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" Bela Lugosi's Dead " is the debut single by English post-punk band Bauhaus , produced and released in the United Kingdom in 1979, only on 12-inch vinyl. It is considered by many to be the first song of what soon became known as gothic rock , which would later become the gothic subculture . Although it did not chart, partly due to its uncommercial nature, with its duration of more than nine minutes and what was difficult to classify at the time. | Gerard Sanchezz

On Jan 26, 1979, BAUHAUS recorded BELA LUGOSI’S DEAD. Released on Small Wonder Records, a Walthamstow record shop-based label that specialized in releasing records by punk rock and post-punk bands, the Northampton band’s debut single seemed an unlikely blueprint for other bands to emulate: a sepulchral bassline that descended and repeated for the duration, with a drum pattern and myriad echo effects lifted from dub reggae, sitting below abrasive guitar lines. Yet in this single effort, Bauhaus i