Rock branch
Gothic rock
Rock › Punk rock › Post-punk › Gothic rock
- Emerged
- 1979
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Subgenres
- 1
Post-punk with reverb, chorused guitar and a baritone voice. Its aesthetic passes straight into gothic metal and doom.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 4
- Melody
- 8
Key acts
- Bauhaus
- The Sisters of Mercy
- The Cure
- Fields of the Nephilim