Dark alternative music
Dark Alternative Music is music that is "dark" (in the metaphorical sense of darkness) and "alternative" (in the sense of being a musical alternative to more conventional or popular forms). In Germany, this genre falls under the term schwarze szene, which "translates to 'black scene' and [has been] used since the 1990s to describe all the so called dark alternative music styles swirling around Goth: industrial, darkwave, electro, metal, neofolk and medieval, and for some reason also including BDSM/fetish culture".[1]
Types of dark alternative music include:
- Dark 2-step, a derivate of 2-step garage
- Darkcore, a subgenre of jungle
- Dark ambient, a subgenre of ambient
- Dark cabaret, a fusion between punk and cabaret
- Dark EBM, a subgenre of Electronic Body Music
- Dark electro, an outgrowth of Electro-industrial and industrial music
- Dark folk, an outgrowth of industrial music
- Dark metal, variety of heavy metal subgenres
- Dark psytrance, a subgenre of psychedelic trance
- Dark rock, an umbrella term describing a broad array of music
- Dark Wave, a part of the new wave movement
See also
Metal subgenres
other miscellaneous genres
References
- ↑ Liisa Ladouceur, Gary Pullin, "SCHWARZE SZENE", in Encyclopedia Gothica (2011).
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