Industrial Metal

Industrial metal is a genre characterized by its fusion of heavy metal's aggression and industrial music's mechanized, electronic elements. Born in the late 1980s and gaining momentum in the 1990s, industrial metal combines distorted, downtuned guitars with synthesized sounds, samples, and pounding drum machines, often featuring screamed or growled vocals and introspective, angst-ridden lyrics. Emerging from the intersection of industrial, thrash metal, and alternative rock, the genre's popularity peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with many artists drawing inspiration from the sonic experimentation of industrial pioneers and the theatrics of glam metal. Industrial metal's cultural significance lies in its reflection of societal anxieties and technological disillusionments, as well as its influence on the broader heavy music landscape. Notable for its incorporation of electronic and avant-garde elements, industrial metal sets itself apart from similar styles like nu-metal and alternative metal through its emphasis on rhythmic complexity and sonic experimentation.

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Exorcism
Album - 9 Tracks - Released July 25, 2025

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(Hed) P.E.
...And Oceans
Aesthetic Perfection
Amerakin Overdose
Amerikan Kaos
Among The Outcast
Angelspit
Anti-Clone
Apoplexia
Arsenic
Assemblage 23
Avatar
Azure Emote
Beneath The Hollow
Bent By Sorrow
Blitz Union
Blood Abscission
Bloodguilt
Bloodlyne
Boiler Room
Burton C. Bell
CONTRVZT
Celldweller
Chimaira
Circle of Dust
Clawfinger
Collide
Criminal
DIMMA
Dawn Of Ashes
Derhead
Die Krupps
Distantic
Dozy Doe
FLAT BLACK
FORBIDDEN
Forces United
Funker Vogt
Gallows' Eve
Genocide
Ghost
GhostSeeker
Hasswut
Hämatom
IMPVLSE
Iggor Cavalera
In The Woods...
JK Flesh
Julien-K
KMFDM
Kill the Clowns
Krystal System
Laibach
Lead into Gold
Lil Tytan
Lord Vampyr
Lordi
M.I.M.E
Master Death
Mean Messiah
Ministry
Mission To The Sun
Molehead
Muslimgauze
Nekrome
Neurotech
Oh! I Kill
Onslaught
Our Divide
Pandemia
Pedigree
Pilot
Psyclon Nine
Ratio Strain
Rimmar
Risk
Saevus
Sculforge
Seethe
Severed Angel
Sick n' beautiful
Silent Attack
Soulleech
Swollen Teeth
Sybreed
Tardigrade Inferno
The Birthday Massacre
Thy Seven Synth
Triskëll
Ungraven
Unter Null
Wake
Warg
Wednesday 13
X Marks The Pedwalk
XAAR
Youth Code
Zardonic
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devilry
System Of A Down
Rammstein
Ghost
Marilyn Manson
Ozzy Osbourne
Rob Zombie
Nine Inch Nails
HIM
Within Temptation
Mudvayne
Sanikwave
Static-X
Hatebreed
White Zombie
Till Lindemann
Sevendust
Dope
Distantic
Filter
Powerman 5000
Djerv
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Mushroomhead
Celldweller
Solence
Fear Factory
Eisbrecher
Ministry
Arankai
Lordi
Soulfly
PAIN
HELLYEAH
Hämatom
SecretiveSuicide
M.I.M.E
Zephyrianna
Helmet
Cold
Orgy
OOMPH!
David Draiman
DevilDriver
The Birthday Massacre
KMFDM
Eversor
(Hed) P.E.
Coal Chamber
Soil
DIR EN GREY
Dropout Kings
Ill Niño
Snot
Corrosion Of Conformity
Adema
Combichrist
Tommy Vext
Blutengel
Dozy Doe
Zardonic
Otep
Chimaira
Jonathan Davis
Chris Harms
Ashbury Heights
Yousei Teikoku
Taproot
Flaw
3TEETH
Dead By Sunrise
Clawfinger
Jimmy Urine
Earshot
Ankor
Evil Empire
Bloodlyne
Skinny Puppy
Gothminister
Deathstars
Doom Deca
Spineshank
Dry Kill Logic
Front 242
Strapping Young Lad
Emigrate
SKYND
Primer 55
Aesthetic Perfection
Hocico
SARCOMA HORROR
Snake River Conspiracy
Project Pitchfork
How To Destroy Angels
The Anix
The Union Underground
Manntra
Anaal Nathrakh
Prong
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