History Main / DarkWave

* Zen Mother

* Hante

* Music/{{Iris}} (Now-disbanded duo comprised of Reagan Jones and Andrew Sega, not to be confused with the solo act by Will Ryan)

** Helix (Collaboration between Mari Kattman and Tom Shear of Assemblage 23)

Dark Wave is to SynthPop what GothRock is to NewWave; [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs This is Your Premise on Goth.]] In essence, Dark Wave is Goth's brooding angst, but on synthesizers rather than guitars.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: From about a 4 to a 9. Rarely reaches 10 or 11, though.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Varies a fair amount, but pretty much never goes above a low 6. Since some of it is entirely electronic, it can't all even be placed on the scale.

* Music/LebanonHangover (also GothRock)

* Music/{{Autumn}} (Also GothRock)

Dark Wave is related to, but is not a subgenre of {{Industrial}}. Whilst both genres are electronic and target the {{Goth}} market, DarkWave is generally softer. Naturally there is some overlap; some Dark Wave artists will often put an EBM or Futurepop style song on their album to broaden its dance floor appeal. {{Industrial}} artists can also be heavily inspired by DarkWave; creating some utterly harrowing works of pure {{Angst}} / {{Wangst}} in the process. More folk-influenced acts typically overlap with neofolk, while mixing the genre with classical typically results in neoclassical; depending on the type of folk used, neofolk and neoclassical very well may overlap.

* Music/{{Iris}}

* Music/GaryNuman (Especially his later works)

Dark Wave is to SynthPop what GothRock is to NewWave; [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs This is Your Premise on Goth. Basically, Dark Wave is Goth's brooding angst, but on synthesizers rather than guitars.