Floodland cover
Released

Upon parting ways with his former bandmates, Andrew Eldritch decided that goth music wasn’t properly Gothic without flying buttresses and hired Meat Loaf conspirator Jim Steinman to help him build the definitive post-punk cathedral in the middle of a perpetual rainstorm. Club staples like “This Corrosion,” “Dominion,” and “Lucretia, My Reflection” cement this album’s legendary status, but it’s the more intimate etchings of the “Flood” duo that provide the foundation.

Jeff Treppel

Recommended by

Suggestions
Junkyard cover

Junkyard

The Birthday Party
Comalies cover

Comalies

Lacuna Coil
Mandylion cover

Mandylion

The Gathering
Corruptor cover

Corruptor

Daniel Deluxe
Midian cover

Midian

Cradle of Filth
Bloodmoon: I	 cover

Bloodmoon: I

Converge, Chelsea Wolfe
Children cover

Children

The Mission
Century Days cover

Century Days

Die Kreuzen