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Dark wave, or darkwave, is a music genre that emerged from the new wave and post-punk movement of the late 1970s. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Dark wave compositions are largely based on minor key tonality and introspective lyrics and have been perceived as being dark, romantic and bleak, with an undertone of sorrow.
Lycia is an American dark wave band formed in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona.The main personnel of the band are Mike VanPortfleet, Tara VanFlower and David Galas. Although only achieving minor cult success, the band is notable for being one of the ground breaking groups in darkwave and ethereal wave styles.
Following the departure of Donis, the more experimental songs that characterized some of the early LICTD work gave way to a much more classical sound. Eclipse, the latest LICTD album with new content, reached number one on Mexican New Age Sales Charts. At present, the band is based in Leipzig, Germany.
Nox Arcana is the American neoclassical dark wave, dark ambient musical project of Joseph Vargo. It was founded in 2003 as a duo with William Piotrowski, who left in 2008 to pursue a career in film score composing but still acts as its studio engineer while Vargo continued on as sole composer and musician performing under the name.
The second album End of Flowers was released in 1996, expanding on the darkwave sound of the debut. Bird Without Wings followed a year later, whilst the more experimental work Psychoma? arrived in 1998. The first sign of consolidation came in 1999, when a compilation album Moments of Bloom appeared, containing two reworked tracks from each album.
L'Âme Immortelle (French for "the immortal soul") is an Austrian darkwave duo formed in 1996. Many of L'Âme Immortelle's songs feature melancholy or lovelorn lyrics in German or English, and juxtaposed harsh male and emotional female vocals.
Ethereal wave, [5] [6] also called ethereal darkwave, [7] ethereal goth [8] or simply ethereal, [9] [10] is a subgenre of dark wave music [11] that is variously described as "gothic", "romantic", and "otherworldly".
New versions of re-released songs on other (compilation) albums are left out on purpose. As of October 30, 2024, The Weeknd is a credited artist on 190 different song titles: 107 solo songs and 83 collaborations (including 36 as a featured artist), encompassing a total of 308 commercially released versions.