Meaning of coldwave | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A European style of post-punk music in the 1980s.
   uncountable
2. The industrial metal music genre in the 1990s.
   US, uncountable

Examples

“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]).””

“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.”

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