Given your background and liking more rock oriented music as of late, I'd probably recommend starting with industrial rock and metal bands. Also, you can never, ever go wrong with an Alesis SR-16. I don’t have a single negative story - almost everyone was friendly, warm and seemingly humbled by their fans. Motionless in White - its just shitty metalcore with barely to no industrial in it. I personally don't like industrial (dark electronic music in general) but those bands are the very few I tolerate. Minneapolis has a thriving Techno underground, and a healthy array of goth / darkwave events - but pure Industrial is kind of dying out (though EBM like Nitzer Ebb, Schwefelgelb, and Visceral Anatomy is making a HUGE comeback). • 4 yr. And Fridays at Lombard Pub is Decadent 80s which also has themed nights, every once in a while, there'll be a Wax Trax! theme night if you like the old school EBM/Industrial. It’s harsh, yet easy on the ears and never gives headaches. What are some hypnotic, bass-y industrial songs like Cannibal Song by Ministry and Sanctified by NIN? Request Ill admit, my knowledge of industrial music doesn’t extend farther than Ministry, NIN, KMFDM, ENB, and Skinny Puppy, the first two being the industrial bands I’m really, really in to. Sorry for namedropping. Industrial is about a small community coming together over their shared love of a type of music. AddNoize. The…. Hirsute Pursuit is an American industrial/EDM group from New York City, formed by Bryin Dall and Harley Phoenix in 2006-2007. I also love other industrial and EBM acts like Nitzer Ebb and Front 242, very different music but they definitely keep a same logical style. The old techno band Rabbit In the Moon goes all over the spectrum in terms of genre but they're very much adjacent to industrial club music. Here, we discover, share, and discuss local news, music, events, food, restaurants, attractions, meetups, and things to do in The band would manage the task of composing the music, while the studios would manage the task of engineering the sound. The band collaborates frequently with artists such as Peter Christopherson (before his death in 2010), Boyd Rice and many others. [deleted] •. They are a costume experimental-industrial-bluegrass-roots-noise band from California who have put out like 20 albums since '85 up until '07. The 90's goth scene was sort of sparked by the industrial scene, but now it seems most goths are turning back to the influencers. You could even call it the attitude. ADMIN MOD. Only a handful of DM songs (Master and Servant and the Remixes 81>04 version of Lie To Me) employ the use of that industrial percussion. 2 - you can check out Ken Hiwart Marshal youtube channel, he has tons of tips. By the time TG became its own thing in 1976, punk was running at full steam. Hirsute Pursuit. Remix what you capture. PM me if you're interested in collabing on anything. In the meantime, you can use r/edm discord server for updates and to hangout https://discord. gg/edm ----- Welcome to /r/EDM! Your prime source for talking about any kinds of electronic dance music and discovering the newest music in the scene Rinse and repeat. xdementia. "Praise The Lard" is not the PIG Album I'd recommend, but I definitely don't mind it on the list. His albums Antichrist Superstar, Golden Age of Grotesque, and even Born Villain mainly consist Electro-industrial is the sound Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly really championed back in the mid 80s. 309 votes, 505 comments. T. I'll go a different route than many and list some of my favorite "Radio Industrial" bands* since others have listed the more "industrial-industrial" Machines of Loving Grace Stabbing Westward (Wither, Blister, Burn, and Peel was my fav) Gravity Kills Fear Factory (chunks of stuff with Rhys Fulber of FLA too) Ran out of the above, lets try this. Don't take genres too seriously. In particular the different styles, theories, methodologies, & history of the evolution of the music. All you need is a DAW you are comfortable with, a handful of drums samples, and some VSTs to make industrial music. I would definitely say that NIN is regarded as poppy and mainstream by most people that are "into industrial music" (unless by "industrial music" they mean NIN, Marilyn Manson, and other poppy vaguely industrial-influenced artists). It's house but has some crossover into sleazy disco with horror samples. There's no perfect list that anyone can agree on, but that's good enough for me not to get nitpicky about what should or shouldn't be on there. Even professional music theorists like 12 tone acknowledge there is no great way to discuss the sonic quality of a genre. The music under the aesthetic fills out the genre but it is wide and varied. r/Cyberpunk. Industrial has a long history of being played alongside to Goth, I don't mind that in itself. Fucking Then, you can just load up samples of those classic drum machines. Real industrial music is supposed to be challenging, and doing that which is not being done. Saint Vitus, Voivod, Bolt Thrower and Manilla Road. To me, Static-X is industrial metal, period, there's litte to no rap/hip-hop elements, and heavy electronic samples are used in nearly every song. I honestly wanna get into more industrial metal, but Fear Factory is definitely the only one I got every album of. Punk becomes post punk, post punk becomes industrial, new wave, goth, etc. Industrial music is a reaction to the dehumanization of the workforce, as integrated with modern industrial technology. Puissance, Arditi, Infestation, Legionarii for your martial industrial needs. The-Figurehead. unbitious. And some other new-ish bands that you can't go wrong with would be Cocksure, KANGA, All of Matt Fanale's porojects (Caustic, daddybear, klack), Moris Blak, ESA. That's what industrial music is. "Tactical Neural Implant" is definitely a great album, but I don't think is as essential or influential as "Caustic Grip". As a whole industrial music is generally interested in transgression (of anything, depending on the context). In that sense it's a very kind of blue Around the cities of Leipzig, Stuttgart, Aachen, Belgium/Netherland Border. KMFDM- Nihil, Xtort and earlier stuff. For older stuff, check out Neurosis, Treponem Pal, Head of David (Dustbowl features Justin), and Blood From the Soul, Rorschach, Kiss it Goodbye and Harm's Way for a more Hardcore mood. At that time, "wave" was being used to describe a lot of the more stylistically hard-to-place goth/industrial music that was coming out of Europe and Germany especially Well too many albums to list really. Prometheus Burning - again, no longer active unfortunately, but what they did release is some of the best industrial noise that never got its due. Marilyn Manson is what introduced me to Industrial music during my early teens. I love NIN, and I also love the more classic stuff: Skinny Puppy, FLA, Front 242, Einstuerzende Neubauten, etc. My brain is framework inclined in terms of creative output & the aspiration of producing my own music in the future necessitates understanding some of the commonalities of industrial. So when we talk about groups like Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, and early KMFDM, these were dirty club bands that probably only saw compressors when they were in studio. Not exactly industrial, but a lot of the cold, industrial minimalist sound of cold wave/techno comes from black innovators like Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Underground Resistance etc. The sound of metal cutting metal is your ‘hook. The strongest common thread among all of it is a willingness to experiment with sound in service of the aesthetic. Industrial isn't an aesthetic or a sound. If you look at the history of how punk bands break up in the 70s and early 80s, launching post punk and then how people leave post punk bands to form industrial bands it's a really clear lineage. I go Seele Brennt, and the Halber Mensch album. Klayton was Circle of Dust, Brainchild, Celldweller and Argyle Park. I'm someone who's into post-punk and the less harsh side of punk, so I imagine this IMO, a more timeless record. Everybody else has listed bands that influenced NIN and are what hardcore industrial fans like. I was wondering if there are any good metal or industrial bands developing or are popular on the reservations in Canada/The United States? Bands that aren't goth but industrial or synthpop which occasionally dabble in darkwave that may interest you : Blutengel, the Crüxshadows (both are futurepop/EBM bands with some darkwave influences), the 2 last albums of Gary Numan. Searching for modern artists (from the past five to ten years) who emulate that ‘90s Cleopatra/Zoth Omnog vibe. Another band that worked as an inspiration for Rammstein is Laibach, maybe their music is a bit less accesible but their dancier stuff like Tanz Mit Laibach is very popular. What's more shocking than genocidal NI Battery: Drums, drums, and more drums. They're more straightforward than a lot of the more electro-industrial or classic industrial bands out there, and generally more accessible. deleteuserexe. Izotope Trash2: Nice effect plugin that adds some harsh industrial distortion to synths, drums, sounds, etc. Nailbomb - Point Blank. I believe most of it is on youtube. ago. If it helps, I’m looking for music that has a similar structure and texture to the catalogs of the following artists: Cubanate. There are some fresh acts doing actual industrial, but you have to dig deep to find them. In the early days it was groups like It so happened to be Industrial. Coffin Club is open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. I would however argue against power electronics being industrial. Drums to be is the easy part. Granted, much of the music is too noisy and incoherent to put a Fuck Buttons and Blanck Mass incorporate a lot of post-rock elements into their electronic music, the latter being very heavy industrial. The completely unrealistic egos of some bands. I am a big, big fan of JG Thirlwell, Youth, Chris Connelly and En Esch and follow all of their various bands and side projects. That wall is called Aggrotech. •. Big labels restricting creativity in upcoming bands. Order of the Static Temple - Rise in Fire. I also in love with 90’s gothic/dark wave bands that tried to incorporate “industrial rock” elements, like “Catastrophe Ballet” or “Rosetta Stone”. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Wumpscut, Velvet Acid Christ, Leæther Strip, X Marks the Pedwalk are great examples of this sound. What bands would you recommend me? Thanks! EDIT: Alphabetized and made it a proper list. If someone calls Rob Zombe X, Y, or Z, or another band, just try to picture that it's roughly in the ballpark. Nemesis is a strong record. You can do this with softsynths, but it's a much less organic experience. Powerman 5000 - is just industrial rock. It gives me the experimental weirdness I like from the industrial pioneers, the synth madness I like in Puppy and FLA, and the guitar textures I like in Godflesh. I like darkwave and post-punk, especially where these genres and industrial intersect. A lot of their stuff is pretty post-punk sounding, but they have some good industrial/goth sounding stuff. Hey guys. Fillerbear. It's really fun get some nice hardware synths and just twist knobs until something happens. Industrial music, specifically Throbbing Gristle, has its origins prior to punk rock. There are explicitly leftist industrial groups, like Test Dept, or SPK, but many industrial bands do not even explore the Bands Similar to Old School KMFDM. Acceptance of truly awful behaviour by people because they released 2 good albums 15 years ago. For me it's the atmosphere the music manages to create. I really like the kind of slower pace, crunchy synths, and "groovy" bass. Terminal - industrial rock with a bit of a goth influence. The Downward Spiral had me hooked, The Fragile had me obsessed. It has the appeal of classical music often enough. Reply reply. g. Thursday is Shadowplay. Please post popular industrial albums as top level comments (artist - album) and tracks from these albums as replies. The name has come to be a catch-all feeling for some, leading to stuff that sounds like (e. NIN falls under industrial music by the original definition established by Throbbing Gristle- Music that is constructed factory-line style, mechanically built from a wide-range of sounds that coalesce into a disjointed (w)hole. So, I was wondering if you guys could recommend some Industrial rock/metal bands that are harsh in sound, but still have enough rock and metal elements to where they're not just straight up Power Electronics. It's become kind of a catch-all term. "People Are Still Having Sex" by La Tour gets close, for me. It's NDH, big difference. It has so many layers. Static-X - only The digital speakeasy for the Gem City. Try listening to the classic Goth Box. He became disillusioned with the genre as a whole and 'said' he wasn't going to listen to commie music anymore. While these bands might not be considered straight up industrial, they all owe a lot to the sound NIN had in the early to mid 90s. NDH is just an off shoot of alt metal with electronic elements. The album “The Second Annual Report” had a sub-title “industrial music for industrial people” so it’s safe to say that’s where term originated and what it sounded like at that time. MembersOnline. It kinda depends what genre you're interested in. Original industrial music was using the products of industry to subvert and reinvent music. The only industrial they got is aesthetics but that doesnt translate to sound. Key things I focused on in my music were groove, structure, and mood. God Lives Underwater - Empty. Meathook Seed - Embedded. ’. FeuerZauberer. Anika also recently released a cover of Godstar and King Woman also released a new album over the Summer. I dig the martial music of Der Blutharsch - Tracks of the Hunted is a great album. Author & Punisher, 3TEETH, KANGA, Youth Code, HEALTH. There's instrumental industrial all the way from the more noisier, avant-garde style to the more dancefloor-friendly style. NI Massive: Great synth but I find it somewhat complex to use compared to Sylenth. Both punk and industrial don't require a vast knowledge of music theory, they both say "fuck you" to the mainstream, and they can be made with minimal equipment. Some others are Severed Heads, Clock DVA, Contagion and you may like Project Pitchfork, Kevorkian Death Cycle, X Marks the Pedwalk, Xorcist, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, and Mentallo and the Fixer. 1. TheGoatEater. Rammstein - isnt industrial metal. It's supposed to be evoking the imagery and sound of an industrial workplace: the factory, the mill, the construction site. MMIStudios. There’s a lot more subgenres I didn’t even touch base with. I did a study of the Industrial music scene's bands and inter-relations a few years back and the wiki page for Pigface was partly my work (I can't take all the credit though). My preference is "The Swining". Feel free to disagree. As others have said, I think the main features of industrial are harsh, noisy, heavy, dark, sounds. Definitely not. The iron cross and the imperial eagle immediately come to mind while a lot of industrial bands use more militaristic imagery simply because it fits the music. While I love them, most of the bands I've discovered are either from South America or Mexico. Decadent 80s, Church of Hive, and Shadowplay are the longest running continuous nights Discussion. Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste. Industrial is a sub genre of noise. I like somewhat more modern industrial, like NIN and Skinny Puppy, but when I found KMFDM's first few albums from the 80s I was blown away. 3. Whether it's pure industrial, or even industrial metal, there's something about the way the music combines different elements of electronic music and sometimes metal or punk or rock music, that just creates something really unique. are towards the top of the list for me. There are attempts to make such language but they always fall short. Misery Loves Co. Beyond Repair is an unsung classic. The first few tracks I heard were from Ministry, and the first industrial albums I owned were Throbbing Gristle's 20 Jazz Funk Greats and Cabaret Voltaire's Mix-Up. Industrial music in particular tends to be aggressive, stompy, and confrontational with shocking lyrics, shocking imagery, and shocking sounds. Some of the most interesting sampling obviously took a lot of care to put it together using the tone and musical quality of sounds that weren't music. I'm going to distinguish Aggrotech/EBM from classic EBM, as modern EBM has been redefined I'm mostly into electro-industrial, I was trying to search new bands in the genre. Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey. It would almost be like calling Fear Factory nu metal to me. Why do many industrial fans resent Marilyn Manson? Wile I would more likely classify him in the Industrial Metal/Shock Rock category his roots are in the Industrial scene. Reply. This list looks written by an author who probably did some googling and wiki reading without a thorough grounding in the music. And that's just the complexity of ONE BAND! I can't imagine trying to classify what makes a general sense of multiple bands "more" or "less" industrial. & other interesting stuff on Nyege Nyege tapes. Blottoboxer. Only other industrial albums I got is Static-X's Cult of Static, Rob Zombie's Past/Present/Future compilation, and most Mushroomhead albums except Savior Sorrow and the original albums of XX. Industrial occasionally utilizes noise but it's in the background compared to other sounds. cheechcan. . Ahoy folks, I am an (amateur) guitarist who has joined a few bands as part of the live-act, had a go at synths (love the Roland SH-201), and am back to guitars to fill the gap in our live sound. - Misery Loves Co. TG came directly out of COUM Transmissions, a performance art collective that began in 1969, which was years before punk became a thing around 1974. So that's my two cents! Thanks! Industrial is the cultural aesthetic. Funnily enough, in my twenties, I also started replaying Sonic Adventure 2 and found that much of the music there sounds very industrial, so that may have been my absolute first exposure to the genre. Alien Sex Fiend may be of interest. I saw Spahn Ranch live like 6 times. White Car, Sumerian Fleet, Beau Wanzer, AIR LQD, Dollkraut, Volition Immanent, Unhuman, Group A. Pan Sonic - Kesto -- diverse album. Look up Caroliner Rainbow. Capable of some amazing stuff if you master it. Apparently, all their songs were delivered to them in ergot-fueled delirium from a singing bull from the 1880's. I'd like to get everyone's opinion on the current state of Industrial dance music. ) Euphoric Trance (VNV) being classed as Industrial, but that doesn't change the reality that there is an overall history to the music, pioneers/founders, classic bands basically everyone knows, and specifically defined subgenres that many of the bands By 1995, when 21st Circuitry Records released "Coldwave Breaks," the term had fallen completely out of use and Don Blanchard, owner of 21st Circuitry, had never heard it before. SkeliotTheUndead. I feel similar to you about Ministry, I enjoy some of their stuff (Land of Rape & Honey in particular Cyanotic - probably the best industrial metal project in the last twenty years for me. There are a bunch of new bands, many fronted by women, who ditched a lot of the corny militarism and Skynet shit in favor of very good and dark dance music. Lot's of neo-nazi bullshit, especially when you get into some of the power electronics stuff. Those of course could not be imagined without the influence of Killing Joke. Lots of good goth guitars and vocals but also some of the electronic/heavier aspects of industrial. Klayton recently got rights back to the Circle of Dust/Argyle Park catalog and has remastered it all. Looking for some good "cyber punk" style music. And a lot of industrial-adjacent stuff like Aphex Twin, The Presets, A Perfect Circle and Tool, The Horrors, Chelsea Wolfe… To brag more: met a lot industrial artists too. Spahn Ranch. Sister Cell - newer industrial rock, some definite KMFDM influence. Executive Slacks may have some stuff up your alley, too. Reply More replies. Well, Genesis P-Orridge invented industrial music as Throbbing Gristle. Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs. I don't hate anyone that does consider them to be nu-metal and I'm just glad we all enjoy the music, but help me understand here. Modern noise music stems from the 80s japanoise scene, and if you look at all of those artists, little to none of them are connected to the industrial Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) MDFMK - MDFMK. German festivals just regurgitating the same lineups over and over. What people call industrial today is usually industrial rock or EBM. Flesh Field - sadly no longer an active band, but they had a solid discography and their last release, Strain, was really excellent. Profit. Yes, early industrial flirted with noise but for the most part it wasn’t a big part of the genre. Any regularly occurring festival where industrial makes up a significant part of the music played, as opposed to the Virus synth, 4/4 bass kick, laptop-playing EBM that you described in your initial post (or other forms of poppy, dance-oriented music far removed from the original industrial ethos). The production rules and is several cuts above the classics in terms of fidelity and DJ-ready tracks. Artium Carceri, Dronny Darko, Inade for straight up ambient. Street Sects are good. As for artists, Ministry, KMFDM, Chemlab and 3Teeth would be good Industrial/Electronic Rock - Dance-laden rock music: Blue Stahli, Chemlab, Gravity kills, Left spine down, Revolting cocks, Flesh field, KMFDM (mid career), Zeromancer, Dead star assembly, I:scintilla, Left spine down, Futurepop - Think traditional pop music, but more hard-driven and with actual musical structure. Any of their albums are great, but I'd probably start with Transhuman or Medication Generation. Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments. E, and Apoptygma Bezerk would be my suggestion. A more accessible commercial sound considered industrial rock. Reddit's Gold Mine Members Online After reading the askreddit post about new music redditors have discovered and listening on youtube to the top 50 bands that were posted QUESTION. Nine Inch Nails is kind of the perfect storm for me in that way. Which I am fine with. Another one: Destroid- Loudspeaker. A genre of science fiction and a lawless subculture in an oppressive society dominated by computer technology and big corporations. There's something really visceral and, primal about it that just resonates with me. Duma. ” I am forever looking for bands that sound like TKK. Best industrial album of all time right here. Prog and power metal seem to be the most likely to avoid anti-Christian themes, while black and death metal seem to be the most likely to include anti-Christian themes. From there, I again discovered related artists and genre at random -- mainly going through the rabbit hole. Choke Chain - Death Tactics. One of the bands is heavily influenced by industrial music (Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Front-line Assembly, etc), of which I have limited 80’s Skinny Puppy will give you the most well-rounded sense of early industrial, and the sound that shaped industrial to come. They founded the label Industrial Records. Some of the instrumental industrial that immediately comes to mind: Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill: Original Soundtrack -- Noise-influenced industrial w/ some dark ambient. Rhythmic noise is definitely an industrial subset be it glitch, drill’n’bass , power noise or other. Desiderii Marginis, In Slaughter Natives, Phragments for your ambient-tinted borderline death industrial needs. As long as events don't label themselves Goth while playing a majority of that other genre. (Which was also done by Skinny Puppy and NIN) If you don't want to go the sample route, the Arturia DrumBrute Impact, or Roland TR-8 would be good for industrial sounds. Break into an abandoned gas plant, pirate the power mains, plant mics everywhere, get your ass into the MCC, and start energizing random machines. Most industrial revolved around Klayton/Circle of Dust. Ulver - Shadows of the Sun (dark ambient, experimental) Ulver - Perdition City (electronic, dark ambient, trip hop) Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth (darkwave, neoclassical) Midnight Odyssey - Shards of Silver Fade (ambient, doom/black metal, darkwave) Spectral Lore - Voyager (ambient, electronic) I think referring to music as "industrial" is like referring to music as "rock" or "metal". Godkiller (his only industrial work called “Deliverance”). Electro-industrial / techno-industrial / EBM: Neikka RPM, Android Lust, r/Music — Reddit’s #1 Music Community — “Life is a song, love is the music. But I’ll conclude this by saying there’s a lot of crossover genres Politics and Industrial. 2. I love Metal and Industrial music and I've discovered quite a bit labeled as tribal. Among recent(ish) bands: Throes (check out their album In the Hands of an Angry God), LLNN, Leeched, Realize, Dome Runner, Sumac, even Erdve maybe. Sub genre of industrial as noise has been around at least since music was first recorded. "Burning Heretics" being a personal favorite. Laibach, Heimataerde, Nachtmar (Especially Tanzdiktator), FGFC820, Sirus, Stromkern, Reaver, W. An honest question looking for short Answers. I'm also enjoying Boy Harsher these days. Here are some examples which I am hoping to find similar music from: SPK - Metal Field Hilt - Hilter We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Current wave. I'm currently working on getting some new tracks to feed into my rotation, and for the life of me, and running into a brick wall. Hey! I mix exclusively industrial music and I'm very familiar with your references. Regarding your questions: 1 - anything goes when mixing industrial, I usually mix several synths/drum machines/ samplers with the FX already printed on the tracks, since FX are usually part of the composing and arrangement in this genre. Bands trying to incorporate pop music. Kinda indulging here but I'm also working on an album with a kind of industrial/post-rock/indie rock sound to it. Big labels trickling promotion upwards. Had an altercation today with a fan of several bands that he didn't even bothered to hear the lyrics or what these bands stand for (some of them at full volume). It’s on Spotify and any other podcast service. Klank was Daren Diolosa's solo band, who happened to be Circle of Dust's guitarist. However, the early roots are in the late 70’s/early 80’s avant garde mix of post-punk, musique concrete and early electronic music that formed early industrial: Throbbing Gristle, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire. As the tools we use to do dehumanizing work continues to change overtime, so too should the sound of industrial music. Every single NIN album falls under that. That was the good stuff, where it wasn't laid down as a cliche to follow. Long time informed members here know what I'm saying, that some of the items are aesthetically superficial and conceptually separate from industrial music. TheBookoftheVoid. Now, the better explanation I would say is it's an experimental, typically electronic form of music with an emphasis on either a literal, or figurative, steel-on-steel kind of sound. There is a lot of great industrial music right now. A. It has interviews and songs from many newer bands like Conformco, Street Sects, The Black Queen, Boy Harsher, Statiqbloom, Author & Punisher. It's the synths and melodies that primarily make the song imo. S. And also, The Young God's "L'eau Rouge Some similar feeling bands that folks should check out if they haven’t already: Drab Majesty, Ritual Howls, Molchat Doma, Nürnberg, Boy Harsher, French Police, and I’m throwing in some Sextile too. They acknowledge the mainstream overlap, but put in plenty of debatable and obscure picks from the roots. Which in conclusion is the problem with trying to make a best list for industrial as a genre, one that has since it's conception always been diverse in its sound and production; now that it is over 40 years old it has its little grubby hands in almost all warps of music. Psychic TV, Brighter Death Now for your actual death industrial needs. And, to be honest, it's not about that. But also the theme of the music is often very political or morbid in nature. qr lb oi fc tu iq aw bf nl em