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noun
A European style of post-punk music in the 1980s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Broader terms: post-punk
noun
The industrial metal music genre in the 1990s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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History
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.
