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god lives underwater
joy division
psychic TV
orb
the KLF
alien sex fiend
coil
cabaret voltaire
deep space network

...who else?

Bauhaus,
The Cure,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nine Inch Nails,
Skinny Puppy,
Killing Joke,
Depeche Mode

To name a few obvious ones.

Fever Ray / The Knife

that's so close to witch house you could pretty much call it that, at least fever ray

Throbbing Gristle
Early Ministry
DJ Paul & Juicy J
Drumma Boy
Shawty Redd
DJ Screw
Chris & Cosey
Fad Gadget
Soft Cell
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Burial
Early Death In June
Early Current 93

i'm surprised at some ov your list, heartworms--especially throbbing gristle and current 93. if anything, that kind ov noise seems to me to almost be the opposite ov witch house.

When I first saw this I was going to disagree with things like Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Sisters of Mercy because it isn't so immediate. But then when you listen to stuff on Siouxsie's 'Kaleidoscope' and Flood by the Sisters you do get a sense of it in a way.

I'd go as far to say Nico (especially with Modern Witch) and perhaps at a stretch Kate Bush (but only The Dreaming and Hounds Of Love) are slight influences even if it's just through their impact on the likes of Fever Ray and such.

Throbbing Gristle is definetely on of the main ones on witch house. You should listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mKDKKySls and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr-aUoKPnkI

Some Nurse with Wound too

also:

V/VM

For me:

Merzbow
Basically all of the Pacific Northwest / Northern CA noise scene
Sunn O)))
Earth
Boris (earlier drone/noise stuff although I'm still a huge fan)
Wolf Eyes
Black Dice (earlier stuff)

Aside from that, I listened to a lot of hardcore punk and death/black metal.

Future Sound of London (for use of trippy samples)
Slowdive (for use of heavenly voices vocals)
Zweistein (1970) (for use of trippy weird collages)
Stockhausen (for use of early morphing electronics)
Delia Derbyshire (for use of early loop techniques)

Atari Teenage Riot
Type O Negative
Nitzer Ebb
Big Tymers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wNIPTXleM)
Danzig

"Upside Down" by the Jesus and Mary Chain

Hearts Of Black Science

Surprised no one mentioned trance music yet; many of the stereotypical witch house saw-synth sounds come directly from the classic daze of Oakey, PVD, Sasha, etc.

Nova Sol wrote:i'm surprised at some ov your list, heartworms--especially throbbing gristle and current 93. if anything, that kind ov noise seems to me to almost be the opposite ov witch house.

I especially like that someone who spells of - "ov" is surprised about the mention of Throbbing Gristle given that GPO was one of the first (if not thee (sic) hahahahaha) first people to start using that mode of written language (based on the book I read, knowing TG quite well it could all be a pack of lies)

anyway: Bronnt Industries Kapital (first album and Haxan OST)
Fabio Frizzi (literal zombie rave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aDf4mmC3hQ )
My Bloody Valentine (noise+melody+infinite reverb chamber vocals)
Slowdive
SPK

I can't think of any more, someone mentioned Third Eye Foundation in an earlier thread on here