70 pages Edited by Signal Zero Text(s) by Jean-François Micard Designed by Michaël Kawiecki – Konk Studio 21 x 14,8 cm Language: French Paperback Publisher: Signal Zero Editions 2024
Who was the first goth? Was it Edgar Allan Poe? Charles Baudelaire? Oscar Wilde? Or must we go back even further still, to the earliest artists exorcising the world’s malaise through dark and haunted works? In any case, it was in England in the second half of the 1970s—amid fog and gloom, in the wake of and among the ruins of Punk—that the first groups formed who are now considered the founding fathers and mothers of Gothic Rock. Gone was the futile anger of their predecessors; the gothic scene took shape around its clubs and its aesthetic, carrying a black romanticism with funerary overtones. In Europe, then across the Atlantic, the virus spread: voices grew cavernous, basslines omnipresent, and rhythms mechanical. People dressed in black, danced death and darkness.Over the first two decades of gothic rock’s existence, several waves followed one another, each further redefining the contours of a music that never ceases to fascinate. The thirty artists brought together here will serve as our guides…
