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Skull Jewelry

Once the post-punk scene started to fragment at the beginning of the 1980s, one of the subcultures to come out of it was the Gothic community, based on enjoying bass heavy, brooding music as well as mainly all black outfits borrowing from styles as varied as the Victorian era to bondage and fetish wear.

The Cure, Bauhaus, Souxsie and The Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy and The Cult all started to be associated with the Goth world, although many of these later dissociated themselves from it. However, in reality anythin that was was adopted by Goths was Goth, as there was actually no uniting sound; even lyrical subjects, although usually downbeat, were different; think about the introspection of “Pornography” era The Cure, in contrast to the bombastic sound of The Sisters of Mercy on Floodland.

In addition to the black clothing, hair dye and eyeliner, many Goths also opted to don crucifixes and religious emblems. With the Bauhaus anthem “Bela Lugosi Is Dead” arrived the cod-horror theatricals favored by bands like Alien Sex Fiend, and in addition to the bats and crucifixes arrived skull jewelry and other objects.

While countless misitreperted the symbolism of Goth, thinking it to be associated with violence or suicidal tendencies, in fact the movement was in truth an accepting one – “anything goes” it was saying, and the visual aspect of death in the image was more to do with the concept of taking pleasure in finite time, as opposed to actually wishing it. In this manner it was like the veritas veritatum works of art of the renaissance, when painters contrasted man’s vanity – intellectual pursuits and pleasure of living – with the vanity of life. The latter was illustrated by a skull, and also sometimes underlined by an hourglass or candlestick.

After the use of skull jewelry by Goths, the skull image was also used by Heavy Metal and bikers, even though the use was very different. While Goth was introspective and at times self indulgent, Heavy  Metal was a kind of cartoon rock with no real substance behind it.

These days skull jewelry can be found in many designs. Not only the stark metal death’s head, it is also seen in examples of precious metals and diamond covered.

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