Question: Who was dubbed the father of the type of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the late 1970s?

Post-punk revival is a type of indie rock that emulates the sound of post-punk bands of the late 1970s and new wave bands of the early 1980s and has been stylistically tied to 1990s music movements such as shoegazing, Britpop, garage revival and post-hardcore.  They feature a more artsy, complex sound than other branches of indie rock, and often add synthesizer or other electronic sounds to the traditional guitar, bass and drums lineup.  Post-punk revivalism started in England in the early 2000s and, while it is still strongest there, has grown in popularity in the US, Australia and Canada.  Post-punk revivalism is prevalent in the London and New York City music scenes. <SEP>  Proto-gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes. Gothic rock (also referred to as goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the late 1970s.  Such bands include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Bauhaus and the Cure. <SEP> Dead Artist Syndrome is a mainstream Christian gothic rock band formed in 1989 in Orange County, California.  The group consists of singer-songwriter Brian Healy and a rotating cast of side men.  Healy was dubbed the "father of Christian goth" by Rozz Williams, and is an ordained minister.  The name of D.A.S. according to Healy is "Dead Artist Syndrome means greater in death than in life, be it James Dean, Van Gogh or Jesus Christ".  His debut album "Prints of Darkness" was a notable, groundbreaking release.  After several years of inactivity in the late 1990s due to health issues, Healy is active again, having released two albums so far in the 2000s.  In 2006, Dead Artist Syndrome was named "Outstanding Orange County Band" by the editors and readers of Rock City News, a Los Angeles local music paper.  For several years Healy was privately in poor health his gallbladder exploded while recording vocals resulting in emergency surgery, and a neurological disorder his wife Marie Tullai Healy described as "a combination of Michael J. Fox and the late Foster Brooks everybody thought he was drunk, Brian was falling down he broke his arm, slurring his speech trying to complete his record, next thing we know he's in a wheelchair, finally in 2012 they discovered the cause and he had brain surgery and is 100% back to his old self and had no idea any of this was going on, inside his head everything was fine".  Healy himself has said on his Facebook page 'He's back" and is actively recording, producing others and hosting Frontline Records Rewind Broadcast and podcast <SEP> 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, reached its heyday in the 1980s, and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.  It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the "Krautrock" of bands like Kraftwerk.  It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.