Editing Dark wave (section)

==== 1990s: Second generation ====
[[File:The_Frozen_Autumn.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Frozen Autumn]]]]
After the new wave and post-punk movements faded in the mid-1980s,<ref>Schilz, Andrea: ''Flyer der Schwarzen Szene Deutschlands: Visualisierungen, Strukturen, Mentalitäten.'' Waxmann Verlag, 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-8309-2097-7}}, p.&nbsp;92</ref> dark wave was renewed as an underground movement<ref name="Welt258259">Schmidt, Axel; Neumann-Braun, Klaus: ''Die Welt der Gothics. Spielräume düster konnotierter Transzendenz.'', Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2004, {{ISBN|3-531-14353-0}}, pp.&nbsp;258/259</ref><ref name="Kilpatrick" /><ref>Köble, Oliver: ''Editorial'', Glasnost magazine, issue 28, p.&nbsp;3, July/August 1991<br />"Der Trend ist eindeutig: Die großen Star-Bands verschwinden immer mehr aus dem Rampenlicht, während eine Vielzahl junger Nachwuchsbands sich stetig wachsenden Interesses seitens des Szene-Publikums erfreut. Und ohne unangenehmes Gefühl darf gesagt werden, dass Deutschland momentan das absolute Zentrum der Wave-Musik ist."</ref> by German bands such as [[Girls Under Glass]], [[Deine Lakaien]],<ref name="Kilpatrick" /> [[Love Like Blood (band)|Love Like Blood]],<ref name="Wallraff" /> [[Love Is Colder Than Death (band)|Love Is Colder Than Death]],<ref>Matzke, Peter; Seeliger, Tobias: ''Das Gothic- und Dark-Wave-Lexikon'', p.&nbsp;266, 2002, {{ISBN|3-89602-277-6}}</ref> [[Diary of Dreams]],<ref>Matzke, Peter; Seeliger, Tobias: ''Das Gothic- und Dark-Wave-Lexikon'', p.&nbsp;111, 2002, {{ISBN|3-89602-277-6}}</ref><ref name="Nostalgia" /> [[the Eternal Afflict]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Die Welt der Gothics – Spielräume düster konnotierter Transzendenz |editor-first=Axel |editor-last=Schmidt |first=Judith |last=Platz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRcS05skjCsC&dq=dark+wave&pg=PA273 |publisher=Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften |year=2008 |isbn=978-3-531-15880-8|page=273}}</ref> and [[Wolfsheim (band)|Wolfsheim]], as well as [[Project Pitchfork]] and its offshoot [[Aurora Sutra]].<ref name="Welt258259" /><ref name="Kilpatrick" /> [[Ataraxia (band)|Ataraxia]] and [[the Frozen Autumn]] from Italy, and the French [[Corpus Delicti (band)|Corpus Delicti]] also evolved from this movement and became the leading artists of the west Romanesque dark wave scene.<ref>Stableford, Brian: ''News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews'', Wildside Press 31 March 2009, {{ISBN|1-434-40336-X}}, p.&nbsp;24</ref> These bands followed a path based on the new wave and post-punk music of the 1980s.<ref name="Wallraff" /><ref name="Elferen" />

{{Blockquote|In the 1990s, a second generation of darkwave bands became popular, including Diary of Dreams, Deine Lakaien, and the Frozen Autumn... The German band Deine Lakaien ... is audibly influenced by the dark synthesizer sounds of Depeche Mode.<ref name="Elferen" />|Isabella van Elferen, Professor of Musicology}}

At the same time, a number of German artists, including [[Das Ich]],<ref name="Matzke311">Matzke, Peter; Seeliger, Tobias: ''Das Gothic- und Dark-Wave-Lexikon'', p.&nbsp;311, 2002, {{ISBN|3-89602-277-6}}</ref> [[Goethes Erben]],<ref name="Matzke311" /> [[Relatives Menschsein]],<ref name="Matzke311" /> and [[Endraum]],<ref name="Matzke311" /> developed a more theatrical style, interspersed with German poetic, metaphorical lyrics, called ''[[Neue Deutsche Todeskunst]]'' (literally ''New German Death Art'').<ref name="Matzke311" /><ref>Schmidt, Axel; Neumann-Braun, Klaus: ''Die Welt der Gothics. Spielräume düster konnotierter Transzendenz.'', Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2004, {{ISBN|3-531-14353-0}}, pp.&nbsp;280/281.</ref> Other bands, such as Silke Bischoff, [[In My Rosary]],<ref>Matzke, Peter; Seeliger, Tobias: ''Das Gothic- und Dark-Wave-Lexikon'', pp.&nbsp;221/222, 2002, {{ISBN|3-89602-277-6}}</ref> [[Engelsstaub]],<ref name="SAGE728">{{cite book |title=The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture |editor-first=Janet |editor-last=Sturman |first=Eric S. |last=Strother |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9TuKDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22dark+wave%22&pg=PA728 |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing|SAGE Publications]] |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-50635-338-8|page=728}}</ref> and Impressions of Winter<ref>Matzke, Peter; Seeliger, Tobias: ''Das Gothic- und Dark-Wave-Lexikon'', p.&nbsp;219, 2002, {{ISBN|3-89602-277-6}}</ref> combined synthesizers with elements of [[neofolk]] and neoclassical dark wave.<ref name="SAGE728" />