Misplaced Pages

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Daddy Kindsoul (talk | contribs) at 10:56, 17 February 2006 (I haven't "openly admitted been biast against" anythin, because I've never voiced one way or another, please don't vandalise, lie and base the article around your tastes.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Gothic music" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Gothic Music is a relatively confusing term, in that it is necessary to distinguish it as used to mean goth music, whilst also being used to completely expell this meaning.

Goth Music

The term Gothic music is used to refer to a selection of genres that are associated in some way or another with the goth subculture, encompassing mainly gothic rock, darkwave, Industrial, EBM, synth pop and deathrock.

Bands under this term are often across genres, and hold little to any connection to each other musically. Commonly, bands are linked by their association with goth subculture, many of the bands integral fan base being goths and often marketing products associated with goths.

Gothic Rock

Gothic rock is part of goth music due to, in part, it being the signature icon of goths. This genre is also the mother of the term goth music due to its abbreviated name goth rock. Bands within this genre typically play for goths, and often feature fashion, ideals and sounds appealing to this audience.

Deathrock

Deathrock is considered a subgenre of Punk. The term was often used interchangeably with the earlier goth rock bands, even spawning a similar movement in the UK, at the Batcave club. Fans of this movement along with the goth rock scene are sometimes known as "Old School Goths". Deathrock bands typically play at clubs or at events (like the Drop Dead Festival) which specifically cater to those in Deathrock, Psychobilly, Horror Punk and Post-Punk scenes as well as Goths who enjoy earlier Gothic Rock.

Darkwave

Darkwave holds significant influences from Gothic rock bands, although they tend to incorporate elements that later effected the movement not found in Gothic rock bands.

Industrial

Bands in this form are often association with goth music by a large quantity of their fan base. Bands of this form do not emphasise this fact, some even despise it.

Some people foreign to the goth subculture misinterpret Industrial rock in particular as “goth”.

Synth pop

Synth pop migrated into Goth clubs near the end of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, and has been common place from there on in. Some goths were not fond of the shift away from the scenes rock based roots, leaving the scene completely because of it. Newer members of the scene adopted synth pop quite casually however, and since its inclusion it has become a staple of goth music.

EBM

This genre shares the same reason as Industrial for its defination as goth music.

See also

• List of non-goth musical artists popular within goth subculture

This article about a music genre is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Goth
• Music genre stubs