The Oxford English Dictionary gives the following two explanations:

1, a rock style, strongly mixed with guitar and bass drum, with enlightening or mysterious lyrics;

Performers or followers of this kind of music often wear black clothes and make-up in black. But, just like the host won't go.

Just like buying an electric guitar in a department store, we can't completely trust people outside the rock music industry like the Oxford Dictionary.

As for the origin of the word "Goth", it originated from an early European tribe called Sigoth.

Tribes that delight in destruction and plunder are famous for their ignorance and lack of artistic taste. In the Middle Ages, a cathedral with a spire was used as.

The most distinctive architectural style is popular, that is, the so-called "Gothic" architecture. In Victoria, England,

During this period, a group of writers represented by edgar allan poe, mary shelley and bram stoker created little terror.

It is also described as "Gothic" style.

However, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the punk movement ended and friends came. It was used to describe music and culture.

Dick appeared. First of all, Ian Astbury used the word "Gothic Elf" when describing the band Sex Gang Children. Later, Siouxsie Sioux (the central figure of Siouxsie and the banshees) described her.

The new direction of the band uses "Goth"; After that, Joy represented in BBC 1978.

The word "Goth" is used in TV programs to compare mainstream pop bands.

The Death of Bela Lugosi by Bauhaus, released in 1979, is the first work labeled as "Gothic".

No one agrees.

Gothic music, as a successor to punk (death rock), is composed of visual art, literature, music and clothing.

A set of aesthetics and concepts has developed into underground culture, from which countless underground communities have been derived. these

Although the development of mass organizations has undergone great changes in all aspects, there are two things that all Goths have.

Yes: the color and music of the clothes.

Of course, the Gothic band list needs music first!

Early prototype Gothic band:

Bauhaus, Christian death (the death of Christ), southern death cult (the worship of death in the south, later changed)

They are called cults), happy division (but they don't look very gothic in appearance), and sororities.

Mercy (sisters of mercy), Siouxsie and banshee (Sukesi and fairy);

Quasi-prototype Gothic Band:

Nephilim's field (a little younger than the band above, but too old than the new band)

Mission (England) (their early works were considered as Gothic by the media) and Sexgang children;

A soft Gothic band:

Dance of Death, Xmal Deutschland, Danielle Dax; ;

Metal/Industrial Gothic Band:

Creaming Jesus (metal-prone band), James Rays Gangwar (sampler-dependent band) (very

Togolese people like listening to the music in the Ministry very much, but the Ministry is not a real Gothic band.

Experimental/Folk/Mysterious Gothic Band:

Current death in March and June, Sol Invictus

Neo-Gothic Band:

Nosferatu, Rosetta Stone, Shadow Project (a branch of Christian death), Xymox clan.

A band that relies on a synthesizer is very much like dancing.

The rise and fall of Gothic culture

In The 1980s, Gothic bands achieved a series of commercial successes, such as Sisters of Charity and The.

The bands Mission, All About Eve, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Fields of the Nephilim and Christian Death all have songs on the list. Their definitions of "classical Gothic" sound are as follows:

Crisp mandolin-style semi-acoustic guitar, steady single-note bass line, simple but fast-paced and strong.

Synthesizer effect and dark singing. Although some "classic" Gothic bands have persisted to this day, and

You can still get the love of Goths today, but they are not the protagonists of Gothic culture today.

In 1980s, Gothic fashion evolved from this musical style, with long black hair, pale skin and tight clothes.

Wearing black pointed boots and a lot of silver ornaments (mostly designed by early European and Egyptian religions). Black motorcycle leather jacket, black

Skinny jeans, black mesh stockings and black flying sunglasses have become registered trademarks of Goths.

In the 1990s, Gothic music gradually fell out of favor in the media, but Gothic culture became stronger and stronger, and nightclubs expanded rapidly.

Industry makes Gothic organizations form a huge network. New simple and cheap desktop publishing system and

Home recording technology has helped to produce a large number of Gothic magazines and samples of different quality, making Gothic culture look full of vitality.

It is full. The revival of Victorian horror movies in Hollywood was at this time, and The Crow (Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee) was being filmed.

A series of large horror films, such as), Edward Scissorhands, and Interview with Vampires at Night, are all Goths.

Culture has injected new passion. Gothic fashion has undergone subtle changes, with curly hair, high ponytail and combat pants.

A fashion, long straight hair, Victorian velvet and lace is also a fashion, leather and plastic clothes have also become.

Fashion, but the difference is that this style has nothing in common with anything popular in North America. The Eternal Stream of Gothic Fashion

Only black skinny jeans are allowed.

In the 1990s, some Gothic bands made charts or independent charts, including Garbage, Rosetta Stone, Sheep Taking Drugs, nick cave, Northferrato and Curve. Their musical styles are not exactly the same.

In the previous generation of Gothic bands, but they all have Gothic singing style, dark music theme and dark synthesizer.

The effect, although most people don't admit that they are Gothic, looks like Gothic style.

Fan, what else do you call them?

Although their influence is obviously not as good as that of the Gothic band in the 1980s, Gothic was written in the 1990s.

The meaning of culture has greatly deepened. At this time, it no longer means only a musical style, but also an era.

Shang, a life attitude, a social landscape-all black in fashion, all black in attitude and all black in scenery.

Vague.

At the same time, there are many Goths who have never heard of Gothic music, but dress and think in a Gothic way.

What they like to listen to is industrial music, heavy metal, high-tech music and non-mainstream music. The streams these Goths like.

Line bands include Extraordinary Orchestra, Frontline 242, Cubans, Men's Wear, White Zombies, Pop Eat Yourself, Frontline Congress and Nine Inch Nails.

Goth as a kind of counterculture

1969: hippies discovered the ugliness of the world and vowed to change it with love.

1979: The punk found that the world was still ugly, so he raised his middle finger to show his contempt.

198 1 year: Goths see through the world of mortals.

Identify a Gothic band

1, the music atmosphere of this band is grotesque and surreal.

2. The lyrics of this band contain Gothic themes (strange and mysterious, miserable and desolate).

3. The members of the band look gothic and the water is black.

4. The band called themselves Gothic Band, performed together with other Gothic bands, and appeared in Gothic Collection.

Four Gothic Record Companies

Cleopatra, Projector, Tess, Anubis.

Identify a Goth

Shy and unsociable

Artistic tendency.

Always black or dark clothes.

Outstanding religious ornaments, but they change their beliefs almost every day.

Never wear gold jewelry.

Pale, even in summer

Reject all interesting social activities.

Gothic taste?

Anything with a strange dark atmosphere is a bit gothic.

About music, there are hundreds of names like darkwave, goth techno, dark alternative, ambient ethereal.

Words have a "Gothic flavor".

Describe it in detail: dark lust, sadness of death, forbidden love, aesthetic feeling brought by complete pain, in short.

First, the dark side of the human spiritual world.

Vampire culture demonism? Cult?

Goth is not a religion, not a politics, and has nothing to do with race or gender. Most Gothic bands are secular and even

This is an active anti-religious band. The visual signals of vampires, Catholicism, ancient Egypt and paganism are just conveying.

"The power of darkness" is associated with the feeling of Gothic music.

Goths have the same social tendency as other social groups of the same age, and you will find young conservatism.

Goth, productive Goth, fascist Goth, anarchist Goth, but this is really a small group.

In fact, the greatest tendency of Goths in the 1990s was their extreme indifference to politics, because almost all political parties.

The opinions all sound the same, and they are all useless. This is the favorite theme of the Rosetta Stone.

The reason why Goth exists.

Many people are dominated by a life without happiness and sense of accomplishment, which is unfortunate. But Goth makes this depression.

Sleep has become a way of life, in other words: pain is my life choice-this is an art.

Goth may also be a kind of psychotherapy. If you talk to a white-collar worker who belongs to the mainstream society for the last time.

After an attempted suicide, he may avoid you with a strange look, when the sun is shining.

In the days to come, you may get cheap sympathy. But in sharp contrast, your Gothic companion is always

Instead of feeling sorry for you, the scar on your wrist will be seriously respected. You're cool! All the feelings are related to

People who are out of step with society will find their place among the Goths, because everyone here is unique.

Second.

Gete fashion

Any black, or other dark colors, such as navy blue and crimson.

Permeable (thin nylon or fishnet fabric) but not exposed.

Silver ornaments.

Pale skin. This may be because they need to look like a living dead, or because they want to embody Victoria.

The aesthetic of "fair skin is a symbol of nobility" in the Asian era may also be contrary to the "sun" in beach culture.

The tan is beautiful.

Black hair, bleached blonde hair, red hair or purple hair

Black and white makeup. White foundation, black lipstick, black eye shadow and fine eyebrows.

Self-made decoration and fetish clothing. Leather, PVC, rubber and latex are all essential fabrics. middle

/kloc-waist binding was also common in the 0 th and 8 th centuries.

A wide tie or a collar with nails or a velvet rope tied tightly around the neck.

T-shaped cross (symbol of eternal life in ancient Egypt)

Eye of the sun god. The Sisters of Charity's record "Visual Things" made this mark widely circulated, and some people would.

This sign is tattooed on the body.

Five-pointed star This is a pagan symbol about fire, land, air, water and soul.

The cross (symbol of Christ).

Opera-style shawls, cloaks and long gloves.

Chains and nails

Body piercing. Goth is generally not as extreme as punk, and can speak some flavors. In Utah, USA

State, the tongue is the first choice, followed by the nose, followed by (hard to say, private parts) nipples.

Gothic hobby

Art, especially music, photography and painting.

Humanities, especially literature, history and philosophy.

H.R. Giger's fantasy biological art Alien and Dali's surreal visual works.

Lilac cigarette, a more durable, thicker and more harmful cigarette to human body.

Cats are favored by Goths because of their unique gloomy temperament.

Candles and Christmas trees, full of Gothic lighting.

Demons, weirdos, spiders, cobwebs, graves, coffins and other things related to ghosts. goth metal

Gothic metal can be said to be a music genre that has gradually increased in the European rock metal music industry in recent years, although it is relatively current.

Metal in speed, metal in progress and metal in melody death.

As far as the mainstream position of the music school is concerned, the strength is still not huge, but from the annual growth rate of these emerging Gothic groups and

Judging from the amount of hair, it is conceivable that it will definitely form a force that cannot be ignored in the future. In this article, I will learn from.

The origin and development of Goth in art and culture, its influence on heavy metal music and Goth's special metal music.

Introduce the development in detail.

What is "Goth"? First of all, literally, it has three meanings. First, the Gothic architecture.

A Chinese-style building, such as a cathedral, is characterized by its tall beams and columns and pointed arched ceilings and structures.

Secondly, Goth is used to describe strangeness and mystery in the background of dark and lonely places, such as abandoned castles.

Adventure stories; Third, Gothic also represents a printing or writing style, and the font is quite gorgeous.

The word "Goth" originated in the Renaissance and was used to distinguish the Middle Ages (5 ~ 15).

Ji) artistic style, its source is Germany, which invaded Italy and disintegrated the Roman Empire in the 3rd ~ 5th century.

Goths, in the15th century, Italians had the idea of reviving ancient Roman culture, and thus set off brilliant literature and art.

Revival movement, because Italians have always been difficult to let go of the historical hatred of the Goths to destroy the Roman Empire, because

In order to distinguish it from this period, they called the artistic style of the Middle Ages Gothic, which is very important to them.

The word means barbarism. Although the word Goth has a negative meaning, it is actually quite beautiful.

Li's artistic works were all created at this time.

/kloc-in the 0/2 century, due to the improvement of architectural technology, a large number of Gothic churches were born, the most famous of which are.

It belongs to Notre Dame de Paris. Of course, Gothic style is not limited to architecture, such as sculpture.

Sculpture, glass products, decorations, painted patterns, etc. Are deeply influenced, this kind of artistic creation is from1mid-2nd century to16th year.

It has been continuous since the beginning of this century. In fact, religion plays an extremely important role in Gothic art, whether it is a painter or

Sculptors like to take religion as the theme in their works, but they are not very interested in realistic themes.

Romantic Movement, Gothic Culture and Medieval Culture around 1800.

Degree has been favored by people again, and romanticism can be said to be the rational master of the Enlightenment.

Righteousness (rationalism) reaction, perceptual and irrational attitude are the center of this movement, and in this period, Goth

It began to be associated with darkness, strangeness and eccentricity. In fact, many symbols and themes of romanticism are related to these Gothic times.

Cultures are quite similar, and some writers in this period are very keen to describe the dark and empty side of human heart, sexual delusions and fears.

The theme of horror and mystery is widely used in literary works. In addition, in the visual arts, romantic painters

I also prefer the dark and desolate scenery. The most typical symbol in Gothic novels is the vampire, a classic.

Pin Bram Stoker's Dracula even added the image of vampire in the book, which can be described as 19 th century Gothic.

The origin of vampire literature.

In the 1980 s, the neo-Gothic movement began to be staged in Britain, and the appearance of Gothic movement may be right.

Despite the reaction of punk culture, Gothic spirit began to show its influence in music.

Le also likes to pay attention to the dark and empty side of human nature, and has a strong interest in death, slow and sad.

Even horror is the characteristic of his music, and vampires once again become the best symbol of these themes.

In addition to music performances, Gothic artists groups also visually express the aesthetics of death, such as painting their faces pale.

19th century wearing black clothes or British Victorian ruffled clothes, while medieval ruins and Gothic architecture

Buildings are also widely used. The Gothic movement in Britain reached its peak in the mid-1980s. The most representative orchestra is

Sisters of Charity, the mission and field of nephilim, etc.

As far as musical style is concerned, British Gothic music in this period is called the new wave, which adds a lot of color to rock music.

The synthesizer (keyboard) and Gothic elements mentioned above even have an electronic flavor. Gothic rock/new wave

After it was introduced into the United States, it further developed into a branch of industry, and the famous groups include the Ministry and the Nine-inch Nail.

Wait; On the other hand, in Europe, it prefers electronic music.

Although Gothic music is developing towards electronic music all over Europe, and there are some other variants, in fact,

Gothic metal music also began to brew in the early 1990s, and was finally produced at 1995 by the famous Norwegian group theater of.

Tragedy's first album of the same name announced the arrival of Gothic metal age.

But before we start talking about Gothic metal, we must start with the destruction of metal, which is

A heavy, dark, slow, melancholy and sad music style, some people think that the earliest origin of doom metal can be

The first album of the same name dating back to Black Sabbath, and the subsequent ones.

The establishment of style was published in 1986 by Candlemass, a famous Swedish group. special

The series begins. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a considerable number of doom metal groups were born, followed by famous British groups.

"My Dying Bride" even incorporated the violin compilation into it and became a mirror of the bleak doomsday metal orchestra in the future.

Pioneer.

The doomsday metal began to develop in many ways after the 1990 s, and the British doomsday metal heavyweight band paradise.

Lost album released on 91; Inspired by Gothic Rock, she became the first female voice.

Vocal music and keyboard string substrates are one of the pioneers of metal music. Subsequently, the tragic theater in Norway became more

Completely integrate the destruction metal with Gothic elements, and then create and establish a new school of Gothic destruction metal.

And T.O.T can also be said to be the primary hero of the revival of Gothic style. T.O.T T.' s success has made this gothic king.

The trend of genus spread rapidly from northern Europe.

Since then, especially today, several traditional features have become the basic elements of Gothic metal.

The gothic death in flowing style, such as the brutal male voice with death metal (even the black voice with black metal) is feminine.

The duet form of female voice is dark and romantic Gothic spirit, and this contrast style also symbolizes darkness (dead hole and gold).

Music) and light, life and love (female voice, piano, symphony). And T. O. T. T. soprano lead singer

Liv Kristine Espe Nast's gentle and out-of-touch singing has conquered the hearts of many steel men. However, because of the cultural differences in European countries, Gothic metal has also developed and even extended many different forms.

State, except Gothic doom, laid the foundation for a gathering with beautiful voices as the lead singer and focus in the Netherlands.

Inspired by the pure Gothic metal, the ethereal and vigorous timbre of its lead singer Annike van Gilsbergen can be said to be

Gothic metal is a perfect example, and in the later two other Dutch Gothic metal groups, the temptation and

After Forever is also known as the female lead singer whose timbre and singing style are similar to Anneke's.

The influence of Dutch Gothic metal. However, Juhua has gradually changed its style recently, and there are more and more metal components.

Light.

In addition, the Nordic Orchestra further blended some black metal elements into Gothic and became Gothic Black.

Famous orchestras, including Tristan and The Sins Of Thy Beloved, are from Norway. However, in fact, Goth

In northern Europe, Goth, doomsday, death and black have been integrated, so it is difficult to classify them as.

Simple style, such as Tristan, in addition to the grand symphony, even uses clean male voice, black dead voice and opera female.

The chorus of the lead singer and the choir.

Of course, the music thinking of Nordic Orchestra is not limited to this. Therion of Sweden developed orchestral music in a unique way.

Symphonic opera metal is a kind of musical instrument which combines musical instrument (synthesizer sampling timbre) and metal musical instrument, and has been completely adopted in the singing part recently.

There is a professional male and female opera choir. In addition, Saint Grace in Finland is famous for its quiet and elegant atmosphere.

Gothic gives people a feeling of seeing the prosperity of the world.

When it comes to the traditional Gothic vampire culture, we can't help but mention the cradle of filth in Britain, which is used a lot.

Keyboard creates an extremely gloomy, dark, evil and mysterious atmosphere, and successfully blends this Gothic atmosphere into cruelty.

In the black metal, and set up this achievement of vampire black metal, C.O.F, to make it black.

The metal world enjoys a high status.

In Germany, classical folk songs include Gothic folk songs, such as Lacrimosa and Haggard. , has been developed. These groups are not just

In addition to the synthesizer, it also uses real orchestral instruments, so it is quite classical. For example, Lacrimosa directly uses London.

Symphony orchestra cooperation, Haggard members including the orchestra even reached 18 people, quite classic.

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

Not to be outdone, Inner Temple and Macbeth are among them. The former is bleak and the latter is rough.

Man and moving melody. There are also some orchestras that focus on creating an atmosphere, such as Dunwich, who is full of medieval feeling.

And the autumn crown, in which Dunwich used medieval musical instruments and a monk choir.

As for other European countries, there are also representative orchestras, such as Sirrah in Poland and even Song in Hungary and Rome.

I'm lying on thorns in Virginia, and so on. , the style is completely different.

However, the development of Gothic metal began to be polarized in the late 1990s, on the one hand, it continued.

Gothic death route either aggravated the symphony sense, but on the other hand, it returned to electronic music, industrial flavor and even the early stage.

The new wave route, this phenomenon is particularly obvious in some large groups, such as in addition to the above-mentioned parties, and even

Tragedy theatre album

An industrial electronic rock band and some former doom metal bands are also slowly powering up their music.

Qi Le.

From the above introduction, we can know that Gothic metal music has been fully developed and is no longer limited to a single style.

Song, and Gothic is not only a form of music, but also an attitude towards life. Goth is a kind of music that can make people escape from the present.

Walking into the fantasy world, a dark and romantic world, Gothic spirit can not only be expressed in music, but also

In clothing, art and literature, there are a lot of lace clothes, roses symbolizing romance, graves and smoking.

Blood ghosts, witches, ruins, Gothic cathedrals and so on are all symbols of Gothic. Pure tone, of course

Musically speaking, metal fans who generally like to be strong and direct may be interested in Gothic, which has a slow pace and pays attention to atmosphere.

Metal is more difficult to accept, but if we can fundamentally understand the background and artistic conception of this music genre,

If you adjust your mentality appropriately, you may be able to experience a different listening experience and fun.