Title: Gothic rock - Wikipedia
Headings: Gothic rock
Gothic rock
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Forerunners (1960s and 1970s)
Origins
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Subsequent developments
Visual elements
Impact
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Content: 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. Musicians who initially shaped the aesthetics and musical conventions of gothic rock include the Velvet Underground, the Doors, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols. Journalist Kurt Loder would write that the song " All Tomorrow's Parties " by the Velvet Underground is a "mesmerizing gothic-rock masterpiece". Nico 's 1968 album The Marble Index is sometimes described as "the first Goth album". With its stark sound, somber lyrics, and Nico's deliberate change in her look, the album became a crucial music and visual prototype for the gothic rock movement. Gothic rock creates a dark atmosphere by drawing influence from the drones used by protopunk group the Velvet Underground, and many goth singers are influenced by the "deep and dramatic" vocal timbre of David Bowie, albeit singing at even lower pitches.