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Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes.
Industrial music is a response to the commercialization of music that was seen by artists by the 1970s. In response to seeing music move in a direction with more mainstream appeal and pop hooks, industrial sought to be countercultural to the pop music scene.
These titans of industrial music continue to leave their impression on the genre, their sound echoing through the halls of industrial rock bands and influencing the next generation of artists.
By bridging art-rock with aggression, oblique synths with sturm und drang, these pioneers of industrial music helped birth a brand new genre.
This list details some of these offshoots, including fusions with other experimental and electronic music genres as well as rock, folk, heavy metal and hip hop. Industrial genres have spread worldwide and are particularly well represented in North America, Europe, and Japan.
Industrial music, as we know it today, has evolved in many ways. While its most famous exponents, like Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, fused it with metal, its influence extends far beyond, impacting genres such as electronic music, hardcore punk, hip-hop, and post-punk.
Through 45 of the best industrial songs we chart the history of the genre from early musique concrete to its crossover with hip-hop.
Industrial music combines rock music with synthesizers, samplers, and the abrasive sound of machines. Explore.
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.
Early industrial music was very much rooted in avant-garde experimentalism, directly linked with the emergence of new technology – most obviously synths and then samplers, but also tape technology and effects. As technology has evolved, industrial has kept up the pace.