coldwave

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Etymology

From cold +‎ wave, perhaps influenced by earlier genres such as new wave and darkwave. In France the post-punk genre was called la vague froide.

Noun

coldwave (uncountable)

  1. (music) A European style of post-punk music in the 1980s.
    Hypernym: post-punk
    Coordinate terms: new wave, darkwave
    • 2014, Andi Harriman, Marloes Bontje, Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: A Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 24:
      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].”
  2. (music, US) The industrial metal music genre in the 1990s.
    • 2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, →ISBN, page 37:
      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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