Dark culture

Against the background of various internal fashion trends, the color black is the core element of the self-promoting and individualistic concept of the dark scene.

Dark culture (German Schwarze Szene; Portuguese cultura obscura; Spanish escena oscura; Italian scena Dark or scena gotica), also called dark alternative scene, is a mixture of thematically related subcultures including the goth and dark wave subculture, the dark neoclassical/dark ambient scene, parts of the post-industrial scene (with the genres electro-industrial, EBM, aggrotech and dark electro) parts of neofolk and the early gothic metal scene.[1] Dark culture's origin lies in followers of dark wave and independent music, but over the decades it has developed to a social network held together by a common concept of aesthetics, self-representation, and individualism. The musical preferences of the dark scene are characterized by a mix of styles ranging from gothic metal, to industrial dance music and dark ambient, to dark neoclassical, neo-medieval and dark folk music, to gothic rock, dark wave and post-punk, the darker ends of electropop.[2][3]

  1. ^ Arvid Dittmann · Artificial Tribes · Page 147 · 2001 · ISBN 3-933773-11-3
  2. ^ Alexander Nym (2010), Alexander Nym (ed.), "Die Gothic-Szene gibt es nicht", Schillerndes Dunkel: Geschichte, Entwicklung und Themen der Gothic-Szene (in German), Leipzig: Plötter Verlag, pp. 13–15, hier S. 13, ISBN 978-3-86211-006-3
  3. ^ Dark Scene music styles: https://darkscene.org/all-styles.html