country americana gothic country indie folk
87		1997	16 Horsepower	Low Estate	gothic country
56		1997-02-14	Jay Munly	Munly de Dar He	alt-country americana gothic country indie folk
30		2000-04-01	16 Horsepower	Hoarse
15		2000-04-13	16 Horsepower	Secret South	alt-country americana	alt-country # 50
76		2001-03-01	Madrugada	The Nightly Disease	alternative rock
86		2001-03-20	The Angels of Light	How I Loved You	folk rock folk folk noir gothic country	folk noir # 95
38		2002-06-17	16 Horsepower	Folklore	americana	americana # 1
4		2003	Various Artists	The Death Roots Syndicate: Volume III	dark folk gothic country
95		2003-02-03	Woven Hand	Blush Music	alt-country avant-folk gothic country	avant-folk # 80
66		2004	Those Poor Bastards	Country Bullshit	acoustic alt-country alternative country country gothic country	alternative country # 40
68		2004	Slim Cessna's Auto Club	The Bloudy Tenent Truth Peace	gothic country
67		2004-02-03	Tulsa Drone	No Wake	dark folk gothic country post-rock
47		2004-09-20	Woven Hand	Consider the Birds	alt-country	alt-country # 17
85		2005	Those Poor Bastards	Songs of Desperation	gothic country
44		2007	Bone Orchard	A Romance of Ghosts	gothic country
58		2007	Christian Williams	Built With Bones	gothic country
54		2007	Those Poor Bastards	Hellfire Hymns
26		2007-08-28	Pygmy Lush	Bitter River	ambient folk dark ambient screamo
92		2008-10-31	Those Poor Bastards	Satan Is Watching	alt-country gothic country
48		2008-12-09	Uncle Sinner	Ballads and Mental Breakdowns	acoustic blues alt-country americana banjo blues contemporary folk country blues delta blues folk gothic country outlaw country roots	roots # 31 outlaw country # 33 delta blues # 60 acoustic blues # 64 banjo # 78 country blues # 81
14		2009	Trent Miller & The Skeleton Jive	Cerberus	acoustic alt-country americana country folk gothic country indie folk italian singer-songwriter
90		2009-03-24	The White Buffalo	Hogtied Revisited	alternative country folk gothic country	alternative country # 88
96		2009-04-18	Hank III	Risin Outlaw	country gothic country
33		2009-06-05	Brillig	The Red Coats	gothic country
65		2009-06-06	Lonesome Wyatt and Rachel Brooke	A Bitter Harvest	country gothic country
93		2009-06-16	The Builders and the Butchers	Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well	alt-country americana folk gothic country portland	portland # 98
98		2009-11-10	Brown Bird	The Devil Dancing	alt-country americana country folk gothic country
49		2010	Kal Cahoone	Saints and Stars	alt-country americana chamber folk contemporary folk country folk gothic country	chamber folk # 11
61		2010-07-06	The Builders and the Butchers	Where The Roots All Grow	gothic country
74		2010-10-05	Munly & the Lupercalians	Petr & the Wulf	alt-country americana gothic country
78		2010-10-25	Giant Sand	Blurry Blue Mountain	alt-country alternative americana gothic country
52		2011-05-31	The Goddamn Gallows	Seven Devils	gothic country lo-fi psychobilly
59		2011-09-03	King Dude	King Dude	gothic country gothic rock
69		2011-11-08	Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks	Heartsick	dark cabaret gothic country	dark cabaret # 27
27		2012-06	Scott Kelly / Steve Von Till / Wino	Songs Of Townes Van Zandt	country folk gothic country
7		2012-07-17	Crowpush	Weak As Water	alternative country blues dark folk folk noir gothic country
11		2013	Brillig	I Ain't Ever Gonna See the Sea	folk
21		2013-01-29	Jarboe, Sweet Meat Love And Holy Cult, The	'Mystagogue'
71		2013-05-01	Rykarda Parasol	Against The Sun	contemporary folk gothic country singer-songwriter	contemporary folk # 33
34		2013-05-11	Lux Interna	There Is Light in the Body, There Is Blood in the Sun		sadcore # 16
16		2013-06-15	Bat Country	Love's the Only Engine of Survival	gothic country
94		2013-06-29	The Dead South	The Ocean Went Mad and We Were to Blame	bluegrass folk gothic country	bluegrass # 68
5		2014	Uncle Sinner	A Pocketful of Glass Eyes	acoustic blues alt-country americana banjo blues contemporary folk country blues folk gothic country outlaw country roots	country blues # 1
1		2014	Swans	The Beggar	post-rock experimental rock
9		2014-05-12	Grännibueb	The Demonstration Recordings	gothic country
72		2014-10-07	Those Poor Bastards	Vicious Losers	alternative country gothic country	alternative country # 56
100		2015	Colter Wall	Imaginary Appalachia	acoustic americana gothic country outlaw country	acoustic # 61 americana # 93 outlaw country # 100
3		2015	Brillig	Cautionary Tales	gothic country
82		2015	Lost Dog Street Band	Homeward Bound	country gothic country
46		2015-01-26	Uncle Sinner	Let the Devil In	acoustic blues alt-country americana banjo blues contemporary folk country blues delta blues folk gothic country outlaw country roots	roots # 27 outlaw country # 28 delta blues # 58 acoustic blues # 63 banjo # 75 country blues # 80
19		2015-04-21	Lonesome Wyatt & Rachel Brooke	Bad Omen	gothic country
39		2015-08-28	Thayer Sarrano	Shaky	gothic country
91		2015-10-05	16 Horsepower	Sackcloth N Ashes	alt-country americana	alternative country # 25 alt-country # 72
77		2015-10-30	VOWWS	THE GREAT SUN	darkwave gothic country gothic rock industrial industrial rock post-punk shoegaze
60		2016-03-15	Those Poor Bastards	Sing it Ugly	alt-country gothic country
31		2016-05-13	Zwyntar	Госпел	gothic country
62		2016-05-13	Zwyntar	Гріх	gothic country
23		2017-01-31	Dvanov	For Gathering Dust	gothic country psychedelic folk
75		2017-03-24	Me and That Man	Songs of Love and Death	rock country folk
63		2017-10-13	Get Your Gun	Doubt Is My Rope Back To You	alt-country gothic country
51		2018	Lindi Ortega	Liberty	americana country gothic country
83		2018-03-23	Spiritual Front	Amour braque	baroque pop chamber pop dark cabaret gothic country neofolk	dark cabaret # 59
84		2018-06-12	VOWWS	Under the World	darkwave dream pop gothic country gothic rock industrial rock post-punk shoegaze
80		2018-06-29	Jaye Jayle	No Trail and Other Unholy Paths	alt-country americana gothic country krautrock neofolk
50		2018-11-16	Those Poor Bastards	Inhuman Nature	gothic country
64		2018-12-14	Zwyntar	Мертві голоси	alt-country ukrainian gothic country	ukrainian # 60
22		2019	Thayer Sarrano	Wings Alleluia	ethereal wave gothic country
99		2019-03-22	Orville Peck	Pony	alt-country americana country gothic country singer-songwriter	singer-songwriter # 31 country # 65 americana # 90 alt-country # 96
41		2019-09-16	Moriah Woods	Old Boy	gothic country
2		2019-09-19	The Division Men	Niños del Sol	gothic country
10		2020-03-16	Uncle Sinner	Trouble of this World	acoustic blues alt-country americana banjo blues contemporary folk delta blues electric blues fiddle folk gothic country outlaw country roots	banjo # 8
17		2020-04-17	Mick Harvey	The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project: The Journey Is Long	gothic country
70		2020-11-20	King Hannah	Tell Me Your Mind And I'll Tell You Mine	alternative rock americana dream pop slowcore
13		2021	Salem	The Anatomy Of Pain	folk rock gothic country
55		2021-03-12	The Underground Youth	The Falling	alt-country alternative country alternative folk folk noir gothic country indie folk neofolk psychedelic folk singer-songwriter	alternative country # 31 folk noir # 47 alternative folk # 63
97		2021-04-16	Amigo The Devil	Born Against	gothic country
37		2021-11-04	Lydia Lunch	A Fistful of Desert Blues	gothic country singer-songwriter
43		2021-12-10	Those Poor Bastards	Old Time Suffering	gothic country
79		2022-02-04	Marissa Nadler	The Wrath of the Clouds	alt-country alternative country alternative folk dream folk dream pop folk noir folk pop gothic country indie folk psychedelic folk singer-songwriter	folk pop # 7 alternative country # 67 folk noir # 79 alternative folk # 82 dream folk # 84
18		2023	O.N.E The Duo	Guilty	americana country gothic country
53		2023-07-14	Jaye Jayle	Don't Let Your Love Life Get You Down	folk gothic country singer-songwriter
28		2023-09-22	Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks	Longing For Oblivion	dark cabaret folk noir gothic country
42		2023-10-13	Zwyntar	Тисяча Очей	bluegrass ukrainian gothic country
73		2023-10-19	Jay Munly	Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots	gothic country
12		2024-04-05	Olin Janusz	Please Leave Quietly	chamber pop gothic country singer-songwriter slowcore
40		2024-05-31	Slim Cessna's Auto Club	Kinnery of Lupercalia: Buell Legion	gothic country
20			Mark Sinnis	The Undertaker In My Rearview Mirror	alternative country deathrock gothic country memphis	memphis # 10
6			The Chadderandom Abyss	Busy for an Eternity	dark folk drone freak folk gothic country
24			Mark Sinnis	Into an Unhidden Future	gothic country
25			Ninth House	Swim In The Silence	gothic country
32			Mark Sinnis	A Southern Tale	gothic country
35			Ninth House	Realize And It's Gone	gothic country gothic rock
36			DBUK	Songs Nine Through Sixteen	alt-country gothic country neofolk
45			DBUK	Songs One Through Eight	alt-country gothic country neofolk

Related genres

• alt-country
• americana
• folk
• country
• alternative country
• singer-songwriter
• neofolk
• contemporary folk
• blues
• indie folk