Title: Gothic rock - Wikipedia
Headings: Gothic rock
Gothic rock
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Contents
Characteristics
History
Forerunners (1960s and 1970s)
Origins
Expansion of the scene
Subsequent developments
Visual elements
Impact
See also
References
Bibliography
Books
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Content: For journalist Alexis Petridis of The Guardian, "A lot of musical signifiers [...] – scything, effects-laden guitar, pounding tribal drums – are audible, on [...] Join Hands ". In September, Joy Division's manager Tony Wilson described their music as "gothic" on the television show Something Else, and their producer Martin Hannett described their style as "dancing music with gothic overtones". In 1980, Melody Maker wrote that "Joy Division are masters of this gothic gloom". When their final album Closer came out a couple of months after the suicide of their singer Ian Curtis, Sounds noted in its review that there were "dark strokes of gothic rock". Proto-goth band Joy Division
Joy Division sometimes are considered the first gothic rock band. The reason is due largely to comments made by the band's manager Tony Wilson and the band's guitarist Bernard Albrecht about Joy Division's sound in 1979. The term "goth" was applied much more regularly a few years later when the term "goth" was jokingly used by people in Brixton 's punk in-crowd to describe Andi Sex Gang of gothic rock band Sex Gang Children. Joy Division appeared a little earlier than the goth subculture. Joy Division's music has often instead been described as "proto-goth". Whether Joy Division is a gothic rock band or not is often debated.