Darkness in music
Certain music is sometimes described as "dark" in a metaphorical sense. In Germany, there is a category 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 [...]/[...] culture".
See also
Genres that begin with "dark"
- Darkcore, a subgenre of jungle
- Dark ambient, a subgenre of ambient
- Dark cabaret, a fusion between punk and cabaret
- Dark electro, an outgrowth of Electro-industrial and industrial music
- Dark folk, an outgrowth of industrial music
- 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
Genres with related concepts
- Black metal
- Doom metal
- Gothic metal
Other miscellaneous genres
- Electro-industrial
- Gothic rock
- Deathrock
- Horror punk
- Horrorcore
References
de:Dark Alternative Music