Knowing the Darkwave

Darkwave:

The Darkwave originates in the late 70s coinciding with the movement of popularity the new wave and post-punk. Built on these two bases begins this genre as striking as it is dark within its allegory synth / goth promoting a very peculiar materail for the time using in their songs laments or letters with very dark tints. In the 80s they had the peculiarity of make call wavers or darkwavers by the movement of their culture that is undoubtedly a derivative of the Gothic that towards a more futuristic reference to this and not something as classic as in the Renaissance period as they tend to differentiate the most classic Gothic.

The term or the use of the word darkwave was said and adopted for the first time in Europe that refers to the darkest variants of the new wave, gothic rock and synthpop at that time we will find bands like Bauhaus, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees , The Chameleons, New Order, Cocteau Twins, Anne Clark, Killing Joke, The Cassandra Complex, Mizar, Fields of the Nephilim, The Sisters of Mercy, Depeche Mode, Chris and Cosey, Fad Gadget, Soft Cell, Tones on Tail, Gary Numan, The Smiths, The Neon Judgment and Poésie Noire.

The movement was expanding internationally, in countries like France was born a derivative of the darkwave called coldwave that described a cold, mechanical and passionate sound at the same time the bands that came closest to this concept are KaS Product, Martin Dupont, Asylum Party, Norma Loy, Clair Obscur, Marquis de Sade, Opera Multi Steel or Trisomie 21. Also at that time the Germans gave their presence in this genre that they called electro wave finding bands like Das Ich, Relaches Menschsein and Lacrimosa in turn these nostalgic bands they mixed a more theatrical style with German poetry and metaphorical lyrics.

Arriving at the stage in which began to decline and raised much later back in 1993 following the chronology in the United States was present with the underground record label called Projekt Records that promoted German bands and atypical bands that were characterized by having an atypical essence With a style called ethereal wave in this case there are few bands, most of them are solo artists that today we will only find one and it is called Anna Varney who is of English origin as well as founder of Sopor Aeternus.

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