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Alternative rock
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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"Gothic" alternative rock - "Gothic rock" bands who veer more towards alternative rock than post-punk (or who encompasses both movements).
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The Awakening (also gothic rock)
The Bolshoi (also gothic rock)
The Cult (also gothic rock)
The Cure (also gothic rock)
Gene Loves Jezebel (also gothic rock)
Human Drama (also gothic rock)
Love and Rockets (also gothic rock)
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Dream pop - "fusion of post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into sensual, sonically ambitious soundscapes."
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Cocteau Twins (also ethereal wave, gothic rock)
Cranes (also shoegaze)
Lovesliescrushing (also ethereal wave)
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-------------------------------------------- (((Post-punk))) - "The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental."
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Post-punk - (Bands who don't really fit into the later categories. Mostly comprised of the earliest "post-punk" bands.)
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The Birthday Party
The Fall
Killing Joke
Joy Division
New Order
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----------- Dark Wave - "began in the late 1970s, coinciding with the popularity of New Wave and post-punk. Dark wave added dark, introspective lyrics and an undertone of sorrow"
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Cold Wave - "the French variant of Dark Wave, Gothic rock and Post-punk music, primarily spread in France, South Belgium and Romandy."
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Dark cabaret - "draws on the aesthetics of the decadent, risqué German Weimar-era cabarets, burlesque and Vaudeville shows with the stylings of post-1970s goth and punk music."
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Gitane DeMone (also gothic rock)
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Gothic rock - "...takes the guitar and synthesizer sounds of post-punk and uses them to construct "foreboding, sorrowful, often epic soundscapes.""
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45 Grave (also deathrock, horror punk)
Alien Sex Fiend
All About Eve (also folk rock)
All Gone Dead
And Also the Trees
Astrovamps (also deathrock)
Ausgang
The Awakening (also alternative rock)
Balaam and the Angel (also hard rock)
Bauhaus
Bella Morte (also industrial rock)
Big Electric Cat
Bitter Grace
The Bolshoi
Caelum Bliss
Cauda Pavonis (also deathrock)
Children on Stun
Christian Death (also deathrock, gothic metal)
Clan of Xymox
Cocteau Twins (also dream pop, ethereal wave)
Corpus Delicti
The Cult (also alternative rock, hard rock)
The Cure (also alternative rock)
Daimonion
The Damned (also punk rock)
The Danse Society
Dead Can Dance (also ethereal wave, neoclassical dark wave)
Diary of Dreams
Diva Destruction
Dominion
Eva O (also deathrock)
Faith and the Muse
Fields Of Aplomb
Fields of the Nephilim (also gothic metal)
Frank the Baptist (also deathrock)
Gene Loves Jezebel (also alternative rock)
Ghost Dance
Gitane DeMone (also dark cabaret)
Hatesex
Human Drama (also alternative rock)
Ikon
Inkubus Sukkubus
James Rays Gangwar
Kommunity FK (also deathrock)
The Last Dance
The Last Days of Jesus (also deathrock)
Libitina
London After Midnight
The Lords of the New Church
Love and Rockets (also alternative rock)
Love Like Blood (also gothic metal)
Lycia (also ethereal wave)
The Sisters of Mercy
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Ethereal Wave - "...atmospheric guitar soundscapes. Use of breathy male or high register female vocals – often with hard-to-decipher lyrical content – and a strong influence of ambient music."
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Cocteau Twins (also dream pop, gothic rock)
Dead Can Dance (also gothic rock, neoclassical dark wave)
Lovesliescrushing (also dream pop)
Lycia (also gothic rock)
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Neoclassical Dark Wave - "...characterized by the use of ethereal atmosphere and angelic female voices but also adds strong influences from classical music."
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Dead Can Dance (also ethereal wave, gothic rock)
Love Is Colder Than Death
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Punk rock
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The Clash
The Damned (also gothic rock)
Sex Pistols
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Deathrock - "Sub-genre of punk rock incorporating horror elements and spooky atmospherics."
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45 Grave (also gothic rock, horror punk)
Astrovamps (also gothic rock)
Cauda Pavonis (also gothic rock)
Christian Death (also gothic metal, gothic rock)
Eva O (also gothic rock)
Frank the Baptist (also gothic rock)
Kommunity FK (also gothic rock)
The Last Days of Jesus (also gothic rock)
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Horror punk - "...blending horror movie lyrical themes and imagery with musical influences from early punk rock, doo-wop, and, to a lesser degree, rockabilly."
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45 Grave (also deathrock, gothic rock)
Misfits
