Title: Gothic rock - Wikipedia
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Gothic rock
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Forerunners (1960s and 1970s)
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Subsequent developments
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Content: Reynolds described the vocal style as consisting of "deep, droning alloys of Jim Morrison and Leonard Cohen ". Several acts used drum machines downplaying the rhythm's backbeat. Gothic rock typically deals with dark themes addressed through lyrics and the music's atmosphere. The poetic sensibilities of the genre led gothic rock lyrics to exhibit literary romanticism, morbidity, existentialism, religious symbolism or supernatural mysticism. History
Forerunners (1960s and 1970s)
The Doors performing live in 1968. They have been cited as a major influence in the gothic rock genre. Critic John Stickney used the term "gothic rock" to describe the music of the Doors in October 1967, in a review published in The Williams Record. Stickney wrote that the band met the journalists "in the gloomy vaulted wine cellar of the Delmonico hotel, the perfect room to honor the gothic rock of the Doors". The author noted that contrary to the "pleasant, amusing hippies", there was "violence" in their music and a dark atmosphere on stage during their concerts. The final track of the Doors' sixth album, " Riders on the Storm " has been characterized as a precursor of the gothic genre.