Death Pop is a loosely defined sub-genre of gothic rock, characterized by an emphasis on melody over spookiness and shock value. Strongly influenced by 80's new wave artists such as New Order, The Cure, and Duran Duran, Death Pop the term was coined in 1995 by Erin Grooms, bass player for the Columbus, Ohio darkwave band Gossamer, in response to other genres of music which use the term death, such as death metal and death rock. Other artists who have either identified themselves with the label, or have been given the label include Orgy (band), Abney Park, Bella Morte, Sunshine Blind, and VAST. Gothic rock evolved out of post punk during the late 1970s. ... }} Wiktionary has a definition of: Melody In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ... Shock value is when someone does something to provoke a reaction out of someone else. ... The term New Wave has been used to describe several movements in art. ... New Order are an English electronic dance/rock crossover group, which formed in 1980 from Joy Division following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. ... Disintegration album cover This article is about The Cure, the rock band. ... At the height of its fame, Duran Duran (The Fab Five) was featured on the cover of the February 1984 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. ... Musician, born in 1972, in Chillicothe, Ohio. ... Skyline of downtown Columbus, Ohio, viewed across the Scioto River. ... Darkwave is a relatively widely used term in the gothic-industrial subculture to describe a music genre, however it has no one single, agreed upon meaning. ... Gossamer can be: A very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric, popular for white wedding dresses and decorations A fine spiderweb Gossamer, a character in the Looney Tunes cartoons The Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, both human-powered aircraft Gossamer, Gothic rock band, active from 1995 to 2002. ... Death is either the cessation of life in a living organism or the state of the organism after that event. ... Death metal is a form of heavy metal music with thrash metal influences which emerged in the United States (especially Florida and California), Europe (especially the United Kingdom and Sweden) and Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Deathrock, also known as Death punk, is a term used to identify an offshoot of 1970s punk rock subculture in America. ... Orgy is a rock band from Los Angeles, California. ... Abney Park is a band from Washington State, USA. Founded by Robert Brown in the late 1990s, Abney Park made dark electronic and world music easily accessible and interesting to the internet gerneration. ... Bella Morte are a goth/ synthpop/ punk/ metal band that was formed in 1996 in Charlottesville, Virginia. ... V.A.S.T. stands for Visual Audio Sensory Theater, and is the brainchild of Los Angeles, California-based singer-songwriter and musician Jon Crosby. ...