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  Encyclopedia: Heavy metal music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Goth metal (also called Gothic metal) is a crossover between heavy metal music and goth music itself; although the term metal is debated by those who say it is mainly goth music.
In music, a riff is an ostinato figure: a repeated chord progression or melodymelodic figure, often played by the rhythm section instruments, that forms the basis or accompaniment of a Rock and rollrock music or jazz composition.
Later styles of heavy rock music in the 1990s, such as grunge (the typical example being Seattle's Nirvana), show influences of heavy metal but are typically not labelled sub-genres of heavy metal, as opposed to thrash metal and hair metal.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Heavy-metal-music   (11103 words)

  
 Gothic metal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gothic metal (also called Goth metal) is a crossover between heavy metal music and gothic music itself; although the term 'metal' is debated by those who say it is mainly gothic music.
Although Paradise Lost, Anathema used some female vocals in their music, Norway's Theatre of Tragedy was the first gothic metal band with a leading female singer, Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull (later replaced by another female singer, named Nell).
The growing popularity of industrial music in the 1990s can be factored as a major source to this, considering several artists in the genre inspired a "gothic" styled dress amongst suburban youths which was similarly debated in authenticity by those who proclaimed themselves "true" members of gothic subculture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goth_metal   (948 words)

  
 Goth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In referring to goth as a whole it is easier to think of it as a movement, driven by gothic fashion and gothic rock, its members generally exhibiting some degree of taste for a dark, supernatural aesthetic.
The rise in popularity of rock music in the mid-eighties, was mirrored by the rise of gothic rock, most notably in the form of the seminal goth rock bands, The Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim and The Mission.
Goth, as a concept, continues to evolve and develop in the 21st century, recently embracing influences from rave culture and anime.
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 Music.com ||| Goth Rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Frequently misunderstood in its aesthetics and misapplied as a term, goth rock is an offshoot of post-punk that existed primarily during the early to mid-'80s.
Goth rock was generally not a critically acclaimed style, given its penchant for florid poetry, relentlessly mournful dirges, and melodramatic excess.
During the '90s, the goth sound began to cross-pollinate with industrial music, producing hybrids that appealed to both sides, as well as the darkwave subgenre (which also incorporated '80s synth-pop and dream-pop).
www.music.com /style/goth_rock/1   (419 words)

  
 Dark Culture Magazine - ARTICLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I've clung to Goth because there has always been an underlying force within it, a power that exceeds everyday music and challenges the spirit.
Many turncoats felt that the goth scene was merely an embarrassing part of their adolescence.
If today's "Goth" bands are an indication of what the scene has evolved into, than it's really not appropriate to call it Goth at all.
www.darkculture.net /archive/articles/gothmusicgone.shtml   (1450 words)

  
 Goth Rock Downloads - Download Goth Rock Music - Download Goth Rock MP3s
The godfathers of goth-rock were British post-punkers Joy Division, whose bleak, remote, obsessively introspective music and lyrics laid the initial foundation for goth.
During the '90s, the goth sound began to cross-pollinate with industrial music, producing hybrids that appealed to both sides, as well as the darkwave subgenre (which also incorporated '80s synth-pop and dream-pop).
The first incarnation of the goth punks and later metal heroes known as the Cult, Southern Death Cult formed in late 1982 near Leeds.
www.mp3.com /goth-rock/genre/319/subgenre.html   (3514 words)

  
 A Goth music introduction - Goth mucic started in 1984
Goth music incite feelings that other can relate to on a passionate level and most goths will dance in their own fashion to music groups such as; Flock of Seagulls, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Joy Division, Bauhus, Duran Duran, Deepche mode, the Sisters of Mercy, and Cure.
Goth Music has only two subcultures that are distinctly distinguished — pop-rave-commercially-color culture- as a temporary today’s culture.
As you can differentiate the Goths among the crowd right away by something unusual in a look, by their definitely fl or leather clothes and as to the women-goths — by underlined elegental erotic vamp style in their image and clothes...
www.geocities.com /pbwp/goth/goth-music.htm   (303 words)

  
 Music.com ||| Goth Metal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Goth metal fuses the bleak, icy atmospherics of goth rock with the loud guitars and aggression of heavy metal, finding the middle ground between the two styles in a melodramatic sense of theater and lyrical obsessions with religion and horror.
Many goth metal bands have since sprung up in both America and Europe, with the tongue-in-cheek Type O Negative breaking out to a wider alternative metal audience in the '90s.
During the latter half of that decade, goth metal also proved to be an important influence on fl metal bands searching for new ways to darken their sound.
www.music.com /style/goth_metal/1   (180 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: goth
A goth will listen to music that is meaningful to their life and thought provoking, a chav will listen to music which will tell him how to behave.
Goth was originally a term used to describe people with a taste for certain bands eg: Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, etc. in the '80s when punk started to fade out, and with wardrobes predominantly fl.
The early goths looked similar to punks, except that the predominant colours were fl for hair and clothing (with the occasional outburst of white, red or purple) and silver for jewellery.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=goth   (2686 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Gothic fashion Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is allied to Goth music, but not all those who dress in this fashion produce Goth music.
The sterotypical gothic outfit, referred to jokingly as the "mopey" or "romantic" look, is limited only by what the wearer thinks he or she can pull off, and can (and frequently does) include elaborate gowns and corsets, veils, teased hair, lots of eyeliner, fishnets, and styles borrowed from the Elizabethans and Victorians.
There are similarities between goth fashion and fl metal fashion, which can make it difficult to discern the subculture of the individual.
www.ipedia.com /gothic_fashion.html   (600 words)

  
 The Goth culture: its history, practices, stereotypes, religious connections, etc.
The implication was that the Goth culture had been the cause of the alleged perpetrators' obsession with revenge, and thus is at least partly responsible for the homicides.
Goths tend to be non-violent, pacifistic, passive, and tolerant.
Goth music often deals with thought-provoking topics, concentrating on societal evils, like racism, war, hatred of groups, etc. They tend to concentrate on the very "nasty, unhappy" topics that "North American culture" wants to "ignore and forget.
www.religioustolerance.org /goth.htm   (1553 words)

  
 Goth Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The focus of Goth music is on the ambiance, often accomplished by the use of layering of tones and chord progressions.
The Sisters of Mercy, led by Andrew Eldritch, kept the Goth movement alive in the UK during the late 1980's and early 1990's.This is a drum heavy track, with lyrics expressing cynicism, dissolution, and loss.
This track is a politically incorrect parody of the Dance music of the early 1980's, and the lyrics lampoon the club scene in general and Goths in particular.
www.angelfire.com /goth/sadboyinblack/gothpages/gothmusic.html   (3239 words)

  
 The State of Goth Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
I beginning to believe that it is pointless in continuing to arguing the merits of what is goth music or not.
You have bands that look very much like goth and are sometimes refer to as goth by fans but the band themselves don't considered themselves to be goth at all (ex.
But the dark truth of the matter is this, the vast majority of these bands that we think are goth or not are not sitting at home crying and worrying about whether the goth community classifies them or accepts them as being goth or not.
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 The Guide To Goth Music | Guitar Columns @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
The 80`s Goth still exists but its strongest in the UK and Germany, but the sound will never be the same anywhere because the new Goth Rock bands are to influenced by industrial and techno.
The Goth Metal band "Type O Negative" have a song called "We Hate Everyone" and the lyrics are a mockery of the people who are narrowminded, judging Goths and Metallers, You can check the lyrics here.
Goth churches during midieval times were actually bright, with large columns and colorful stained-glass windows, contrary to what most people think of as goth today.
www.ultimate-guitar.com /columns/the_guide_to/the_guide_to_goth_music.html   (6761 words)

  
 Goth Alternative Rock Music Style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Goth rock is an offshoot of post-punk that existed primarily during the early to mid-'80s.
Belgian Dark Alternative Music Database - Offering information on Belgian acts (from Siglo XX to Sonar), labels, radio shows, parties and events and related details in the range of wave, gothic, electro, industrial, noise, and synthpop music.
Necropolis 2001 - A decade-spanning gothic, fetish, new wave and industrial music party to be held in Amsterdam, Holland on November 17th.
music.infotut.com /Styles/Rock/Alternative/Goth   (379 words)

  
 MindViz - Forums : Music : Favorite Songs/Albums : Goth Music 101- Redone
Though none of the bands mentioned are directly a part of the goth genre or culture, goth took heavy influence from glam-rock, psychedelic rock, and of course, punk rock.
Goth music is soft, usually upbeat (unless using a solomn tone), and uses flowing vocals.
Goth was originally termed for the Germanic tribes in northern Europe, who soon migrated and then conquered and sacked the Roman Empire (around 271 CE).
luvmegirl6969.mindviz.com /messages.php?id=5777   (1937 words)

  
 Goth metal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Goth metal has proven somewhat difficult to categorise.
These bands focused on female vocals as well, although not neccesserly operatic ones, and reduced (Click link for more info and facts about doom metal) doom metal elements and male death vocals significantly.
Some of these bands also combined electronic sounds and mainstream (A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western) rock music with the traditional Gothic metal sound to create a lighter and more accessible form of the genre.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/goth_metal.htm   (1415 words)

  
 June 1998 Results - Goth Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Goth is not necessarily depressive, but it generally exposes emotions and subject matter shied away from by mainstream music."
Music is use of sound to effect the material world.
Goth music tends to have a root or primal sexual-strength-fear-power type rhythum with dual deep passion and high transcendance type melodies.
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 Goth Rock and Gothic Music from The Bomp Bookshelf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Often presented as homicidal, suicidal and sociopathic, Goths are associated with everyone from Marilyn Manson to the murderers of Columbine.
It covers UK Goth from the mid to late 90's, concentrating on the Birmingham, Plymouth and Leeds area, where 72 interviews were conducted, with over a hundred people completing a Whitby questionnaire.
He was one of the pioneering artists in the musical sub-genre known as 'Death Rock', and he used that as a springboard to strike out in a multitude of directions: electronic music, spoken word, visual arts, and hard rock.
www.bomp.com /BompbooksGoth.html   (2663 words)

  
 Goth sysadmins rage against Reg music machine | The Register
The most striking is that a taste for certain musical genres will erode the faculties which allow the average person to understand basic English.
We're not sure whether the outrageous omission of Goth was due to prejudice, ignorance or indifference.
Your musical turpitude resounds in the sour-beered music halls of infamy!
www.theregister.co.uk /2004/07/26/music_poll_letters   (1243 words)

  
 Gothic Music
Babylonian Tiles Acid goth for the dark side of the mind...
The Infinite Motion is a musical group which blends New Wave-Industrial with the Ethereal.
Lady Cadaver - A Cambridge (U.K.) based goth quartet with a distinct, warped, dark sense of humour...
www.nyx.net /~astoker/gothmusic.html   (1527 words)

  
 Ectophiles' Guide - Sabrina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sabrina writes music that seem to be destined to be the soundtrack to WB's TV show Charmed.
Her music affects a goth-attitude, but its pop-influence overpowers any dark goth shades, giving it a candy-coated sound that's commercially viable and completely inoffensive.
The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music is copyright © 1996-2004 by the editors.
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 Designers - Gothic Fashion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A place for Vampires and Goths in the city of Alphaville.
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The Goth culture: its history, practices, stereotypes, religious...
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 Pleasant Hill: Ambient music artist embraces the dark side
He makes music simply to convey sounds he hears in his head, not to send a message.
He immersed himself in experimental music at a San Francisco distributor's warehouse and frequented a South of Market Goth club.
He moved on from the Goth music scene when he felt its outré spirit waning.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/21/EBGIVAPRDQ1.DTL   (724 words)

  
 Goth - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
During the 1980s, underground bands and labels built a network of distribution and touring that was independent of the mainstream music industry.
Punk's existence began in 1976 when the Ramones emerged from CBGB's with a ramshackle image, fast rhythms, and a complete lack of musical prowess--a refreshing change from the often-overproduced (and overwrought) rock sounds so prevalent during the '70s.
The Ramones’ trip to England is said to have ignited the Sex Pistols into action; the Pistols took a more aggressive and nihilistic approach and spawned an equally fervent scene.
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 nash the slash - toronto-goth music
However, he is no stranger to the silent film world; he was born of silent film.
of his first two recordings, Blind Windows is a collection of all-instrumental music textured with early analogue synths and Nash's distinctive electric mandolin and violin riffs.
A young Nash graduated with a university degree in Ethnomusicology (way before the advent of the term 'world music'), and went on to become a pioneer in contemporary electronic music.
www.toronto-goth.com /culture/music/nashtheslash.shtml   (660 words)

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