Industrial Music

[Ifflejink]

Any other Industrial fans out there? If so, what are your favorite bands/albums, and why?

Personally, I love Skinny Puppy, Ministry, and Foetus. Each of them makes inventive, abrasive (not always), and overall good music.

[Machinus]

Skinny Puppy is awesome. My favorite album by them is Bites, because of the song "One Day."

[Bram]

If my all-time favorite band Slapshot's lead singer found out one of his fans enjoys industrial, he'd probably murder me in a fit of rage or something.

But yes.

I'm a huge Ministry fan. I also enjoy Die Krupps and Front 242. On occasion I enjoy some of NIN's stuff (but def. not all or even most of it).

I hear Bile is really good but I only own like 10 or so songs by them, so I can't really judge. I like what I heard so far however and I still need to get around to finding a copy of 'Demonic Electronic' sometime.

[Machinus]

NIN has some really great stuff, but I don't know if I would consider them industrial since they are (were?) so popular. I remember hearing them on the radio a few times. But they have some good stuff, "The Great Below" is one of my favorites.

[Klep]

NIN has some really great stuff, but I don't know if I would consider them industrial since they are (were?) so popular.

Pssht, obviously if a band is popular, it can't be industrial.  That's just ridiculous!  You start thinking industrial bands can be popular, and you start thinking they have to be good!

[Eddie]

I'm always confused by what you people call Industrial. Industrial to me is e.g. things on the ant zen label: http://www.ant-zen.com. Best Industrial evar: Imminent Starvation, Celluloid Mata, Vromb, ... . The bands mentioned before my post are referred to as crossover by people I know.

[Bram]

There's various types of industrial. It's also quite a bit of an older genre than most people assume.

Wikipedia has an interesting (if not comprehensive) list in their article on the subject.

Also, saying that NIN is not industrial because they are (he is) popular, is silly. It's kinda like how I'd still be an asshole if I moved form Holland to America. The one thing has nothing whatsoever to do with the other.

Hendrix isn't any less rock just because everyone knows him, now is he? And I imagine more people know Jimi Hendrix than NIN.

[Machinus]

NIN has some really great stuff, but I don't know if I would consider them industrial since they are (were?) so popular.

Pssht, obviously if a band is popular, it can't be industrial.  That's just ridiculous!  You start thinking industrial bands can be popular, and you start thinking they have to be good!

I have misplaced my words. Trent knows a thing or two about how to write pop music, and I think that his group exists on the border of the industrial genre. I am not seriously into industrial music myself, but I have several friends who are, and NIN is really mainstream compared to other sounds.

I didn't mean to imply that things can only be "cool" if they are "underground" and all the other stupid quotation marks that go in that direction. However, that fact that he is popular reflects the necessary fact that he is composing music for a more general audience. People who care a lot more about music than I do certainly could come to the conclusion that this defines how well a group fits into a genre.

I like listening to NIN. I think Terrible Lie (studio version, not the live garbage) is one of their better songs. That was a really popular song at one time, and it is relatively traditional in its composition. The percussion is really the only element that defines it as "industrial." So I think the popularity of NIN, while it does not itself affect the genre identification of the group, DOES reflect more fundamental reasons why they might not be so easily classified.

Sorry for the confusion.

[everythingitouchdies]

I am a lover of alot of strange things, and industrial music is definitely one of them.

As mentioned, I love Skinny Puppy (too dark park, hell yeah) Ministry and even front 242. I think my favorite is Laibach, who are just amazing, but so is leatherstrip (claus larsen) and more technoindustrial stuff like electric hellfire club.

And like just about everyone, I am even a closet NIN listener. Industrial? Its a pretty broad category.

Oh yes, and then there is really off the wall noise industrial like Merzbow, Dissecting Table, Masonna and pretty much any Cold Meat Industry stuff for the true extremist. Or maybe just the severely demented. I love that stuff.

EITD