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| 7 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
| 8 | + GothRock, PostPunk, SynthPop, ElectronicMusic |
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| 11 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
| 12 | + DreamPop, {{Ambient}}, {{Industrial}}, occasionally {{Techno}}, {{Trance}}, ClassicalMusic and/or World Music |
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| 14 | |
| 15 | Dark Wave is to SynthPop what GothRock is to [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]; [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs This is Your Premise on Goth.]] In essence, Dark Wave is Goth's brooding angst, but with a greater reliance on synthesizers rather than guitars. |
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| 17 | Dark Wave is related to, but is not a subgenre of {{Industrial}}. Whilst both genres are electronic, DarkWave is generally softer. Naturally there is some overlap; some Dark Wave artists will often put an EBM or Futurepop style song on their album to broaden its dance floor appeal. {{Industrial}} artists can also be heavily inspired by DarkWave; creating some utterly harrowing works of pure {{Angst}} / {{Wangst}} in the process. More folk-influenced acts typically overlap with neofolk, while mixing the genre with classical typically results in neoclassical; depending on the type of folk used, neofolk and neoclassical very well may overlap. |
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| 19 | Generally, however, it is fair to characterize DarkWave as {{Goth}}ic NewWaveMusic or SynthPop. Synthesizers will be the predominant instrument, although guitars can be used in moderation. |
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| 21 | |
| 22 | !! Examples of DarkWave acts include: [[index]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * AAIMON (Crossed with heavy influence from the Witch House genre) |
| 25 | * ADULT. (Crossed with [[{{Techno}} Detroit techno]] and old-school [[{{Industrial}} EBM]]) |
| 26 | * AFI: Starting with ''Crash Love,'' have been moving in this direction before fully embracing it with ''Burials,'' albeit with more orchestral than electronic elements. |
| 27 | * Ash Code |
| 28 | * Music/{{ASP}} |
| 29 | * Ataraxia |
| 30 | * Attrition |
| 31 | * Music/{{Autumn}} |
| 32 | * Music/AuralVampire |
| 33 | * Music/{{Austra}} (Crosses over with DreamPop) |
| 34 | * Bella Morte |
| 35 | ** Music/TheRainWithin (Crosses over with UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}}) |
| 36 | * Belmez Faces |
| 37 | * Bestial Mouths |
| 38 | * Music/TheBirthdayMassacre (Crossed with IndustrialMetal. Definitely one of the more YMMV entries on this list) |
| 39 | * Black Tape For A Blue Girl |
| 40 | * Blaqk Audio |
| 41 | * Music/{{Blutengel}} |
| 42 | * Boy Harsher |
| 43 | * The Break-Up |
| 44 | ** Blakk Glass |
| 45 | ** The Labrynth |
| 46 | * Butterfly Messiah |
| 47 | * The Cassandra Complex |
| 48 | * Music/{{Celldweller}} |
| 49 | * Music/CharliXCX (Older material) |
| 50 | * Chiasm |
| 51 | * Music/TheChurchBand: Early work especially. The album ''Starfish'' was a TropeCodifier for the softer side of the genre which evolved into DreamPop. |
| 52 | * Music/ClanOfXymox |
| 53 | * Music/TheCruxshadows |
| 54 | * Collide |
| 55 | * Music/ColdCave |
| 56 | * Music/{{Coldkill}} (Collaboration between Rexx Arkana of FGFC820 and Eric Eldredge of Interface) |
| 57 | * Music/{{Crosses}} |
| 58 | * Das Ich |
| 59 | * Day Twelve |
| 60 | ** Mari Kattman |
| 61 | ** Helix (CreatorCouple project of Mari Kattman and Tom Shear of Assemblage 23) |
| 62 | * Dead Astronauts |
| 63 | * Music/DeadCanDance |
| 64 | * Music/DeathInJune |
| 65 | * Deine Lakaien |
| 66 | * Music/{{Delerium}} (Side project of the {{industrial}} group Music/FrontLineAssembly) |
| 67 | * Music/DepecheMode: Both one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s and one of the most successful in the mainstream. |
| 68 | ** ''Music/ABrokenFrame'' (1982) |
| 69 | ** ''Music/ConstructionTimeAgain'' (1983) |
| 70 | ** ''Music/SomeGreatReward'' (1984) |
| 71 | ** ''Music/BlackCelebration'' (1986) |
| 72 | ** ''Music/MusicForTheMasses'' (1987) |
| 73 | ** ''Music/{{Violator}}'' (1990) |
| 74 | ** ''Music/SongsOfFaithAndDevotion'' (1993) |
| 75 | ** ''Music/{{Ultra}}'' (1997) |
| 76 | ** ''Music/PlayingTheAngel'' (2005) |
| 77 | ** ''Music/{{Hourglass}}'' (2007; Dave solo) |
| 78 | * Diary of Dreams |
| 79 | * Die Form |
| 80 | * Diorama |
| 81 | * Diva Destruction |
| 82 | * Drab Majesty |
| 83 | * Music/{{Editors}} |
| 84 | * Music/{{Efterklang}} |
| 85 | * Music/EgoLikeness (Crosses over into {{Industrial}}) |
| 86 | * Music/EmilieAutumn (Just one of many genres she dabbles in) |
| 87 | * Faith Assembly |
| 88 | * Music/{{Fockewolf}} (Also {{Industrial}}) |
| 89 | * The Frozen Autumn |
| 90 | * Music/HannahFury |
| 91 | * Music/FuturePerfect (Also [[{{Industrial}} Futurepop]]) |
| 92 | * Music/LisaGerrard |
| 93 | * Girls Under Glass |
| 94 | * Glove |
| 95 | * Goethes Erben |
| 96 | * Music/{{Grimes}} (Also AlternativeDance and DreamPop) |
| 97 | * Music/HaveANiceLife |
| 98 | * Hexheart (Side project by Jasyn Bangert of God Module) |
| 99 | * Music/HisNameIsAlive (first two albums are ethereal wave mixed with DreamPop) |
| 100 | * Music/TheHumanLeague (First two albums, before [[LighterAndSofter their shift to]] {{New Wave|Music}} pop disco) |
| 101 | ** ''Music/{{Reproduction}}'' (1979) |
| 102 | ** ''Music/{{Travelogue}}'' (1980) |
| 103 | * Music/HungryLucy |
| 104 | * Illusion of Light |
| 105 | * In Death it Ends |
| 106 | * Music/InStrictConfidence (Also {{Industrial}}) |
| 107 | * [[Music/{{iamamiwhoami}} ionnalee]] |
| 108 | * [[Music/IrisUS Iris (US)]] (Now-disbanded duo comprised of Reagan Jones and Andrew Sega) |
| 109 | ** Hallowed Hearts (Founded by Alex Virlios and Andy Sega in the wake of Iris's dissolution) |
| 110 | * Irrlicht |
| 111 | * Johnny Hollow |
| 112 | * Music/JoyDivision (mainly straight PostPunk, but also dabbled in and heavily influenced darkwave as well, particularly with their more synth-driven songs such as "Isolation" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart") |
| 113 | ** ''Music/UnknownPleasures'' (1979) |
| 114 | ** ''Music/{{Closer}}'' (1980) |
| 115 | ** ''Music/SubstanceJoyDivisionAlbum'' (1988) |
| 116 | * Kid Moxie |
| 117 | * Kirlian Camera |
| 118 | * Music/TheKnife |
| 119 | * L'Ame Immortelle |
| 120 | * Lacrimosa |
| 121 | * Music/TheLastDance |
| 122 | * Music/LebanonHanover (also GothRock) |
| 123 | * Light Asylum |
| 124 | * Linea Aspera |
| 125 | ** Keluar |
| 126 | ** Zanias |
| 127 | * Music/LondonAfterMidnight (Crosses over with GothRock) |
| 128 | * Lorelei Dreaming |
| 129 | * Love is Colder Than Death |
| 130 | * Music/LoveSpiralsDownwards |
| 131 | * Music/{{Lycia}} (Also DreamPop) |
| 132 | * The Machine in the Garden |
| 133 | * Malaria! |
| 134 | * Music/MaliceMizer |
| 135 | * Midnight Resistance |
| 136 | * Music/MidnightSyndicate |
| 137 | * Minuit Machine |
| 138 | ** Hante. |
| 139 | * Music/MolchatDoma |
| 140 | * Music/MsMr |
| 141 | * Music/NoxArcana |
| 142 | * Music/GaryNuman (Especially his later works) |
| 143 | * Opera Multi Steel |
| 144 | * Pink Industry |
| 145 | * Music/{{Perturbator}} (mixed with UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}}) |
| 146 | * Pretentious, Moi? |
| 147 | * Music/{{Propaganda}} |
| 148 | * Project Pitchfork (Crosses over into electro-industrial, and later aggrotech). |
| 149 | * Psyche |
| 150 | * Psychic Guilt |
| 151 | * Real Life (Originally straight {{New Wave| Music}}[=/=]{{Synthpop}}, but shifted in the DarkerAndEdgier direction starting in the late '80s) |
| 152 | * Music/{{Reapers}} (Their self-titled song [[FilkSong is based on the antagonists of the]] ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series) |
| 153 | * Music/{{Riki}} |
| 154 | * Music/SchwarzStein |
| 155 | * Music/{{Seabound}} |
| 156 | * Seeming |
| 157 | * Music/ShePastAway (also GothRock and PostPunk) |
| 158 | * Music/SheWantsRevenge |
| 159 | * Sine City |
| 160 | * Music/{{Skin}} (Music/{{Swans}} side project. Mixed with neofolk) |
| 161 | * Music/TheSoftMoon |
| 162 | * Music/SoporAeternusAndTheEnsembleOfShadows |
| 163 | * Suicidal Romance |
| 164 | * Music/SwitchbladeSymphony (Primarily on their first album; later albums combine this with a TripHop sound) |
| 165 | * Music/YouseiTeikoku |
| 166 | * Music/ThouShaltNot |
| 167 | * Trentemøller (From ''Lost'' onwards) |
| 168 | * Trisomie 21 |
| 169 | * TR/ST |
| 170 | * Music/TwinTribes (also PostPunk) |
| 171 | * Until BEN |
| 172 | * Vandal Moon (crossed with UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}}) |
| 173 | * Music/VernianProcess (Sometimes crossed with SteamPunk) |
| 174 | * Void Vision |
| 175 | * Wolfsheim |
| 176 | * Music/ChelseaWolfe (combined with GothRock and DoomMetal) |
| 177 | * Xeno & Oaklander |
| 178 | ** Martial Canterel |
| 179 | * Xibling (Also Dance Punk and Industrial) |
| 180 | * X-O-Planet |
| 181 | * Zen Mother (also Progressive Rock and Noise Rock) |
| 182 | [[/index]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | !! Tropes Common In DarkWave: |
| 185 | |
| 186 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Than AlternativeDance or SynthPop, which it is often closely related to. |
| 187 | * DreamPop: A lot of overlap between the two genres. The so-called "Ethereal Wave" subgenre (Lycia, Music/LoveSpiralsDownwards, Love Is Colder Than Death, etc.) can pretty much be called "Gothic DreamPop," in fact. |
| 188 | * EchoingAcoustics: Much like in GothRock and DreamPop, this is quite common. Especially when the band in question is DreamPop-influenced. |
| 189 | * GenreMashup: A lot of this happens, since the genre has a varied set of influences and a somewhat vague definition (for example, non-electronic artists such as Rasputina and Voltaire are sometimes even classed as Darkwave due to their lyrical themes and promotional aesthetics!). |
| 190 | * {{Goth}}: Along with GothRock and {{Industrial}}, this is the main thing they listen to. |
| 191 | * GothRock: A genre it was influenced by and sometimes overlaps with. The genre as a whole can basically be described as GothRock plus SynthPop. |
| 192 | * LighterAndSofter: Compared to a lot of {{Industrial}}, Dark Wave can seem friendly and accessible- it's not nearly as noisy or aggressive. |
| 193 | * SillyLoveSongs: Straight love songs are more common in this genre than in GothRock or {{Industrial}}, oddly enough. Still nowhere near ubiquitous, though. |
| 194 | * SynthPop: There are a lot of Dark Wave artists that count as both, mixing the atmospherics of dark wave with the catchy song structures of synth pop. A good way to think of this genre is as the gothed up version of synth pop, in fact. |
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