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13 unusual facts about Industrial music


Aborym

The album continued to expand on the band's experimentation with Electronica, with Aborym citing influences from drum and bass, jungle, techno, classical, EBM and industrial.

Devils to Some, Angels to Others

Devils to Some, Angels to Others is the debut studio album by American industrial band Fashion Bomb.

Factrix

Factrix the group released a number of experimental industrial and gothic rock recordings in the early 1980s.

In-Konflikt

:In-Konflikt: is the 2004 release from the German industrial and noise group Genocide Organ.

Isation

Isation is the debut release from German the industrial and noise group Genocide Organ.

Klan Kountry

Klan Kountry is a 1996 release by the German industrial and noise group Genocide Organ.

Leichenlinie

Leichenlinie is the 1989 release from the German industrial and noise group Genocide Organ.

Oktötenfest 2006

"Oktötenfest 2006" (a sidekick to Oktoberfest and the German word töten, for to kill) is a single by the industrial band Hanzel und Gretyl.

Schmerztherapie 93

Schmerztherapie 93 is a 1993 video release from German industrial and noise group Genocide Organ.

The End of Meaning

The End of Meaning is the sixth full-length album by industrial/hip hop artists Consolidated, which was released in 2000.

The Truth Will Make You Free

The Truth Will Make You Free is the 1999 release from German industrial and noise group Genocide Organ.

W.E.L.T.

W.E.L.T. was a briefly extant side-project between members of industrial bands Skinny Puppy (Nivek Ogre) and Ministry (Al Jourgensen and Michael Balch).

Zaraza

Formed in Montreal, Canada, in early 1993, Zaraza was born out of a meeting between newly arrived Polish immigrant Jacek (The DoomHammer) and local Montreal industrial/noise artist Grzegorz Haus ov Doom, with the object of fully integrating the extremes of doom/death metal with industrial.


Aidan Hughes

Aidan Hughes is best known for creating most of the album covers for the industrial band KMFDM.

Alfa Matrix

Founded in 2001, the label releases various musical styles including aggrotech, industrial music, dark elektro, synthpop and electronica.

Alien Vampires

Formed in 2000 by Nysrok Infernalien (ex-Aborym) who wanted to explore different sonorities by blending psy trance, industrial, EBM and metal, Alien Vampires was joined by Nightstalker in 2004 who also shared the same passion for Jam Montoya, BDSM and Drugs.

Bats Day in the Fun Park

Other dark subcultures represented at the event include Horror Punk, Horror Rock, Halloween, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Black metal, Steampunk, Hearse Societies, Industrial and EBM.

Bizz

Bizz (born Bryce Bernius) is an American rock guitarist, best known for his work with industrial/shock rock band Genitorturers, horror punk band The Undead (also featuring ex members of The Misfits; Bobby Steele and Joey Image), and Sydney metal band Our Last Enemy.

Dargaard

Tharen had already played a prominent role in several underground bands by this time, including Abigor and Amestigon, both black metal bands and Dominion III, an industrial music act.

DIIV

In May 2012, the band changed their name to DIIV, according to Smith, "out of respect for Dirk Ivens and the original Dive," a 1990s Belgian industrial group.

Fusspils 11

Fusspils 11 is the name of a German aggrotech, industrial, and EBM musical project collaboration of Ravenous and Funker Vogt members Gerrit Thomas, Jens Kaestel, Björn Böttcher, Tim Fockenbrock, Kai Schmidt, and Peggy Johanson.

Hanin Elias

Hanin Elias (born on the 31st of May, 1972 in Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German industrial/techno artist.

Istvan Kantor

Zack encouraged Kantor to join him in America; Kantor emigrated via Paris to Montreal and, in 1978, lived one year with Zack and Blaster Al Ackerman in Portland, Oregon, encountering and working with artists from Mail Art and the industrial music scene.

Memento Materia

In 2001, it formed Prototyp, a sublabel focusing on EBM, industrial and harder electro, which has put out another 26 releases (again according to its numbering scheme).

Mike Not

Mike Not (a.k.a. Mika Paju) is a creator of techno music from Tampere, Finland, though he has also produced industrial music (influenced by Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson et al.

Nefilim

Nefilim released one album, Zoon (1996), which was more industrial than McCoy's previous releases with the Fields of the Nephilim, though similar themes of mysticism are prevalent, visible in titles of songs like "Pazuzu (Black Rain)".

Nyah Fearties

Nyah Fearties have been described as a kind of hybrid between Celtic folk-punk outfit The Pogues, and Glasgow-based industrial music band Test Dept.

Peter Missing

He founded the influential underground industrial band Missing Foundation while living in Hamburg, Germany in 1984 and imported it to the U.S. in 1985 with new members.

Side-Line

Side-line was started in 1989 by two university students David Noiret and Seba Dolimont, who noticed that there was a distinctive lack of media interest in the independent music scene, and especially a lack of coverage in the darkwave, dark electro, endzeit, gothic, gothic metal and electro industrial genres.

Strike Under

Steve Bjorklund briefly formed another Chicago punk band, Terminal Beach, then ultimately relocated to Minneapolis to pursue playing and recording with various punk and industrial music bands, including Breaking Circus.

Tinitus

Tinitus was an annual alternative music festival focusing on the sub-genres of alternative electronic music such as Industrial, EBM, Synthpop and Futurepop.

Tokyo Fist

Like so many other films by Tsukamoto, the music for the film was composed by Japanese industrial music band Der Eisenrost.

Tom Ellard

Thomas (Tom) Ellard (born 1962), is an Australian electronic musician best known as the founding member of the electronic and industrial music group Severed Heads.

Xtort

Xtort features a variety of guest artists from the industrial music scene and studio musicians from other genres, but includes limited participation from core member En Esch.