The term dark culture (German Schwarze Szene, Portuguese cultura dark, Spanish cultura oscura), also called dark scene, is an umbrella term, used to describe a summary of parts of several subcultures.^[1] In this context the "culture" is not to be understood as closed subculture, but as "social environment", a milieu, which comprises humans with similar interests and preferences (e.g. dark music).^[2] Dark music may refer to: Dark ambient, a subgenre of ambient Darkcore, a subgenre of hardcore Dark electro, a subgenre of industrial Dark electronic, variety of experimental electronic subgenres Dark metal, variety of heavy metal subgenres Dark psytrance, a subgenre of psychedelic trance Darkwave, a form of New Wave music...

Parts of subcultures within the "dark culture" are:

The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... Bold text New Wave in the late 1970s and early 1980s was inspired by the punk rock. ... Gothic rock (sometimes called goth rock or simply goth) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970s. ... Electronic body music (EBM) is a musical genre combining elements of industrial music and electronic dance music. ... Aggrotech/Aggrotek, also referred to more recently as Terror EBM, Harsh EBM, or Hellektro (a corruption/portmanteau of hell and electro) is a subgenre of EBM that surfaced in the late 1990s. ... yelworC from Munich Dark Electro was a term used mainly in central Europe to describe the sinister sounds of electronic music groups like yelworC, Tri-state, Mortal Constraint, Arcana Obscura, Trial or Placebo Effect. ... Neofolk is a form of folk music that emerged from European ideals and post-industrial music circles. ... Post-industrial is a term used to refer to a grouping of music genres related to the original usage of the term Industrial Music by Industrial Records through either influence or direct involvement, such as power noise, power electronics, technoid, types of experimental music and dark ambient. ... “Heavy metal” redirects here. ... Gothic metal is a genre of heavy metal music that originated during the mid 1990s in Europe as an outgrowth of doom-death, a fusion genre of doom metal and death metal. ... Dark metal is a subjective term used to describe metal bands from various genres that have combined traits from symphonic black metal, gothic metal, doom metal, dark wave and black metal[1] such as synthesizer use, acoustic guitar experimentation and/or operatic female vocals. ...

References

1. ^ Arvid Dittmann · Artificial Tribes · Page 147 · 2001 · ISBN 3-933773-11-3
2. ^ Peter Matzke / Tobias Seeliger · Gothic! · Page 15 · 2000 · ISBN 3-896023-32-2