Silly opinions sought: What genre is Alien Sex Fiend? (you can add serious opinions in brackets, if you like)
ASF are all genres of dark alternative music, yet also none of them.
Gothic rock? Sure, sometimes.
"Deathrock"? Trick question - see above!
Gothic punk? Yes. With synths. But more synths than the band suicide. (Did you know Alan Vega was in his early 40s when that duo started?)
Industrial? You can easily argue Skinny Puppy would be a lot more like Throbbing Gristle without there first being ASF.
Dark Ambient? They did do that video game soundtrack... 🤔
Gothic Metal? Okay, maybe my hypothesis is a tad hyperbolic... 🫣 Next!
Do you remember the old desktop music player, Winamp? Yeah, their pull down selection menu for Genre on the ID3 tagging for your mp3's included "Primus." Yes, as in whoever did that part of the Winamp design decided that the band of that name is their own genre (and nobody objected).
Alien Sex Fiend is to Goth music as Primus is to... yeah.
But what's YOUR opinion, dear boils, ghouls, and all others who go "bump" in the night?