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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Infecting The Scars
Album - 10 Tracks - Released June 6, 2025

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...And Oceans
16Volt
Amerakin Overdose
Amerikan Kaos
Anti-Clone
Apoplexia
Arsenic
Beneath The Hollow
Bent By Sorrow
Blood Abscission
Bloodguilt
Bloodlyne
Blutengel
Borgne
CONTRVZT
Celldweller
Chimaira
Circle of Dust
Conker The Reaper
Cryfemal
Cure for the Ghost
Cynical Order
Dawn Of Ashes
Deadly Apples
Deimocracy
Derhead
Die Krupps
Dirkschneider
Distantic
Djerv
EVILIZERS
Eisbrecher
Enemy of Satan
Eyal Levi
FORBIDDEN
Fange
Forces United
Gallows' Eve
Genocide
Ghost
GhostSeeker
Golgoth
Hasswut
Himmelkraft
IMPVLSE
Iggor Cavalera
In The Woods...
Invektiva
KMFDM
KUZA
Kill the Clowns
Kittie
Kornia
Kyler Boss
Laibach
Lead into Gold
Lil Tytan
Lord Vampyr
Lordi
M.I.M.E
Manntra
Master Death
Mean Messiah
Ministry
Molehead
Muslimgauze
Nexus 7.17
Ocultum
Oh! I Kill
Onslaught
Orgy
Our Divide
Outrun the Fall
Pandemia
Pilot
Plugs of Apocalypse
Psyclon Nine
Rage Into The Inferno
Risk
Rotten Filthy
Saevus
Scar
Schöngeist
Sculforge
Seethe
Severed Angel
Sick n' beautiful
Sybreed
The Anix
The Birthday Massacre
The Body
Till Lindemann
Triskëll
Ungraven
Vector of Underground
Warg
Wednesday 13
XAAR
Youth Code
devilry
Rammstein
Ghost
Marilyn Manson
Ozzy Osbourne
Rob Zombie
Nine Inch Nails
Within Temptation
Mudvayne
Sanikwave
Static-X
Hatebreed
White Zombie
Till Lindemann
Sevendust
Dope
Distantic
Filter
Powerman 5000
Kittie
Djerv
Mushroomhead
Solence
Celldweller
Fear Factory
Eisbrecher
Ministry
Arankai
Lordi
Soulfly
PAIN
HELLYEAH
Hämatom
M.I.M.E
SecretiveSuicide
Zephyrianna
Helmet
OOMPH!
Cold
Orgy
David Draiman
DevilDriver
The Birthday Massacre
Coal Chamber
Eversor
(Hed) P.E.
Soil
KMFDM
Snot
Dropout Kings
Ill Niño
DIR EN GREY
Corrosion Of Conformity
Combichrist
Adema
Blutengel
Dozy Doe
Tommy Vext
Zardonic
Otep
Jonathan Davis
Yousei Teikoku
Taproot
Dead By Sunrise
Ashbury Heights
Chimaira
Chris Harms
Flaw
3TEETH
Jimmy Urine
Earshot
Ankor
Evil Empire
Bloodlyne
Skinny Puppy
Gothminister
Doom Deca
Deathstars
Dry Kill Logic
Emigrate
Front 242
Strapping Young Lad
Spineshank
SARCOMA HORROR
Snake River Conspiracy
Aesthetic Perfection
Primer 55
SKYND
Hocico
The Anix
Project Pitchfork
How To Destroy Angels
Manntra
The Union Underground
Prong
CONTRVZT
Biting Elbows
Apoptygma Berzerk
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