coldwave
See also: cold wave
English
Noun
coldwave (uncountable)
- (music) A French style of post-punk music in the 1980s.
- 2014, Andi Harriman; Marloes Bontje, Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: A Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 24:
- 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 as keyboards and drum machines].”
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- (music, US) The industrial metal music genre in the 1990s.
- 2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, →ISBN, page 37:
- 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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