English

Noun

coldwave ‎(uncountable)

1. (music) A French style of post-punk music in the 1980s.
2. (music, US) The industrial metal music genre in the 1990s.
   • 2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture (page 37)

     Modern industrial music subgenres and fusion-genres include EBM, futurepop, power-noise, aggrotech (terror-EBM), coldwave, elektro, dark-electro, and industrial-metal. Yes, it can be quite confusing.