Information for you about Gothic's

The gothic culture is a versatile subculture, from the early 1980s gradually from the punk and new wave environment emerged and is composed of several splinter cultures. It existed in the 1980s and 1990s as part of the Dark Wave movement, and formed up to the millennium, the hub of the so-called black scene.

The basic element that enabled the development of the Gothic culture, was the combination of music (gothic rock), remote, fascination with themes of death and impermanence, and a resulting self-dramatization. Significant influence here took literature and movie ( "Gothic Fiction"), whose subjects the appearance of the scene, partly influenced significantly.

The supporters of the gothic culture across countries are described as Goths, although that designation within the scene rarely applies in many national scene even encounters with rejection, and is often questioned. Reasons for this are found in the attempt to preserve his own individuality.

In the past decade learned the term Gothic diverting as a marketing label by the music industry, but also by the commercial media, which is another reason for rejecting a scene developed names. Thus, more and more bands scene foreign  musical cultures, such as metal, Middle Rock, New German hardness or Visual Kei, marketed as the Gothic, while the center of the Gothic movement was gradually sidelined.

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