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coldwave

noun

Etymology

From cold + wave, perhaps influenced by earlier genres such as new wave and darkwave. In France the post-punk genre was called la vague froide.

  1. derived from *webʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *wabōną✻
  3. inherited from *wabōn✻
  4. inherited from wafian
  5. inherited from waven
  6. compounded as coldwave — “cold + wave”

Definitions

  1. A European style of post-punk music in the 1980s.

    • 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 keyboards and drum machines]^([sic]).”

  2. The industrial metal music genre in the 1990s.

    • 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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