Today is World Goth Day. A day we celebrate the positive aspects of the Goth Scene.

I’ll admit: I’m a goth poser. I still crank Nine Inch Nails about once a month. I will play The Cure once in a while. And about once a year, when I’m feeling nostalgic about the Fekete Lyuk  (Black Hole) Club in Budapest, where I met some vampire wannabes back in 1993, I pull out my Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus CDs and give a toast to my buddy Sam (who witnessed the event with me).

But I never went full goth. I never wore the black, etc. So I don’t really know about the positive things goth represents. Nonetheless, it seems like a deserving day. So I thought I’d make a map to celebrate it. And here it is. Now you can explore the stories and home towns of 40 well-known goth bands from around the world.

View Map Here

Dataset Creation Prompt (Dataset Doctor)

Hi. Can you please comb the web to create a dataset of well-known “goth bands” from around the world?

I would like the dataset to include upwards of 20-40 goth bands, all real, of various backgrounds and repute. Information I’d like in the CSV dataset would include:

Map Creation Prompt (Web Mapper GPT)

Hi there,

I’ve uploaded a Goth Band dataset. I would now like to make the ultimate “Goth” looking and aesthetic map possible to celebrate tomorrow’s World Goth Day.

# Intention
Create a cool-ass goth map for goth music lovers that shows famous goth and industrial bands of the world in their home towns. If there are no lat/lng coordinates in the CSV, please find them for the city of their origin and represent the bands there with a dot.

# Symbolization
Please symbolize each band with a Gothic point symbol (same one is fine) colored based on the goth rock genre, which should be a field. Use dark goth-esque colors. Accessibility is not key here… shades of gray are preferred. (Don’t use red and green, though.)