Death rock - Definition and Overview

Death Rock (also sometimes known as Deathrock or Death Punk) is a term used to distinguish conventional Gothic rock from the more punk influenced scene that sprang up on the American West Coast in the early 1980s. The style is currently seeing a resurgence of sorts, as more punk influenced goth bands begin to appear as a reaction to the growing influence of EBM and Techno in goth music. The style is influenced by such horror punk bands as The Misfits, who dealt in the same kind of morbid imagery that the LA Death rock groups traded in.

bands:

• The Brides
• Christian Death
• Kommunity FK
• The Misfits (arguable, a more fitting description is horror punk)
• Penis Flytrap (Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave)
• Shadow Project
• TSOL
• Ausgang
• Virgin Prunes
• Skeletal Family
• The Death Cult
• Mighty Sphincter
• The Flesheaters
• Cinema Strange
• Voodoo Church
• 45 Grave
• The Birthday Party
• Antiworld
• Sex Gang Children
• Specimen
• Turbonegro
• Mockingbird Lane

See also

• Goth
• Death rock fashion
• Gothic fashion