In addition to electronic musicians, avantgarde music people also put their tentacles into the dark abyss. Among them, The Swans, a legendary orchestra from the avant-garde in new york, USA, created many classic albums with dark consciousness as early as the early 1980s. Today, Michael Gira and Jarboe are still writing this kind of music in their personal capacity, even though they have been accused of flying. In addition to swans, Diamanda Galas, who is well known to domestic fans, is also a leader in the dark avantgarde music school. In addition, don't forget German pioneer female singer Helga Pogatschar. Her debut album Requiem for Mars released in 1995 can definitely be regarded as a classic of this kind of music.
The situation similar to that of avantgarde music industry also appeared in the folk music industry. In the early 1980s, the death of June, the present 93, the appearance of solinvictus and the fire+ice family created a new branch of folk songs. A large number of experimental music elements, mysticism, pagan culture and right-wing content are injected into traditional folk songs, so they are called dark folk songs or apocalyptic folk songs by the media. These old bands directly influenced the creation of many new folk bands, such as Oplid, Forseti and Belborn in 1990s. No matter from the musical technique or ideology, the new folk music movement has directly inherited the mantle of dark folk songs in the 1980s. Slightly different, the base camp of the latter is the British independent brand world serpent, while the former is the German EIS &；; Licht .
Rites and music, as the name implies, have a strong atmosphere of religious sacrifice. However, the rituals and sacrifices discussed here are full of darkness and mystery. Coil, The Moon lay under a Cloud and Rosa Crux are by far the most outstanding ritual groups, while Blood Axis and Der Blutharsch should be regarded as one of the few ritual bands except the obvious right-wing tendency. Although each band's musical techniques are different or simply different, the pursuit of that sense of sacrifice is the same and the same.
Medieval music obviously belongs to the scope of our discussion, because when it comes to Goth, we should associate it with the Middle Ages. Artists tried to reproduce medieval music and made great efforts to this end. Search for literature and ancient music, copy or repair ancient musical instruments. These archaeological behaviors actually play a role in connecting contemporary and traditional cultures of various ethnic groups. It is worth noting that the music genre in the Middle Ages also includes several different small branches, which are divided into three parts: royal music, religious music and folk music according to the different deductive objects. In terms of playing techniques, Estaing Pi, Freiberg Piette, Salband and TSBB…… are determined to faithfully reproduce medieval music, while Raven, Esteire Mo, Stiehler Volcker and Qntal like to combine modern music with medieval music. In addition, many orchestras involved in this music style also have obvious classical and national music backgrounds. Two Italian orchestras Ataraxia and Camerata Mediolanense, and Rajna in France are the best examples.
Neoclassical music is not completely covered by dark music. Literally, modern music with strong classical music temperament can be called neoclassical music. And a small number of bands and works that express Gothic/dark themes are also classified as their favorite dark music genre by fans. The most famous bands are Black Belt of Blue Girl (later stage), Stoa, Soper Aeternus, Ophelia's Dream, Caprice, etc. At that time, German Yin Tian/neoclassical brand Hyperium had launched a series of music series based on this idea, which greatly promoted neoclassical music.
To explain what is dark ambient music, we must first understand what is ambient music. Ambient music originated from the technical trance passages in the works of experimental electronic musician Brian Eno and power plant orchestra, who mainly used synthesizers in the mid-1970s. The former first put forward the word "atmosphere" to describe the functionality of his works. This word has a simple meaning, which means that such sound works exist as part of the environment or the created environment. It has almost no singing and lyrics, and focuses on the texture of the sound itself. With the development of the times, the meaning of atmosphere music has become very extensive, and it has begun to refer to all sound works aimed at creating scenes and rendering atmosphere. Environmental sampling, traditional instrumental music, etc. Often used as a material. Early atmosphere music always emphasized and conveyed warm, comfortable or interesting feelings. It can completely exist as therapeutic music. However, after entering the 1990s, some atmosphere musicians turned their interest to expressing gloomy, mysterious and self-loathing emotions with monotonous or strange voices, and a large part of their works also had strong religious and ritual tendencies. This is what we often call dark environment music. Similarly, the music in the dark atmosphere has its fuzziness, in which you can hear melancholy and introspective gray voices, such as Steve Roach, Vidner Omana, Black Rape of a Blue Girl (early), Alicia, and the soul dancing somewhere. You can also hear more obscure religious dark sounds, such as Lusford, Rezende, Sephiroth and Wolf Skin. It must be mentioned here that two brands have made important contributions to this kind of music: Projekt in North America and cold meat industry in Northern Europe. Under the control of their respective leaders Sam and Roger, these two brands have excavated many gloomy/dark atmosphere combinations.
The reason why industrial music is introduced here is not because it is unimportant, on the contrary, its influence is far-reaching than many music schools mentioned above. As a musical style coexisting with Gothic music in a broad sense, industrial music itself can write a complete book or article. But here can only do some simple descriptions to serve the readers. As we all know, the origin of the word industrial music comes from the legendary brand Industrial Records in the mid-1970s. Throbbing Gristle, the founder of this brand, made his own artistic exploration with their unconventional philosophical/aesthetic ideas, and produced music albums of many heretical groups such as Voltaire of Caballe, Clockdva, Montekazaza and SPK. Harsh noise and hysterical sound effects reveal the reality and darkness of industrial society. Testing Department, whitehouse and Einstein Nurboten obviously have the same ambitions as these predecessors. Next, I'd like to mention CMI. Besides dark atmosphere music, it is also committed to promoting extremely violent industrial noise/experimental music. Now the names of death of light, MZ 4 12 have basically become contemporary legends. Although industrial music and Gothic music are antagonistic to some extent, Gothic expresses romantic, emotional, aesthetic, supernatural, feminine and dramatic feelings. Industrial music and furniture are inherently cold, mechanized, technical and violent. But their obsession with morbid and dystopian culture is so unified. As time goes by, industrial music itself is constantly changing. At first, pure industrial noise evolved into a wide variety of industrial music schools. Moreover, quite a few branches of industrial music are related to Gothic/Dark Music, among which Skinny Puppy and Nine Inch Nails in Dasich Industrial Rock Band are the best examples.