coldwave
nounEtymology 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.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music 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]).”2014, Andi Harriman, Marloes Bontje, Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: A Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 24:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music US 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.2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, →ISBN, page 37: