coldwave

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#1·5h ago

(music genre) A European style of post-punk music in the 1980s.

Band member Azzedine Amrani reflects: “ Then, The Cure came to our ears; therefore we started to turn into coldwave music with brand new instruments [such as keyboards and drum machines].”

Origin: From , perhaps influenced by earlier genres such as new wave and darkwave. In France the post-punk genre was called la vague froide. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·5h ago

(music genre, US) The industrial metal music genre in the 1990s.

Modern industrial music subgenres and fusion-genres include EBM, futurepop, power-noise, aggrotech (terror-EBM), coldwave, elektro, dark-electro, and industrial-metal. Yes, it can be quite confusing.

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