Gothic music

Gothic music is a style of popular music that separated from post punk in late 1970s. The representative artists of the earliest gothic music are Nick Cave, Joy Division, The Cure, Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy and so on. With meditation and retrospection, gothic musicians always try to find a different way of thinking about life, like trying to find beauty in life, pain and death.

Because Goths tend to be non-violent, pacifistic, passive, and tolerant, the style of gothic music is quiet, elegant and gloomy, combined with classical, metal and electric elements. People can feel something unique such as misty female voice and dissociable chord hunting in the background.

There are many sub tribe in Gothic music such as Ethereal Voices(Cocteau Twins, Ophelia's Dream, Black tape for a Blue Girl), Darkwave(Switchblade Symphony, Love Is Colder Than Death, Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows), Neo-classic(Autumn Tears, Ataraxia, Stoa, Rajna, Lacrimosa), Industrial Rock(The Leech, Nine Inch Nails, Vanity Beach), Goth Metal(Tristania, Type O Negative, My Dying Bride, Sirenia), Goth-pop(H.I.M, Evanescence, The 69 Eyes) and so forth.

The first use of the term "Goth" in its meaning of a 20th/21st-century cultural movement is believed to have been on a British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) TV program. Anthony H. Wilson, manager of Joy Division described the band as Gothic compared with the pop mainstream. Then the name stuck.