Edited sentence: Gothic is a life-style in which the music and the image are been coupled with a predilection for dark romantic, vampires, gothic art and architecture and the mythology of mediaeval stories.Gothic is a philosophical perspective "a view of the world", in the words of the Irish novelist J.Gothic is more than a music movement or (youth) subculture.Gothic is not only an architecture around the 12th century, it is also a subculture that is based on the dark romantic of the Gothic novel.Gothic music celebrate the dark, shadow side of life and have a distinct fascination with the death.Here, the dark and threatening have an irresistible allure, while normality and comfort promise only ennui and decay.In 1979 the English band Bauhaus released the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead".Innocence and virtue are treasured only as virgin parchment, upon which the sigils of sin can be written in broad strokes of blood red and midnight black.It is the cosmos in negative, inverted - the strange and eerie are commonplace, while the everyday is somehow uncanny.It was preceded by Punk.Its slow, driving sound of Gothic music can be describes as melancholy, gloomy even morbid.Romantic and pain in combination with a fascination for the mystic and the occult are the characterise of Gothic.Sheridan Le Fanu, reflected In a Glass Darkly.Some said that Gothic came as a sort of reaction against Punk.The Gothic movement emerged mostly in the UK in the late seventies and early eighties as a splinter from the Punk movement.The Gothic subculture came into life begin of the eighties.The opposite poles of sex and death are married together in exquisite grotesquerie.When the Gothic subculture has exactly born is hard to give.With this song, many fans where inspirited to built a new subculture, the Gothic movement has started