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| | Encyclopedia: Gothic rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | While most punk bands focused on aggressive, outward rock, the early gothic bands were more introverted and personal, with elements that can be traced to much older literary movements such as Gothic horror, Romanticism, existential philosophy, and the philosophical construct of nihilism. |
 | | What is most notable about the core early 1980s post punk bands is that, typical to their punk roots, they had a general distaste for labels, presumably seeing such things as anathema to creative expression [1]. |
 | | From the late seventies onward, the Death Rock movement in Los Angeles, California was on the rise, with such bands as Christian Death (formed 1979), Gun Club (1981), 45 Grave, and Kommunity FK (c. |
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