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Anyone else here into industrial?

My favorite bands:

Skinny Puppy
Front 242
Front Line Assembly
Einstürzende Neubauten
Wumpscut
Angelspit

Don't know much about the genre so to speak, but I like Front 242. I liked Ministry, too, even if they were more on the metal side of things.

I really like Skinny Puppy! and Front 242 used to be a big fav too.

SPK
Throbbing Gristle
Lustmord
Sutcliffe Jugend
Controlled Bleeding
Einsturzende Neubauten

It's been several years since I've listened to industrial music, but there were a few bands I liked.

Nine Inch Nails (when they actually were industrial, ala Pretty Hate Machine)
Front 242
Renegade Soundwave (more electronic dance than industrial, but I remember them being included in industrial music)
Nitzer Ebb
Manufacture (I only know this one from the song "As the End Draws Near" with Sarah McLachlan on vocals)

I love KMFDM. KMFDM sucks.

Should I be afraid?

That is entirely subjective?

With a couple of the bands, (namely Einsturzende Neubauten and Controlled Bleeding) the old stuff is generally harsher, noisier, more depressing, dismal, and generally more 'metallic' sounding. The newer stuff from them is actually melodic and can be danceable.

TG's Live stuff is generally harsh and depressing.

I also forgot to add:

SPK
Whitehouse
Cop - Greed/Holy Money era SWANS
M.A.S.S.O.N.N.A.
Merzbow
KK Null (guitar player from Zeni Geva)
Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (Look for the live perfomance with Avant classical ensamble Zeitkratzer as well)
Any of the 'Dry Lungs' compilations

All of the above is generally early industrial from before Industrial and Dark Ambient were classified as the same genre.

If you like more melodic stuff, look for Big Black and Pigface.

Not everyone into this sort of music is... very nice?

SPK SPK SPK!

I'm a huge early industrial person. I like bands like Coil and Current 93 too. Collector of RE/SEARCH magazines. Have you heard Monte Cazazza?

I got to see TG live this year. It was incredible. I also saw EN in Berlin. Put every other performance I'd seen to shame.

Monte Cazzaza is OK, so is NON/Boyd Rice, and Rancid Hell Spawn,Z'EV, Dead Voices On Air, Autechre, Sheep On Drugs, The Dead C, etc. The provided link isn't really musical, but leads to the website of one of the founding fathers of 'Industrial Culture'. http://www.srl.org

Last edited by Fogman on 27 Oct 2009, 1:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I wish SRL performed more. I think Crash Worship came before them though?

Ministry. (Pre - 1994)

I love me some early Ministry too. Also Pigface and KMFDM.

Was wrong about Crash Worship coming before SRL. I just made an assumption since SRL is still around and Crash Worship isn't. Had no idea they'd been at this since the late 70's. I feel young.

Weird,- I always thought of Renegade Soundwave (who I love) as more dub....in the same way as say Haunted Dancehall by Sabres of Paradise was. Nice to see someone else remembers them- btw DarylZero, do you also remember DepthCharge?

I don't get some of the cut off lines between genres though, past nor present. I saw Autechre live years back at a really purist hard trance techno place...somewhat disconcerted one of the guys apeared mystified by the workings of the cigarette machine.

Ooops, some relevance. Umm, anyone remember some of the Ministry offshoot projects...Pailhead? Or Lead into Gold?

The name isn't familiar. I didn't really listen to much instrumental electronic dance music (what you mean by dub?) then. I do remember liking some music I heard from a band called 808 State, but I think that was about it, as far as I can remember. And I could be wrong about Renegade Soundwave. I just remember them being grouped in with industrial music (industrial dance music, maybe?).

I didn't really have a strong interest in industrial music, either. I knew someone in high school who was, and sometimes he'd let me listen to some of his music (how I heard of Renegade Soundwave and Front 242). Some of it I heard on the radio (NIN) or saw their music videos on TV. I was more of a The Smiths/Depeche Mode/Cure type, with some Metallica thrown in for good measure.

Semi-related sidenote: The first concert experience I ever had was seeing Nitzer Ebb open for Depeche Mode on their World Violation tour.

Oh, I also listened to some KMFDM when I was in high school, but I think it was just one song they had playing on alternative radio.

What type of sound was he trying to get out of it? Was he using Microphones or Piezoelectric transducers to capture the sound he was trying to get it to produce? :lol: