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The Mission onstage
Wayne Hussey looks back on The Mission's debut album, God's Own Medicine

By Dave Ling Published

Celebrating 40 years of their debut album God’s Own Medicine, The Mission play four London shows next month, each with a different spin

Bands & Artists
The Mission, studio portrait
Nine albums by The Mission to listen and one to ignore

By Alex Burrows Published

Buying guide Goth’s bleak misanthropy was upcycled and infused with hippiefied glam by The Mission, who celebrate their 40th this year

Buying guide
Sevendials
Killing Joke, Ministry, The Mission supergroup Sevendials deliver a deliciously warped mix of camp thrills and tense gothic drama on kaleidoscopic debut album A Crash Course In Catastrophe

By Paul Brannigan Published

Chris Connelly-fronted alt.rockers Sevendials get their groove on with A Crash Course In Catastrophe

Albums
Sevendials
New Killing Joke, Ministry, The Mission supergroup Sevendials share debut single Zodiac Morals, reveal forthcoming album A Crash Course In Catastrophe

By Paul Brannigan Published

Prepare yourself for "a staggering monolith of melody and malady, volume and velocity" from new alt. rock supergroup

Bands & Artists
The Mission posing for a photograph in 1988
The chaotic story of The Mission, the goth band who wanted to be Led Zeppelin

By Stephen Dalton Published

Sex, drugs and hanging out with former members of Led Zeppelin – The Mission proved goth was anything but doom and gloom

Biographies
Collage of Leeds musicians incuding the Sisters of Mercy, the Mission and the Gang of four
Forget Manchester: Leeds was the REAL home of 80s alternative music

By Mark Andrews Published

Often derided as ‘Goth City’, Leeds defined the independent music scene of the 80s from post-punk to weird-pop and dark electronica. No Leeds, no Trent Reznor

Bands & Artists
PeMontage featuring Peter Murphy, Robert Smith and Siouxsie Sioux
The first 30 years of Goth in 30 records

By Classic Rock Last updated

The albums, singles and tracks shaped goth music over three decades of glorious gloom, 1979 - 2008

Music
Goth musicians in a forest
10 goth albums you should definitely own

By Scott Rowley Published

Gothic rock grew like mould on the corpse of punk, and these are the best goth albums. Release the bats!

Albums
Robert Smith, Siouxsi Sioux, Sisters Of Mercy
Black Magic: 10 unlikely goth covers you need in your life

By Alex Burrows Published

Here's that version of Paradise Lost doing Bronski Beat you never knew you needed – plus a goldmine of other unsuspecting pop hits given the goth treatment

Interviews
The Mission's Wayne Hussey
Wayne Hussey and friends release video for Tower Of Strength remake

By Scott Munro Published

EXCLUSIVE The Mission frontman Wayne Hussey has recruited an all-star cast to rework the band’s classic Children track Tower Of Strength - cash raised will benefit frontline workers

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