The limited number of bands that began the gothic rock and deathrock scenes included Bauhaus, Specimen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Damned, The Cure, The Birthday Party, Southern Death Cult, Ausgang, Sex Gang Children, The March Violets, 45 Grave, UK Decay, Virgin Prunes, Kommunity FK, Alien Sex Fiend, Christian Death, Gloria Mundi, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, early Adam and the Ants, and Killing Joke.
By the mid-eighties, bands began proliferating and became increasingly popular, including The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission (known as The Mission UK in the US), Xmal Deutschland, The Bolshoi, and Fields of the Nephilim. The nineties saw the further growth of eighties bands and emergence of many new bands. Factory Records, 4AD Records, and Beggars Banquet Records released much of this music in Europe, while Cleopatra Records among others released the music in the United States, where the subculture grew especially in New York and Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, where many nightclubs featured "gothic/industrial" nights. The popularity of 4AD bands resulted in the creation of a similar US label called Projekt Records, which produces what is colloquially termed ethereal wave, a subgenre of dark wave music.
By the mid-1990s, styles of music heard in Goth venues ranged from gothic rock, deathrock, industrial music, Psychobilly, EBM, ambient, experimental, new wave, synthpop, shoegazing and punk rock.
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