The sole member of the German darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows, Anna-Varney Cantodea, adopted her name from Varney the vampire.

* " Pygmalion ", a song by the darkwave group Lycia ( band )

* The darkwave band The Cruxshadows released a song entitled " Roland ," inspired by this legend, on their single Quicksilver.

* She Wants Revenge, a darkwave duo band from Los Angeles, California

Several albums have also used the title, including an album by gothic metal band Darkwell, an album by darkwave band Miranda Sex Garden and Suspiria de Profundis by Die Form, which can also be regarded as inspired by Thomas De Quincey's work of the same title.

L ' Âme Immortelle () is an Austrian darkwave band.

" Sisters of Mercy " was also covered by Area, a darkwave band from Champaign, Illinois on their 1988 CD The Perfect Dream.

Lycia is a darkwave / gothic rock band that was formed in 1988, Tempe, Arizona, United States.

Although only achieving minor cult success, the band is notable for being one of the ground breaking groups in darkwave and ethereal wave styles.

* Mira ( band ), Tallahassee, FL darkwave band

The Last Dance is an American darkwave rock band from Southern California signed to Dancing Ferret Discs.

* Otto Dix ( band ), a Russian darkwave band

Another Niš band, post-punk / darkwave band Dobri Isak, released their only album Mi plačemo iza tamnih naočara in 1983.

Faith and the Muse is an American, underground gothic / darkwave band composed of two musicians, Monica Richards and William Faith.

* The song " Trial By Fire " by darkwave / gothic band ThouShaltNot recreates the idea of a modern-day Pygmalion with lyrics such as " I sculpt your nature within, I am your Pygmalion " and " I dust away the plaster from off your breathing body ... You'll never be the same.

Continuing the Dargaard formula, the band created another work of dark melody, the release was considered by fans to be a true milestone of innovate darkwave music.

* The lyrics of the techno music that plays in the opening sequence are sung by Birgit Strunz of the German darkwave band Stillste Stund.

* the electronic darkwave band Kirlian Camera

* The gothic / darkwave band Faith & the Muse recorded a version on their debut Elyria in 1994.

"... Ich töte mich jedesmal aufs Neue, doch ich bin unsterblich, und ich erstehe wieder auf ; in einer Vision des Untergangs ..." ( German :"... I kill myself every time anew, but I am immortal, and I rise again ; in a vision of Doom .."; usually referred to as "... Ich töte mich ...") is the debut album by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 1994.

Early pioneers of the dark and moody electronic music known as darkwave, their 1980s releases included synthpop / electronic dance music.

After 1993, in the United States, the term dark wave ( as the one-word variant darkwave ) became associated with the Projekt Records label, because it was the name of their printed catalog, and was used to market German artists like Project Pitchfork in the U. S. Projekt features bands such as Lycia, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and Love Spirals Downwards, most of these characterized by ethereal female vocals.

The style of Black Tape for a Blue Girl is often described as " gothic ", though their large catalog of music does not often conform with general standards of gothic or darkwave music.

By the end of 1999, their sound was more akin to some electro-pop bands of the day like Garbage and Republica rather than the darkwave or gothic-punk sound that had defined them years earlier.

Dol Guldur, in 1996, continued this style and saw an influence from Protector's darkwave project Ice Ages.

Speculations ran as to what reasons McElroy had for leaving the group after five years of recording and touring, though no explanation was given other than her subsequent membership in Manhattan-based darkwave group Cold Cave, which she soon after departed from in 2010.

The content focuses on articles and interviews, photographs of live concerts from around the world and in China, CD reviews, and posters – mainly with foreign metal bands from the genres: Heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal, nu metal, hard rock, metalcore, darkwave / gothic / industrial, hard core, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, grindcore, etc.

The band's musical style takes cues from the 1980s New Romanticism and New Wave, usually considered wave pop or darkwave.

Starting Mount Sims as a purely electronic music act, later releases have also shown influences from post punk, new wave and darkwave.

The inexperienced Spiral Traveller ( aus dem Schoß der Hölle ward geboren die Totensonne ) ( German: " from the Womb of Hell was born the Sun of the Dead ") is the third album by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 1997.

" Songs from the inverted Womb " is the darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows ' sixth album, released in 2000.

" Es reiten die Toten so schnell " ( or: the Vampyre sucking at his own Vein ) ( German: " The Dead ride so fast "; usually referred to as " Es reiten die Toten so schnell ") is the seventh album by darkwave act Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 2003.

The album has been cited as influencing the goth rock, darkwave and science fiction elements of work by artists such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Gary Numan, John Foxx and Nine Inch Nails.

The album, like the demo tapes before it, showcased darkwave music with a neo-classical bent, punctuated by Varney's tortured voice and the recurring imagery of death, despair and vampires.

While the album retained qualities of darkwave music, the album was stripped of its heavy use of synthesizers and drum machines.

The second album End of Flowers was released in 1996, expanding on the darkwave sound of the debut.

The film is directed by its creator, Craig Clark, an art rock, darkwave musician ( Chorus of Souls on Fluxus Records ), animator ( Forrest Gump and The Simpsons ), comic book artist ( Nemesister and Timbuktu ) and album cover artist ( The Nymphs ).

Todeswunsch-Sous le soleil de Saturne ( German and French: " Death wish-Under the sun of Saturn ") is the second album by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows and was released in 1995.

Voyager: The Jugglers of Jusa is the first remix album by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 1997.

" Dead Lovers ' Sarabande " ( Face One ) is the fourth album by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 1999.

" Dead Lovers ' Sarabande " ( Face Two ) is the fifth album by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 1999.

" Flowers in Formaldehyde " is the second EP by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 2004 as a companion to the album " La Chambre D ' Echo "-Where the dead Birds sing.

" La Chambre D ' Echo "-Where the dead Birds sing is the eighth album by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 2004.