James is a writer for GameRant. He fell in love with video games as a child and has yet to recover. He is still obsessed with Ocarina Of Time and regularly lectures people on how Metal Gear Solid ...

It was a normal Monday morning: Lofi Girl, as she always does, sits at her desk studying. She’ll glance out the window and turn the page of her notebook, all while her orange cat lazily peers out the ...

Despite its retro fetishism and insular network of artists, the so-called synthwave genre, a future-focused sound undeniably indebted to the pop culture of the Reagan era, is pulsing forward with a ...

I had an epiphany this morning about my ever-evolving thesis that the obscure electronic genre known as synthwave has some sort of kindred connection with heavy metal: the guys that make it are the ...

Metal and dark synthwave go hand in hand like beer and weed; unmistakably different, but cut from the same cloth, and both will absolutely get you there. Though the music might seem decidedly un-metal ...

Neon lights. Fast cars. Moody atmospheres. Violence. Synth tunes. These are the hallmarks of the Outrun aesthetic, a general subgenre born out of synthwave music and 80s movie visuals. Outrun is hard ...

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Synthwave has been enjoying a surge of popularity over the past decade, and it's not difficult to see why. In a world that ...