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Dark alternative music

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Dark alternative music is music that is "dark" (in the metaphorical sense of darkness) and "alternative" (in the sense of being a musical alternative to more conventional or popular forms). In Germany, this genre falls under the term schwarze szene, which "translates to 'black scene' and [has been] used since the 1990s to describe all the so called dark alternative music styles swirling around Goth: industrial, darkwave, electro, metal, neofolk and medieval, and for some reason also including BDSM/fetish culture".

Types of dark alternative music include:

  • Dark 2-step, a derivate of 2-step garage
  • Darkcore, a subgenre of jungle
  • Dark ambient, a subgenre of ambient
  • Dark cabaret, a fusion between punk and cabaret
  • Dark EBM, a subgenre of Electronic Body Music
  • Dark electro, an outgrowth of Electro-industrial and industrial music
  • Dark folk, an outgrowth of industrial music
  • Dark metal, variety of heavy metal subgenres
  • Dark pop
  • Dark psytrance, a subgenre of psychedelic trance
  • Dark rock, an umbrella term describing a broad array of music
  • Dark Wave, a part of the new wave movement

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    Dark alternative music Wikipedia
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