Editing Deathrock (section)

===Origins (early 1980s)===
[[File:1983 live photo Christian Death Rozz Williams Johnnie Sage.jpg|thumb|[[Christian Death]] members [[Rozz Williams]] and Johnnie Sage performing in 1983|150px]]
At the beginning of the 1980s, deathrock emerged as an offshoot of the Los Angeles punk rock scene, differentiating itself through its greater emphasis on [[Horror fiction|horror]].<ref name="DinahCancer">[[Alice Bag|Bag, Alice]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20050205161057/http://www.alicebag.com/dinahcancerinterview.html Interview with Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave]'', Women in L.A. Punk, November 2004.</ref> According to a 2006 article by ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'', one popular theory as to the reason for this split was the 1980 suicide of Germs vocalist [[Darby Crash]]. According to this interpretation, Crash's death led to a period of mourning amongst many of those in the scene and eventually to a fascination with the [[macabre]].<ref name="stylus" /> Nonetheless, amongst this splinter bands began to form merging the sounds of Los Angeles punk rock with these darker elements to create deathrock. The most prominent of these groups were [[Christian Death]], [[45 Grave]], [[Super Heroines]] and [[Kommunity FK]].<ref name="Souciant1" /> Tracks by several of these acts were featured on 1981's ''[[Hell Comes to Your House]]'' compilation LP, which represented an early attempt to collect and promote local artists on the cutting edge of this new, darker version of L.A. punk. The bands generally performed and congregated at the Anti-Club, a club night in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] that would change venues every few weeks;<ref name="Rasen75"/> the O.N. Klub, located in [[Silver Lake, Los Angeles|Silver Lake]], also frequently hosted deathrock acts throughout the genre's inceptual period. Outside of this scene, [[Theatre of Ice]] from [[Fallon, Nevada]] independently created a sound which some sources have considered as pioneering deathrock.<ref name="Souciant1" />

During this time, deathrock bands often performed alongside both [[hardcore punk]] and [[new wave music|new wave]] bands. However, deathrock bands were not generally viewed as their own distinct genre, instead being seen as darker punk bands or sometimes even conflated with [[horror punk]].<ref name="The Music Sound">{{cite book |last1=Sfetcu |first1=Nicolae |title=The Music Sound |date=7 May 2014}}</ref>