Like their counterparts in the grunge movement, every goth band denies being a goth band. In the case of the Sisters of Mercy, the masters of doom who first came up with the somber, post-punk template that has fuelled a thousand goth bands since the ’80s, that denial is complete – at least if you ask their leader, Andrew Eldritch.
When GW sits down with the British band’s former guitarists Wayne Hussey and Gary Marx, however, they’re a bit more relaxed about the goth tag: for them, the sole album that they made with Eldritch is simply a guitar-loaded classic.
