Hawaii seems like the last place goths would like to hang out, with their pale skin and dark clothing, but it seems Hawaii has its fair share of goths just like everywhere else in the world.
But what's cool about the goths of Hawaii is they've adapted their style a bit to fit the tropical locale, sort of a "vampires on vacation" look.
(Photos via Joseph Maida)
Broadly's Jessica Machado spoke with a few of the goths who call Hawaii home about the slowly dying scene and their hopes for the future:
"If this was a different place, like Germany, then goths would be all you'd see at a goth night," said Nocturna. "But here, you just don't have a very big crowd. It's kinda fading; they're not interested. I mean, people are, but they're really young and I don't know how to get them out."
"For me, this is not a phase," said Nocturna. "I've been doing this forever. I still have my collection of records, and the thing that keeps me going is that I get to play it on the radio."
But some goths refuse to accept the dwindling state of the scene and are hell-bent on reviving it. Nephilim Halls, a small collective of millennials who were bummed when goth-friendly clubs like Pink Cadillac and 1739 shut down in the mid-aughts, put together a website in 2011. For the past four years, it's served as a sort of ongoing goth newsletter to keep communication thriving and the community apprised of what events are left. And when Nocturna started focusing on bigger--and more infrequent--stuff two years ago, they decided to throw events themselves, including Kore and Vortex.