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steampunk

Last updated: Sat Oct 25 2025 21:16:43 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Steampunk music blends Victorian-era aesthetics with modern electronic and rock elements, creating a theatrical sound that evokes industrial machinery, clockwork mechanisms, and 19th-century adventure. The style often features accordion, strings, and synthesizers alongside dramatic vocals that tell stories of airships, mad scientists, and alternate histories. It's the sonic equivalent of brass goggles and steam engines—nostalgic yet futuristic, whimsical yet dark.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
18		1960	Various Artists	Age of steam 13 (44 songs about the Moon)	noise steampunk
35		1997	The Fine Arts Brass Ensemble	Sherlock Holmes Meets Dr. Who	jazz steampunk
7		1998	Prince Charming	Fantastic Voyage	steampunk
50		1998	Abney Park	Stigmata Martyr	darkwave steampunk
97		1998-08-04	Rasputina	How We Quit the Forest	steampunk
19		1999	Abney Park	Return to the Fire	steampunk
62		2000	[ cell 7 ]	RE:COGNITION	ambient australian electro-industrial electronic electronica futurepop glitch idm industrial industrial metal steampunk synthpop
75		2000	Abney Park	Cemetary Number 1	steampunk
36		2000-10-31	Collide	Chasing the Ghost	darkwave industrial	poptron # 34 gothic pop # 48 darkwave # 68
13		2001	The Dresden Dolls	The Dresden Dolls EP	steampunk
90		2001	Dr. Steel	Dr. Steel II: Eclectic Boogaloo	industrial steampunk
94		2001	Abney Park	From Dreams or Angels	darkwave steampunk
46		2001-06	Ben Houge	Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura	soundtrack steampunk
15		2003	Dolce Triade	Last Exile	steampunk
31		2003	Chris Vrenna	American McGee's Alice OST	steampunk
53		2003-05-27	The Dresden Dolls	A Is for Accident	cabaret	cabaret # 96
21		2003-09-15	The Dubliners	The Dubliners with Luke Kelly	folk irish irish folk steampunk
5		2004	Aetherius	The Inevitability of Pain (and the stupidity of those who don't expect it)	alternative dance alternative electronic ambient ambient electronic ambient electronica ambient industrial ambient pop ambient techno canada chillout dance dark ambient downtempo easy listening ebm electro electronic electronica ethereal idm indie electronic indietronica industrial instrumental new age noise piano piano ambient post-industrial psychill steampunk strings synthpop toronto	ambient electronic # 14 toronto # 18 ambient industrial # 34 alternative electronic # 52 ambient electronica # 65
52		2004	Vernian Process	Catalysts (Covers LP)	steampunk
41		2004-07-14	Steve Jablonsky	Steamboy	soundtrack
43		2005	Harlequin Jones	EP	dark cabaret cabaret	cabaret # 46 dark cabaret # 74
87		2005	Abney Park	Taxidermy	steampunk
98		2005	Abney Park	The Death of Tragedy	steampunk
40		2005-04-25	Mortiis	Decadent & Desperate	dark ambient noisecore steampunk	noisecore # 8
45		2005-08-01	Life's Decay	Anleva	steampunk
59		2006	Norfolk & Western	A Gilded Age	indie folk lo-fi steampunk
61		2006	Vernian Process	The Forgotten Age LP	steampunk
69		2006	Abney Park	Dark Christmas	steampunk
34		2006-01-25	黒色すみれ	アンデルメルヘン歌曲集	acoustic alternative ambient avant-folk cantautore cantautori celtic celtic folk chillout choral classical classical crossover composer darkwave easy listening ethereal ethnic experimental folk folk freak folk indie folk italian italian folk italiano medieval folk neoclassical neoclassical darkwave neofolk new age new wave opera oriental pagan pagan folk poetry progressive folk singer-songwriter soprano soundtrack steampunk world world fusion	progressive folk # 3 pagan # 18 medieval folk # 40 italiano # 50 celtic folk # 52 oriental # 53 pagan folk # 55 cantautori # 63 soprano # 64 cantautore # 76 italian folk # 79 experimental folk # 90
56		2006-06-06	Life's Decay	Lysselia	steampunk
55		2006-11-28	The Cassettes	'Neath The Pale Moon	steampunk
78		2007	Abandoned Toys	The Witch's Garden	neoclassical dark ambient piano contemporary classical ambient new age steampunk classical	musique concrete # 89
57		2007	Life Toward Twilight	I Swear By All The Flowers	steampunk ambient neoclassical
96		2007-06-26	Rasputina	Oh Perilous World	steampunk
74		2007-09-15	Life's Decay	Szilentia	steampunk
93		2007-12	Unextraordinary Gentlemen	5 Tales From God-Only-Knows	steampunk
58		2008	Deadly Nightshade Botanical Society	Clockwork Dreams	steampunk
100		2008-03-01	Abney Park	Lost Horizons	steampunk
47		2008-04	The Synthetic Dream Foundation	Behind the Gates of Horn and Ivory	dark electro	darkpsy # 17 harsh ebm # 39
16		2008-05-24	Life Toward Twilight	Edison's Frankenstein	dark ambient neoclassical noise orchestral steampunk
79		2008-10	Unextraordinary Gentlemen	No Hands To Guide Us	steampunk
39		2009-01-03	Jordan Reyne	How The Dead Live	folk noir steampunk	folk noir # 8
9		2009-01-04	Skerror	Dreampunk	cyberpunk dark ambient dark industrial microsound soundscape steampunk	dark industrial # 52 microsound # 76
4		2009-01-16	Skerror	Ferrol	animals cyberpunk dark ambient dark industrial electro electronic idm microsound steampunk	animals # 36 dark industrial # 45 microsound # 71
65		2009-09-09	KK & The Steampunk Orchestra	The Magic Lantern	steampunk	orchestra # 28
42		2009-10-30	Steam Powered Giraffe	Album One	folk rock cabaret	cabaret # 81
89		2009-11-01	The Clockwork Dolls	Dramatis Personae	steampunk
84		2009-12-01	Abney Park	Aether Shanties	steampunk
99		2009-12-01	Abney Park	Æther Shanties	steampunk
83		2009-12-03	Vernian Process	Behold the Machine	steampunk
28		2010	F.R.A.M.	Двери Апреля	folk metal folk rock german gothic rock industrial industrial metal medieval folk power metal steampunk	medieval folk # 34
2		2010	Drachenflug	Blau	folk neoclassical steampunk
95		2010-04-26	The Cog Is Dead	Steam Powered Stories	steampunk
33		2010-05-24	The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing	Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1	punk rock steampunk
82		2010-06-10	The Synthetic Dream Foundation	Mechanical Serpent	ebm idm industrial synthpop steampunk darkwave darkpsy electronica psytrance trance electronic techno electro-industrial harsh ebm rhythmic noise symphonic metal technoid	darkpsy # 2 rhythmic noise # 71 harsh ebm # 78 technoid # 96
27		2010-06-21	Skerror	Sing-A-Long Knife Fight	electronic steampunk
10		2010-08-31	Lady Laudanum	Sugarskull Demo	industrial steampunk
20		2010-08-31	Lady Laudanum	Odds + Ends	industrial steampunk
24		2010-08-31	Lady Laudanum	Ether EP	industrial steampunk
49		2010-10-01	Vernian Process	Behold the Machine (demos) 2008	steampunk
81		2010-10-01	Vernian Process	Behold The Machine LP	dark ambient darkwave steampunk
92		2010-10-15	Abney Park	The End of Days	steampunk
32		2010-11-20	Valentine Wolfe	The Crimson Masquerade	steampunk
26		2011	Marquis of Vaudeville	The Great Promenade of Fools & Ghosts	alternative rock steampunk
11		2011-06-25	Spiky	Carnival Symposium	steampunk
72		2011-06-27	Vernian Process	Something Wicked (That Way Went)	progressive rock steampunk waltz	waltz # 93
37		2011-12-09	Steam Powered Giraffe	Live At The Globe of Yesterday's Tomorrow	rock cabaret
48		2012-01-01	Harlequin Jones	Bare Bones Demos	cabaret dark cabaret blues piano steampunk	cabaret # 12 dark cabaret # 18
68		2012-03-12	The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing	This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons	punk rock steampunk
91		2012-05-23	Steam Powered Giraffe	The 2¢ Show	cabaret folk	cabaret # 92
88		2012-06-02	Abney Park	Ancient World	steampunk
44		2012-06-10	Ephemeral Mists	Illusions Blooming Softly	psybient psychill ambient	new age fusion # 4 fantasy new age # 5 psydub # 15 psybient # 36
73		2012-07-24	Emilie Autumn	Fight Like a Girl	industrial classical darkwave female vocalists
85		2012-08-04	The Mechanisms	Once Upon A Time (In Space)	alternative cabaret folk steampunk	cabaret # 63
22		2012-10-15	Jill Tracy	Silver Smoke, Star of Night (In the Shadow of Christmas)
54		2012-11-09	The Clockwork Dolls	When Banners Fall	cabaret electronic steampunk
6		2013	The Veil	An Electrical Sun	avant-garde metal gothic metal progressive metal steampunk
63		2013	Abney Park	Ranch Hand Robbie and the Wasteland Wranglers - Off The Grid	country steampunk world
66		2013-03-28	The Synthetic Dream Foundation	Where Drowned Suns Still Glimmer	steampunk idm industrial	new age fusion # 2 fantasy new age # 3
60		2013-12-03	Steam Powered Giraffe	MK III	cabaret folk	cabaret # 79
3		2014	Jordan Reyne	The Ironman	alternative industrial steampunk
8		2014-10-08	Steam Powered Giraffe	Live at Walter Robotics Expo 2013	rock alternative cabaret
76		2015-01-30	Coppelius	Hertzmaschine	avant-garde metal heavy metal steampunk
80		2015-09-01	Steam Powered Giraffe	The Vice Quadrant, Pt. 1		cabaret # 64
51		2016	Steam Powered Giraffe	Quintessential	folk rock cabaret comedy	cabaret # 39
77		2017-09-22	Closterkeller	Viridian	alternative gothic rock steampunk atmospheric rock	atmospheric rock # 69
12		2019-10-22	The Cog Is Dead	Savior of the Skies	steampunk
86		2020	Steam Powered Giraffe	1896	steampunk
25		2020-10-30	Abney Park	Esoterica	electronic folk folk rock industrial rock steampunk
38		2023	Various Artists	Last Exile OST 2	steampunk
67		2023	Various Artists	Last Exile OST	ethereal new age steampunk
14			歌者森	The World in My Eyes	dark pop darkwave gothic pop poptron steampunk	poptron # 32 gothic pop # 45
29			歌者森	Ghost Street	alternative alternative pop art pop asian asian pop avant-pop dark electro dark pop darkwave electroacoustic folktronica gothic pop indie pop poptron progressive pop steampunk synthpop synthwave	poptron # 29 gothic pop # 36
30			志方あきこ	caTra	art pop steampunk folk freak folk world fusion	gothic pop # 15 poptron # 16
70			Ben Houge	Arcanum Soundtrack	soundtrack steampunk string quartet	string quartet # 86
1			Abnormalice	Shifting Horizons	ambient dark ambient steampunk
17			Aurelio Voltaire	Ooky Spooky (2021 Stereo Mix)	cabaret dark cabaret steampunk
23			China Steamengine	Uusi Aikakausi	dark ambient steampunk
64			Marshall Crutcher	Alice: Madness Returns	steampunk
71			the electro swingers	Steampunk	steampunk
			Steam Powered Giraffe	The Vice Quadrant	comedy musical steampunk

Related genres

• dark ambient
• electronic
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• idm
• ambient
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• electro
• dark industrial
• microsound
• noise