Ethereal Wave is the Ambient or beatless side of Goth music. This genre often features lush, reverb-drenched instrumentation and haunting vocals, creating a sense of otherworldly beauty and melancholy. The guitars are always wet, the beats are always cavernous and distant, the vocals are always tortured and self-involved and full of teenage poetry. Ethereal Wave takes the reverb and flange effects to new levels of spaceous loneliness. It's the perfect soundtrack for camping overnight in a cemetary or putting on vampire fangs and eating uncooked steak pretending its flesh or staying home and slowly watching a rose wilt on the window sill or painting your fingernails charcoal, lighting some candles and watching Fairuza Balk movies. Ethereal Wave has a few interesting characteristics that distinguish it from other Goth or Industrial genres. For one it is dominated by women, probably because guys can't sound sinisterly angelic enough. And the Goths that are into this music like to wear faerie wings which just doesn't work for guys.