Necropolis of Love was a new wave/

synthpop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s a ...

band which formed in 1981 in

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. The group was often categorized as

gothic rock Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie a ...

or new wave; however, in a conversation with the prominent musician

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, Necropolis of Love band member David Velasquez described the band's sound as "hostile

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music".

Discography

* ''In Search Of...'' 12" EP (1983, Thumb Records) * ''The Hope'' 12" EP (1984, Thumb Records)

Singles

* "Talk" (1982, Thumb Records)

References

External links

Myspace page

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