"Goth", a specific vocabulary, refers to the Germanic tribes in Western Europe. On the level of architectural culture and writing from18th century to19th century, the so-called "Gothic Renaissance" excavated the gloomy mood of the Middle Ages from the historical context. At the same time, some texts since the end of 18 are classified as gothic novels, such as walpole's (the castle of Otranto), ann radcliff's The Mystery of Udolph, Louis's The Friar, and of course mary shelley's Frankenstein. These works are devoted to dealing with cruel passion and supernatural horror themes, and the background of novels is usually set in desolate castles or secluded monasteries. The protagonist (usually a young girl/man) is trapped in the irresistible evil sex/gender and the abuser (usually a man) begins to suffer death. The extreme erotic climax of ............................................................................................... comes from the moment of disillusionment (that is, the "completion" of the ceremony). The religious system symbolizing patriarchy and the dark (negative) forces trying to surpass it, in a certain unspeakable level, actually share the pleasure mode of "sexual mating and death" in a secret and cool way. In the contemporary horror fiction camp, such as anne rice's Chronicle of Vampires, it reveals the complex interaction between homosexual desire and paternal mechanism.
Interestingly, this phenomenon of Gothic culture not only spread on the pages of novels, but also invaded the garden of non-mainstream music in the second half of the 20th century, becoming a completely different branch of alternative music. If you are familiar with the historical context of new music, you will know that from the late 1970s to the 1980s, some orchestras gradually merged into the future Gothic Rock School with the brands of "Post PunkCool", "Neo-Classical Music" or "Neo-hippis". Early representatives such as Siouxsie and Banshee, Bauhaus, Joy Division, etc. Their characteristics are gloomy and world-weary, and the cold notes have a fine aesthetic feeling, but at the same time, they use a lot of discordant sounds that deviate from the melody line at the register level, interspersed with counter-measures to traditional music. At the level of lyrics and performance concept, it deals with the desolation of life and love, the rejection of reality, and then pursues the bizarre pleasure of the soul abyss. On the stage, she/they appeared in a crazy costume, such as Susie's dairy queen with a little sadomasochism, or Murphy, the lead singer of Baghouse, dressed up as a glamorous bisexual vampire. The strong quality of Gothic rock music is not only the subversion and reversal of gender, but also the obsession with theological (or demonic) concepts. The Sisters of Charity was founded in 198 1, which is a demonstration of musical ideology by several men who love medieval style. Andrew Eldritch, the lead singer who was described as "laughing and watching Rome burn to a pile of rubble", spoke through the religious standpoint of the Gothic rock band.
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What is "Goth"? First of all, literally, it has three meanings. First of all, Gothic buildings, such as cathedrals, are characterized by their tall beams and columns and pointed arched ceilings and structures. Secondly, in literature, Goth is used to describe strange and mysterious adventure stories set in dark and lonely places, such as abandoned castles. Third, Gothic also represents a printing or writing style, and the font is quite gorgeous.
The earliest word "Gothic" originated from the Renaissance and was used to distinguish the artistic styles of the Middle Ages (~15th century). Its origin comes from the German Goths who invaded Italy and disintegrated the Roman Empire in the 3rd-5th century. /kloc-in the 0/5th century, Italians had the idea of reviving ancient Roman culture, which set off a brilliant Renaissance movement. Because Italians can't let go of the historical hatred of the Goths who destroyed the Roman Empire, in order to distinguish it from this period, they called the artistic style of the Middle Ages Goth, which means barbarism to them. Although the word Gothic originally had a negative meaning, in fact quite a few beautiful works of art were created at this time. 12 century, due to the improvement of architectural technology, a large number of Gothic churches were born, the most famous of which is Notre Dame de Paris. Of course, Gothic style is not limited to architecture, such as sculpture, glass products, decorations and colorful pictures. , deeply influenced by it. This artistic creation lasted from the middle of12nd century to the beginning of16th century. In fact, religion plays a very important role in Gothic art. Both painters and sculptors like to take religion as the theme in their works, but they are not very interested in realistic themes. In the romantic movement that appeared around 1800, Gothic and medieval cultures were once again favored by people and revived. Romanticism can be said to be a reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, and perceptual and irrational attitudes are the center of this movement. During this period, Goth began to be associated with darkness, strangeness and eccentricity. In fact, many symbols and themes of romanticism are quite similar to these Gothic subcultures. Some writers in this period are very keen to describe the darkness and emptiness in people's hearts, and themes such as sexual delusion, terror and God are widely used in literary works. In addition, in visual arts, romantic painters prefer dark and desolate scenery. Vampire is the most typical symbol in gothic novels. bram stoker's classic Dracula even added the image of vampire in the book, which can be described as the origin of gothic literature with vampire as the theme in the19th century.
And few people pay attention to these trees now. The band created a lot of excellent and sad music, which is worth enjoying by every Gothic music lover. From a technical point of view, these trees can't be compared with the Goths today, but this doesn't prevent us from looking for sincere feelings from their music. The best way to understand trees is to feel their life scenes. On the evening of 24th, a large number of songs performed by the band 1986 were included, all of which were the most successful works of the band.
In the1980s, the neo-Gothic movement began to be staged in Britain. The appearance of Gothic Movement may be regarded as a reaction to the previous punk culture. In any case, the Gothic spirit began to show its influence in music. Gothic music also likes to pay attention to the darkness and emptiness of human nature and has a strong interest in death. Slowness, sadness and even horror are the characteristics of his music, and vampires are once again the best in these themes.
In addition to music performances, Gothic artists' groups also visually express the aesthetics of death, such as pale faces and black clothes, or ruffled clothes in Victorian England19th century. Medieval relics and Gothic architecture are also widely used. Gothic movement in Britain reached its peak in the mid-1980s, and the most representative orchestras were Sisters of Mercy and nephilim's mission and field.
As far as musical style is concerned, British Gothic music in this period is called the new wave, with a large number of synthesizers (keyboards) added to rock music, as well as the Gothic elements mentioned above, and even an electronic flavor. After Gothic Rock/New Wave was introduced into the United States, it further developed into a branch of industry, with famous organizations such as Ministry and Nine-inch Nail. On the other hand, in Europe, it prefers electronic music.
Although Gothic music developed to electronic music all over Europe, there were some other variations. In fact, Gothic metal music was also brewed in the early 1990s, and finally announced the arrival of Gothic metal era with the first album of the same name by the famous Norwegian group Tragedy Theatre 1995.
However, before we start talking about Gothic Metal, we have to start with doom metal, which is a heavy, dark, slow, melancholy and sad music style. Some people think that the earliest origin of doom metal can be traced back to the first album of the same name on Black Sabbath and subsequent albums, but the establishment of the real doom metal style began with the album released by Candlemass, a famous Swedish group, in 1986. A considerable number of doomsday metal orchestras were born in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later, the famous British orchestra My Dying Bride included the compilation of violins, which became a pioneer for the bleak doomsday metal orchestras to borrow pianos in the future.
Doomsday metals began to develop in many ways after the 1990s. Tragedy Theater is the first theater that combines the inspiration of metal destruction with Gothic rock, thus creating a new Gothic metal destruction school. T.O.T can also be said to be the primary hero of the revival of Gothic style. The success of T.O.T made this Gothic metal trend spread rapidly from Northern Europe.
Several characteristics of tragedy theater have since become the basic elements of Gothic metal, especially Gothic death, and become the mainstream style today. For example, the duet between the brutal male voice of death metal (even the harsh black voice of black metal) and the soft female voice is the romantic Gothic spirit, and this contrast style also symbolizes darkness (the dead hole and the metal music part) and light, life and love (the female voice, piano and symphony part).
Confrontation. Liv, the lead singer of T.O.T soprano, is soft and out of touch, and her graceful singing has already conquered the hearts of many steel men.
However, due to the cultural differences among European countries, Gothic metal has also developed and even extended into many different forms. In addition to Gothic doom, in the Netherlands, the party set up a pure Gothic metal, with a beautiful voice as the lead singer, focusing on spiritual feelings. The lead singer Anneke van Giersbergen's voice is ethereal and beautiful. It can be said to be a perfect example of Gothic metal. Later, "Temptation" and "After Forever", two Dutch Gothic metal groups, were also called female singers with similar timbre to Anna Ke, which shows the influence of the party on Dutch Gothic metal. However, the poly-cost-effective has gradually changed its style recently, and the metal composition is getting weaker and weaker.
In addition, the Nordic orchestras further blended some black metal elements into Gothic, becoming Gothic Black. Famous orchestras, including Tristan and The Sins Of Thy Beloved, are from Norway. But in fact, the development of Goth in northern Europe, Goth, bad luck, death, black has been integrated, it is difficult to classify it as a single style. For example, Tristan even used clean male voices, black voices and chorus of opera hostess and choir in addition to the grand symphony momentum.
Of course, the Nordic Orchestra's musical thinking is not limited to this. Therion, Sweden has developed the symphonic opera metal, which includes both orchestral instruments (synthesizer sampling timbre) and metal instruments, and its singing part has recently adopted professional male and female opera choirs. Besides, as a divine grace, Finland gives people a feeling of seeing the prosperity of the world with its quiet and elegant atmosphere of Gothic.
In Germany, classical folk Gothic folk songs have been developed, such as Lacrimosa and Haggard. Except for the synthesizer, these groups all use real orchestral instruments, so the classical atmosphere is quite strong. For example, Lacrimosa cooperates directly with the London Symphony Orchestra, while Haggard's members include the orchestra, even reaching 65,438+08.
In recent years, Italy is famous all over Europe for its avant-garde metal and symphony fast-acting metal, but its development in Gothic metal is not backward. The Holy Land of the Heart and Macbeth are among the best. The former is desolate and sad, the latter is romantic and moving, and the melody is moving. In addition, there are some orchestras that pay attention to creating atmosphere, such as Dunwich and Autumn Crown, which are full of medieval feeling, among which Dunwich used medieval instruments and monks' choirs.
As for other European countries, there are also representative orchestras, such as Sirrah in Poland, Even Song in Hungary, Ontho in Romania and I Lay. , the two styles are completely different.
From the above introduction, we can know that Gothic metal music has developed in an all-round way and is no longer limited to a single style. Goth is not only a musical style, but also an attitude towards life. Goth is a fantasy world that people can escape from reality and enter, a dark and romantic world. Gothic spirit can be expressed not only in music, but also in clothing, art and literature. There are a lot of lace clothes, roses symbolizing romance, graves and tombs. Of course, as far as music is concerned, it may be difficult for metal fans who generally like it strongly and directly to accept Gothic metal with slow speed and emphasis on atmosphere, but if they can fundamentally understand the background and artistic conception of this music genre and adjust their mentality appropriately, they may be able to experience a different listening experience and fun.
In addition, there are many gothic cartoons in the animation industry, such as "D.Gray-man:
D.Gray-man can be said to combine the key elements of today's Must Be Popular. First of all, Hoshino Keisuke's own painting style is exquisite, which is quite a bit influenced by Yuji and Xiao Jian. Even if you put it in a girl's comic magazine, it won't seem out of place. [When The Zone was first published, some readers suspected that Taro Katsura Hoshino was Xiao Yanjian's pen name ... I don't know if he was happy or depressed about it] Secondly, the plot was very daring to spread, and the shelf was very large at the beginning, at least it had reached the effect of "coming back from the dead" first, and then it would not be unreasonable to fill in any content. [Remember to start the composition with "Our Universe" in the future ... just kidding] Third, the style of the whole17th century is very mechanical, and now many readers like it [some people say it is a follow-up work of steelmaking, and even the protagonist is called "bean sprouts". I think Ed's name is "Bean" ... it's really short. Then "The Savior" and the fighting drama completely conform to the mainstream setting of JUMP magazine. Finally, the frequent appearance of crosses and costumes is very in line with the popular "Gothic style" [many readers who play COS have been eyeing this work]. It is unreasonable that this kind of work, which is pleasing to both male and female readers, is unpopular. In the ranking published in April this year, Keisuke Hoshino beat Hideaki Sorachi to win the title of "Newcomer King" in 2004, which was well deserved.