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We sell Gothic Rock CDs and Gothic records and are one of the biggest online record stores for new and used gothic music.
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Gothic Rock Music, Gothic Bands and Artists Information
Born in the early to mid 1980s, gothic rock music took the heavy guitars and synthesizers of post-punk and created an extremely dark, moody form of underground rock. Stylistically, gothic rock music, or "goth rock" is known for epic, theatrical performances and poetic, personal, morbid lyrics that often deal with religious or supernatural imagery, and concepts of death and doom. Though never commercially popular and largely misunderstood, gothic rock music has acquired a devoted fan base of black-attired followers who endorse the genre's melodramatic, sorrowful sounds and funeral-dirge imagery.
Gothic Bands and Gothic Artists and their Influences
Gothic rock music can trace its origins to British post-punk group Joy Division, who were arguably the first band to use the sonically dark, emotionally distant musical style. Another noted gothic band influence is Bauhaus, whose 1979 song "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is often credited as the original gothic music creed. Other post-punk groups like the Cure, Siouxie and the Banshees, the Sisters of Mercy, the Mission U.K., Love and Rockets, the Damned, and Christian Death adopted a darker, heavier approach to their gothic rock music soon after. The obsessively bleak sounds and psychological emptiness made famous by the Cure brought goth rock music, or "goth rock" into popularity with the socially alienated youth of Britain, where most gothic bands originated. The goth music movement later evolved into the United States by groups such as Christian Death, but was much more prevalent in Britain and other parts of Europe.
By the conclusion of the decade, the original gothic rock music movement had ended. However, many gothic artists and bands continued to branch out into sub-genres such as metal, industrial, and darkwave, fusing the gloomy poeticism of gothic rock with a variety of music to create new subcultures, seen in groups such as Nosferatu, The Creatures, and Gene Loves Jezebel.
The mid to late 1990s saw a reemergence of goth rock idealism. Merging with metal to create Black Metal, which was fascinated by images of death and destruction, bands such as Cradle of Filth evolved the all-black costume to include dramatic black and white face makeup. Alternative rock, Industrial, and metal artists (such as Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Type O Negative) borrowed "goth" visual elements for the commercial shock value they offered, and brought the genre to a more widespread audience in their goth CDs amd records. They also brought controversy: Gothic rock-influenced Marilyn Manson used violent musical imagery that supposedly inspired the Columbine school shootings.
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