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Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.
- Early-to-mid-1970s, United Kingdom, United States (Chicago), and Germany
- Assimilate by Skinny Puppy. While Skinny Puppy was not the band that birthed industrial or gave it its name, they were one of the first bands to run with the label and define what the genre would be in the 1980s.
- Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. With Nine Inch Nails remaining the most famous and listened to practitioner of the genre, it was only natural we include them as an example.
- The Anal Staircase by Coil. With a song title like that, you know you are in for something strange with this song by Coil. From their second album Horse Rotorvator, this song showcases the heavily experimental nature of the genre.
- Headhunter by Front 242. Front 242 is another band that embodied the industrial music image of the 1980s. Headhunter is at once both a complicated song that produces anxiety with its sound, while also being a track that anyone could dance to.
- Dark Ambient. Dark ambient, also known as ambient industrial, is a subgenre of industrial music characterized by ominous, gloomy droning, and catacomb-like atmospheres with inharmonious overtones.
- Electronic Body Music. Electronic Body Music (EBM) is a genre of electronic and industrial music that consists of programmed dance music rhythms, repetitive basslines, and undistorted vocals with command-like shouts and offensive themes and lyrics.
- Electro-Industrial. Electro-industrial shares a lot of its elements from Electronic Body Music (EBM) except for one thing: structure. While EBM tends to have a cleaner, more minimal structure, electro-Industrial is gritty, complex, and experimental.
- Industrial Hip-Hop. As the name suggests, industrial hip-hop, also known as Noise Rap, is a fusion between industrial music, hardcore hip-hop, and dub music.
Industrial music, dissonant electronic music that arose in the late 1970s in response to punk rock. Coined by British postpunk experimentalists Throbbing Gristle, the term industrial simultaneously evoked the genre’s bleak, dystopian worldview and its harsh, assaultive sound (“muzak for the death.
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Jun 7, 2021 · Industrial Music Guide: A Brief History of Industrial Music. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 3 min read. Industrial music combines rock music with synthesizers, samplers, and the abrasive sound of machines.
Feb 6, 2019 · While the term “industrial music” was coined in the 1970s by Monte Cazazza around the time he was working with Throbbing Gristle to establish the label Industrial Records, it can be seen as a genre extending from the experimental electronic musique concréte movement of the 1920s, 30s and 40s led by French composers Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre He...
